The platonic ideal of a casually confident smile.

a screenshot of a post from facebook, with an array of AI slop posters at the bottom, all advertisting some kind of "spring fayre" and all looking like busy bland white noise with no decent information "A plea from an artist: All these posters look the same, yet they are from different areas in the U.K. so much so I was concerned that I had repeated the same poster when compiling this. I realise that many group committees are volunteers and people don't have the time or funding to consult or even ask someone arty to make a poster for you, but please ditch the urge to "save time" and money by using ChatGPT or other ai services. At this point your poster would be better seen using Comic Sans and Word Art, or even a sharpie and a Helix letter stencil. The excessive and sudden burst of ai to help "promote" events has actually lead to nobody looking at the posters because when they appear on social media we think we've already seen it. It no longer works for marketing or promotional posters, as in its very brief appearance, ai has already saturated the market. Please just get a marker pen out instead. Homemade and human made is the way forward now if you want your event to be seen and remembered."

I've been seeing variations of this post hitting a ton of groups on facebook for market vendors lol
people are sick of this shit

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Caesar Unexamined Conservatism?

I actively left the Church in college, and before then mostly fought with whatever poor fool said "Yeah, I'll run CCD classes..."

And I'm still like "Now wait just a minute..."

The amount of history re-writing we let both Southern Confederates and "We'll help you fight Communism" literal Nazis do is something that plagues us to this day.

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

Econ class, Sept. 11th. Wondering if a plane hitting to tower was an accident. Thinking "How do you even repair something like that?"

Then watching a second one.

We can be worried about two different things at the same time. The American people are capable of such feats, even if their Senators may not be.

No joke. She literally yelled “SHAME!” As she yanked the gun from a dude in the Korean Army and then broke through the locked congressional door to vote.

Check out the Goonhammer early review of Hot Spots: Draconis Reach by Valk today!

Our friend, Valk, managed to get access to a copy of the upcoming Hot Spots: Draconis Reach at AdeptiCon 2026!

She shared her thoughts on it with this article at Goonhammer. Go check it out and let #Goonhammer know we sent you!

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#BattleTech #wargame

i believe in the indomitable human spirit because across all cultures we have understood to put yummy things inside of dough pockets

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

Three PHR frigates for Dropfleet Commander in a teal color scheme

Finished my first Dropfleet Commander squadron - the Medea-class Strike Carriers "Cassandra's Warning", "Circe's Guile" and "Arachne's Pride".

I bought a set of these activation cards for A Clash of Rhyfles that are done in the style of tarot cards, and they are *the cutest*. www.etsy.com/listing/4465...

Rest well Max.

Lashog

Confession: Up until a couple years ago, I thought the lyrics for Running Up That Hill were "...I'd make a deal with God, and I'd get him to swallow places."

I have come to prefer my version, where a vexed Kate Bush is summoning eldritch horrors to unmake reality.

9 panel comic Panel 1: The view from the cockpit of a spacecraft. Two green alien hands grip the controls. A planet can be seen in front of the ship. Panel 2: One of the alien hands move to the left and presses a red button. Two laser beams fire from the ship directing into the centre of the planet below. Panel 3: The planet begins to rupture under the force of the lasers. Panel 4: The planet completely explodes. The ship and the pilot are bathed in a blood-red glow. Panels 5, 6, and 7: The alien pilot turns the ship 180 degrees so he is facing empty space and the dying planet is behind him. Panels 8 and 9: The alien presses a green button and the space craft accelerates to warp speed. A dimensional rift opens in the distance. The viewing window fills with white light.

9 panel comic Panel 1: The alien space craft is travelling through a dimensional rift and is surrounded by white light. Panel 2: The ship comes out of warp drive. Through the viewing window we now see a reddish purple planet with rings around it. The alien’s home world. Panels 3 and 4: The space craft draws nearer to the planet. Panels 5 and 6: The craft drops down through the planets atmosphere. Through the dust of the rings and past the clouds. Panels 7, 8, and 9: The planet’s surface is revealed. It is jagged and harsh with a poisonous looking lake cutting through the landscape. The ship touches down, kicking up a cloud of dust.

8 panel comic Panel 1: We look down at the alien’s body as he removes his seat belt. Panels 2 and 3: The alien gets up and makes his way towards the large circular door at the back of the ship. Panels 4 and 5: The alien releases the door mechanism. He is home. He has destroyed an entire planet and population and he will face no consequences. Or so he thinks. Unfortunately for him, the door to his ship opens to reveal… Panel 6: Lieutenant Columbo standing on the planet’s surface. The detective is looking at a small black rift hovering in the air in front of him. He addresses the alien directly and says “Sir, is this a window into an endless void?” Panel 7: Columbo takes a closer look at the rift and continues, “Mrs Columbo wants one of these things” Panel 8: Tossing up his hands in mock exasperation, he adds “I said to her, why do you wanna stare into an abyss? We gotta tv!”

POV: You are an interdimensional alien warlord. You destroy an entire planet and its inhabitants then slip back into your own dimension, where you think you’ll be safe from consequences. But no. One man will make you pay for your crimes.

I've written scientific papers for my field. For other fields with different norms. For courts of law. For non-academic audiences interested in science. For roleplaying games. For strategy games. About strategy games. All very specific audiences.

Never once have I used Extruded Word Product.

Given that it's Transgender Day of Visibility, if you're trans and paint minis, throw some cool ones in the replies here and i'll repost it so people can follow you for more cool minis :)

Cobalt in gravestones has set off more than one radiation detector.

Have been around Zebras for all of five minutes, and I know their psychology enough to know they're never that friendly. Zebras are just assholes in anti-submarine camouflage, and that dog would be *in danger* if it was real.

A Kalshi ad that says "We don't do death markets"

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

One of the foundational problems with the world is tech bros never learning that exponential and logistic curves look the same until they very much don't.

Same with the people who fund them.

All of this is built on the fundamental premise that AGI is also just infinitely smart, and the universe has no actual constraints to it.

@jason @Jason Here’s the truth: we’ve already reached AGI — we just haven’t implemented it broadly. Millions of jobs are being lost as we speak. Entire careers will be retired. The rich and powerful investors and founders who implement AGI will get bizarrely rich beyond what makes sense. It will break people's brains on both sides. It’s gonna suck for a lot of our friends and family, who aren’t obsessed with their careers, because things are moving so fast they won’t have even left the starting gate by the time the awards are handed out. We’re gonna have to solve for a lot of second- and third-order effects, some of which will suck (job loss) and some of which will be awesome. AI will create free/cheap energy, free education, cheaper and better food, homes that build themselves and medicine that makes you as healthy as a 30-year-old when you’re 100. … change is hard, but humans are the most adaptable species nature has ever created. We can figure it out

this is how you know it's really over for the ai scam: when jason calacanis declares that AGI is actually already here

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