General Secretary of the Fujoshevik Party

mid broad in her mid 20s. meanies DNI

[houndmother]

is it a natural and innate part of humanity or is it some shit they made up in europe

[studentofetherium]

okay yeah i'm on team webp now

[twlvmn]

why again do people not like webp? it's functionally jpg compression with transparency and stuff like paintdotnet works with them fine

[maruposting]

Late adoption from image viewers and common apps/websites neglecting support for it kinda put it in limbo for a long time.

Years of the average end user running into "sorry I don't know what this file type is" really put its reputation in the dumpster.

[humiliationvictim]

Hello everyone, I am humilationvictim's mother. it is with a heavy heart that i inform you my daughter took her own life this evening due to the cyberbullying on this platform. what did you all think of her? did you like her or have a crush on her? tbh or rate /10?

[pomegranateteeth]

sure fucking whatever man

[girlnephew]

[eloso]

Someone was just setting the table for Christmas lunch when they took half a minute to lay out this vocabulary-changing bsky post, then carried on with their day...

[ashenmind]

lmao

[winterthebeau]

as someone in the notes said, just rename it to the AI & slop detector

[furryprovocateur]

how it feels to be 32

[evilsoup]

one annoying soft climate denial talking point is this idea that oh we're really adaptable...like yes obviously we are, the human social capacity for innovation is breathtaking, but that doesn't mean that we're infinitely adaptable. sometimes people just die, you know? And there is no historical analog to the level of climate change we're going through -- we are already outside the range of global mean temperature in which agriculture, cities, etc, have hitherto developed & existed within. Maybe we will be able to adapt to this but it's by no means a given!

[evilsoup]

another one is like "oh climate change isn't literally going to destroy the planet or lead to total human extinction" like girl there was no prospect of the world wars doing that either but they were still pretty bad? like how much likely death is needed to shift the dial here. oh it's going to kill a lot of people but not absolutely everyone everywher so it's no big deal. come on man

[evilsoup]

there is something darkly funny about hearing this stuff in the uk, a country that imports like half its food and which has spent 40 years shifting from production to "services" (tax dodging) like babygirl how sure are you that you're one of the secure populations in this situation?

[evilsoup]

A redacted 14-page document warns of severe food shortages, which could begin within five years, along with price rises, political destabilisation and the possible outbreak of war as countries compete for dwindling resources. Crop failures, disease outbreaks and intensifying natural disasters could cause “geopolitical instability, economic insecurity, conflict, migration and increased inter-state competition for resources”, it said. The joint intelligence committee, which oversees M15 and MI6, was responsible for the report, the Guardian reported. Members of parliament are demanding it be published in full.

Ecosystem Collapse Threatens UK National Security, Spy Chiefs Warn

Britain faces a national security crisis within just a few years due to the impending collapse of global ecosystems, spy chiefs have warned,

It's worse than you think

The state knows how bad it's going to get

The state is deliberately downplaying the above

At the same time, the state is building an ever-more comprehensive surveillance system and attacking things like "the right to a jury trial", an well as normalising the treatment of political dissidents as terrorists

[prokopetz]

The corollary of needing to be willing to frame arguments in terms of moral precepts you don't necessarily share is needing to be aware of subtext. Yes, it's easy to get a certain stripe of hyper-conservative folks to agree with anything you please by framing it in terms of opposition to Big Government, but a large part of that is because when you say "Big Government", what they hear is "Jews". You didn't hack their brain with magic words, you just didn't realise what you were saying!

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I don't remember what post exactly I said this in, but I remember I once saw someone doing this and had to tell them "sometimes you think you're tricking the racist into agreeing with you when you're actually letting the racist trick you into agreeing with him"

[evilsoup]

we have to take right-wing grievances seriously, such as [verifiably false claim], [verifiably false claim], [cherrypicked anecdote presented as major trend], [AI slop], and [verifiably false claim]

[evilsoup]

☝️ how it feels to talk to the average right-winger lol

[kittyb1tz]

i think most funny numbers can be delineated like this

[cutecipher]

phone keyboard when you punch in a real word it doesnt have auto suggest for: i will forget this immediately ❤️

phone keyboard when you misspell a word badly once:

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[pantheratigrisaltaica]

for those curious, this is joanne, a 15-year-old sumatran tiger currently living at phoenix zoo. it's very sweet to see her playing and tumbling around like this at her age -- she's got some people taking care of her if she still has this energy at that age.

i did see some users in the notes who were concerned about her looking 'scrawny', or wondering if she's maybe a juvenile -- far from it! at 15, joanne is very much considered a geriatric tiger; she's a grandma. she is, however, a sumatran tiger (panthera tigris sumatrae) -- sumatrans are the smallest extant subspecies of tiger, built more for the sweltering jungles of sumatra than the blistering cold of the amur river or the dense forests and mangrove swamps of south asia.

when you're used to seeing amur or amur-bengal hybrid ('generic') tigers on television or online, most of which are often overfed and overweight, a sumatran is going to look a bit weird, but joanne looks to be in wonderful shape -- look at those muscles flex and that coat shimmer when she moves! that's a healthy old lady for sure. props to joanne's keepers for taking such good care of her.

[cutecipher]

fuuuck. they spent $1...

[energyprison]

every political scandal has to be called ____gate now because 54 years ago a guy named blowjob told reporters there were bugs in the democrat offices

[energyprison]

[thomasmomwell]

[ranni-thewitch]

fuck mine stupid gothic life