The Quuuuuill

goddammit kroger. this is offensive to both japanese and rural americans. but more importantly i’m angry that i already know i’m gonna try it

oh well fuck me, this is mindblowing news. microsoft has always been so precious about the exchange protocol i just assumed that’s the way it would always be

probably never gonna happen

bender turning a sign into a boat dot gif

what?

norwegian waffles are severely underrated

it’s an emergency treatment when you’re so unable to breath even a nebulizer won’t help. it is not a valid alternative to inhaled steroids because it fucks with your entire endocrine system and can lead to long term heart, lung, kidney, and nervous disorders

russia is committing genocide in Ukraine against the indigenous population of Ukrainians.

100%. black women especially

see, but they’re not competent. further, they don’t care. most of these ai companies are snake oil. they’re selling you a solution that doesn’t meaningfully solve a problem. their main way of surviving is saying “this is what it can do now, just imagine what it can do if you invest money in my company.”

they’re scammers, the lot of them, running ponzi schemes with our money. if the planet dies for it, that’s no concern of theirs. ponzi schemes require the schemer to have no long term plan, just a line of credit that they can keep drawing from until they skip town before the tax collector comes

fluff!

we didn’t learn about blair mountain. this is a great tragedy. my elementary school serves an old mining community. my farm growing up had an entrance to the old mine on it. our teachers had an old miner come in to talk to us about how it used to work and the environmental impact. he started telling us about how he volunteered for the civil war, got on a train to head north to fight before they shuffled him out of the room. they said he was old and confused. it took me 20 years to realize he was telling us the realist thing anyone had ever told us. there was a living monument to what it takes to make the world better in our classroom, right in front of me. he’d taken a lever action rifle, got on a train, and headed to blair mountain. he was ready to die. he told his wife and his children goodbye because he didn’t want his children to be abused the way he was. he didn’t know if they would ever see him again, but he knew if he did nothing the world would remain static, and the status quo would be sustained.

the outcome of that battle was weekends. we have weekends where we don’t have to work because of him and men like him. that’s what it took to get that basic dignity given to us. and i’m sure it weighs heavily on him that he survived. that he saw so many of his friends cut down by the pinkertons. if he were alive today, i wonder what he’d think about the pinkertons filling in for the striking hospital police in town. perhaps i’m glad he’s not alive to see the inheritors of the world he and his friends built through their own bloodshed voting to undo all that, to go back to how it was before.

but it’s also an inspiration. our grandfathers and great grandfathers fought fascism because it’s what they had to do. now in the name of them, and for me and you, i’m gonna fight fascism too.

russia invading Ukraine for national security has much of the same trappings as america invading Iraq. but mls take the uncritical stance of america bad, russia good

i grew up in Virginia and we had an entire year in our standards of learning dedicated to learning about Nat Turner and John Brown. we might not anymore after that parents’ rights group in loudoun county brought the phrase “critical race theory” to the national table

every technology has had positive and negative. some get weaponized by the powers that be more effectively before the people can ensure safeguards. even the wheel has been a tool of the oppressor while making our lives too comfortable. of late, the powers that be have gained more through technological advancement than the people. i want to see a world where we can invert some of this power stream. after all, it’s us, the people, who discovered these advancements, built these wonders, and now find ourselves increasingly imprisoned and controlled by violence

possibly more dangerous because they’re what you turn to when you’re really out there. out where spotify doesn’t reach but you still don’t want to be alone with your thoughts. it’s like how it’s important to pay attention to what’s in the walmart discount dvd bin. for a lot of people that is what they have access to because no one else makes themselves available. having infinite connectivity has isolated us more than it connects us.

even now, i’m guilty of this. i’m outside. a honey bee polinates a sunflower. do i talk to anyone here? no they’re all busy with their own conversations and i’m just waiting for a phone call. so i let these cracks in this fractured reality remain as i go online and simulate connection with all those who see this text.

in that experiment with the baby monkey, the wire momma with the milk, and the terry cloth momma with the heater, we are all the baby monkey clinging to the falsified social experience while missing out on the nutrients we need.

the powers that be know this and manipulate it

i prefer Felon Stank

“free of bias” has always meant “unacknowledged right wing bias”

You’ve not convinced me that bot writers care about efficiency.

and why should bot writers care about efficiency when what they really care about is time. they’ll burn all your resources without regard simply because they’re not who’s paying

fwiw Anubis is working on a more respectful update, this was their first pass solution for what was basically a break glass emergency. i understand FSF’s concern, but Anubis is the only thing that’s making a free and open internet remotely possible right now, and far better it that nightmare fuel like cloudflare