everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"
Image is of the cover to book one “Somnia: Rude Awakening” with a close up of Somnia’s face.
Image is of the cover to book two “Somnia: Longing” with Somnia curled in a fetal postion in profile.
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This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Buying glasses that you can't wear within 100 feet of a school playground cause someone will rightfully rock your dome so hard it snaps back like a Pez dispenser. Or, not doing that.
I NEED HELP!
Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!
I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!
Please circulate widely!
As easily as you have sworn off Harry Potter pish, you can stop buying games from Microsoft or Microsoft owned studios.
This is such a small ask and low bar to clear, there are thousands of other games available at any moment, but the impact can be huge.
BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren has introduced a bill that would allow you to file taxes for free directly with the IRS.
The bill has support on both sides of the aisle, and would bring back and expand the free taxing filing program that the Trump administration killed off.
So the big studios are abandoning the US and turning the staff workers into contractors to get out paying for healthcare.
The United States is losing one of its defining industries because of not having universal healthcare and the people are going to be even more vulnerable to the industry.
Hey voice actors and artists, you may wanna start deleting your tiktoks if you haven’t started already. They opted every video into AI remixing bullshit.
Marvel™: Screwing over its artists in baroquely humiliating ways since 1939
A screenshot of a Hollywood Reporter politics news article. The headline reads, "Dave Chappelle Knocks Republican Party for “Weaponized” Transgender Jokes: “That’s Not What I Was Doing”" The subheadline states, "After being called out for transphobic jokes, the superstar comedian told NPR that Lauren Boebert and other Republicans are politicizing his humor." Below the text is a photo of Chappelle in a black tuxedo speaking at a podium, with a caption noting he is accepting the President's Award at the 2025 NAACP Image Awards.
No, that's exactly what Chappelle was doing and it's why trans people criticized him for doing it.
timeline cuteness cleanse
Various sketches
Various sketches
Various sketches
Various sketches
Recent coffeehouse doodles~✒️
#art #sketch #doodle
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It’s like the adults went, “Oh, this is a ‘drugs bad’ book, we should have the kids read it,” and never read it themselves. Which, honestly, explains so much of my childhood. 🤦🏽♀️
That fake Alice book was on the shelf of my fourth grade classroom. FOURTH GRADE. The DARE days were wild, y’all.
Executives', especially those at Disney, continuous bigotry and gender essentialism endlessly limits what art can be made in that system. See Elio, Nimona and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur for other examples. They are so misogynistic that they don't think they should make movies that encourage women.
Told my wife to have dinner ready at 6 or I'll obliterate her entire civilization. So anyway, she now charges me a fee to use the bathroom that used to be free, and I didn't get any dinner, but I'm pretty sure I won that exchange.
I lol'd at this.😆
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.
Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).
An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.
An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.
'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Well, we already understand this but for the people out here who don't - the idea is to stop people like Greta Thuneberg.
I think this is really important, and I'm worried it's never going to filter into the mainstream: Finland is producing studies that their researchers claim cast doubt on gender affirming care for youth, but they hide the ways their idiosyncratic approach itself could be to blame.
check yo self before you dox yo self
after a quick review of my timeline i feel the need to point to the sign
Substack's business model is almost certainly unsustainable. The only way they can hope to make it sustainable (though even this probably won't work) is to lock writers into the platform. So they keep taking steps to make it more costly for writers to switch off the platform.
What's the worst time to post something gaming history related? A few days before GDC. Well, GDC is over, so I'll try again:
Here's what I learned (as an archivist, for archivists) after listening to 150 episodes of the @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social podcast: trixter.oldskool.org/2026/03/05/s...
Dear Patrick, At Adobe, our mission is to support your creativity. Over the last few years, we’ve added a lot of new technology, tools, and performance improvements that help you create more efficiently than ever in our core creative apps, like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro, explore new ideas with our Firefly generative AI technology, and exercise expanded creative control. Aligned with those improvements and ongoing innovation, we’re enhancing the current Creative Cloud All Apps with a new name, price, and benefits. Your Creative Cloud All Apps plan will be renamed Creative Cloud Pro and will include all your existing benefits, along with a wide range of new benefits explained below. This will happen at your upcoming renewal. Creative Cloud Pro will cost US$69.99/month (plus applicable taxes). Your subscription will automatically renew monthly on 05-May-2026 (PT) until you cancel. As always, you can manage or cancel your plan at any time via your Adobe Account or by contacting Customer Support.
How many thousands of people are gonna get charged $70 a month because they didn't read to the third paragraph of this fucking email
"it's a sex crime for you to post artistic photos of your body on your social media account" is not a position anyone has ever taken for cis women and it's very clear these reactions are motivated by the disgust people have for trans women's bodies and nothing else
It has come to my attention that not all of you are aware that this exists. So, here it is. It exists. Dozens of channels of randomized music videos and bumpers. Choose your era and return to your childhood. Bookmark it for when you need to escape back.
wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html
The video is now live on youtube! youtu.be/eetPCm6Hs4s?...