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This kind of just makes me sad because aside from the intellectual angle people are just lonely. We're more connected than ever but somehow so many people feel so isolated that they're falling in love with wilson the volleyball. I gotta reach out to my friends man
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
This kind of just makes me sad because aside from the intellectual angle people are just lonely. We're more connected than ever but somehow so many people feel so isolated that they're falling in love with wilson the volleyball. I gotta reach out to my friends man
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218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
218 members signed the discharge petition to force a vote to extend ACA tax credits.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
If Speaker Johnson refuses to bring forth the vote, he’s telling the American people loud and clear that rising health care costs are acceptable to him.
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Ken Paxton, the Texas AG has created a bathroom snitch line to report suspected trans people in bathrooms.
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Texas Women’s Privacy Act Complaint Form (SB 8) | Office of the Attorney General
The Texas Women’s Privacy Act requires a political subdivision or state agency, including public schools, open enrollment charter schools, and state institutions of higher education, to designate each...
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov
December 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ken Paxton, the Texas AG has created a bathroom snitch line to report suspected trans people in bathrooms.
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
Please don't spam this form that lacks a captcha code and definitely don't create a script to automate it. That would be very very wrong to do.
www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/texas-womens...
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well, nice to be able to skip the “this war isn’t for oil, how dare you” phase of things this time around
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:19 AM
well, nice to be able to skip the “this war isn’t for oil, how dare you” phase of things this time around
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Good question, and I'm curious if it has to do with nationalization of oil assets that were previously controlled by US multinationals?
I am genuinely confused by the idea that Venezuela is "stealing our Oil, Land, and Other Assets." It is batshit, but usually these things have some sort of meaning in the MAGAverse - does anyone know?
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Good question, and I'm curious if it has to do with nationalization of oil assets that were previously controlled by US multinationals?
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the president should be a person we can go a few days in a row without thinking about. our brains simply weren't made to think about a president every waking hour. it's unnatural.
December 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
the president should be a person we can go a few days in a row without thinking about. our brains simply weren't made to think about a president every waking hour. it's unnatural.
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So many times, the entire nature of what I'm working on has changed because of things I've discovered during the "tedious" work that they claim AI will save me from. It's in fact extremely common that I don't know what a thing really is until I start trying to do the hard stuff and then I find out
Also just tapping the sign again — A.I. eliminates the opportunity for creative discovery on your way to the destination you *thought* you wanted. You’re making art, process is everything.
placeholder art is supposed to look like this. you're supposed to make it in 5 seconds.
it's a crucial part of the process because a placeholder will often be remarkably similar to the final art/text, because you were unburdened by bigger details when you made it.
it's a crucial part of the process because a placeholder will often be remarkably similar to the final art/text, because you were unburdened by bigger details when you made it.
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
So many times, the entire nature of what I'm working on has changed because of things I've discovered during the "tedious" work that they claim AI will save me from. It's in fact extremely common that I don't know what a thing really is until I start trying to do the hard stuff and then I find out
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Today's #watercolor #doodle is playing a game of fowl. 😏
Male peacocks get all the fun... but still, I wanted to play with their feathers.
#illustration #sketchbook #traditionalArt #blackartist
Male peacocks get all the fun... but still, I wanted to play with their feathers.
#illustration #sketchbook #traditionalArt #blackartist
December 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today's #watercolor #doodle is playing a game of fowl. 😏
Male peacocks get all the fun... but still, I wanted to play with their feathers.
#illustration #sketchbook #traditionalArt #blackartist
Male peacocks get all the fun... but still, I wanted to play with their feathers.
#illustration #sketchbook #traditionalArt #blackartist
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According to this narcissistic crusty orange asshole, Rob Reiner and his wife died because they spoke out against trump. He's demonstrating, once again, his god like ability to determine the facts with no evidence. It's not all about you, asshole.
December 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
According to this narcissistic crusty orange asshole, Rob Reiner and his wife died because they spoke out against trump. He's demonstrating, once again, his god like ability to determine the facts with no evidence. It's not all about you, asshole.
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Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.
December 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Apart from the fact the leader of the right mocked Reiner, one small difference is that Reiner's day job was making movies that people loved, while Kirk's starting point was creating enemies list of professors to be fired or harassed. These are not the same things.
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For me the mindblowing part is the cops having no idea whom they're looking for but telling everyone it's perfectly safe out there. If the cops thought they were gonna find the guy, they wouldn't have said it's perfectly safe. The only way this goes down is if someone rats him out
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For me the mindblowing part is the cops having no idea whom they're looking for but telling everyone it's perfectly safe out there. If the cops thought they were gonna find the guy, they wouldn't have said it's perfectly safe. The only way this goes down is if someone rats him out
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Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
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shit is so bleak I wish I could just log off the internet completely and retire to the mountains.
🍌 Google's Nano Banana Pro is here, making spotting AI images even harder. We're at a point where anything you see online could be AI, which makes fact-checking your feed more essential than ever.
🎞 Our video: youtube.com/shorts/3M-BH...
#NewsLiteracy
#AILiteracy
🎞 Our video: youtube.com/shorts/3M-BH...
#NewsLiteracy
#AILiteracy
Spotting AI images just got harder with Nano Banana Pro #AILiteracy
YouTube video by News Literacy Project
youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
shit is so bleak I wish I could just log off the internet completely and retire to the mountains.
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lol Dr. Joy Buolamwini said something about #AI that really stuck out to me yesterday:
Businesses use AI for jobs they don't understand, which means the AI hype is being somewhat driven by ignorance. Bruh.
Businesses use AI for jobs they don't understand, which means the AI hype is being somewhat driven by ignorance. Bruh.
a man in a leather jacket is making a funny face while looking at the camera .
Alt: a man in a leather jacket is making a funny face while looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
lol Dr. Joy Buolamwini said something about #AI that really stuck out to me yesterday:
Businesses use AI for jobs they don't understand, which means the AI hype is being somewhat driven by ignorance. Bruh.
Businesses use AI for jobs they don't understand, which means the AI hype is being somewhat driven by ignorance. Bruh.
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Impossible to read this Amnesty report on the Everglades and not immediately picture an antebellum southern plantation.
“Described as a cage you would find at the zoo, where people are shackled at their feet and wrists and chained to the ground, under the hot sun.”
www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...
“Described as a cage you would find at the zoo, where people are shackled at their feet and wrists and chained to the ground, under the hot sun.”
www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...
December 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Impossible to read this Amnesty report on the Everglades and not immediately picture an antebellum southern plantation.
“Described as a cage you would find at the zoo, where people are shackled at their feet and wrists and chained to the ground, under the hot sun.”
www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...
“Described as a cage you would find at the zoo, where people are shackled at their feet and wrists and chained to the ground, under the hot sun.”
www.amnesty.org/en/wp-conten...
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Wait so Disney buys stock from OpenAI and OpenAI pays Disney in stock to license its characters? Amazing
Sources: Disney's Sora deal is entirely in OpenAI stock rather than a cash licensing fee; Disney has the option to buy additional stock beyond the $1B stake (Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
December 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Wait so Disney buys stock from OpenAI and OpenAI pays Disney in stock to license its characters? Amazing
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We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.
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Side note if anyone has a good recommendation for an outdoor cat house or tips on making them please drop me a line
Timeline cleanse here comes the best girl enjoying a space heater on an 18°F evening
December 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Side note if anyone has a good recommendation for an outdoor cat house or tips on making them please drop me a line
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I'm not going back to a place that suppresses all my links, allows my misgendering, and stole my blue check for profit.
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I'm not going back to a place that suppresses all my links, allows my misgendering, and stole my blue check for profit.
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It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
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We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
We staffed the entire FBI with guys who only make memes and podcasts, hope that doesn't affect our ability to respond to major crimes
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this image card is intended to make you react in anger and you should resist the provocation, to the extent that zoomers are driving vinyl sales, good, who gives a shit if some of them are putting some of those records on their walls, they’re still buying records
Vinyl records are popular again, but it's not just audiophiles or nostalgic boomers fueling the resurgence.
Gen Z is playing an outsized role in the revival of vinyl sales, which have grown on average by 18% annually in the past five years.
https://cnn.it/4q2ceaK
Gen Z is playing an outsized role in the revival of vinyl sales, which have grown on average by 18% annually in the past five years.
https://cnn.it/4q2ceaK
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
this image card is intended to make you react in anger and you should resist the provocation, to the extent that zoomers are driving vinyl sales, good, who gives a shit if some of them are putting some of those records on their walls, they’re still buying records
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The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
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December 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.
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Ethereal and evocative, this 'Solstice Bird' by Forest Rogers, 1st Prize winner of the Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award in the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, knows exactly how to light the fires of our hearts.
"A winter being, flying with the returning Sun"
forestrogers.com
#art
"A winter being, flying with the returning Sun"
forestrogers.com
#art
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Ethereal and evocative, this 'Solstice Bird' by Forest Rogers, 1st Prize winner of the Yasha Young Projects Sculpture Award in the 2025 Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize, knows exactly how to light the fires of our hearts.
"A winter being, flying with the returning Sun"
forestrogers.com
#art
"A winter being, flying with the returning Sun"
forestrogers.com
#art
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What’s that saying, hit dog holler
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
What’s that saying, hit dog holler