you guys are better than google now. is the guy with the big ass playing baseball this year

I would never be the fun police. Fun crisis intervention specialist, maybe, but never a cop

it’s 11PM, have you had your late night perimenopause cottage cheese so you don’t wake up at 3:00AM because your blood sugar spiked and your body dumped it’s glucose?

sorry this is very specific

Scoop of peanut or almond butter would do nicely now that you mention it.

What am I clipping? This is one of those mini tools tho that I know the minute I throw them all out I will find myself needing to clip. So I should keep some, yes?

I’ve been cleaning out all kinds of drawers lately. Sort of like Swedish death cleaning but mostly for drawers. Because there’s nothing like spending some time helping an elderly parent downsize to make you rethink your relationship to things amiright? Anyway, why do I have so many paper clips?

And I’d take more risks on the fussy fabrics, get myself an overlock, and maybe even branch out into a some makes for friends and family. So far fit is a challenge and I haven’t yet tried fitting other people. Oh and I’d go take a weaving class somewhere.

Weirdly I feel like I’ve answered this for myself. A couple of years ago I went all in on garment sewing as a hobby. And while I’ve talked about it online, I don’t think I’ve posted a single sewing project. So probably that but with a fully funded tool and fabric budget.

L. Louise Lucas tweet showing an image that says "I fill my bong with Republican tears"

Never change, L. Louise Lucas

How much do I really need the AI to summarize my friend responding “lol”?

WhatsApp having the AI summarize function within your chats is the absolute devil. No I do not need a summary of my friend texting me. How bout you summarize deez nuts.

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

Hot take: the open fuck you energy of 10-1 did better than 9-2 would have. L. Louise Lucas was right. Soft-pedaling it wouldn't have sold, "you're goddamn right we are" did.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

I won't believe in an A.I. future until Gmail stops putting literally the same newsletter into a different tab every single day.

Aside from who started it, states like CA and VA putting a counter-gerrymander up to a referendum, where people are told and can make a decision on the context for why it's being done, has vastly more democratic legitimacy than state legislators rushing it through because they got bullied by POTUS.

People forget when it was first proposed Prop 50 was WILDLY UNPOPULAR and by the time of the vote we could have banned the GOP from California and it would have passed.

If AI was the wave of the future, sites wouldn't put the icon for it where you're most likely to accidentally click on it without meaning to.

CRY MORE, MAGA

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

I don't mind the wraps themselves, but that perforated window cover up is hell on the eyes - when it's on Muni, I can barely see through it - I hope they find a work around for it (or at least solicit public comment from riders)

Please do not cover windows with that perforated wrap is the only thing I have to say about it.

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58% of Photographers Have Lost Work to Generative AI: Survey Commissioned works are down.

98.4% [of photographers] want $ for past infringements by ai corps.

96.1% believe there should be mandatory labeling for ai-generated works.

89.9% not interested in licensing their images as data for machine learning.

85.3% want default position to be ‘opt-in’ for ai training, not ‘opt-out.’

Bluesky photos breaking shows another use case of ALT text.... If you have it I can still understand your post and if you don't your post is a big blank spot.

I took all the photos from Bluesky and put them on the blockchain and now you have to pay me for them

Well well well if it isn’t the reason everyone tells me to do alt text

I do not understand what it is that makes people allergic to alt text. You're just being less than your best self when you refuse to do it. I see 40k-100k following accounts who won't do it, a middle finger to everyone with issues needing alt text to be able to participate. You're bumming me out. 1/

He has such an important job.

I love that your dog looks like an inspector.