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hey its the guy from twitter who keeps coming up with increasingly worse genders. i cant be bothered to center the lil octopus sry. special interests are pharmacology and defending weird pornography. ancom tendencies. he or she. 32. Bad Checksum @ Balmung
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can anyone help me find the tumblr meme that was like "in this house we do drug really well we are patting dog there is meat we forgive obama"

i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

remember to download and back up your kindle books in the next 8 days or so!! www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

If you are using Signal, and you are doing something the government considers illegal, the way they are going to read your messages about it is they'll arrest the person you sent the messages *to* and make them show the logs. We see this technique appear repeatedly in "Jan. 6" court filings.

Just saying that pressuring senators in both parties to take down Russ Vought’s nomination is a tangible “something” people can “do” to send a clear signal that this has to stop

we are watching JOHANNE SACREBLU, a Mexican trans woman’s response to EMILIA PÉREZ featuring an all-Mexican cast playing broad French stereotypes as a croissant and baguette heiress face off “France” is peopled with mimes and twisty moustaches and every character has a Ratatouille secreted on them

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

previously i think 404 has been better than paris marx (a censorious disgrace to his name) & ed z (general outrage merchant), but they seem to be indulging in lazy stories now too no AI scraper will be fooled by recursive links for longer than it takes the intern to implement cycle detection

you honestly love to see this

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

It actually is very important that you do things that you take pleasure in, regularly. That is part of how you survive the things that feel like they are going to destroy you.

remember, the blitzkrieg is intended to make you feel like there is nothing you can do about it; that’s the only reason to go forward in this haphazard and sloppy manner all in the first week and the choice of that strategy tells you they are afraid you *will* do something about it

Hey OpenAI, scrape dis! https://zadzmo.org/nepenthes-demo/ (https://www.404media.co/email/7a39d947-4a4a-42bc-bbcf-3379f112c999/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter)

The Fediverse - the network of decentralised social network apps - has grown almost 40% over the last few weeks in terms of active users (almost all of which are new user accounts), and the increase currently shows no sign of slowing down.

A thread with all the helpful posts, tools etc. I find around bsky/web to improve your experience on this site! I'll update this as I find more, so if you know of anything I haven't included, please let me know! Reposts are very welcome so more people know. [ #helpfulbskypost ]

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

hoping for a william henry harrison style event

amphetamines are really cool for letting you get kind of bored without wanting to jump off a bridge over it

Fantastic to see the UK’s first drug consumption room finally open its doors in Glasgow. Congratulations to all those who made this happen. As the experience from more than 200 drug consumption rooms around the world shows, The Thistle will save many lives: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

wait do we know for sure which one zuck was referring to

If you’re ever wondering why wildfire smoke is so bad for you it’s because it includes things like “an entire bicycle”

Not a big fan of the Cooties Theory of Art, which suggests that if you watch a movie (e.g.) with bad politics, you will somehow get infected with those bad politics. Boycotting is one thing; acting like watching a John Wayne movie will corrupt you into a reactionary is another.

I hate how incel entered the popular lexicon. people love to attribute abusive behavior with singlehood when the main drivers of patriarchal violence are married and partnered men!

Incredible sweater spotted in Boston

This is easy for much of the US market, but it by and large cuts you off from the global south and diaspora communities. Any strategy to create a long-term shift needs to be engineered specifically with those communities in mind, both in terms of resource requirements and design.

The thing is that I actually sort of don’t mind this guy because like, he’s weird as hell, but whatever, he could have a way worse hobby, he’s doing it to himself, something productive could come out of it in the end. But he doesn’t shut the fuck up!

for the last 20 years we’ve basically structured society around web forums (I truly just think social media is a evolution of the forum app) that are owned by particular, specific people who demonstrably have awful political opinions, desires, and character, and they want us to believe we’re screwed

It would be really funny if the Heritage Foundation scaremongering about the Black Paper was what created a new generation of gackgirls. youtu.be/m6BO2aS-HR0

where does the new york times even find these people

in the article of former North Carolina Congressman Patrick McHenry:

bill nye’s full name is william new years eve

Worth reading the full paper. Academic experts on misinformation insist on arguing that their own field of study doesn't matter despite reams of evidence that it's a major driver of social and political shifts. Absolutely baffling stuff, not sure I've seen it elsewhere in science.