Alison Smaalders

1. Lose election 2. Assume Trump will steal election for him 3. Trump is flailing around and failing to steal his own election 4. Oh shit oh fuck

i don't think anyone should run explicitly on banning online gambling but i do think that a democratic-led government should just quietly take steps to undermine the industry and create an inhospitable regulatory environment

You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Hey remember a couple months ago when I almost died from sleep apnea and begged y'all to be checked if you have symptoms of sleep apnea? Eric Bauza just died from sleep apnea. We were the same age. Don't ignore sleep apnea.

Ursula Vernon: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of your blorbo King: MY blorbo?! Vernon: yes Vernon: YOUR blorbo King: from my stories?!? Vernon: yes Vernon: from your stories

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

I’m Moby Dick for Halloween

Reminder, Prop 43 is Prop 13 Maxxing

THERE IS ONE. WAY. OUT.

"The makers of 'Warhammer' declare heresy on generative AI, banning its use in the company's design process."

There’s no discussion of potential penalties in this article, but if people don’t go to jail for flagrant illegality like this, it will keep happening. For companies like Google, fines are just another cost of doing business. Something to toss on the balance sheet and weigh against profits.

Anyone who gets fooled by Ro Khanna is a fucking moron I'm sorry.

Every time some new tech turns out to be another grift with a new pair of mustache glasses, medical research is out here delivering win after win.

om nom nom seed corn tasty om nom nom

And then there's California with the dozens and doznes of weird elected offices (state insurance commissioner! state superintendent! Board of Equalization!) and state/local ballot measures.

The fact that the current crop of AI doesn't do most of the things they claim it can do should not obscure the fact that the current crop of AI is very very good at helping scammers and criminals and bad actors flood the zone so completely the zone feels like it might collapse.

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

everything old is new again

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

I was sexually abused as a child. I'm not the only person I know who can say that. If I'd been forced to let ANYONE perform that sort of examination in order to play sports, a thing children need for health--both physical and mental? I am not unique. Vote no on unnecessarily traumatizing our kids.

At the beginning of the year I started taking my kids to church regularly for the first times in their lives (for various reasons) and I have to say I am consistently impressed by the community organization skills of Gen X and Boomer mainline protestant Evelyn NormieLib parishioners.

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

A San Jose police officer searched stored ALPR data to help his cousin stalk their spouse. Just one more reason the courts must require officers to get a warrant first.

I'd say that more suburban sprawl is in fact one of the intended consequences of Prop 45. Vote no!

As someone who needs a translator for whatever the tech people are talking about, this was quite helpful as an explanation

It's a key part of conservative ideology: "I have no obligations to you and I can treat you however I like, but you are required to love me."

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

The Titanic is a great analogy: a ship that they proclaimed was unsinkable and then because of that they didn't bring lifeboats for anyone except the exceptionally wealthy so a lot of poor people took the brunt of what happened. Anyway.

kid me: why would the israelites keep turning away and start worshipping gods who demand child sacrifices? were they dumb? adult me, watching evangelicals start worshipping trump: oh i see now

I keep coming back to the basic problem that if people lose their damn minds at the thought of not being able to drive on one single street next to the ocean, how are we supposed to cope with these kinds of much bigger changes that are inevitable and imminent?

they’re stacking chatbot gpus in warehouses that they can’t plug in because there’s not enough electricity and there’s no data centers fo them. and if they did plug them in the emissions would devastate the climate. they never will be used and they never should be. and they’re useless for gaming

Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying peacefully ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it. Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history. 📷️me

There were 27 miles of rope used for rigging in Master & Commander. Modern rope naturally coils in the opposite direction of rope made during the Napoleonic wars. So the production paid a shop to make period accurate cordage.

Kind of hilarious how they’re acting like this is a brand new thing because Woke and not possibly part of the reason people have been fucking off across the sea in extremely fragile oceangoing vessels since the dawn of humanity, though

Every time someone’s bitching about why we can’t protest like they do in France, I want to stick a bullhorn in their face and yell “FERGUSON.” White liberals in particular have memory-holed what happened in Ferguson and how many Black organizers died under suspicious circumstances afterward.

Mr. El-Sayed do you disavow the Hamburglar and his reign of terror on the citizens of McDonaldland

This is a great voting shortcut: always vote the *opposite* of what the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, <Your Region> Taxpayers Association, and Reform California recommend