Bluesky's age verification is also trivial to bypass.

i probably shouldn’t sit in this weird position but i’ll move in a second

*1.5 hours later*

oh no

A small black fluffy cat with big, expressive eyes lies low against a soft teal background, looking slightly upward with a gentle, vulnerable expression. Below the cat, handwritten-style text reads: “Please don’t forget to be kind to yourself today and always.”

“Networking” is the content-ification of human connection and relationships, its another word I’ve grown to loathe, designed to turn us into cold, dependent corpo drones.

Watch me catch blowback for this like I do for my disdain for the word “Content”… 😅

Doing something today that you like, for no other reason than you like it, is important to your trauma recovery. Pleasure, fun, & meaning matter when the goal is actually wanting to live. They are survival tools, for EVERY survivor. Do not, do not, do not neglect them.

do u know how dangerous i’d be if i could finish things i start

What do you get if you cross an angry sheep with a angry cow?

One animal in a baaaaaaaad moooooooood.

Someone asked me if I’d take a deal where I got $50k, but my worst enemy got $100k.

I said, “sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted $150k."

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

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, laying on his back in a sunny windowsill. His head presses against the ground and his canine teeth peek out from gravity. Behind him is a black cat in a yellow cat bed. Next to him is another tabby cat. Fish's body is curled to fit himself in between them, and his front paws are tucked towards his body.

Fishtopher in the same position as the last photo, but now has his front legs stretched out. He shows off his underbelly.

oooh big stretch

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

😻😻😻

I don't want to shoot videos
I don't want to post tutorials
I don't want to show my process
I don't want to pour varnish
I don't want to turn my canvas
I don't want to record my screen
I don't want to cultivate parasocial relationships
I just want to make pictures and shitpost

I'm a cis woman and hearing trans women talk about how much they loved being a woman made me realize I didn't, and eventually led to uncovering that I was performing a patriarchal role as opposed to actually owning my body and my gender. I feel more like a woman now than I ever have.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

LIVE: Newborn kittens, with more on the way! 🐾🙀 YouTube video by TinyKittens HQ

Gaze upon the most adorable cuddle puddle.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU7q...

dragon-in-a-fez on tumblr: "keep thinking about how I wrote in my dissertation about how every time a new form of public/social space emerges it's immediately popular with kids and teenagers who see it as a chance at freedom and then adults colonise it and kick them out. this happened with malls in the 80s and diners in the 50s and pool halls in the 20s. my dad was doing research on this trend in like 1975. and I was like "yeah so this is going to happen to the internet" and then five years later every government suddenly decided to ban kids from everywhere online. I hate being right especially when I don't even get paid for it"

vs Spicy Liberalism (Rorty)

The letters "&udm=14" really help strip the unwanted AI from Google search.

Acus malitiae.

rotisserie kitty!!!
Best thing to see.

Buy my stuff!

Any payment system is better than no payment system.

The “Calvin’s dad explains two types” meme, inspired by a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Clockwise from top left: 1) Calvin’s dad walks into frame to find Calvin trying to operate a record player. The dad says: “There are only two industries left in America: gambling, and fraud.” 2) The dad shows where the record goes, and how to turn on the player, while Calvin watches. Dad says “Derivatives? Gambling. AI? Fraud. Video games? Gambling. Social media? Fraud.” Calvin says “yeah”. 3) With one hand open palm up, Calvin’s dad cheerfully explains to Calvin out of frame below him, “The stock market looks like gambling, but it’s actually fraud.” 4) In bed in a dark room, Calvin clutches at his pillow, eyes wide in existential terror. There is no text in the panel.

😁😃😆😂
You're b loody mad and I love it

An unusual statuette from Egypt's Late Period or Ptolemaic era, depicting an elegant #cat feeding her kittens. In this case, she's not a just a cat - she's Bastet, goddess of fertility, and protector of women and children. I love the kitten trying to give mama a kiss. 🐈‍⬛ 🏺 1/

📸 me #BrooklynMuseum

Oh my! You're making my 10.14 system look positively modern 😁

Has ddg imolemented negation in its search yet?
cause without that its still useless.

This one is backed by Google and Bing.
So add much as i like their ideals, i have concerns about their integrity.

Christ, but i hate what @bluesky d oes to text input. It's enough to drive me to drink.
or maybe even leave, but it c certainly dissuades me from posting.