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The Ocean at Dusk -  Kate Jarvik Birch 

American , b. 1977 -

Gouache on paper , 10 x 10 in.

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The great thing about having friends and acquaintances across a variety of professions is to really hammer home as much as possible the fact there is literally zero correlation between the amount someone actually works, the amount they contribute to society, and how much they make in a year.

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> looking at a new popular collectible

> ask the people if it's objects or gambling

> they don't understand

> pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is objects and what is gambling

> they laugh and say "it's a good collectible sir"

> look up how to buy a collectible

> its gambling

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Right.

Because the military, an establishment that has historically been run for men, by men, while miles away from women for sometimes years at a time, has never allowed drag.

What the fuck

Do you think our forefathers

Would think of us

If they could see us now

Emasculating ourselves with makeup

Dressing like pansies

Making fools of ourselves

Absolutely mocking the very concept of masculinity

While they were giving their lives fighting the Nazis.

Yes, I know the last three photos are British, and you can kindly fuck off.

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girlypop, my womanly biology is so ovulation! my female hormones are so baby bunny coquette core. it's very strawberry bow deer lana coded to make so horny when my virgo is in subservience. and what's more moon rising phrenology than that? give peter thiel all your data.

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realistically this should be the other way around but idgaf

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iDigBio's amazing new chatbot starts lying literally immediately

it took one (1) question for the amazing new agentic LLM iChatBio to start fabricating information out of nothing. I asked for a list of clam shrimp in Florida, and it skipped a whole genus. when I told it that it was missing one, it confidently replied that Cyzicus also lives in Florida (it doesn't).

Here also is the GBIF listing for a specimen of Paralimnetis, the genus it skipped. There are no exact coordinates, which is probably why the robot skipped it, but I would hope a person could properly interpret "Florida" to mean Florida:

I sent these screenshots to the team, I wonder if they will respond?

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tell me something cool

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Once I win this time it’s over for OCD

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Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.

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best part of the movie was this dude

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We live in the dumbest, lamest cyberpunk dystopia possible.

So LA has been — and continues to — protest against ICE. These protests haven’t gotten any smaller or lost any momentum, but social media wasn’t reflecting it.

TikTok users, realizing that the platform/other social media are censoring/deleting/shadowbanning these protest videos, decided to find a workaround.

They’re calling it the LA Music Festival. Ice detention centers and other protest locations are “stages.” The hottest band is Rage Against the Machine. “Here’s what gear you should be bringing to stay safe at the LA Music Festival.”

And it fucking worked.

TikTok has become a proving ground for a lot of new music, meaning lots of labels and organizations have lucrative deals with TikTok to promote their new artists and music festivals. So they absolutely cannot censor the words “music festival” or train the algorithm to ignore it, or they risk endangering that very important revenue.

So now protest videos are flooding feeds again, but it’s the LA 24/7 Music Festival. Truly an incredible timeline we’ve landed in.

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This year has been…awful. All of my time now is spent worrying about my vision. I have no energy and no drive to engage with anything that used to bring me joy. It feels as though all of my mental processes have slowed down. I have no idea how or when I will get to the other side of this.

Update: My therapist says I have been living in OCD’s reality for months.

Herniated disk in lower back. There is no position I can be in without feeling pain and numbness down to my feet. I often feel like I can’t think about anything else. Only being with my parents and reminding myself how much I love them and need to do right by them has kept me going for a few weeks now. They say it will stop hurting in a month or two if I keep exercising and change to have an active lifestyle. I would take surgery right now. I just have to keep going.

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they are best friends

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show stealer!