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Once again, it must be said as loudly as possible: AI can't do the things described in this paragraph, and there is no pathway to it ever being able to do them.

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JK Rowling explicitly calls on her followers to engage in vigilante actions against people they suspect are trans in bathrooms. This is incredibly dangerous and far more likely to result in violence against gender nonconforming cis women.

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

Best writing prompt of the month

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Asking Bill Clinton, over the span of two hears and 127 tweets, if he still played the saxophone.

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This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩

submitted 4 days ago • 212 comments

I was a teenager in the early aughts, and it felt out-of-step with so much mainstream opinion to speak out against war. What is happening now is cruel and sad and wrong, and you don't have to let anyone make you feel bad for thinking and saying so.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Okay maybe this is too hot a take for 5:30pm on a Saturday but I think meme accounts that don’t give any attribution paved the way for people to accept AI words and imagery because it separated culture and entertainment from the idea that someone had to have those thoughts and compose them.

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

Final Fantasy 1 Skyrim Age of Empires II

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“I am Ozempicmandias! Look upon my weightloss, ye might, and despair.”

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it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

submitted 4 days ago • 76 comments

Yes and when they update Grok to remove the sources they don’t like its only sources will be shit like One America News Network or transcripts of Mike Lindell’s depositions and it’ll get so much more comical

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If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.

submitted 5 days ago • 967 comments

For nearly eight months after Hurricane Helene, the future of the railway that opened western NC was up in the air. So were stretches of the track itself. Last month, owner Norfolk Southern announced it would rebuild. Words by me, pics by Jesse Barber for @theassemblync.bsky.social

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Mind sharing this while its still juneteenth? It would be really cool of you

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I think I'm on to something here.

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the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 6 days ago • 180 comments

As always, the best way to celebrate Juneteenth is by giving black people money

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

If not Ming-Na, then Wen? If not Mongolian heavy metal, then Hu?

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if you’re white and have a paid day off today and are looking for somewhere to donate, i’m still fundraising to open a worker-owned bookstore in queens: gofund.me/9aa6fe0d

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Evergreen. Juneteenth was slavers getting caught trying to hold on just a little bit longer.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Women are lagging behind on going bankrupt on DraftKings, drinking themselves to death, and fist-fighting anyone who looks at them funny on the subway but they can catch up.

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

I am surrounded by people who are outsourcing their own thinking to ChatGPT and they are quickly and obviously becoming dependent on it for even the most banal tasks. Once again, the "figuring it out" is the important part. Yes, you can use a crane to lift weights but you will not get stronger

submitted 8 days ago • 141 comments

Perfect.

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I really really needed to see that people hadn't given up and accepted this shit as inevitable, or (even worse) embraced it. And today showed us that beautifully. No one wanted in on his tank show, but people WERE HUNGRY to tell him to go fuck himself.

submitted 10 days ago • 114 comments

The fact that there have been waaaaay less arrests and citations per capita than during an average Super Bowl really speaks to what we want: peace, justice, liberty for all.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFUM...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Tip I learned years ago from a longtime organizer who is also an attorney: If you are not sure if a person approaching you is a cop, and you do not feel safe, drive to the nearest fire department and call 911 and tell them (don't ask) that you're stopping for the cop at a FD. Here's why.

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Here are some tips for ways to “show up” when you aren’t able to show up in person, as well as suggestions for all of us for building more inclusive movements for social justice and human rights.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Darryl, Socrates's friend: GREAT JOKE, SOCRATES!

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"I Think You Should Leave" Jellybean energy

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Had a synchronized restroom experience with Matthew Lillard after a screening at SXSW.

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the southern baptist convention just had to sell their headquarters in downtown nashville to pay for all the sex abuse legal fees.

submitted 14 days ago • 74 comments

Btw LA, there are people out on the streets trying to get you to sign a petition “for the minimum wage”. Do NOT sign. The service workers fought and won a higher minimum wage and this petition is to LOWER it. Tell them to fuck off and don’t let anybody else sign either

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 16 days ago • 895 comments

We were so close to being free of this shit.

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i don’t know where you are at today. i don’t know your plans, your purpose, or your passion. but i know you are worthy of care and kindness. not just as a customer of our public service. but as a person. connections matter— unseen as they may be.

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

I designed a 5e 1-shot in a McDonaldland setting for several groups and it remains a hoot every time.

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I'll never get over how the best line in all of noir – "I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon" – doesn't come from Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett, but Calvin and Hobbes

submitted 478 days ago • 48 comments

welp

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