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I declared a ceasefire between my cat and my ice tea glass, then promptly reprimanded her for pawing at my tea glass again, in flagrant disregard for the ceasefire I had just declared.

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But if you suggest that days like this are becoming significantly more common, as if the regional weather patterns across the globe have Changed in some way, you will be immediately chastised for Making Things Political™

Ahh it's that time of year when all the weather alerts are like "The temperatures are unsuitable for your fragile fleshsack. Please remain inside your refrigerated box until further notice."

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Ahh it's that time of year when all the weather alerts are like "The temperatures are unsuitable for your fragile fleshsack. Please remain inside your refrigerated box until further notice."

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Imagine if court jesters never went out of style. Not just for monarchs though. Imagine if all world leaders got a Silly Little Guy to roast them.

Because trump absolutely could not handle that. He'd be burning though jesters faster than elon's cars and rocketships burn through themselves.

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Time, as we have demarcated it, is a social construct, while my perception of Time is also a construct, but much more poorly constructed.

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You will simply never convince me that the country who has one of the biggest stockpiles of nuclear weapons in the entire world, has any right to police who else is enriching uranium.

"You think Iran should have nukes?!"

No, I don't think anybody should.

And holding aside that we don't even know that they're using it for weapons and not energy like they claim, I think the bigger picture is: the US should be dismantling our own nuclear weapons piles before we try to bomb anyone else about it.

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Ok, when I posted this, I really didn't expect him to literally bomb Iran like an hour later.

But here we fucking are, I guess.

If I had a nickel for every time a wildly unpopular republican president lied about nuclear weapons in an attempt to justify a war with Iran ...

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If I had a nickel for every time a wildly unpopular republican president lied about nuclear weapons in an attempt to justify a war with Iran ...

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Trying to do a task while struggling with executive dysfunction is like pulling open a video game action menu and your only options are:

>> Think about doing the task

>> Vividly imagine doing the task

>> Think about other times you've done the task

>> Be stressed out about not doing the task

>> Do a different task

And it's very hard to explain that I'm not doing the task because my brain physically will not acknowledge that it's even an option.

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Last month I decided to start learning how to draw. Purely out of spite for genAI.

I am disabled, my hands literally ache from handwriting, and I struggle with spatial processing & fine motor skills. Drawing was something I always felt was out of reach for me.

But hearing the genAI proponents use a strawman of disability to justify their shitty theft machine made me so angry I decided to just start drawing badly to spite them.

And you know what? The artists were right. Make Bad Art. Detach yourself from the goal of "Being an Artist" and just immerse yourself in the extremely human phenomenon of drawing.

My goal is not to make a "pretty" picture. My goal is to make a recognizable picture. To sloppily sketch down lines that another person could look at and immediately understand.

To have someone say "Wow, that's an awful picture of a deer" is such a badge of honor, because that means they knew it was a deer!!

Being able to convey pictographic information is a superpower and despite what the genAI advocates insist, it's an extremely accessible one

I make little doodles like twice a week. I stop when my hands are starting to hurt. I erase a lot and made peace with not having straight lines, and I'm having a tremendous amount of fun.

So I guess I owe a big thanks to the disingenuous arguments from the pro genAI crowd, if not for how easily disprovable they were, I probably never would've started drawing.

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Listen, it's ok, good even, to feel encouraged by the sight of several million people standing up and vocally rejecting the idea of tyranny.

But it's also really important to remember a few things about these particular protests:

There is no implicit threat behind them. There's no lingering "or else" behind the demands to stop disappearing people or to hold trump materially accountable for any of his crimes. There's time to add that, but it wasn't a feature of the protests themselves.

There's two groups at play here. Some people were there because they want to build an equitable society. Some people were there because they want things to go back to "normal" like when Biden or Obama were quietly disappearing people. Their issue is with trump's general audacity and rudeness, not with the concept of ICE itself.

The people in group two probably aren't going to support the general strike or other means of "or else" that we need for step one.

If you subtract group two from group one, you're left with a lot less than that supposedly magic 3.5%

If you're in group one, and you know folks in group two, now is the time to start having the hard conversations with them.

Because, it is a big deal that millions of people agreed that there's a problem. And if we could get all of those people into group one, things would really start changing for the better.

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Really? Another world war? God, when will geopolitics come up with some new material??

Is global equity just too avant-garde?

We keep getting repeats of the same horrors, because imperialism keeps writing the scripts.

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As a drawing challenge, I turned this old post into a comic, and I am so proud of my terrible, little drawings I could actually scream about it

Me: Am I lined up to clear that doorway I'm about to pass through?

My Brain: absolutely 100% good to go

Me: [bumps jarringly into doorframe]

My Brain: Woah, oh my god, you are not even gonna believe this, but it moved! The doorway moved. Amazing that we got to observe this bizarre event

Me: You know, I would fire you if this place wasn't already so understaffed

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So, when we talk about Vivian Wilson, if we must mention the estranged sperm donor who was once technically her father, we should really be emphasizing the estranged part. She is not "elon musk's daughter" because she disowned him.

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You are a Cosmic Wonder defying the will of entropy with your every breath. A statistical improbability of not yet fully charted complexity.

You're a fluid filled sac, layered over living scaffolding, pulsing with electromagnetic energy. You have a special sac in your inner ear that turns physical vibrations into electrical signals that your brain experiences as sound.

You have modifiable lumps of tissue capable of generating electromagnetic bursts strong enough to allow you to momentarily defy gravity

You are an electromagnetic generator pieced together with trillions of building blocks made of stardust. I know it's hard to believe in improbable things, but you are one. Never forget that Your Very Existence is Extraordinary.

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Birds evolved from dinosaurs. The dinos they evolved from were reptiles. Therefore birds are reptiles. So it follows that: Birds are reptiles. Reptiles are real. Therefore, Birds are Real.

But it also follows that: Birds are reptiles. Birds aren't real. Therefore, Reptiles aren't Real.

So we can thusly conclude that Birds are real and Reptiles are not. That's just Sound Logic.