this is like a miracle

oh yeah & i'm sure 'not trying too hard' being the ideal response for my depressive avoidance tendencies and also a well worn tactic for keeping things chill with people around me didn't entangle it with basically everything i have 👍

From NC? Join me in writing. NC has 4 National Forests: Croatan, Uwharrie, Nantahala and Pisgah — and they are are full of wild places to hike, hunt, camp, raft and fish.

kinda rolling that one around in questions of gender, art, identity, artifice & intention, trying to figure out where i got 'lack of effort=authenticity/trying for a thing=poser', beyond just 'growing up in the nineties', as well as how to kick it in the dick

saw a post here that stuck with me about how you shouldn't compare your own attractiveness to someone who is professionally fuckable

landed on a variation earlier; 'don't compare your complete lack of effort in self-presentation to ppl who put a professional amount of effort into that very thing'

If youre a UK resident you have a prime opportunity to push back against the Online Safety Act and online surveillance. PLEASE take a moment to fill this out and share it around

Cat with head under pillow

Same, girl. Same.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Judge sides with creators of banned ICE trackers who allege DHS and DOJ violated their First Amendment rights The Trump administration coerced platforms into removing ICE monitoring projects such as ICE Sightings - Chicagoland and the Eyes Up app, the lawsuit alleges.

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Illustration of a young snow leopard

Snowy day❄️

#art #illustration #snowleopard #animalart #digitalart

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panpsychism (the personal area network is an entity with cognizance, agency, and a soul)

FREE HER

Devotion

Saw this news and I had to make a rough sketch about it. 🥹 We humans always underestimate the empathy and care of other animals..

Back in my day we listened to music on CDs What are CDs, grandpa? CDs nuts

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You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

AGAINST ALL ODDS, THOSE WHO BELIEVED BLUESKY THAT THE CRASH WAS DUE TO A DDOS

AND THOSE WHO DIDN'T BELIEVE BLUESKY AND WERE SURE IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE AI VIBE CODING

WERE

BOTH

RIGHT

Feminists for ages: we are not just vaginas and baby making parts.

A trans woman enters the room.

Those same feminists: we are only vaginas and baby making parts.

Fucking clowns.

Hey seriously, literally in the bills it says they'll also use identifying information, such as your age data for "other purposes". That means your data goes into a government surveillance database. This would be for ANY *OS*, which is the thing your fucking PC runs off of.

Call your reps NOW.

Something being full of meaning isn't trying to make you feel stupid it's trying to talk with you.

Medium spicy take: The way Americans sexualize non-sexual nudity is 1. Strange 2. An indication of the prevalence + power + reach of conservative/Christian nationalist values.

bear suit
insurance fraud

infiltrating a series of prominent Midwestern esoteric and occult forums and telling them these were leyline maps.

two days a year this community rallies together and does something amazing and truly selfless.

one week until they do it again.

if you are new, welcome to the show.

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

“You cannot kill me in a way that matters.”

A xenomorph is using its mouth tongue on Graves, the undead faun/elf hybrid. Gore is on the floor, set against a wall and a chain-linked fence.

Graves x Xenomorph 🖤💚

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