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if you ever happen to see someone post a joke you don't understand or discuss a subject you aren't familiar with, you are well within your right to complain, and perhaps even scold them if necessary. you are their customer and you have rights

razor wire put up as an artpiece or a joke still rends flesh the same. if people allow ourselves to engage in casual cruelty through ironic disavowal we're inevitably going to start believing some of what we're disavowing is correct

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

m.youtube.com/shorts/T3bsn...

"The hills have eyes" is a cautionary tale about having some stuff

It is done. My magnum opus. My legacy.

I start the political compass quiz and somehow end up with a second autism diagnosis

I know You Can See Everything hits crazy because half of my mutuals letterboxd reviews are just like "What does it mean to lie? Who are we but the sum of our actions?" like characters in a Mamoru Oshii movie

my complicated feelings on the objectification of women in video games aside, if they tone down the great fairy in the remake art is dead

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Zero hate to Cory. This comment made me laugh until I cried.

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

It's Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) migration season in Texas. At least 90% of all southward migration passes through Texas, either along the coast, or through central Texas. They'll overwinter in Mexico, then return. Let's talk about the utter weirdness of generational migration.

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

“Oklahoma turned the hardest day of my life into weeks of needless suffering on top of our grief,” one of the plaintiffs said in a statement shared with Jezebel www.jezebel.com/two-oklahoma...

If you see this, could you please reskeet it? I want to test something.

Hmm

For fun, show this to pro-Trump people and ask them how this is okay m.youtube.com/shorts/7514u...

I like the logic of Roko’s Basilisk (the idea that you’ve got to build super intelligent AI because it’s inevitable and will punish those who don’t contribute to its creation) not accounting for the future AI also being pissed if LLMs are a dead end and focusing on them actually delays its creation

m.youtube.com/watch?v=J96u... Wha-chow! A good video! Morbid Zoo is very good in general

This is interesting even if you don't care about cars m.youtube.com/shorts/S9z78...

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1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

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Supreme Court justices used to do their own grocery shopping. Now they need 24/7 security and a police force dedicated to just them. They helped create this new world, and in doing so, lost the privilege of living in it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm not a religious person and I don't care to attach cosmic significance to celebrities, but I can't not feel like one of the last remaining pillars of the world just got kicked out from under it. Like a load bearing crystal shattered or one of the Tzadikim is gone or something.

When Jesus jumps up on the counter even though he KNOWS he's not allowed

It’s zorking time

I think about this at least a dozen times a day.

ME POSTING: Good pussy sound like the Silent Hill radio ME AFTER I NOTICE A FAMOUS PERSON JUST FOLLOWED ME: More than ever it is so inportant to be apprised of all that is to be and furthermore to learn of all that could in the best manner we are able as this is the true delight of Life