Evolving...

[tmnt-pizza-party]

TMNT: Empire City VR (2026) has no business being as funny as it is.

[just-some-random-blogger]

THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE US AND ISRAEL ARE TRYING TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN THE PHILIPPINES.

[cathkaesque]

The Pax Silica initaitive is a joint plan involving the participants such as the UK, US, Israel, the EU to secure rare earth minerals for the silicon supply chain. This plan will involve opening up huge swaths of the island of Luzon to mining and special economic zones, displacing farming communities and threatening the food and water security of thousands.

Primer on the initiative from Philippine social movements:

[everentropy]

To be clear, this is NOT a data center, this is rare earth metal extraction and manufacturing, particularly silicon. I'd actually argue that's worse because a single data center can cause a lot of harm but it can be shut down. Meanwhile, rare earth extraction could cause lasting damage including pollution of water, air and land, and habitat destruction.

The original signatories were Australia, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the UK and of course the United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Silica

Currently the Wikipedia has a controversies page, though if that gets taken out it should still be in the edit history.

[tealmussel]

Sign the Petition

Reject #NakakaPAXshit SILICA in the Philippines!

REJECT Pax Silica and US-Israeli expansion in the Philippines!

President Bongbong Marcos and United States officials have unveiled a 1,600-hectare artificial intelligence hub in the Luzon Economic Corri

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[mortalityplays]

learn to associate cleaning with pride instead of shame and your quality of life will improve in ways you can't even imagine btw

[mortalityplays]

like I'm sympathetic, it's hard work, it takes some degree of mental organisation and physical capacity that is not equally accessible to every human being on earth. I know. but regardless of how much you can do and how often, you will get better results across the board if you can frame it as positive effort towards a better situation instead of perpetually self flagellating for having the sin of being a solid thing in physical space that steadily accumulates dirt no matter what just like everything else on earth

[trangoldin]

[girldraki]

kind of harmonically beautiful

[funky-insanitear]

[testosterone-would-save-them]

Testosterone would save Princess Azula from Avatar: The Last Airbender!

[mynorthernattitude]

"listen to your body"

my body: go get a cinnamon roll the size of a tire

[achillesinhighheels]

unfortunately i do believe that every time i delay watching a film it’s because it’s going to find me at the perfect time

[kuttithevangu]

I feel like one of the conversational skill failures it’s really easy to fall into is assigning the other person an opinion, rather than asking what their opinion is. This kind of inherently puts them on the back foot, which is uncomfortable, so people don’t like it.

Starting a conversation by informing the other person that you KNOW their feelings, and you are acting based on the feelings you assume they have, without giving them a chance to tell you what feelings they ACTUALLY have… No one likes this!

You may have learned it from your parents doing it to you, in which case I can only imagine you didn’t like it either, but you still internalized it as an acceptable mode of communication because we are always internalizing stuff from our parents even though we don’t like it. It’s kind of a quintessential passive-aggressive parent move: “well, you never want to help me, you don’t appreciate everything I do for you” etc. It puts the addressee in the position of defending themselves and their actual feelings instead of inviting them to SHARE those feelings.

People generally find it easier and more pleasant to converse with you if you go into it with an attitude of curiosity rather than what is essentially a power-play. Assigning your interlocutor an opinion based on your assumptions about their internal experience expresses an unconscious sense that you believe you are and should remain in control of the conversation. But friendly conversations aren’t really supposed to be about control.

[loreofcardigan]

I spent so long trying to remember the name of Telemachus's Detachment that I forgot why I wanted to post it in the end. Anyway, this may or may not be relevant to whatever joke was going around at the time,

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

[girldickdotcom]

they should invent a job that doesn't affect your schedule or energy level that you don't have to go to if you don't want but you still get paid

[ethically-sourced-pizza]

[gsirvitor]

[srdcovka]

"was emily wilson actually mean-?" i dont care, i literally dont give a fuck be more mean to all men all the time 4ever starting now

[str-ngeloop]

your strengths are harder to see than your weaknesses because the problems you're good at solving don't appear as problems, because you're so good at handling them before they become problems... unlike the relatively rare problem that becomes a crisis, which demands undue attention. it's sort of like a reverse survivorship bias. the problems that become noticed as problems, the moments where you notice your capacity has a gap, are only the ones that aren't cut off at the pass by your strength and capability, before they become problems. so if all you focus on is problems then all you'll see is your weaknesses. which isn't accurate

[toasthaste]

[ownencyclopedia]

☀ cross stitch of a cat , which is about 1000 years old !

A textile fragment was found in Peru. It belongs to the Chimu or Chancay culture (pre-Columbian era X - XV centuries)