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Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all.

This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump.

Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social • 5h democrats won't admit it, but my family's economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? ¡ don't have a fancy economics degree, i'm just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard ♥ 243 23 2.7K 14.9K ••• Reply Could this be because you are white, male, and privileged? Most people living paycheck to paycheck would not agree

I loooooove this website baby

flexing on birds

see the reason it was important for us to dismantle democracy and turn control over to the tech oligarchs is so they can evolve humanity by giving us important inventions like second life but shit, shrimp jesus, and ugly car that explodes and kills you instantly

As a historian of late medieval Italy, it has always been clear to me that unfettered private wealth is the mortal foe of republican experiments and always has been. I’ve stopped teaching that history with any regularity, but it’s time to restart I think.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

this is humiliating, i've literally driven over nastier terrain than this in a nissan sentra. 90% of parking lots in the texas hill country are rougher than this

If you've got stories to send in and want a swift response now's the time to do it.

Looking for the unsettling, the ambiguous, the stuff that actively resists explanation. Dark fantasy, bleak science fiction, unsettling horror, and the weird speculative stuff that defies genre.

A terrible painting of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fighting in an alley by me at 16. In the foreground, Mouser, all in gray, and in a deep lung, stabs a hidden figure in a doorway with his rapier, while behind him, Fafhrd, in a loin cloth and fuzzy topped boots, clutches a dead hawk in one hand, while readying his sword against an attack by another hawk above him.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser fighting hidden assassins and birds? Painted by me at 16, way back in 1978. Glorious.

📖 #A #F #bluepit

The Bone Ransom

Framed for his mother’s murder, hunted by his sister & her pet monster, Talson Ravenpiper joins with a traditional enemy to restore the family legacy. The problem is, maybe all legacies are not worth preserving. And some enemies become lovers.

GRRM: I'm making short films out of my friend's stories. He died six days after screening the rough cut of the first one. We met when I was fifteen and losing him hit really hard. I suppose I too could die any day but I'm not planning on it.

You people: No Winds? Kill yourself.

If George RR Martin decided to make a bonfire out of his unpublished drafts and freed himself from a fandom full of ghouls, grifters, and clout chasers, I would gladly light the first match

If you don't want people cheering your death online don't be a monster in life.

House of the Dragon season 2 was straight up poorly written and paced but we haven't talked enough about its insidious gender essentialism

Self-described hippie from SF, into new age crystal woo, volunteered for Bernie in the 2016 primary, turned to QAnon after watching one brain melting YouTube series. Nothing was less surprising than getting to the end of this article and reading she was an RFK Jr. voter. Of course she was.

This woman was profiled in the book, The Quiet Damage. While most of the people profiled had clear cut mental health issues and turned to QAnon as a cope, this woman was clearly just plain stupid. Completely credulous. Imagine if Joe Rogan was a woman from SF who attended drumming circles.

I read a book which profiled this woman along with a few other families that had been completely disrupted by a Q Anon family member (usually parents or siblings) and let me just say it does not surprise me even a tiny bit that she is an RFK Jr. voter. Brain worms recognize brain worms.

The left isn’t responsible for Kamala’s loss TikTok video by fivefourpod

I’m back on the Tok with some quick thoughts about throwing trans people and the left under the bus

Couldn't get a better example of how AI is inefficient, expensive, ugly, and doesn't even really work than Coke using AI to generate a full movie's worth of unusable assets which are given to talented people to fix.

A gentle reminder before I fuck off to eat breakfast:
The push to replace artists with AI is a fascist push. The devaluing of arts and humanities in favor of engineering and computers is a fascist push. Students being unable to read a book is, yep, a fascist push.

Wes Craven on America: " you cant create a disneyland without also creating a texas chain saw massacre. The one creates the other"

Wes Craven's analysis of America from this interview he did in 1988 feels like it could have been from yesterday

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No I do not want to use your AI generated instructional video. No I do not want Grok to write my lesson plans. No I do not think kids should be taught that ChatGPT is a great starting place for essays. Oh, the school is letting you do a training on it for the whole staff? Mandatory?

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."

i fucking hate elon musk. it used to be you could at least bully him on twitter but now it's fully X and you can't even do that, so what's the point?

We were mutuals on twitter but i haven't really been active there, or much anywhere, recently. Hi though, it is nice to see a familiar face!

trying this again, perhaps this time it will stick

"AI" has created nothing. Not a single story anyone wanted to read, not a single short film or image that got anything but a passing "hmm!" out of the people who saw it, not one memorable paragraph of prose or panel of a comic. nothing, nothing, nothing.