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bread-in-the-void

um?

victusinveritas

Ken Unsworth

Suspended stone circle

1978-1981

charlesoberonn

Female Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beard

Remaining time: 9 hours 8 minutes

charlesoberonn

Child Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beards

Remaining time: 9 hours 9 minutes

charlesoberonn

Baby Dwarves - With or without beards?

With beards

Without beards

Remaining time: 9 hours 10 minutes

charlesoberonn

They shed their baby beards to make room for their adult beards. Like with baby teeth.

alexanderwales

I was reading through the U.S. Copyright Office's "What Does Copyright Protect?" page, mostly to make sure that I wasn't being wrong on the internet, but I absolutely love that this is part of their FAQ:

How do I protect my sighting of Elvis? Copyright law does not protect sightings. [,,,]

There are only 12 questions on the FAQ, and this is one of them.

copperbadge

I know myself well enough to know I would not be very good at fanbiding and that would mainly frustrate me, so while I love fan binding and admire those who do it, I've never dabbled.

I have never regretted that decision more than I did waking up from the dream I recently had, where I excitedly bought a rare copy of the novel that Goncharov (1973) was based on, opened it up, and found that it was a hollowed out "book safe" for keeping valuables in.

greaseonmymouth

@copperbadge were you looking for the Goncharov novel ?

I tracked down a copy of this invaluable classic and somehow got my hands on a near pristine copy secondhand from the 4th printing. It’s lost the dustjacket, alas, but that means I got it for like £5 and not the £4200 a first edition printing in fine condition goes for.

(Who’s the author? *looks at smudge on spine* uhhhh Mkkhill Montanann)

It looks right at home in my bookcase 🥰

Under the cut: a look inside at what the book holds:

copperbadge

OMG HAHAHA AMAZING! What a find! Truly a vintage treasure. I am dying, it looks fantastic.

gremlininho

huariqueje

Meteor Shower - Mia Bergeron , 2025.

American, b. 1979 -

Oil on panel , 11 x 14 in. 27.94 x 35.56 cm.

mutationgirl

what if his name had been alexander graham smell

mutationgirl

actualy we call it the telephone not the bellphone so i guess this doesn't lead us to a society where it is a smell phone. buuuuut on the other hand his company would have been called smell. smell labs. pacific smell. that's pretty good

archipithecus

we would measure sound pressure with the decismel (dS)

#in asl one joke name for him is dumb stupid bastard #which has the same handshapes as his initials agb #glad hearing folks are getting on the insulting puns about agb train 👍

nocturnal-stims

A rarely seen, highly endangered Andean mountain cat and her kitten in Santiago, Chile. Bottom right: older kittens following their mother through the snow. These small felines have long, thickly ringed tails and plush coats with a striking marbled pattern, handy for traversing the chilly, wind-swept ridges of the Andes.

One of South America's rarest felines, the Andean mountain cat is traditionally considered a sacred animal by indigenous Aymara and Quechua people.

🐾 Alianza_gato_andino on IG

only-cat-memes

fox-reblogs

@twentytoadstwerkinginatrenchcoat

femmepathy

The mile-long rainbow flag being carried down First Avenue in New York City.

arcaneasexual

“For New York City Pride in 1994 (Stonewall 25), Baker created a mile-long rainbow flag that was carried down First Avenue in Manhattan. During the parade, Baker used scissors to cut segments from the flag to be rushed to Fifth Avenue for an impromptu protest march in front of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the headquarters of New York City’s anti-gay Catholic archdiocese.

^“At the bottom of the image is the segment of the flag cut for the St. Patrick’s Cathedral protest. Photograph by Mick Hicks”

“Gilbert Baker wearing a white sequined dress (right) and other protestors triumphantly march the cut pieces of the mile-long flag past St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Photograph by Charles Beal”

kaijuno

Tantrum hole

garbage-empress

Waste pipe for the cream cheese frosting factory

aurpiment

“It’s easy to assume”: someone’s misconception is about to be amiably corrected

“It’s tempting to assume”: someone’s assumption is about to be criticized

“It’s comforting to assume”: someone’s assumption is going to be read for filth

aflo

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

aflo

theprofessional-amateur

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodat

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse," wrote Corey Quinn, a software-startup founder in San Francisco, on X.

Employers could wind up in court if they outright dismiss workers who request a faith-based exemption from using AI, said Ashley Herd, a former McKinsey counsel and head of North American HR who now advises managers and employers on workplace issues.

"Playing priest, and telling employees their request isn't legitimate, does not tend to bode well for companies," said Herd, also a cohost of the "HR Besties" podcast. "A jury doesn't like it when employees get made fun of by managers or HR."

theprofessional-amateur

This is one of those cases where you can see who did and who didn’t read the article in the notes.

Because the person that got the exemption in isn’t Catholic.

The Pope’s remarks on AI has the potential to bolster the religious exemption to using AI.