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i keep reading posts from people getting laid off in genuinely every possible tech industry you can imagine and it's so fucking insane that the thing people have to worry about isn't "can an AI do my job" but "can a very stupid person convince my boss that an AI can do my job"

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i love making stickers

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If your instinct tends a bit towards catastrophising - not unreasonable right now - and asserting confidently an opinion along the lines of: "all is lost, US is done, nobody can do a thing, may as well calm down, go home, and wait for the end," stop and ask who benefits from people pushed to apathy.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Former WWF Superstar Gangrel (a trademark of White Wolf Inc.) visited the Bram Stoker's Dracula Experience in Whitby, and I cannot explain the joy this brings me.

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Signs of spring in the garden. No matter how bad things are in the news, nature continues doing its miracle. Take time out and see the beauty outside xx

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

look how flat he is

submitted 4 days ago • 127 comments

Mood.

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Ah, this is a point I've been trying to make. Because he's been in this "you're a genius" feedback loop for most of his adult life, he no longer believes there's anything he doesn't understand.

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Happy birthday to this king of fabulosity

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It lies to you. Even when you know it lies to you, and it's lied to you before, on multiple occasions, you can still fall for it.

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Send a big fuck you to Wes Streeting and Anas sarwar by signing and sharing my petition! ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ LETS GO!!! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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A few yrs ago, I wrote on whether Nero used emerald sunglasses 🕶️ to watch fights (I don't think he did) sunglasses with lenses* were invented in 12thC China: sarahemilybond.com/2016/05/22/i... ChatGPT scraped and garbled this digital post, so here is the original, which AI spits out w/o attribution.

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A short piece about normalising fascism thelowry.com/whats-on/382...

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Important FYI: if you’ve run out of prescribed meds, a pharmacist can give you them without a prescription in an emergency.

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#mathematics #math

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If we can take one thing from the way lynch talks about art I think it should be to never again dilute your vision and don't put off any art you want to make because it all dies with you, there's no other way, there's no one else

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Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

submitted 25 days ago • 3291 comments

all disability advice is like •become a detective, your disease is a puzzle •every doctor lies. multiclass Cleric 3 for Zone of Truth. they still lie but now you know •blackmail your insurance •systematically destabilize every part of your life for at least a year •with luck you can now digest food

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

I’m sorry but this is fucking hilarious, I’m dead 😂😂

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"IT'S NOT RACIST TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT IMMIGRATION" ought to have been retired years ago because as it turns out Yes. Yes it is.

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UK bands from the 80s all have bios like: "The group met at a government-funded arts mixer where they each received six months' rent tax-free" while for bands from the 2020s they're like "formed as a final year project at Goldsmiths, their first release was funded by interest from their trust funds"

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Apple's AI, which I did not ask for, has summarised my husband's text about going to the barber, then getting a cup of coffee before going to run training session as follows.

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I realise that it is becoming more and more likely that the UK has a far right government in the next five years unless the less right wing parties start realising that the whole of the UK don’t hate or fear immigrants and they can stop the race to the bottom on refugees

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"why does everything become crabs" because if you've been around long enough like crabs have you realise everything sucks and all you really want is a shell to hide your face in

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India has some really wild shit in the naastik(atheism) space, my dad's birthplace has a temple where ppl gather in the evening and sing hymns that mock the gods and challenge them to stop them from doing so

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I know folks hate seeing content from the other site, but the escalation implied in this tweet exchange is so severe that it needs to be acknowledged. Take the advice of so many other great folks dedicated to antifascist work with a wealth of experience of historical knowledge; you need to prepare.

submitted 12 days ago • 63 comments

If the US blocks access to HRT, ADHD drugs, and SSRIs, I cannot begin to describe to you how much all of the tech sector will screech to a halt. The internet is built and maintained by trans people, people with chronic depression, and the neurodivergent. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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It's a coup, you disingenuous dipshits, not cost-cutting. #TeslaTakedown Teslatakedown.com

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OK, but really, who here HASN'T accidentally fired your nuclear weapons specialists because you didn't know they worked on, uh, nuclear weapons? It's a common, relatable mistake! They're just like us! It's definitely NOT a sign of unpardonable incompetence and/or deliberate sabotage.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Goodnight from Dave Calder, one of the thousands of folk lighting a candle in their windows for the Flight of Olag Gandle festival. Goodnight from Helena Rushbrook, sure she saw a pair of red eyes floating next to apple tree in the back garden. Goodnight from Hookland.

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"Randy Newman" is the plot of the Rocky Horror Show

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It turns out if your movement is based on solidarity, the right answer is kinda obvious.

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Our interview series continues as Josh talks to @crimew.gay about how corporations, governments, and law enforcement track your usage patterns online. We also talk about how to fight back. You'll want to listen to this one.

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Surprising nobody, I got a tie between Neutral Good and Chaotic Good. I guess it's that I just want to make things work better and I don't trust authority.

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a cat where no cat should be

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

#cat #proofofcat #catsky My cat's chosen napping space. That's my laptop backpack. I was out this morning and she wasn't thrilled that I wasn't home. No, I didn't make my bed this morning. #troublecat #calico

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This is huge. My petition got approved. It challenges the UK government to the lift the Puberty Blocker ban on the grounds that it contradicts article 8 of The United Nations Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Please sign and Repost ✊️🏳️‍⚧️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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One day of real protests outside and the people who were like "fuck you peasants we owe you no explanations" are now out there with (probably false) cya clarifications. Pressure works. Keep it up. They answer to the people, it is never ever the other way around. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

submitted 22 days ago • 85 comments

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

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New nightmare fuel: zombie cave-spider fungus

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One extremely cool thing about RoboCop: the cue that plays in the club, which was a collab of Al Jourgensen of Ministry and Nivek Ogre from Skinny Puppy www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8YB...

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In 2007, a clip went viral of a man being stopped on the street by a Guangzhou TV reporter. The man was asked about a sex scandal that was all over the news at the time and his reply has been a popular Chinese slang phrase for not getting involved ever since. He said “I’m just here to buy soy sauce”

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Facebook friend, Becky Armitage, 34, said: “There was nothing wrong with Avery before this so-called diagnosis. She seemed totally normal the one time I met her.” thedailytism.com/woman-who-sp...

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Oh so true 👇

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oh to be three cats cuddling together in the sun

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He's my lil pogchamp.

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From my notes last night: “I can’t give in to depression. Need to stay strong. For the next four years, I must be a bacon of hope for others.” It was unintended, but henceforward I shall be A BACON OF HOPE

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Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 30 days ago • 1029 comments

my cat has determined that the big socks on my bed represent a comfortable lounging spot to watch the birds from

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Punchy stuff from @octopus.energy on the UK's £22bn investment in CCUS - saying it would be better spent on renewables. “Some of the stuff we’re doing is the equivalent of trying to defend the abacus industry once calculators had been invented." www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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