Imagine there are two mechanics in your town.
At one, the dude howls incoherently while letting a bunch of rhesus monkeys bang on your car with rocks.
The other mechanic is a normal guy, who actually knows how to fix cars.
Your car breaks, one of these guys will get it working faster.
The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village
The great American poet is Walt Whitman.
Why?
Whitman sees and celebrates all the best things about us.
He lauds the working class. He praises the equality of women to men. He marvels at the beauty of the black body. He acknowledges our grief and growth, but sees us as able to overcome ourselves.
Pad it out with a program-it-yourself simple game that people have to type in and compile themselves, like those BASIC game pamphlets they used to sell
strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news
does anybody have reading recs (nonfiction) for researching 1920s-era eugenics? I'm looking particularly when it comes to mental illness or disability broadly and particularly in America or Canada but if you have good stuff on any front let me know
Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices
Diary comic from 2025 about Chemo Tess.
I was like a giant fat baby. So weird. 😄
Diary Comics collection is available at tessfowlerart.bigcartel.com
I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.
Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."
leftists are my greatest adversary because they are destroying america destroying america or being rude to you online? being rude to me online
liberals on this microblogging website
Even questionable art asks some serious questions sometimes.
Often those questions are connected: sometimes they are not, sometimes they're in reverse order.
But the majority of the time, they will help lead you to the source of the fuckery afoot.
I need to issue a public acknowledgment of @scottcrawford.org, because he introduced two concepts to our mutual community when I was about 16, and at the time, I didn't understand, but every year, he has been proven more right.
Always ask two questions:
Follow the money.
Who benefits?
my autistic friends ending the zoom call
Or they just don't get treatment and die. All part of the plan for the oligarchy.
They let me pay $20 up front and bill the rest later, so I've just been adding it to my payment plan with the hospital, and they write some of it off periodically.
What do people do when they don't have both a nonprofit hospital system and nonprofit insurance 🤷🏽♀️
Image shows Destiny 2 fanart with a chiefly pitch black Exo O.C. named Damien. He stands in front of a dull red brick wall over off white concrete as he wears dark and sloppy civilian clothes while leaning on the handle of an Iron Lord themed one-sided axe. The clothes are a black hooded jacket with mid length sleeves that hangs off the back of one shoulder and pools around the same elbow as the hand is in a pocket. Under the jacket is a black tank top with gray skull, crossbones, and circling bands over the top and underside of the bones which carry the words "The Clovis" on top and "grave pisser" on the bottom. He's got a belt with a chain decorating it and a yellow cloth hanging out of a pocket to match the yellow vertical bands across his body plates. He balances on one leg as the other is crossed at the ankle. There is a ragged hole at the knee and the bottom of the pant legs just above the boot line is tattered. The boots are black leather and shiny with a silver zipper. The artist's watermark and name, "scintillant-h", is at the bottom of the image with the extra statements of "Queer Art By Queer People" & "Human Artist; no A.I."
It was Mako Day (🫶) & Damien said he gets to be a cool kid for the event ❤️🔥
We have all decided that he's telling us where he got that shirt or else 👀
Also go check out @makoredeyes.bsky.social 's stuff please & thank you 🫵💚
#Destiny2Art #ScintHArt #DestinyArt #D2OC #FriendOC #OCDamien
This is Achrioptera manga, a giant phasmid or stick insect native to Madagascar.
The specific epithet, "manga" means blue in Malagasy & it's not hard to see why. Only males are blue.
The tiny back wings ("alae") are an example of brachyptery: they're useless for flight, but have other functions.
SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DO YOU NEED TO ASK FOR HELP?
we're stuck at 91% so if you can, help spread the word around!! pass the yaoi!!!
DEFINITION: SLANG TERM FOR SOMEONE WHO IS TRANS BUT DOESN'T KNOW IT YET EGG CLOSET-CODED UNHATCHED SKIRTCURIOUS IT'S GAME TIME! THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF WOKE IDENTITY TERMS *THE BIG WEEKEND SHOW+
sry for fox news posting but this is sending me
Small business tyrants want the state to assure they have a highly exploitable, easily disposable workforce to maximize their profits and keep their faulty precarious ventures afloat in a system destined to consume them—and the assurance of a non-citizen status is how to do that.
A flyer for the workshop. A photo of a tree in the woods with some words on white paper on the floor by the tree - held there with pebbles. Text says: Place, word, image. A creative workshop inspired by nature Join local artist Laura Villares House & writer Miranda Keeling for a mindful morning exploring sense of place through grounding practices in word & image-making. No prior experience required; all materials provided. WEDNESDAY 22ND APRIL, 10AM - 12.30 PM AT HOLLOW PONDS Email laurahouse310886@gmail.com to book. Free (donations welcome)
🌱 I’m delighted to be running this creative workshop in partnership with brilliant artist Laura Villares House.
This workshop is free (donations are gratefully accepted). DM me to join the list and I’ll send you the meeting place (London, E17). Or email the address on the flyer. Limited spaces 🍃
Man. My health insurance monthly cost is double what it was last year, covers a little more than half of what it used to, and co-pays are up - get this - from a max of $20-50 to $150-200.
And that's from a non-profit provider and the vast majority of the monthly cost covered by ACA credits.
I'll never forget how quickly and easily basically every corporation in America pivoted to the right after Trump won in '24. It's so obvious they were just waiting for the opportunity.
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I firmly believe it's part of her calculated plan for bullying and oppressing trans people, & making it that much more difficult for other media to rise and replace it, by sucking up as much oxygen as possible.
She's a billionaire. It doesn't have to make money. Suffering is what she's purchasing.
I read some articles and talked to a friend who was at PT.
