Simon has left the band and whats worse Alvin said our band is called Alvin and the Chipmunk now. like im just a thing

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

If I buy my favorite movie on disc, it's a one-time purchase unless it breaks and I can watch it any time. If I stream, the app has to have it, charge me for each watch/monthly sub, can remove it any time, and internet issues mean no movie. Also, a dvd I get from AmVets isn'g selling my data!

Bsky staff is scrambling to convince ppl that today's outage has nothing to do with their embrace of ai. That's great. We should make them scramble more. The cost of replacing competent humans with AI needs to be greater on every single level for every single company.

Instead of asking chatgpt, why not ask a librarian? You'll get real answers and they won't tell you to kill yourself.

To me it was the jump from CD player that skipped every time the school bus hit a bump (and I grew up rural, so it was every 30 seconds or less), to 152mb mp3 player that could only shuffle with no text display, to being able to select the actual song I wanted at any given time. A revolution.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

something I am proud of is my friends’ ability to survive but also still have the energy to be kind and to live their values. I think as they get older instead of becoming hollow, money-hoarding gammons, like society told us we would, they have become more determined and more kind

It is extremely cool and good that trans people exist.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

A figure in shadow holds a bloody heart, and stands in front of fire and smoke and a waving transgender pride flag. The caption reads "Fix your heart or die."

#garashir #StarTrek

I literally had to get a bigger TV to read the text in Tears of the Kingdom, even after I went and messed with what text settings I could.

Make some art.

Make it poorly. Make it well. It doesn't really matter.

Just make it.

Then make more.

The golden days of apolitical Star Trek has got to be the weirdest retcon since everyone claimed silent movies were just ladies tied to tracks.

My dad, handing me The Martian Chronicles at age 7 and saying "just skip around, my favorite is The Veldt":

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

All of the money ever made by all of the harry potter books and movies and games and all the things ever said about them all rolled up into one and multiplied by a hundred thousand is still not worth the life of a single trans kid.

It’s funny, Connor. I used to be demanding of our corporate artists. Change this, do this, don’t do that. But as soon as “AI” came out, I’d let any old dogshit go to print. It turned out that all I wanted the whole time was to be in charge.

it's funny

I'm sorry but if you have 4,000 employees and your revenue is 6 billion, you make 1.5 million per employee and if you can't make a profit margin there, you are simply embezzling it.

"Content" is something to fill an empty vessel: it repositions your view of the world to align with corporations. Art becomes something disposable, fungible, serving a financial interest and nothing more. The word "artist" is right there; I beg you to claim it and leave "content creator" to molder

Many people already experience harassment, humiliation, and violence by the **regular** TSA. The gestapo thugs joining them will make things MUCH worse for so, so many people. Try considering who's afraid of ICE and pulling your head out of your ass next time you want to speak.

A brave marine stood up for Jesus when his atheist professor dropped the chalk and it didn't break and his name was Steven Songtime and then he wrote songtime in the park with gorge and when there was only one set of footsteps it was when gorge was carrying you SHARE to PRAISE, KEEP SCROLLING to SIN

They fixate on a story about Helen Keller on a plane and extend "sat in a cockpit" to "WWI aerial ace" and use their assumption to assert that her disabilities were faked 🙃

see?
here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Tweet from Ayman Odeh: "ביום חמישי האחרון היה פיגוע דריסה בבית הכנסת ״טמפל ישראל״ במישיגן. היום היה ניסיון פיגוע בבית ספר יהודי באמסטרדם וגם בבית כנסת ברוטרדם. למזלנו, שלושת האירועים הסתיימו ללא נפגעים. אבל חשוב לי להיות ברור: אין שום הצדקה למעשים הנתעבים הללו נגד אנשים חפים מפשע. הקהילות היהודיות אינן אשמות במדיניות של ממשלת ישראל, שכל מטרתה לחרחר מלחמה, להעמיק את הכיבוש ולהביא לכולנו עוד דם, סבל ודמעות. זו ממשלה שלא אכפת לה מהחיים ומהביטחון, לא של התושבים כאן ובוודאי שלא של הקהילות היהודיות בעולם. תפקידנו כמנהיגים הוא להבטיח עתיד בטוח, עתיד של שלום וצדק אמיתי לכולם. אני מחזק את הקהילות שנפגעו וקורא לכל האנשים, כאן ובכל מקום בעולם, להתנגד באופן נחרץ לגזענות. בסופו של דבר, כולנו באותה סירה במאבק נגד השנאה."

Beautiful statement from Ayman Odeh, Palestinian MK and head of Hadash-Taal. For those who do not read Hebrew, I will translate:

My spouse never watched it so I did a little "here's the references" screening for them, and while they don't like the show they said it was better written than they thought, and certain bits have entered the household lexicon ("...at night!" From Hash Singing Slasher ep, etc)