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I saw this comic,

And wanted to make some corrections and follow ups to it. The comments claimed this is what TERFs are all about and completely ignored the fact that TERFs do not exist.

TERFs aren't real. Radical feminists are real - radical means "root." The "root" cause of why the feminism movement exists is because female people are oppressed by male people on the axis of sex. It's plenty inclusive because it includes all female people.

dailysiuanraine

No life. No love of one's own. Nothing but the Seat. When have we ever followed the rules?

theknightlywolfe

When the CEO of the company that didn't turn away Nazi business says "this isn't going to work" you know it's bad.

unrelatedwaffle

404 has been knocking it out of the park since they started. Please support their original reporting on this! If you subscribe to nothing else I highly recommend them. Their podcast is great too.

Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.

the-ladyrae

This is the capitalist playbook.

Sell something at a loss to undercut all of your competition, outlast them at that deficit, then when all of the other options have been killed raise the prices up to even higher than what the original solution costs. AI is only different in that the product they're selling doesn't actually work.

Calling this AI push a bubble isn't hopeful speculation. They're overvaluing this bull shit to leverage equity as capital to prop up their product long enough for people not to realize it's a buggy trial demo that eats lakes and mountains at it's current non functional state.

They've run out of their own money and are turning to public stock trade now to bridge the gaps. Don't buy the shares. Let this shit die.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/technology/openai-ipo.html?utm_campaign=openai-files-to-go-public

free-my-mindd

darkpaladin

parkayquarts

hbo max blocks screenshots even when I use the snipping tool AND firefox AND ublock which is a fucking first. i will never understand streaming services blocking the ability to take screenshots thats literally free advertising for your show right there. HOW THE HELL IS SOMEBODY GONNA PIRATE YOUR SHOW THROUGH SCREENSHOTS. JACKASS

parkayquarts

somewhere out there is a guy who meticulously takes screenshots of every individual frame of his favorite tv shows and then painstakingly etches each one onto a roll of film which he puts into his old timey projector and recreates the footage as a silent film with his own lavishly hand-lettered dialogue cards and original score that he plays on his upright piano and charges audiences one shiny penny a play. at last, big media has finally outsmarted ol' Zachary Zoetrope

theheroheart

PSA for everyone who doesn't know, explained simply

this is NOT because of blocking screenshots, it's because of HOW streaming sites use your computer's hardware to optimise performance, which means the thing rendering the video and the thing capturing your screen aren't the SAME thing. so they can't talk together.

you can fix this by going to your browser settings, searching for "hardware acceleration", and turning that off.

team-thickness12

This also fixes screen sharing to other screens. It has been GODSEND

lucarleigho

type this in the toolbar to find this setting in firefox: about:preferences#searchResults

mctreeleth

ol' Zachary Zoetrope is back in business!

inastarlesssky

So I just started watching Wheel of Time and the first episode was cool.

I loved the bit where Moraine fought the Trollocs with her power, that was awesome! And then there's Lan there in the background defending her with everything in him.

He's really cool. At least from what I've seen of him so far. I know next to nothing about him except what you can get from context. He's her guardian or something?

And Rand! Pining boy...he's interesting. I want to know more about him.

Also, hehe I have some thoughts about Season 1 Mat and Dónal Finn's Mat. Is it just Dónal's voice or did he try to speak the way that S1 Mat did? Becuase (yes I know it's not ideal and I sort of spoiled myself) I ended up seeing scenes and edits of his Mat first. And it's interesting to me because his voice is very different in Young Sherlock. Of course, he's got his natural accent, I think, and his voice sounds a bit deeper, richer or something. I just...it caught my attention, is all.

crimsolyn

I think the purest form of love is just wanting someone to notice life with you. "taste this. look at that. hear this song." again and again. until you can't imagine noticing life without them.

bunnies-and-sunshine

He was loved.

While we were visiting family in Ohio and dealing with my parents' estate stuff, Amos started to show signs of having GI stasis and I treated him with the usual critical care force-feedings, keeping him warm with a hot water bottle, and baby gas drops (simethicone) all of Thursday.

By early Friday morning he was just nibbling at random hay and pellets, was lethargic, felt cool to the touch, and acting confused (signs of dehydration) but was able to poop and pee a little bit from all of the feedings. We called around to multiple exotics vets in the area and were turned away due to schedules being fully booked, no exotic vet on staff that day, and refusal to see a rabbit as an emergency case that hadn't been treated at that facility before until we finally spoke with Barberton Veterinary Clinic, who took care of him as soon as we could drive there (about 35 minutes away).

After giving him pain meds, fluids, blood tests and x-rays they discovered that Amos had a liver lobe torsion (one of the five lobes of his liver had twisted on itself and cut off the blood supply to the twisted lobe) which had caused internal bleeding into his abdomen, kidney damage, and changes to his GI tract that required emergency surgery. We got to see him and tell him how brave he was, how he was being such a good boy, and that we loved him before they whisked him away (along with Mr. Giraffe) to give him the best care they could.

Amos made it through the surgery where they removed the right medial lobe of his liver. As he was recovering from anesthesia while still intubated, he threw a blood clot that caused him to lose his basic reflexes. Our sweet boy never regained consciousness.

We were told that the reason for otherwise healthy rabbits suddenly developing a liver lobe torsion is still unclear, but that Holland lops are one of the more common rabbit breeds seen to have it as well as male rabbits in general.

I just wanted to share Amos' story to help others recognize the symptoms to look out for so that they might have a better outcome for catching it early. I don't think we could have done anything differently as it was the clot that ultimately took him from us and that's a risk with any surgery.

We brought Amos home so Naomi could understand that he was gone and say her own goodbyes. She's hanging in there and has been using Mr. Giraffe as a security blanket and will sleep with her ear draped over him in a hug. We're giving her all of the love, noogies, treats and attention she can stand.

Two years was not enough.

I'll try to post again next Monday.

bunnies-and-sunshine

Finding our new normal.

Mr. Giraffe has been by Naomi's side ever since we lost Amos. She is so gentle with him and gives him all of the snuggles while we help him give her all the kisses back.

We set Amos' cage mat next to hers and she sleeps on it next to Mr. Giraffe, who has become her security blanket. She'll dig at and move her own mat, but Amos' mat is special and gets kisses too.

We've learned that we can't remove Amos' cage from the living room because Naomi will get so upset that she'll loudly meep, act completely spooked, and will not stop thumping no matter how much we try to console or distract her (and this was after almost a week as we didn't want to try to change her environment too quickly once we got home).

We're looking into finding her a friend because she seems like she'd do better with one than being a lone bun. Not sure of the logistics of doing that just yet as we've decided to buy my parents' house from the estate (our first home!) and it's going to be a process going back and forth between states for a while trying to get everything settled.

Thank you all so much for your kind words, love, and support--it really means a lot to us.

orteil42

utterly delightful family of words and things

majchic

The world’s leading advocacy group for “transgender health” has chosen to hide the identities of affiliated medical professionals in the wee

stuckinapril

“Do it scared” “do it alone” are all great tips, but my biggest takeaway from therapy is do it messy. This is especially true if you’re getting out of a burnout, which I experience often. Literally just do it messy. You don’t need to pick the perfect trail to walk, the perfect playlist to listen to, whatever the fuck it is. You don’t need to have a meticulous to do list and wake up at the exact time you planned and drink the exact amount of water you planned to drink. Like the biggest thing for people like me to remember is sometimes it’s okay to do it messy. Put on a random yt workout and just get it done in sweats. Do 5 minutes of a daunting task and go from there. Sometimes just getting up is a win during intense burnouts or depressive funks. Literally just do it messy.