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Tra la Fosse
Monotype
2025
~Age

Cartoon by Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social

> the white house is at war with persia
> and threatening to install an antipope over the American Catholic Church

what year is this

governor abbott took away our rainbow crosswalks but we replaced them with much more visible rainbow sidewalks, and some businesses have followed suit (one added rainbow exterior stairs)

I can't believe you've done this.

I'm so old~

Art showing something of a shattered reality, with a character alternating between orc and wererat forms in different panes.

In honor of rat day, here’s my DnD character Xana Kulwick, an orc eldritch knight who’s also sometimes a wererat!

Amazing art is by @ageaus.bsky.social.

gorilla busty icon

And for those who've asked, my current icon in its full ook glory by @ageaus.bsky.social. He's open for more ook theme stuff for Aperil!

Trust me these banana headphones are perfectly normal, ook-ook

#APERIL IS HERE

AND THE INFO IS HERE: www.furaffinity.net/view/64593657/

OOK

morning

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility.

i just figured they were all xephers

~It behooves me to thank thee, 'o wondrous cow!~

heheh, thanks for the shout!

So I forgot to announce this here (along with the past few themes~)

Become bull like Kejital here, (or any other bovine~)
Info: www.furaffinity.net/view/64282551/

#tfeveryday #minomarch

Thanks for the shoutout @wolfaro.bsky.social~

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

*Thousands.*

Not a few dozens, not hundreds. *Thousands* of CEOs said "AI" is not impacting productivity or employment.

doing research

they don't have enough guys, and if the response in Minnesota shows anything it is that trying something like this is going to drive a much larger backlash than anything they hope to gain out of it

"oh well I guess we'll just stay home" is not how this is going to go

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

thought this was a shitpost and oh jesus

ohhhhhh okay so what we've learned from the epstein mail drop is that the entirety of the fascistic culture war since the 2010s onward was basically wholesale consolidated through the anglosphere bourgeois old boys club network of pedophile rapists Possum A-ko @kaiserbeamz.b... • 5h So apparently I was right to shittalk mOOt this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

Ain’t I been telling you the reactionary backlash was driven by the very rich and powerful watching regular people use social media to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sex crimes, then watching him dragged sobbing to jail, unprotected by his enormous wealth? What do you think the cancel culture panic was.

An imagine explaining that OpenAI is Trump's largest donor

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

Apple has reimposed its subscription billing mandate for creators on Patreon | Patreon for Creators Get more from Patreon for Creators on Patreon

www.patreon.com/posts/148395...

Once again, they're just going to abandon the model that drew us to the platform to cater to a shitty app.

Every other year this platform tries to obliterate itself for no reason.

Hope the Apple money is worth it.

Take a decent stand for once.

#patreon

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social

+CONSOLAMENTUM+
The flames are here.
2025
~Age

I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life

Imagine investing the world economy in data centers just to get beaten by a girl with a box of pencils.