Nadine's Botanical Tête-à-Tête
styofa doing anything
Today's Document

JVL
Game of Thrones Daily
Misplaced Lens Cap
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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#extradirty

Andulka

if i look back, i am lost
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
One Nice Bug Per Day
wallacepolsom
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Peter Solarz

pixel skylines

Kiana Khansmith

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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Not today Justin

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@incoherenceisbliss
Nadine's Botanical Tête-à-Tête
sent this message to my coworker today and he sent me this screenshot with microsoft teams's suggested replies... incredible 10/10 no notes.
DELETE THIS POST
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME
*clicks play in morbid curiosity*
*hammers reblog button*
I think I find this post every April Fools Day and I am so happy that I do
more little tea kettle dragons
available on my kofi as adoptables
my dad's wildlife photography would do numbers on here
ok permission granted everyone look at this fat sandpiper
30 YEARS OF ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann
This is gorgeous. Utterly striking.
Dear Self, keep this in mind for when you eventually shave your head (except for your bangs - keeping those).
Robert Gillmor (British, 1936-2022, b. Reading, Berkshire, England) - Aerial Manoeuvres, Linocut
Just a perfectly normal life hack video, no need to specifically tag @were--ralph for any particular reason
Facebook’s fraud files
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller Enshittification: catch me next in Burbank (TODAY!), Lisbon, Cardiff, London and Oxford! Full schedule here.
A blockbuster Reuters report by Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked internal documents that reveal that: 10% of Meta's gross revenue comes from ads for fraudulent goods and scams, and; the company knows it, and; they decided not to do anything about it, because; the fines for facilitating this life-destroying fraud are far less than the expected revenue from helping to destroy its users' lives:
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/
The crux of the enshittification hypothesis is that companies deliberately degrade their products and services to benefit themselves at your expense because they can. An enshittogenic policy environment that rewards cheating, spying and monopolization will inevitably give rise to cheating, spying monopolists:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/10/say-their-names/#object-permanence
You couldn't ask for a better example than Reuters' Facebook Fraud Files. The topline description hardly does this scandal justice. Meta's depravity and greed in the face of truly horrifying fraud and scams on its platform is breathtaking.
Here's some details: first, the company's own figures estimate that they are delivering 15 billion scam ads every single day, which generate $7 billion in revenue every year. Despite its own automatic systems flagging the advertisers behind these scams, Meta does not terminate their account – rather, it charges them more money as a "disincentive." In other words, fraudulent ads are more profitable for Meta than non-scam ads.
Meta's own internal memos also acknowledge that they help scammers automatically target their most vulnerable users: if a user clicks on a scam, the automated ad-targeting system floods that user's feed with more scams. The company knows that the global fraud economy is totally dependent on Meta, with one third of all US scams going through Facebook (in the UK, the figure is 54% of all "payment-related scam losses"). Meta also concludes that it is uniquely hospitable to scammers, with one internal 2025 memo revealing the company's conclusion that "It is easier to advertise scams on Meta platforms than Google."
Internally, Meta has made plans to reduce the fraud on the platform, but the effort is being slow-walked because the company estimates that most it will ultimately pay in fines worldwide ads up to $1 billion, while it currently books $7 billion/year in revenue from fraud. The memo announcing the anti-fraud effort concludes that scam revenue dwarfs "the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads." Another memo concludes that the company will not take any pro-active measures to fight fraud, and will only fight fraud in response to regulatory action.
Meta is evil incarnate
Internally, Meta has made plans to reduce the fraud on the platform, but the effort is being slow-walked because the company estimates that most it will ultimately pay in fines worldwide ads up to $1 billion, while it currently books $7 billion/year in revenue from fraud. The memo announcing the anti-fraud effort concludes that scam revenue dwarfs "the cost of any regulatory settlement involving scam ads." Another memo concludes that the company will not take any pro-active measures to fight fraud, and will only fight fraud in response to regulatory action.
Love that Cory Doctorow is using his platform to talk about Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book seeing as she isn’t able to herself
“I will keep going out of Love & Spite in equal measure” has been living in my head for close a decade now.
Still going.
Game designers have denied me impractically sexy men's armour for too long, so I shall have it in real life instead.
Let him speak
HE 👏 WENT 👏 LOOKING 👏 FOR 👏 TROUBLE 👏
The euros fail to consider the form: it’s not Johnny’s hubris that is the subject of the song. It’s the devil’s, who thinks his power is worth more than simple love for a craft
neither americans nor the modern era have any sort of monopoly on one-upping the devil. one of the oldest european folk tales is The Smith and the Devil, in which a smith makes a deal with the devil for his soul and when the devil comes to collect, the smith tricks him into leaving him alone forever. tricking that bastard is an old and storied tradition.
"average person who makes a deal with the devil is dragged to hell after 10 years" factoid actually just statistical error. average person who makes a deal with the devil uses their new hellish gifts to outwit the old bastard so they can keep both gifts and soul for the rest of their long and prosperous lives. faust, who bargained for knowledge of all things and then wasted his 10 years chasing a girl who wasn't all that into him, is an idiot and should not have become the cornerstone of modern understanding of the trope.
The tortoise and the hare have worked out their differences and are now sharing an apartment
Rivals to lovers combination slowburn/speedrun
OP: when I saw this at the aquarium, it instantly reminded me of The Desharow Merman (cr 饼饼)
I was sad to learn that Desharow Merman is an online novel and not a sexy a new cryptid.
I am sharing it because he is pretty and I am, if nothing else, an appreciator of beauty.