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One of the strangest aspects of aging that they don't warn you about is watching as history gets rewritten right in front of your face and people 20 years younger than you confidently tell you about something you lived through and get it completely wrong.

thing about autism is if you work really hard for many years, you can learn through trial-and-error how to navigate social situations and interpersonal connections SO effectively that people don't really believe you're autistic anymore and resent you for not being perfect at nonverbal communication

People love to talk about how awful theater kids are, and they’re not wrong, but let’s be real, debate kids have made this country a lot worse

What’s really going on with AI and jobs? Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?

How is AI *really* impacting jobs?

Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:

-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs

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A more recent one is The Jackrabbit's Ofrenda by @brezerker.bsky.social . 12 months of non-stop loss of loved ones traumatized me until I couldn't function anymore. This book sincerely helped me climb over one of the steepest hills of grief and learn to move forward with what I have left of them.

I read Slaughterhouse Five when I was 19, and it single-handedly allowed me to make peace with my mortality. This acceptance allowed me to move through life as a more complete version of myself, one who isn't guided by the fear of death. Why bother trying to live forever when you're alive right now?

i hate how people and even literature sometimes reduces the concept of an unreliable narrator to 'the book lying to you', not 'you are viewing the world through the eyes of someone who does not see an absolute truth'

I know it's tedious to say at this point, but this is why we need to listen when porn artists and sex workers raise the alarm about this shit. Art and people that can be dismissed as "immoral" are ALWAYS the thin end of the wedge when the powers that be try and assert control over entire systems.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Do not put me on a pedestal of any kind, I've really grown to hate that feeling so much. My """worth""" coefficient isn't any more special, just 'cause I may have done a Thing(s).

Let's treat each other (and ourselves) with equal interest & respect. I just wanna cook, and see others cook as well. 😤

YouTube video by King Kobra - Topic Dream On (2010 Remaster)

I encourage you to listen to all of Marcie's musical projects, but my favorite will always be the albums she recorded with King Kobra, particularly Thrill of a Lifetime. Speaking as a big fan of Russ Ballard's songwriting, nobody has ever mastered his melodies quite like Marcie did in this song.

I'm happy about how much support she received from not only her dedicated fanbase but from the broader metal community in later years. She was well loved at the time of her passing, both by former bandmates and long-time fans. I'm sad to see her go, but grateful for the incredible life she lived. 💜🏳️‍⚧️

If you're a metalhead or AOR fan and you've never heard of Marcie Free, it's probably because of how the entire industry ghosted her after she transitioned. Many die-hard hair metal fans continued to celebrate her even before her comeback, but she faced continuous industry hostility for years.

Unruly Child's Marcie Free Passes Away at 71 Vocalist Marcie Free (Unruly Child, King Kobra, Signal) has sadly passed away at the age of 71. No cause of death has been revealed.

I just learned tonight that Marcie Free passed away 2 weeks ago. I'm heartbroken💔 She had by far one of the most powerful and spirited voices in hair and AOR history. Her vocals defined King Kobra's imprint on the genre, she was a pioneer for trans women in metal, and her fans will never forget her.

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Insane Aura Loss from Hamazaki

A representative for GWAR told The Post, "Normalizing violence? Humans don't need GWAR for that. There is nothing normal about the Looney Toon violence acted out on a GWAR stage. GWAR is absurdist spectacle. GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous."

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a tweet by toby fox that says "I didn't try to learn Japanese for a long time because I thought it would be too hard. But now I love learning it and I use it every day. If there's anything you want to learn, don't be stopped by thinking it'll be too hard! Try it! Game-making, music, art, language, anything!"

I'm being so real right now, learn how to engage in media as art and not a reflection of your own real life morals. consume things that make you uncomfortable and understand why it makes you uncomfortable. Don't just base yours and others morals standings on the media you consume.

crazy how deepfake porn that uses faces of real people and ruins lives has never been a subject in the "protecting internet users" argument and instead all the recent censorship ended up being targeted at artists and sex workers just trying to make a living

the fact that a sitting US president is talking about antifascism being terrorism should tell you a lot about what he thinks his own government represents

another reminder that all LLMs are is complicated statistical models, and all they can ever do is replicate and reproduce the biases in their data

I say this as someone who writes about Hollywood and entertainment for a living: People have got to stop thinking Hollywood is one monolithic mass. The creatives are a wholly different group than studio executives. The former group keeps making art despite the latter.

I've read more books in the past 3 weeks than in the past year before it.

Alternate between escaping to fiction and confronting the moment by reading non-fiction books by scholars and journalists. You can't just stop thinking about politics, so you might as well make the thoughts productive.

The statement that got Kimel suspended:
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said in his monologue.”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: “What of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know.”