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That’s exactly why I do it

06.03.2026 20:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

All Girls Piss

They have a saxophone

06.03.2026 02:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Peter Cushing givin you fuck me eyes

Peter Cushing givin you fuck me eyes

More Cushing for the pushing

06.03.2026 01:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

more than anything, i am just exhausted with the constant attempts to rewrite reality

gambling odds are "projections"

speculative crypto tokens are "currencies"

LLM text generators are "AI"

video games are "the metaverse"

just a neverending assault on our ability to accurately describe reality

04.03.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Momboy No. 5

04.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.

The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.

(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

03.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 14094 πŸ” 5954 πŸ’¬ 213 πŸ“Œ 789
News program screen cap: move over Xanax, here comes LSD

News program screen cap: move over Xanax, here comes LSD

when it’s time adjust my medication againβ€”

04.03.2026 10:31 πŸ‘ 171 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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MΓ©xico exige investigar la muerte de uno de sus ciudadanos custodiado por el ICE Entre el 4 de octubre de 2025 y el 6 de enero de este aΓ±o se registraron 14 fallecimientos bajo custodia del ICE, de los cuales dos corresponden a personas de nacionalidad mexicana.
04.03.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have such a complicated relationship with Spanish.

But I’ve gotten the chance to slip back into speaking it a few times in the last couple weeks and each time it gets easier and I feel less shame when I hear my accent color my English.

04.03.2026 05:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A dialogue box from Voyageur: Across the Unknown.

Janeway asks "Mr. Neelix, do you have any D R U G S    ?"

Drugs is clearly photoshopped in green comic sans, far too big, and not aligned with anything.

A dialogue box from Voyageur: Across the Unknown. Janeway asks "Mr. Neelix, do you have any D R U G S ?" Drugs is clearly photoshopped in green comic sans, far too big, and not aligned with anything.

your girl is working on a new piece and wants to be dead

04.03.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 63 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

A large block of sentient tofu

A large block of sentient tofu

Steam community: β€œCan we play as a male character?”

Me (indie dev in this economy):
β€œBest I can do is sentient tofu.”

03.03.2026 14:18 πŸ‘ 6556 πŸ” 1856 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 105

Wow, this is one of the worst ideas I’ve seen all day and that is really saying something given the times in which we are living.

02.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 242 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2

in my experience it is pretty nice

03.03.2026 07:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Lot of people being real defeatist about LLM news today and acting like you lost when you can just put that energy to mocking companies and organisations that use any kind of genAI and shame the fuck out of them. They hate that and it’s easy to do. Try inventing more words for them to ban!!

02.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 1660 πŸ” 677 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3

Explaining to my therapist why I’m now experiencing gender fishphoria, and body fishmorphia

28.02.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

28.02.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 5862 πŸ” 1079 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 32
a tweet from 2017 I twatted: "sometimes men who commit sexual assault are talented screenwriters and their work comes with baggage. Other times, they're max landis"

a tweet from 2017 I twatted: "sometimes men who commit sexual assault are talented screenwriters and their work comes with baggage. Other times, they're max landis"

I said it before and I'll say it again

28.02.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 722 πŸ” 96 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

it's hard to overstate the scale at which the investment in gAI is a catastrophic mistake

not just because they're pouring hundreds of billions into a tech on the vague hope that eventually they can jack up prices on it (the Uber model)

but how many other industries they're ruining to build this

27.02.2026 18:31 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I hate it here

27.02.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ranked competitive nest growth

27.02.2026 20:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

GALADRIEL (selectively editing the backstory): and three rings were given to the elves, who were barely involved

27.02.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 632 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

corporate media consolidation is a cancer

26.02.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 279 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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CondΓ© Nast’s LGBTQ Media Brand Them Acquired by Equalpride, Publisher of Out and The Advocate On the heels of layoffs, Equalpride CEO Mark Berryhill says, β€œAdding the β€˜Them’ brand accelerates our mission and expands the ways we can champion LGBTQ+ voices year‑round.”

in less than 6 months CondΓ© Nast got rid of every trans woman on editorial. there is no liberal media.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

27.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 802 πŸ” 258 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 8

me at the last supper

27.02.2026 03:58 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s the nazi tattoo guy

You do know about the nazi tattoo right

27.02.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

26.02.2026 19:25 πŸ‘ 8089 πŸ” 3628 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 0

do you care about trans people?

cool!
cancel your new york times subscription!

oh, but you just play the games? thats the worst argument you could've made!
go fuck yourself!

26.02.2026 17:19 πŸ‘ 1332 πŸ” 445 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 9

like, please

26.02.2026 17:29 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i felt crazy earlier but then a beautiful woman texted me and i healed

09.03.2025 06:25 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

For me, it's less about the "journalists need to stay out of fandom" reaction and more that sweeping staff cuts and deprioritization of culture coverage have made it even harder for journalists to write about fandom in the complex, thorough way it deserves

24.02.2026 16:09 πŸ‘ 133 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3