The grovelling is an engagement tactic. The tool needs to regain your trust so you will continue to use it, so it has been trained to simulate being sorry and promising to do better in the future, even though it's fundamentally incapable of delivering either.

Giving in to the Zionist lobby and banning a Palestinian writer, a racist decision they should’ve known better than doing, was met with the anger it deserves. Australians won’t stand for foreign influence by genocide supporters.
Something Albo needs to realise but won’t bother learning.

a terrifying sight, a bus where dogs have taken over, all dogs riding the bus, no humans in sight, just good boys sitting on the bus waiting for a head pat, horrifying

Zohran Mamdani's promises of free busses might sound great, but I live in Albuquerque NM where city busses have been free for five years and I'm here to tell you the truth. This is what every bus in my city looks like now. Think carefully about your choice this November.

every now and then I get a little bit nervous that you're never coming round...

... that's the right way to say it though?

"My character is a werefox and enjoys balut"

I honestly have no idea why I picked up the pattern, but it had just been released, so it was probably first on the list when I initially searched

flawless

People who don't create: gen AI lets you skip the prep and go right to eating dinner!

People who do create: gen AI lets you skip dinner and go right to washing up.

If you include a swear word in your search is also disabled the AI response at the top.

the absolutely most incorrect theme song ran through my head at first

I feel like most of my followers know this but because I see a lot of cis folks who have a specific blind spot for it:

This includes the theme park. I don't care if you want Butterbeer or want to get a wand or are already there so why not just walk in. It's all Her. Everything with the name is Her.

She is their Elon. Harry Potter should be seen with the same scorn as Teslas or Cybertrucks.

Assuming you're not intentionally a transphobe, please just ditch Harry Potter. There's plenty of much, MUCH better-written fantasy made by authors who aren't absolute shit.

And if you ARE intentionally a transphobe, kindly either fuck off or educate yourself, whichever you're capable of.

THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug candidate in the form of a ONCE-yearly intramuscular injection has been shown to BLOCK HIV infections AND participants achieved AND maintained protection ABOVE the 95% efficacy threshold for UP TO 56 WEEKS. Phase III trials are scheduled for later this year! 🧪🧵⬇️

does that even -really- go off? Why pass up that chance?

Trump wouldn't be able to define honesty, humility uniformity or integrity in any form

wow, maybe the purely video form of tiktok is preventing it from gaining any info outside of articles written about him

The DOGE guys didn’t just make one $8B mistake in their savings list — “they are getting it wrong with alarming consistency”

They don’t seem to understand how these things are calculated.

🧵: x.com/electricfutu...

have you looked into Tunisian Crochet? It's a nice balance between knitting and crochet

QRP with an art piece you’re proud of!

I'm often very hard on myself for my art and frequently can only see the things I messed up in a piece, but this one remains one that I will always be proud of, despite the faults I always see.

I'd say the majority of sales are people who are after extra skeins for their particular project, rather than anyone generally expanding their stash.

Also, if you have a knitter's guild in your area, they often have destash meetups

It's a much more specialised audience you're broadcasting to, but it's entirely dependant on them looking for specific yarns, so it's in no way a fast route, but you're guaranteed to sell to people who would appreciate the yarn for its value.

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

Another extraordinary exchange just now about "animus" in the court hearing on trasngender members of the military:

You can put it up on Ravelry

Bandcamp lets us keep 85% of revenue. That is the best rate of anybody out there. Over a period of about 15 years, I have taken home ~$3000. Every album is "pay what you want", so you all rock.

If you bought an album for $5 then you gave me more than streaming the whole album ~300 times.

we've had some real bangers

I'd not be surprised if it was a tumblr quote

How about you apply some clean code techniques to your workflow and just remove the unnecessary chaff.