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paulfrankjuliusthemonkey

HOW TO FEEL YOUR FEELINGS, 2021, by Yumi Sakugawa

noldofrommotherfuckinvalinor

Wrong Silm Twitter (✝️) screencaps

wordfather

i am not immune to a well choreographed fight scene with a fun song in the background

notmusa

SCARED

s3znl-gr3znl

o-rchidae

I got a commission for a bycocket hat with a wolf in a medieval inspired art style. He might look a little too foxy but i think he's neat.

My shop

guiltfactory-moved

sometimes the absence is more compelling. let's lack something and then feel its presence forever in the empty space where it should be.

i-am-a-fish

I'll woo hoo when they least expect it

not yet

liberalsarecool

Getting #BlackRock to change/exit the real estate market in NYC is a massive win for New Yorkers and #ZohranMamdani.

toskarin

guy who plays popular ttrpgs: how do you calculate flame damage

guy who plays indie ttrpgs: how do you calculate ignition ravages

toskarin

popular ttrpg guy: I am building a warrior this time

indie ttrpg guy: I am building a "muscle" character this time

nobilis guy: the session never really came together but I was going to play as "quiet walks home from loud places"

monsterpotion

nobilis players in the tags:

monsterpotion

There's enough people in the tags who want to play Nobilis to convene a couple games of Nobilis.

And after all, in the words of Jenna Moran:

Nobilis: The Essentials (aka 3rd Edition)

Nobilis: the Game of Sovereign Powers (2002 Edition, aka the Big White Book)

Nobilis 4th Edition: coming early 2025

v-lagopus

To the people in the tags asking "What's Nobilis," please allow me to share my favorite piece of game-related ephemera ever, the mini-pamphlet giving a quick in-game overview of the world, as compiled by "The Power of Helpful Documentation" (and released around the time the Great White Book was released...)

Interior Page:

Exterior Page:

Enjoy!

captain-price-returns

oh no they’re going to start calling democrats the same thing they’ve been calling democrats for 20 years now

hotvampireadjacent

thewellofastarael

"Here’s a trick I learned during the Obama presidency for handling certain types of political labels. Take, as an example, the Tea Party claim that Obama is a Communist. Don’t take the word of the person making the claim (Tea Partiers). Don’t rely on the rebuttal of the target (Obama), because that will just be dismissed. Go to the group itself (Communists) and ask them. Ask an actual Communist if Obama is a comrade and see how they answer. Watch as they laugh at you, then explain in great detail how they wish there was a Communist in the White House, but here’s a long and exhaustive list of why that just isn’t so. Now apply this logic to the claim that Hillary is pretty much the same as a Republican. Ask an actual Republican if they think Hillary Clinton is one of them. Watch them laugh, and then explain in the same exhausting detail why that just isn’t so. Some of them might concede that she’s better than Trump, but that’s not the same thing. Finally, go ask a White Supremacist if Trump is one of them. As they excitedly explain how Trump is the guy they’ve been waiting for all these years, and how he’s really empowered their movement, use this to guide how you will be voting in November."

Source: a 2016 facebook posts by Craig Enan, since then deleted (OG link here)

alwaysscreechingbasement

foxgirlfeet

Twitter thread by Robert G. Reeve (@RobertGReeve)

I’m back from a week at my mom’s house and now I’m getting ads for her toothpaste brand, the brand I’ve been putting in my mouth for a week. We never talked about this brand or googled it or anything like that.

As a privacy tech worker, let me explain why this is happening. (spool of thread emoji)

First of all, your social media apps are not listening to you. This is a conspiracy theory. It’s been debunked over and over again.

But frankly they don’t need to because everything else you give them unthinkingly is way cheaper and way more powerful.

Your apps collect a ton of data from your -phone. Your unique device ID. Your location. Your demographics. Weknowdis.

Data aggregators pay to pull in data from EVERYWHERE. When I use my discount card at the grocery store? Every purchase? That’s a dataset for sale.

They can match my Harris Teeter purchases to my Twitter account because I gave both those companies my email address and phone number and I agreed to all that data-sharing when I accepted those terms of service and the privacy policy.

Here’s where it gets truly nuts, though.

If my phone is regularly in the same GPS location as another phone, they take note of that. They start reconstructing the web of people I’m in regular contact with.

The advertisers can cross-reference my interests and browsing history and purchase history to those around me. It starts showing ME different ads based on the people AROUND me.

Family. Friends. Coworkers.

It will serve me ads for things I DON’T WANT, but it knows that someone I’m in regular contact with might want.

To subliminally get me to start a conversation about, I don’t know, fucking toothpaste.

It never needed to listen to me for this. It’s just comparing aggregated metadata.

So. They know my mom’s toothpaste. They know I was at my mom’s. They know my Twitter. Now I get Twitter ads for mom’s toothpaste.

Your data isn’t just about you. It’s about how it can be used against every person you know, and people you don’t. To shape behavior unconsciously.

Apple’s latest updates let you block apps’ tracking and Facebook is MAD. They’re BEGGING you to just press accept and go back to business as usual.

Block the fuck out of every app’s ads. It’s no just about you: your data reshapes the internet.

beardedmrbean

Make a mans whole retirement here why don't you

fl-man

I have, like .... seventeen uses for this. Where do I get one?

beardedmrbean

Didn't even know this post was moving till it hit my dash again, I put it in the replies too but it is called a "chompsaw" and it's by Chompshop

They've got all kinds of patterns and such on their site for different creative projects, it does appear to be limited to cutting cardboard so if you want to do wood you will need something beefier.