get rekt you’re loved

FYI for Google Drive users.

photo of six pumpkins carved into glowing jack-o'-lanterns, in front of a brick wall. a large pumpkin has the cow tools cow carved into it and another large pumpkin has the barn. in front of them are 4 small pumpkins, each carved with one of the cow tools on them. the lump pumpkin has no stem and the prongler pumpkin is laid sideways so that the stem lines up and forms the bottom half of the prongler, it's top half carved into the pumpkin.

happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters

2 shots from tv show Frasier. One shows Frasier holding a sign, "You're Fired." The other shows the producer of his radio show, Roz, holding a sign that says, "I'm union".

Happy Labor Day 🙂

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political.

Two genders - male, and political.

Two religions - Christian, and political.

Two races - white, and political.

Plus, Duolingo sucks at teaching you Japanese, most of it is just things you're going to use in a trip, not a long term second language.

Leave Duolingo behind, it uses AI Slop and doesn't teach you Japanese

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

This is a poll tax.

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

looks into the camera

YouTube video by Sir Hubblerdinger Roomba Dejavu

This might be the best video there is

An image showing the mobile version SGDQ schedule with the options taking more screenspace than the schedule itself

The same image as before but with a donation incentive banner further reducing the schedule view

@gamesdonequick.com any chance of getting a menu minimizer on the mobile schedule? It can be a little rough… 😅

sick as hell

Auction up. www.ebay.com/itm/13577717...

they finally did it. they invented a machine that can't run doom.

It's not echo of 1940. It's literal return to 1930s.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and...

Shit, this is NSEERS. We’ve seen this before!

20 years ago, Bush did this to mostly Muslim boys and men, ages 16 and up. Special Registration devastated communities.

Now Trump’s trying to target everyone: all genders, all nations, 14 and up.

This is literally “first they came for the Muslims.”

US fires Greenland military base chief for 'undermining' JD Vance The US military said it had lost confidence in Colonel Susannah Meyers' ability to lead.

Recap:
*Vance insulted our NATO ally Denmark in bizarre bid to take over Greenland
*Commander on the ground says his comments did not reflect the working relationship btw US and Denmark
*She is fired

The mildest pushback against their authoritarian fantasies is enough

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gorgeous! Are these for sale? If so, I'm interested.

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

What should confound them is that it's EVIL! Annexing Canada is EVIL! Introducing this completely foreign idea from within his degenerate brain is EVIL! Humoring it is EVIL! Weighing its pros and cons is EVIL! Weighing its fucking electoral impact is EVIL! THREATENING OTHER COUNTRIES IS EVIL! God!

Handmade polyhedral dice in rust and patina colors based on Bards of New York's current Dark Age campaign

Handmade D20 and D6 in rust and patina colors based on Bards of New York's current Dark Age campaign

Handmade D10 and D% in rust and patina colors based on Bards of New York's current Dark Age campaign

Handmade D8 and D12 in rust and patina colors based on Bards of New York's current Dark Age campaign

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all you need to say is "donald trump and elon musk are stealing social security checks from elders" and yet we're still on egg go up

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There is a 26 volume humble bundle collection of dragonlance novels that I feel duty bound to share www.humblebundle.com/books/world-...

a picture of a book text. The text says "Suetonius adds that, according to some reports, he said in Greek 'Kai su, teknon' (which Shakespeare turned into the Latin 'Et tu, Brute'. It literally means 'You too, child', but what Caesar may have intended by the words isnt clear. Tempest cites 'an important article' by James Russell (1980) 'that has often been overlooked'. Russel points out that the words kai su often appear on curse tablets, and suggest that Caesar's putative last words were not 'the emotional parting declaration of a betrayed man to one he had treated like a son' but more along the lines of 'See you in hell, punk'.

Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words

#IdesofMarch 🗡️

watching how quickly all this is happening and thinking back to the senate saying they can't act without permission from the parliamentarian