Hey to all my Creator friends out there:

Ya might want to check your Adobe subscriptions before the next billing cycle.

I did the other end. Made outdoor plans when it said 23C and now it is going to be 28C. Too hot for Feb, even in the desert!

Also why so many households are struggling on one income so a parent will caretake. Usually the mother, which leads them back to being financially dependent on their partner. We are going backwards.

Discord lied.

they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company.

“facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.

I am excited to see it! The cast looks fantastic!

Using reading and crafting and gardening and gaming to cope with The World is all well and good… until you faint and get a major concussion. How am I supposed to rest my brain and body and not spiral into existential dread?

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see.

Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him.

It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

Also, my father’s final words to me were to continue to fight the good fight. He would be honored in Alex’s sacrifice, and ashamed of this current administration.

In my dad’s words, I encourage you all to continue to “fight the good fight.”

Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.

Last night with no warning, RFK Jr. cancelled up to $2 billion in funding for mental health and substance abuse research and programs administered through SAMHSA.

He and his minions did so because “they no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities”.

Have you heard the song Think About Your Troubles by Harry Nilsson? It actually heavily features a whale fall. I think the vid is on youtube still!

It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.

Photo through the windshield of a car showing an armored police vehicle driving on Nicollet

This is Minneapolis:

-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Now that Trump and Vance and unapologetically murdering US citizens you don’t hear about the Epstein files anymore.

"how you treat people is who are are" is a WORD this evening.

The lighting on this one is so gorgeous!! And I love their expressions.

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve.

Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body.

This is not new but it is expanding.

For me it was The Good Place. I have never seen a show end so beautifully and so perfect.

If I was a dessert I would be tiramisu. But also I had nerd gummy clusters for breakfast so apparently your sister is correct.

Any article observing that the AI bubble is about to burst *but then suggesting AI is too important to our financial systems to be allowed to fail* is missing the point. Generative AI is a massive fraud and a brain drain on humanity, even leaving theft and resource issues aside.

welcome home to your parents’ house, the channels are Yellowstone, masterpiece mystery, and Jimmy fallon, btw someone from your high school died in a real weird way

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

Make sure they aren’t some sanitized/redacted joke. Name the vile perpetrators so they can face their guilt and justice.

What is your favorite Godzilla movie?

Yesss! I would love to see more WIPs!

Why is that even an option if they are so dangerous?

“They dragged her out in front of the kids”: Inside Chicago’s ICE raid at a bilingual daycare When armed agents stormed Rayito de Sol, a Spanish-immersion daycare, parents like Maria Guzman say their children witnessed terror—not justice.

Video of a daycare raid in Chicago went viral last week, showing armed federal agents dragging a teacher from Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center as children watched in terror.

To the families at the daycare, the scene was a show of force that shattered their sense of safety.

Having a very anxiety ridden, overstimulated night and cannot sleep. Which wouldn’t be such an issue except I have a dr. appointment in 6 hours. Which means after I will be dead for the rest of the day.

I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.

They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.

What you gotta do is give out sequined suits to random folks throughout the city, and create a sort of I am Spartacus situation.

If we as a country cared about disability and therefore healthcare and access, they would not be building AI centers in Black neighborhoods.