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Ray James Tjangala Untitled Acrylic on linen

Ray James Tjangala was born around 1955 at Yunala rockhole, west of Kiwirrkurra in Western Australia and is the son of Anatjari Tjampitjinpa and Tjungkaya Napangati. Anatjari Tjampitjinpa was a founding member of Papunya Tula Artists in 1971.

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me and the boys have a couple of chains wrapped around the sword in the stone hooked up to mikes toyota tundra gonna pull that fucker out like a tooth.

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Arn's Park Motel of Attleboro, Massachusettes opened in 1923 and closed in the early 2000s. The motel was purchased by a neighboring car dealership and demolished. They kept and revised the original sign and now use the property as a parking lot. The glass panels in the lobby were a beautiful feature, sad they couldn't be saved. Source

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it is past time we jettisoned the useless false dichotomy of introversion vs. extroversion and just accepted that everybody has a minimum amount of social interaction, failing which, they get really weird. and everybody has a maximum amount of social interaction, exceeding which, they get really weird. these levels are different for everyone, for a variety of reasons, and have no moral dimension. and that is all.

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me with the color teal last decade or so

I hate seeing things I liked become trend content it makes start to hate stuff I enjoyed

and also it makes me feel like I’m like.. not a genuine human with tastes and interests

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today's children are gonna become teens and clown the shit out of us for 'eepy' and 'blorbo' but they'll say it in cocomelonese so we won't understand them

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My piece for Dark Fairy Zine. Loosely following the medieval Sephardic tradition of Las Fadas. In medieval Spain Sephardic Jews would hold welcoming ceremonies for baby girls to give them their Hebrew name, and in some accounts circle the child to protect them from evil fairies. My story follows a fairy who's done his best to track down a girl he was once set on stealing away- only to find out she'd grown into a handsome man who doesn't perceive him due to a lack of belief in his kind. His frustration changes to confusion and endless yearning for something he'll never have, doomed to be an eternal observer.

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My family still says wetchgo/retchgo (let's go) and rego (lego) even though the little cousin who had that speech impediment is now a grown man.

My SO still asks me, "Are you happy? Are you ipis?" as a way of checking in because of something his niece said when she was little. Ipis means cockroach.

A more recent development is saying "Yah!" insistently like that one kid who knows Beyonce puhsonallee.

working with little kids is so dangerous. you get one kid who has a unique way of speaking & then spend the rest of your life with an internal monologue like “me’s go bathroom?”

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Minotaur is not a species

The Minotaur was named that because he was the son of King Minos. Anyone with a bull head has to be named after their dad, like the Kyletaur or something.

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⭐️You can now preorder my Quilt Moth enamel pin!⭐️

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Pay attention to the particulars of Mastercard's responses, because this a textbook example of how to create plausible deniability.

"Mastercard has not barred any legal transaction" is, technically, a true statement – because Mastercard is not the one processing the transactions in the first place. Mastercard does not deal directly with any merchant, and in fact typically refuses to communicate with merchants at all; there's always a payment processing service sitting in between Mastercard and the merchant, whether that's Stripe or Paypal or any of dozens of other service providers.

Consequently, there are two layers of service agreements in place: the agreement between Mastercard and the payment processing service, and the agreement between the payment processing service and the merchant. That second layer of service agreements, between the payment processing service and the merchant, is where all of these content restrictions are being imposed. Mastercard can thus truthfully claim that they aren't barring legal transactions.

Now, if you've been paying attention, you've probably already spotted the issue: if the content restrictions are being imposed upon the merchants by individual payment processing services and not by Mastercard, why do all of those payment processing services seem to have exactly the same content restrictions?

That's where the critical sleight of hand comes in: while Mastercard's own terms of service do not require payment processing services to bar transactions of particular types, their ToS does require payment processors to bar transactions which could be damaging to the Mastercard brand. What constitutes damage to the Mastercard brand is not defined; it means whatever Mastercard wants it to mean. The payment processing services are thus in a position where they can be held in breach of Mastercard's terms of service for basically any reason, which gives them a strong incentive not to test any boundaries.

And that's why Mastercard can truthfully say they have never barred any legal transaction: they're never the ones doing the blocking. The layer of payment processing services that sits between Mastercard and the merchants are enforcing those content restrictions, based on a series of unwritten handshake agreements between the payment processors and Mastercard regarding what does and does not constitute acceptable content – and because the particulars of those handshake agreements aren't in writing, Mastercard can assert that their terms of service do not compel payment processing services to bar any legal transaction and technically be telling the truth.

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Santa Maria Assunta, Dom, Volterra, Photo by Tata Ronkholz, 1975

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GOG is taking a stand against payment processors caving to fundamentalist religious groups and is offering a bunch of "banned" games for free. (via Ashley Lynch on bsky)

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Mid-mod mural by William Mitchell. Federation House, Hope Street, Liverpool. Oct 2012.

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I didn’t take many photos this weekend, but you can enjoy this one that made me laugh.

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DNF'd Engineered Tyrant (and I guess the whole series) because I'm not interested in Charlie's entitled sociopath of a son.

Stumbled upon a book series with a minuscule fandom, so I'm just gonna feed the lake and populate some tags for anyone else who comes after.

Finished Extinction Reversed, then Population Zero by JS Morin, and now getting into Brain Recyclers. So far, the Eve 14 series ticks so many boxes for me: post-human Earth, transhumanism, robots with personalities and interests, teenagers and the humorless grumps who must raise them, the ageing of pop culture, and a good old young adult struggle for self-determination. Perhaps best of all, the problem of supergenius mutant teens who might otherwise be called Mary Sue and Marty Stu is recognized as a problem: they exist and are overpowered because of unethical science, and now the world as transhumankind knows it needs to answer for its sins.

Got the full series in an Audible sale, and Mikael Naramore is a pretty good narrator, too.

I want to tell everyone not to spoil it for me, but again, minuscule fandom. It's nice to know I might have some real surprises ahead.

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POV: you're getting verbally thrashed for being a slave to corporate America in the hallway while The Offspring plays in the background