anyway, reminder that Brando Sando is a mormon in good standing aka he tithes 10% of his income to a church that just announced they filed a brief saying that protecting trans rights infringes on their religious freedom ✌️
researching a maritime disaster in 2025:
Option A: 350 word article by someone from politics beat
Option B: 60 min netflix docu with 45 min of unsubstantiated vibes
Option C: some rando YTer called Brick Immortar who has a 4 hr breakdown with all court docs & interviews with every survivor
I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.
A blue riso printed drawing on peach paper of a flag with a scale pattern. There’s a skull in the centre of the flag inside a circle adorned with M,F & Trans symbols. Text reads- the bi flag is rather dull, I’d like to propose this one instead. STILL BISEXUAL
It’s Bi Visibility Month, and here’s a page from my 2019 zine, ‘still bisexual’.
I think one of the things people misunderstand about being anti-ChatGPT and related products is that they are being forced into institutions and other products and services in ways that affect all of our lives whether they work or *not* and we will all have to deal with the consequences
Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne On behalf of our clients, 4chan and Kiwi Farms, the law firms of Byrne & Storm, P.C. (@ByrneStorm ) and the Coleman Law Firm, P.C. (@roncoleman ) have, today, filed a federal lawsuit against the UK Office of Communications, a/k/a Ofcom, in DC federal court. Preston Byrne of Byrne & Storm, P.C., counsel for the plaintiffs, said: "American citizens do not surrender our constitutional rights just because Ofcom sends us an e-mail. In the face of these unlawful foreign demands, our clients have bravely chosen to assert their constitutional rights." "The UK Online Safety Act is a brazen attempt by a foreign country to hobble American competitiveness and suffocate American freedom by exporting the UK's censorship laws to our shores." "If foreign countries feel like bullying Americans, that is their prerogative. The First Amendment bar is prepared to hale any foreign censor into federal court at any time to defend any American." Ronald Coleman of the Coleman Law Firm, P.C., counsel for the plaintiffs, said: "With this action, our clients defend the free speech rights of every American." "Foreign interference of the type seen in this case is precisely what the First Amendment is meant to protect against." "We have asked the Court to confirm that Ofcom has no authority to impose or enforce unconstitutional UK laws on American soil."
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURTDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA4CHAN COMMUNITY SUPPORT LLCand LOLCOW, LLC, d/b/a KIWI FARMS,Plaintiffs,Civil Action. No.v. COMPLAINTTHE UK OFFICE OFCOMMUNICATIONS, a/k/a OFCOM,Defendant.Plaintiffs 4chan Community Support LLC and Lolcow, LLC, through their undersignedcounsel, allege and say as follows for their Complaint against defendant Ofcom:INTRODUCTION1. The Internet is a global system of communication between computer servers,located in data centers around the world. Despite the Internet’s global reach, it is more or lessuniversally acknowledged that the Internet is, predominantly, an American innovation, built byAmerican citizens, residents, and companies, and that the United States has the largest and mostthriving technology sector of any G7 member state.2. Foreign governments, particularly those in Europe, which have not managed tobuild technology sectors of their own have, for the past half-decade or more, sought to control theAmerican Internet, and hobble American competitiveness, through a range of legislative and non-legislative initiatives.3. These foreign governments have threatened American and other non-Europeanentrepreneurs with a wide range of coercive threats, including, fines, arrest, and imprisonment, forengaging in conduct which is perfectly lawful in the territories where their websites are based,1:25-cv-2880
4chan & Kiwi Farms are suing OFCOM. Put your feelings aside on both sites for a second. Trust me, you want OFCOM to lose on this one. If not, it would allow for significant overreach of the OSA into the U.S.
x.com/prestonjbyrn...
Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
Boosting Nour's crowdfund! Please share and help if you can!
chuffed.org/project/emer...
Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
"They go to SEX CLUBS and pretend to be DOGS!"
Yeah well you go to church every Sunday and pretend to be a good person
Non tema
Lmao eat shit Bolsonaro you fuckin Petri dish
It's apt that corporations/governments divided the internet into SFW and NSFW & are now making it all Safe For Work, because that is the defining frame they want to place on the world--everywhere you go is for Work, not pleasure or art or love or culture. You must always Work for Them, or die.
And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.
Being a queer creator these days is getting harder and harder. The Itchio BS means that I might lose a source of income, and I'm already struggling.
If you or someone you know needs an editor, get in contact with me.
And if you don't, repost and comment on this so it can get more traction.
With itch delisting trans authors, here's a bunch of us you can support
Please share
You unlocked some childhood memories mentioning the chronicles of ancient darkness, I used to love those books
"am i a boy? am i a girl? who knows!! but everyone finds me hot and that makes everyone gay"
Happy 🌈
Screencap showing menu bar. Top bar: All Tools | Edit | Convert | E-Sign Second row: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary."
Just upgraded to a new version of Acrobat, and... look.
I am reading a friend's NOVEL. Something I WANT to read. For ENJOYMENT.
Fuck off into the sun and take your designer with you.
It offered to give me a summary. Of a KNITTING PATTERN. How the hell do you summarise instructions like k1, ssk, p to last 3 sts?
Posting the IMDB link with the full cast and crew. I am so proud and grateful to everyone who worked so hard on this show.
www.imdb.com/title/tt3044...
Backers are asked to believe that OpenAI is the most responsible guardian of The Dangerous Majick, while also understanding that the urgency of Al's arms race frees it from all obligation to act responsibly. Burning cash is foundational to its business. There's no time to sandbox new products or abide by laws when liquidity is only ever measured in months. The looming threat of insolvency is what propels OpenAI forward. Does value-for-money get a look in? We know very little about OpenAI's day-to-day operating costs, but we've learned a little more about the day-to-day operating costs of the CEO.
Maybe it's useful to know that Altman uses a knife that's showy but incohesive and wrong for the job; he wastes huge amounts of money on olive oil that he uses recklessly; and he has an automated coffee machine that claims to save labour while doing the exact opposite because it can't be trusted. His kitchen is a catalogue of inefficiency, incomprehension, and waste. If that's any indication of how he runs the company, insolvency cannot be considered too unrealistic a threat.
This may genuinely be one of the most devastating things I've seen about a tech CEO in the mainstream media. Amazing.
This is ALSO hugely beneficial to people within publishing companies. Employees in any industry have v little legal leverage to keep AI out of our jobs, but authors have contracts that can keep AI off the books we work on.
It's actually a popular depression meal in Italy
Bold text that reads "GENRE CREATORS FOT TRANS RIGHTS IN THE UK & SA" over the blue, pink and white of the trans flag.
Text reads: "About Our Auction Hi, we’re Lauren Beukes and Jeanette Ng and various author friends at Eastercon and beyond raising money for trans rights in the UK and South Africa. It’s a small personal response to the devastating and dehumanising UK Supreme Court ruling last week, where we both live, and also the withdrawal of vital international aid in the last few months that is affecting trans organizations in South Africa (where Lauren Beukes hails from). The money we raise will be going to The Good Law Project’s campaign for trans rights in the UK and the amazing NGO, The Triangle Project that supports gay, trans, non-binary and intersex people in South Africa. Please do also feel free to donate to them direct here and here. This is going to be a silent auction going live on 09:30am Monday 21st April where you can bid on cool things from signed first editions by some of your favourite authors to original art, bespoke postcards with original short stories or favourite recipes, crocheted critters, handmade fans as well as professional services like a sensitivity read. About Chance Encounter Productions A spontaneous alliance of two sff authors trying to do some good. "
If you want to bid on cool things from genre creators in our DIY online auction to support trans rights in the UK and South Africa, click here -> www.32auctions.com/genrefortrans
Yes, please do challenge my lived experience with your internet research into "African myths".
I mean, I've only been Yoruba for my entire life. You have an entire search engine at your disposal.
I love that. It warms my heart. Go, you!
As in, go away, you. Blocked.
