Photo I took of these wonderful people (the faces of whom I’ve blacked out) singing happy Birthday to their lovely old dog at a bar I was at tonight in Portland
I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city
“my pretty little love-hate machine” was right there, FUCK.
Can it be a tie?
I miss my little love-hate machine 🖤
Friendly Fyre Festival
one thing I will never do online is feud. none of you are real to me in that way. not like this fucking bird I hate
I wish you well in your future "being wrong" endeavours
LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)
A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
A Little Owl is bundled in a baby blue towel on a table with an expression of malcontent. His eyes are squinted and slightly crossed, and match his waxy yellow beak in colour. He appears chinless, recessing his head into his body; eyes at the same level as his shoulders and squashed as though someone had tried resizing him in a Word document and forgot to lock the aspect ratio.
A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney. South Essex Wildlife Hospital reported he was "dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home". Want to donate to SEWH? southessexwildlife.org/donate Source: fb.com/555952912555... #owlsintowels 💛🦉
NO LGB WITHOUT THE T
NO LGB WITHOUT THE T 🏳️⚧️
"For decades, every female Olympic athlete was screened. In all those years of testing, it never caught a single person deliberately misrepresenting their sex. What it did do was destroy the careers&lives of women with intersex conditions they didn’t know they had." open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
omg
yeah but no poor girl is gonna come in 5th in a jv swimming meet in your state because of a trans kid, so you got some of what you wanted
instead of watching the new harry potter trailer, why not pick up some horror books by trans and nb writers for the trans rights readathon?? there are so many good options.
For example, check out some of these writers:
Users left hand showing an engagement ring
I think my girlfriend likes me ?¿?
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Feeding your ex to the wolves, (by tossing a mouse in their name), this is an idea whose time has come! This works really well for bosses and ex bosses!
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This can’t be good.
@wyden.senate.gov what’s up?
Imagining the MLB staffer that had to approve the design and finding out that I trademarked Riccabonezone®️ and that it wasn't fully just some inappropriate joke.
Elon Musk responding to news of X office being raided in Paris: This is a political attack
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Investigating child sexual abuse material isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France.
Sacre bleu
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This is awesome. Abram is a wonderful human and this is a shaft of light in the darkness.
Don’t ever let people forget this.
A second journalist was arrested by federal agents because she covered the anti-ICE church protest in St. Paul. Georgia Fort is an independent journalist and three-time Midwest Emmy Award winner.
The TikTok Acquisition And Oracle’s Potential Collapse Sets Us Up For The Funniest Conclusion Possible You probably are wondering why I didn’t talk about Oracle becoming a partial owner of the US version of TikTok, and that’s because I wanted to save the best for last. Oracle has, for some time, been TikTok’s official US infrastructure partner. Per TechCrunch: Oracle will serve as the trusted security partner, responsible for auditing and ensuring compliance with National Security Terms, according to a memo. The company already provides cloud services for TikTok and manages user data in the U.S. Notably, Oracle previously made a bid for TikTok back in 2020. Here’s another great factoid about TikTok: it loses billions and billions of dollars: TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, doesn’t disclose TikTok’s financial performance. But ByteDance investors estimate TikTok lost several billion dollars last year on revenue of roughly $20 billion. Now that ByteDance isn’t principally responsible for the health of the app, and within a few days of the deal closing, its algorithm went to dogshit. While TikTok is attempting to claim that a power outage was to blame, anybody with even a basic knowledge of anything knows that algorithms do not live in different parts of a data center, and that the most likely reason behind the deterioration is Oracle diddling with the algorithm itself, as TechCrunch reported it would: A White House official previously said Oracle would replicate and secure a new U.S. version of the algorithm, and the U.S.-based TikTok owners could lease the algorithm from ByteDance, which Oracle will then retrain.
So, let’s review: Oracle has already fucked with the TikTok algorithm, the main reason people use the app, and people using the app is how the app makes money (by serving them ads). TikTok was already losing billions of dollars. Larry Ellison’s wealth is almost entirely tied to his shares of Oracle. Oracle’s shares are tied to the health of the company, and said shares are already losing value because of Oracle’s egregious debt. This situation will only improve if Oracle is able to build data centers that are behind schedule and it does not yet have the capital to build, requiring debt that bankers are hesitant to provide. Even if successful, if OpenAI cannot pay for the compute, Oracle’s shares will slide into oblivion. All the while, Oracle just bought into one of its largest cloud customers, and is currently in the process of making its business less-valuable. As it stands, Oracle is a company in decline that has attached itself to a low-to-negative margin business with extensive, debt-ridden setup costs, with a primary customer that required over $140 billion in funding just to stop itself falling over and dying by the end of 2026. Oracle continually misses analyst estimates, swindles customers into expensive contracts and then sues them to bleed them for more money, has employees that tell me that life there is utterly miserable, and is inarguably an enterprise in sharp decline, one accelerated by the desperate, egoistical predilections of Larry Ellison, a guy who allegedly stepped down a decade ago but fully intends to drive the entire company off a cliff. If allowed to, Oracle will be swallowed whole by its debt, and won’t have much of a business to fall back upon. In writing this piece, I have tried to look for something resembling an Oracle fan - somebody that appreciates the software or will defend it on any level. All I can find are the most wretched AI boosters, desperate to kiss up to anybody who will incinerate billions of dollars to build dat…
Perhaps I’m trashed off hopium, but I see no scenario that ends with anything other than the near-destruction of Oracle, and even if a government bailout exists, it will take decades - if it’s even possible - to recover from what I believe will be an historic destruction of shareholder capital, all borne of the hubris of one of the most nakedly anti-consumer companies in the history of capitalism. I hate Oracle. I’ve spent hours and hours reading about Oracle, learning all about Oracle, thinking about Oracle, philosophizing about Oracle, and never before have I witnessed a company that’s so thoroughly debased its products, customers and shareholders. This company has taken the piss for decades, and I think it’s finally its time for a reckoning. Could Larry Ellison be rendered penniless? Doubtful. But the outcome of decades of fucking over customers and terrible financial decisions may finally tear down his rotten legacy.
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I am just so impressed by people who are good at something. Watching people who tackle things I consider very hard with complete ease always makes me smile. It's just fun to watch, man.
Trump stands in front of a camouflage backdrop. Underneath, text reads: “I reached out last week about my Citizens Only Survey. Your file says you’re a top MAGA patriot… But my records to my survey STILL say: RESPONSE PENDING Don’t tell me, YOU’RE AN ILLEGAL ALIEN?!? That cannot be true! This is your FINAL MOMENT to Prove me wrong, Judy - please. Are you a proud American Citizen or does ICE need to come and track you down?>
I have finally seen something worse than those fundraising emails and texts the Democrats send: the ones the Republicans send
