ur not gonna believe who just blocked me lol

The Disappearance of the Public Bench Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it."

NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

lol

this place really lives up to its stereotype of being full of people who don't understand jokes

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

i love starting with "lots of strange reactions to this game" and following that up with the strangest reaction yet

this is one of the most offensive things I've seen in years

If my pedophile brother got my grave vandalized I would be haunting his ass for the rest of his life. He would never be able to use a computer in peace so long as he lived

A schoolgirl named Delilah having turned into a Stoner Sloth; a full-body puppet tree sloth bearing the traits of a teenager under the influence of cannabis

A Stoner Sloth named Dave looking dead inside at a party while his friends include him in a selfie

A Stoner Sloth named Jason at his family's dinner table, passing the salad when asked to pass the salt

Stoner Sloth
NSW Government
2015

The New South Wales government, without consulting the NCPIC, tried to shame the youth out of smoking pot with a moaning sloth, portrayed as a loser for getting high. The campaign backfired; it was universally ridiculed and drove traffic to a namesake pro-weed site.

it's remarkable the way this single shot totally rehabilitated Aerith's image after like two straight decades of her being relegated to "Girl who stands in a void going 🙏" in every other piece of FF7 material

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Re: 'H.R. 8250' "Parents Decide Act". This bill wants to force age verification on the operating system level.

If you see one of your reps listed below, CALL THEM so we can kill this in committee

www.congress.gov/members/find...

TFW you look out the window and see the Earth disappear
🎥 Astronaut Reid Wiseman
📍 Artemis II from the far side of the Moon

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.”

This is why we should fund science. 🧪

once you ignore minor and pesky things like distributional effects on who gets access to the highest productivity regions in the country, it's obvious that this is clearly an optimal price clearing policy and no interventions are required.

And it is insane. The idea that every landlord has a right to maximize expected returns on a given rental to the point that we require individuals to prove that they have capital buffers to mitigate the risk of lost rental income for property owners beyond things such as... having a job.

bluesky: we are pivoting to AI

[site catches on fire]

bluesky: this was not the fault of AI

I made a coiled sword for my home bonfire and posted it in the dark souls reddit and got comments asking how people could commission one. I replied "sorry, I can't discuss that here, I'm not allowed to self promote" and got a permanent ban for "self promotion by admitting you take coms elsewhere"

my favourite tumblr post every time i see it i look at a random comment on it and smile

Also: the people who know and try to do something about it are frequently punished in extreme and disproportionate ways.

here's your yearly reminder jay naylor is furry's biggest practicing nazi artist. stop giving him money, fucks sake

They are so, SO desperate for people to resub. PLEASE don't resub your Nitro everyone. Props if you aren't already subbed, props if you were subbed and you unsub right now. NOTHING changes unless a company FEARS for their bottom line. Feel free to use Discord still, but don't give them a penny. 💖

12 years ago on my PRIVATE FACEBOOK I made fun of Dapper Laughs, someone obviously told the man himself, he then posted about me for an entire weekend to his 300k fans and WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT they aaaaallllll came for Sooz in a VERY manosphere way. His own dad posted that I was too ugly to rape 😊

Tumblr user thereisselfpreservation "I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .vbs file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck." Reply from the same user: "For reference (heh)" Screenshots of messages. Sender: "Okay, I've sent it now." There's a file attachment called "Shork_YCH_MyReference_v1.vbs". The vbs extension is circled. Sender: "If everything is in order, I can send the overpayment." Sender, in reply to the file attachment (again with the vbs extension circled): "How much would the full piece cost?" thereisselfpreservation: "At a glance, the file name checks out. But!! do not open a .vbs file!!!

You should know that the infamous I Love You virus uses the same trick - Always make sure to turn on 'show file extensions' in your windows/browser settings.

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. www.wired.com/story/the-in...

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy:

There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

My grandmother drove this Ford Pinto when I was a kid and I did not appreciate it nearly enough at the time.

Man idk how to express how demoralizing it is to see people doing joke support for the Pope as the Catholic Church implements the most draconian trans healthcare ban anywhere in the US. It's a FULL ADULT TRANS HEALTHCARE BAN!!!THEY KEEP BUYING MORE HOSPITALS!!!!!!!

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed