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lol nintendo cloned discord in 2025. money go brrrr

More people need to understand the massive negative externalities - and huge bloody bills - imposed on the entire world wide web by LLMs. The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.

RIP bozos

GOD I HATE APRIL FOOLS SO MUCH almost everything is either mean, annoying, or both mean and annoying, like why is this app doing a popup before I can post WHY

I am so early in this chapter of my journey that I don't really have much to say for TDOV but here's one thing that I've observed for years now: one day of visibility means fuck all when trans people are a target of concerted efforts of wealthy and powerful people and organisations.

this lesbian porn VHS tape agrees: sex workers are braver than the troops

there's not really much to say about visibility in the year of our lord two thousand twenty five; we've had plenty of visibility since 2018 or so, there's more of us than ever, and we're still a focal point of hatred, vitriol, and oppression, perhaps even more so than before

Hello are you trans in Scotland? NHS Scotland has taken away our access to the harm reduction team. We had one day a month to get our bloods done and now it is gone. If you feeling strongly please phone 0131 537 8300 and let the clinic know how you feel. services.nhslothian.scot/harmreductio...

Sending an email to ask about tattoo booking legitimately felt more terrifying than asking my GP for a gender identity clinic referral if you need any indication of what kind of a person I am

easy layup

If you little article/post has an AI-generated header image I will assume your writing is shite, likely also AI-generated, and therefore quadruply shite.

still no Silksong hahahahahaha

genAI is, at its core, the most fundamentally unlikeable people trying to shortcut their way into community and perceived „fame and adoration“, but without doing any of the work or even self reflection.

Discord redesigns are neither here nor there, I am honestly- EWWWWWW WHAT THE FUCK

new word

"we are currently clean on OPSEC", you write to the group chat with the journalist

It's really crucial to understand how badly framed this is. There is no Signal vulnerability. The Pentagon email did a bad job explaining a Google report from a month ago and NPR repeated it. This is like saying because you got a phishing email at your Gmail address, there's a Google vulnerability.

Just read the Earthsea books and get properly fucked up.

"Every trans person that comes out knows living a lie is worse than death. This is why we come out, despite knowing it could kill us." 🔥🔥🔥

“I’ve been meaning to get back in touch over the years,” Emerson continued. “But that message was still the last thing you sent, so I still have to address it somehow – and it’s older than my child at this point.”

For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)

Everything she says in this is just *chefs kiss* www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...

aussiemandias be like "yeah go on, look on my fuckin works cunt and have a sook"

Tab groups are in #Firefox stable! 🎉 Go to about:config, change browser.tabs.groups.enabled to true, done!

Some people say you can identify a true Scottish Wildcat by looking carefully at physical features like the shape of the tail & markings on the back. Others will tell you it really requires a DNA test to be sure. Personally, I go primarily on facial expression....

“women with height preferences on dating apps are the problem” says 35 year old man with an “18-24” search range

cis people if your reply to a trans person’s experiencing of transphobia is “it’s not the end of the world” and “there are bad things happening elsewhere” you’re transphobic

Trans rights are human rights. It's that simple.

no it wouldn't 5 years ago a Labour MSP invited an academic who uses exterminationist, Nazi-like language about trans people to launch her campaign to roll back all trans rights on trans day of remembrance and the only people who mentioned it were LGBT+ news sites

i am not interested in the infinite slop generator's new sludge and goo

Get. Off. Twitter. Follows mean nothing. Likes mean nothing. Engagement means everything. Twitter has no engagement, just fake numbers/bots. Get. Off. Twitter. You don’t need to cross-post. You don’t need to “just check it now and then”. You’re not “losing years of xxxx” GET. OFF. TWITTER.

ICE is disappearing greencard holders who are viewed as dissident and border cops are throwing ciswhite Europeans in jail and throwing away the key, sometimes with bonus torture Nobody who is afraid to travel to the US is being over dramatic. Why are all the games conferences still there?

making a presentation

Donald Tusk has a point here. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...