Mina

Hello! My side gig is a podcast where I discuss how laws and history effect media. I've covered theme parks, dolls, movies, Ratings, newspapers, and a lot more. If you are looking for something new to listen to, please try it! rss.com/podcasts/cir...

users: I do not want your shitty ai how can I turn it off? companies: oohhh, no, you can't do that. literally. we built it so you literally cannot turn it off. *ten minutes later* companies: good news, every body! our breakthrough ai feature has one hundred percent adoption rate!

one way you can tell tech companies know their AI sucks is they keep preventing you from turning it off

great news

This fucking government lmao "The young people have no jobs!!!" Seconds later "AI is good, build datacentres!" WOW I WONDER

Absolutely cursed fucking phrase that I read for the first time today: "young-adult traders"

Remember to buy stamps and send letters! Everyone likes to get personal mail.

sorry i need to publicly be a hater for a second but what do you mean the giant 230k+ signature save mass effect petition is only about the IP and not the devs that were laid off

As someone who was hospitalized for five days after a cold turned into an inner ear infection and caused SEVERE vertigo, you can be perfectly healthy and still have major complications from "just a cold". It's 2.5 years later and I'm STILL using a cane and doing PT in the hopes of fully recovering.

This is worth noting for a lot of people, really. If you're following artists who aren't putting stuff behind paywalls, consider throwing them some tips anyway as a thank-you to ensure they keep making the stuff you like!

Okay. I did it. It's @sendletters.bsky.social ! Go follow!

If I can figure out how to make a bot account, do I do it just to remind people every few hours to write letters by hand and send mail

Have you sent a letter today?

I've seen an increase in this behavior as well. I know that people gotta eat, but remember not to get so desperate for work that you're majorly undercutting wages. These companies know they can probably find someone who will do the same work for cheaper since so many people are looking for work. :(

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

So how did Lula come from behind to defeat Bolsonaro? In short, turnout. Bolsonaro's vote share barely moved. But Lula banked millions of votes from those who didn't vote in the first round & won eliminated candidates' votes. A remarkable mobilisation. Second round turnout is usually below first.

between serbia, brazil, and hopefully november 3, a good reminder: voting works it’s not the end, there’s always work to be done after the vote, but if you want to beat the motherfuckers and keep them out of power: vote your asses off

... I know I should play some new to me horror but like... I should replay Arkham Asylum. ( I have Alone in the Dark remake keyed up, Silent Hill F, Amnesia, The Sinking City, Lords of Shadow, DMC 1, Nancy Drew, and other stuff too. I am spoiled for choice, I just... miss Arkham 1)

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

During the brazilian elections we learned one obvious but important tactic to defeat the far right on the Internet and I think everyone should know it: IGNORE THEM! DON'T ENGAGE WITH THEIR CONTENT! DON'T MAKE CONTENT REACTING TO THEM! DON'T HATE QRT! LET THEM ALONE IN THEIR BUBBLE!

First of all, how on earth is CVS "struggling" when their pharmacies are everywhere in much of the country, plus they own Aetna and the Minute Clinic? It's entirely possible for someone to have a cold/flu diagnosed, get the prescription drugs and deal with the insurance without ever leaving a CVS.

If you donated to Josh Turek without realizing he was running on a federally funded trans healthcare coverage ban, you can request a refund of your donation here: help.actblue.com/hc/en-us/art...

if you're at the top of your field and you don't even want to try anymore, then get out of the way and let someone else take the wheel for a change. jesus christ.

archiveofourown.org/series/5916686 I do infact believe it.

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

The Orange County Registrar of Voter (OCROV), led by Bob Page (who had to undergo a full on baseless inquisition by our HB city council), is the gold standard for not just our state, nor our country, but for other countries as well in that they come in and ask “how do we keep our elections secure?”

our institutions have stopped hiring, we've been telling students not to pursue advanced study, and to the extent that humanists have mounted a defence, it's been by pleading our utility as an adjunct of STEM disciplines and professional schools in short, it all worked

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

As much as cars still bad, you can breathe in Los Angeles on most days. my favorite picture to illustrate the change was being 27 miles from the Hollywood sign and shooting it between International Gateway Bridge.

Glad to see staff is so considerate to newer gamers in advance of the OoT remake. Not everyone has played through the game before, it's a lot harder to spoil the later temples when bluesky is blocking adult Links.

⚠️ New: Target have installed ALPR surveillance cameras at the Redmond, WA location!! These appear to be the Axis Q1800-LE model: www.axis.com/products/axi... It sounds like this might be rolling out nationwide, much like Home Depot and Lowe's have done with Flock! 😩

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

it’s amazing how these billionaire tech freaks *love* mainstream sci-fi and superhero movies, and also manage to completely miss the incredibly unsubtle and heavy-handed “we need to protect human creativity and freedom” moral that essentially all those movies are imbued with

I visited MLK Community Hospital in South LA, the only safety-net hospital serving poor patients in the area. The ER was built for 25,000 patients a year; it gets 120,000. I saw patients getting treated in the gift shop, the chapel, in tents, even outdoors. And this is before the Medicaid cuts.

Boston Brand should have had his own Quantum Leap ripoff TV show in the era of 24 episode seasons where he takes over a different body every week and solves their problems while getting closer and closer to his killer #dchottakes

People tend to associate stage melodrama and melodrama tropes with the silent era but the movies were spoofing these cliches from the start. AND THE VILLAIN STILL PURSUED HER (1906) is a wonderfully weird and surreal sendup of the old stage warhorses.

The DCCC coordinating on this is truly a vile turn. Just a complete abdication of basic morality and an unequivocal endorsement of fascism.

the red pill hand having 6 digits while the blue pill hand having 5 says EVERYTHING