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31. 🏳️‍🌈 I have multiple chronic illnesses and I fight pain everyday. Been diagnosed fibromyalgia since 2010.

[thepeacefulgarden]

[movingonandlearningmyself]

“I’m beginning to recognise that real happiness isn’t something large and looming on the horizon ahead but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.” -Beau Taplin

[depsidase]

[donniehaspronouns]

also (and I feel the need to add this to every AI post) it is incredibly bad for our environment and is actively stealing water away from people’s homes.

you cannot argue away the environmental damage.

[depsidase]

no you are right for adding it to every ai post as it doesn't get talked about nearly enough. it is causing the world to blow past its emissions reduction targets. the positive climate and environmental gains of adding renewable energy production to energy grids is, in some places, being lost to these hyperscale data centres sucking up the juice and preventing fossil fuel generators from being decommissioned as planned. of course this is also driving up people's electric bills.

and its water use is a much bigger deal than people realize within the broader context of climate change and how its expected that glaciers (one of the main sources of freshwater on the planet) will be basically gone by 2100 which will cause insane damage to ecosystems, agriculture, economies, and drinking water across entire continents. (and this wasted water use doesn't just apply to data centres necessarily either. the industrial use of freshwater is something that needs to be seriously considered and heavily regulated.)

we're being incredibly stupid. and while it would be bad no matter what, we could at least have an excuse if we were using this energy and water for something actually useful or helpful but this generative ai shit is no different than lighting vital resources on fire just to watch them burn. its short-sighted and suicidal.

this is why we need economic democracy! because otherwise fascist billionaires completely disconnected from reality with fucked up dystopian ideologies and backwards belief systems control the use of the world's resources.

[ourbrieffartbouquetuniverse]

I agree with all of the above and would like to add:

Building new data centres is generally bad for the local environment, regardless of their operation. The construction industry is very carbon-intensive, concrete hardening gives off CO2, all the machines and vehicles used are still diesel powered.

Sealing up arable land that is also part of the local water cycle for a huge factory that produces nothing of value is the dumbest use of that land I can concieve of, short of a parking lot (and data centres need those, too!)

We can't use data centres for anything else after the inevitable AI bubble crash. It's going to be vast, windowless, concrete bunkers that would have to be retrofitted massively to even be used as future data centres. Plus, the minute those spaces aren't air conditioned and climate controlled and particle filtered, mold. Mold everywhere. It's like someone was trying to build Fallout ruins/dungeons 20 years in advance.

The more chips we produce, the more POPs (persistent organic pollutants) we dump into the ecosystems where they are produced. Semiconductor lithography is very intensive on forever chemicals. And the downstream/upstream pollution is also very intensive. SimCity lied to us, high tech industry isn't clean at all (tragic, I know).

The idea of the low frequency (audible AND inaudible) hum of data centres just turning residents' brain to mush is dystopic on so many levels. Fuck the concept of sacrifice zones. Fuck the billionaires who push these projects. Imma start a submarine company that caters to the ultra rich who want to see the titanic. And you know my sub designs gonna be good because I have a B.Eng. in a field completely unrelated to sub design. Just like that other guy, you know the one.

[depsidase]

these things need to be stopped everywhere and the people having them built need to be dragged out of their mansions and rendered into fertilizer. there is just no excuse for any of this.

[bucephaly]

😭😭

[bucephaly]

There are only around 1,500 native Cherokee speakers left, and most of them are elders

Little Cherokee Seeds is a program where mothers and babies spend all day with first language Cherokee speakers, speaking nothing but Cherokee, so that the babies become a new generation of native speakers. They're also teaching traditional skills and mothering practices to the mothers to pass on.

This is so so important for the survival of the language. These babies are on track to being fluent first language speakers, and they will be able to keep the language going for another lifetime.

I recommend checking out the little cherokee seeds facebook page!!

[spaceysoupy]

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[dearblackwoman]

Weekend reminder: Rest is not a reward. It's a requirement.

[gina025]

Soothing weather

[ruhaniya]

you wanna know why I win? Because even at my lowest I've lifted up others

[importantcatpics]

[dykeyearning]

i want so badly to get ready for a butch. to take a long shower and use my body scrubs and body butters. i want to shave where i want and to perfume my pulse points. then to complete it with lacey lingerie, knowing the entire time im prettying up to please a butch.

[fellator]

doesn't it piss you off that you have to find something to eat every single day. every one of them. just every day. you gotta eat something

[sprinkledsalt]

Images from the No Kings protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025:

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(source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4, source 5, source 6, source 7, source 8, source 9)

[victusinveritas]

All from @mattxiv on Instagram.

[artnlife2]

[zacsoyama]

get 🥺 men 🥺 flowers 🥺

[depsidase]

[my-midlife-crisis]

No children are allowed in the Library of Congress.

It's not that kind of library.

In other words...

You are being lied to

again

[madenthusiasms]

Everything published in the US is copied to the Library of Congress; appropriateness for children is not a criteria. Published under copyright is.

In order to read something in the Library of Congress, you must, in order:

1) Be 16+ years old and in possession of ID such as a driver’s license or passport to obtain a LoC card

2) Make an appointment to go to a reading room

3) Know what it is you want to read and which library building it is in so you can fill out a request form when you arrive.

So the chances of a “child” just stumbling over something “inappropriate” that was “put” there by the choice of the head librarian is 100% impossible.

Leavitt seems to believe that if she wears a big enough cross, God can’t hear her breaking the commandment against false witness.

[lastoneout]

It really is wild that some politicians can stand there and say "yeah we're getting rid of a program that keeps quite literally millions of people alive specifically so we can cut taxes for people who are already richer than god" as if it's a normal political stance and not so cartoonishly evil I'm legit shocked perry the platypus doesn't break through the nearest wall the minute the words leave their mouth.

[lastoneout]

"I think rich people should have more money at the expense of a healthcare program millions of disabled people rely on" is not a coherent political belief it's the kind of thing the villian in a kids movie says. Gonna tell me you want to skin puppies to make a coat next?

[lastoneout]

I think if you say out loud you think billionaires need more money and we should kill disabled people to make it happen then every person in a 5ft radius should be legally obligated to punch you as hard as they can.

[lastoneout]

142 notes and not a single tag, reply, or comment. Y'all are really feeling this one, huh?