Kellen Freeman

I actually kind of love those. It's honestly eating crunchy lemons which I think is better than it sounds.

No Kings includes DraftKings

Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it.

Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.

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This is a GREAT graphic.

I'm going to add to it this one from @johnnorcross.bsky.social, which visualizes the text below.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

Safest answer is just don't rate it. If you rate it lower than a 10, then it suggests you didn't like working with the publisher or you didn't give it your all. A 10 looks suspicious no matter how true it is.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Noon to ??? as usual?

time machine assassins could do a lot with just reagan, rupert murdoch, and james dobson

The fact that the thing we're calling artificial intelligence *can't do math* and yet we're jamming it into programs that successfully *have done math* for decades, then warning people against using the AI to do math, seems like an excellent summary of where we are.

Far more people will lose your game than win. Make sure your game is still fun even when players lose.

Mamdani needs to win and win by a lot so the establishment understands people are done playing around and it carries over to the presidential primaries

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

A screenshot of CGE’s instagram page: “With the above in mind, and after many heartfelt and vital discussions both internally and with members of the affected community, we have decided to donate 100% of the profit from this game to appropriate charitable organizations. We will ensure that an amount equal to our greater than the fee paid to license this product will go directly to organizations that provide support for the trans community. We evaluate profits and make charitable-giving decisions each December, and we will continue using this annual process to direct the games profits. We will listen to recommendations from the community to help guide our choices of organizations that provide support for the trans community. Or goal is to select those that offer direct, practical help to people in need — for example, services similar to the emergency hotline that was recently discontinued.”

I’m doing victory laps in my kitchen right now!!!! 💃🏼

CGE just announced they are going to be giving away 100% of the profit from their Harry Potter game to pro-trans charities!!

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If I lived even 15 minutes more south, I'd keep my Gateway subscription. I hit that one up from time to time when I know I'll be there a lot, but I usually don't get it used enough to justify keeping it long term.

My work schedule is just too inconvenient for me to go on Tuesdays or I'd consider that.

I hate how long AMC takes, but AList is the cheapest way for me to see as many movies as I do each month, which locks me in to their system. I'd much rather go anywhere else. I hear Regal has a good system, but there aren't any around.

It is the year 2025, @codenamesgame.bsky.social. We’ve had five years of patient, empathic articles and video and podcasts about why the “death of the author” excuse DOES NOT APPLY to an author who is still alive and using the money from this license to attack the queer community and brown women.

Looking forward to this Friday

STOP. STARTING. SUBSTACKS. IN 2025.

YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO AT THIS POINT, IT HAS BEEN COMMON KNOWLEDGE FOR 2 YEARS THAT THE PLACE IS RUN BY TECHNOFASCISTS, COME TF ON

I judged this in a contest a couple years back and was sad to see it didn't make it to the finals. Seemed like such a neat idea and decently executed from reading the rules. I need to try and find a copy of this to give it a go.

We had our first confirmed sighting the other night after having a feeder out for a month and a half. They're not that common but apparently they are here. My in-laws live an hour away and they're constantly around.

We have gotten very into Merlin this summer and have been having a great time.

Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to push through a bill that would put millions of Americans at risk of losing their health care.

They want to cut federal funding for Medicaid, take away tax credits that help more people afford coverage, and raise costs for working class families.

That's the one I always think of.

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