Howdy peeps

You can call me Tristan or Tris. Whatever. 28. she/her. My icon is from @cartoonaccount

[hawaii-n-jones]

I keep an open unused search tab on my tablet that's a wall of just absolutely acidic advertising poison except for this single semi appealing link to a buttered brioche recipe and I leave it open and call it the devil's bread because it reminds me that even the meagerest palatable offering the algorithm dangles before you is telling it who you are and what makes you tick and you will not have me satan. not even through the temptress of sweet buttery clickbait you sick son of a bitch

[xenosagaepisodeone]

self proclaimed schizoposter nervously typing '911' into their phone and hovering their thumb above the 'call' key as they hawkishly watch a disheveled guy at a bus stop make repetitive movements and ramble to himself

[myxomavirus-deactivated20250211]

You know what lemme just come back to this post because I (physically disabled, joint pain, cane user) was on a full train last night with the biggest heaviest backpack you could imagine bcs I’ve just become homeless and I was on my way to a friends house. I tried to ask people for a seat and got flat out ignored. Nobody would even look at me. It got to a point where I was literally shaking crying sobbing dry heaving resorting to begging “I’m really sorry everyone but can someone please give me their seat I have joint problems I’m in a lot of pain”, speaking to people directly “excuse me but you’re in priority seating and I’m disabled and I really need to sit down” and the only person in the whole train who would even LOOK at me while I was wheezing and clutching my stomach and sweating about to pass out in some of the most rancid pain I’ve ever felt in my life. was an old disheveled guy with a tic who was mumbling to himself. and he quietly tried to console me and convinced me to just sit on someone’s suitcase. I hope all the unnatural hair coloured pierced 20 somethings on that train that night ESPECIALLY never know peace for the rest of their fucking lives

[nbvirgos]

You seriously can’t call yourself a leftist or a progressive or whatever if you can’t treat other people like actual human beings. I’ve had disheveled people who a lot of ppl would assume are homeless, be quicker to offer me a place to sit on a train than 20 somethings with unnatural hair color and “Be Gay do Crime” pins and stickers do that (esp when I injured my ankle coming back from work nobody except a mumbling elderly lady offered me their seat). They’re also not the ones who threaten to call cops on me when I’m taking foodstuffs from grocery stores! You can post about anarchy and being progressive and unhinged all you want but the fact that you would treat people who are physically disabled and in poverty this way makes you just as an awful person as anybody else

[it-is-only-a-novel-deactivated2]

Reminder to self:

[ramshacklefey]

What do you mean?? I took one whole day off! Why am I not immediately recovered from years of barely scraping by at subsistence level???

[depsidase]

[morethanonepage]

literally nothing is adding up, what is the point being made here??

[crazy-pages]

The point is that United Healthcare had that much money to lose and is still operational. In fact their daily operations haven't been impacted at all by the loss. The entire value of Canada's healthcare system for 40 million people is less than that. This implies that an equivalent amount of money to what can provide a superior healthcare service than what UHC provides, to 40 million people, was moving through the United States healthcare system as pure profit margin.

In other words, a small portion of the profit margin of just one of the United States private health care companies, would be enough to pay for the full and total healthcare of every single uninsured person in the United States twice over. The implication is that the profit margins of these companies could very easily cover expanding healthcare access if we had a public healthcare system.

[saywhat-politics]

'People are really angry': Lawmakers facing voter blowback over Elon Musk's chaos

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are feeling the wrath of constituents as their phone lines light up with complaints, worries and confus

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are feeling the wrath of constituents as their phone lines light up with complaints, worries and confusion over Elon Musk's efforts to gut government programs and fire longtime civil servants.

[kereeachan]

Just a reminder:

--if the person you get has no clue what you're on about, please realize it is entirely likely to be a VERY new intern this time of year, half of them can barely find their way around the buildings yet, be nice

--use state AND national offices. make a stink

--most of these folks have email and phone so use all available contact methods you can

--if it's a Senator, see if they're up for reelection in 2026. Threaten a primary. Don't tell them your political affiliation, just threaten a primary.

[hellenhighwater]

I've been noodling stuff around in my dome about casting and mold making (mostly for the miniataurs because holy crap there's like 200 of you wanting asterions and I gotta scale up if I'm going to get anywhere close to that many, which is awesome but daunting) and it occurs to me that the little tomb mouse would also be a relatively easy form to cast, maybe even press-mold. I know you guys are here in numbers (more numbers than I thought) for Asterion, but would there be any interest in little mouseoleums? You could literally inter your deceased beloved rodents in them if you wanted, or just put neat stuff in there.

Price point might be somewhere in the $100 range and it would come with a sword.

sarcophagus

yes I would buy that

i would not buy that but I do love you (no other option)

Voting ended onFeb 11, 2025

[hawkpartys]

[greelin]

what the fuck did you expect me to feel when you gripped the back of my head like that and sank your fangs into my neck? Indifference? Disgust? NOT sheer adoration? be serious.

[greelin]

vampire bites are not just about The Bite. it is also about The Grip. can anyone hear me

[batcows]

it's so wild that the best lyric in pop music history ("tell your boyfriend / if he says he's got beef / that I'm a vegetarian and I ain't fuckin scared of him") and the worst lyric in history ("do the hellen keller and talk with yo hips") are both from the same song ("DONTTRUSTME" by 3OH!3). just. crazy how that works

[depsidase]

[sic-semper-hominibus]

i'm not the praying sort, but i'll probably always have a soft spot for the astronaut's prayer

[sic-semper-hominibus]

for those who aren't familiar with it, it's a possibly-spurious quote by alan shepard (and is thus sometimes referred to as the shepard's prayer) on the launchpad of Freedom 7, immediately before he became the first american in space. it goes like this:

"Dear Lord, please don't let me fuck up."

[rylandsgrace]

This is cinema actually

[cozhycottaghe]

[rneliflua]

"if you ship this thing it's because you're too naïve to understand that it's toxic and that you wouldn't like a relationship like this" actually it's because I see one of them as a mentos drop and the other as a bottle of coke zero and I want to watch the mess they'll be together

[darthlenaplant]

Get peer reviewed

[parentheticalaside]

Reminder that Trump has to pick a new vice president because he tried to get the last one murdered because the guy didn’t want to break multiple laws and now that guy won’t endorse Trump for president, probably because of the whole murder thing, I’m guessing.

[cryptidsandcatacombs]

I’m fucking sorry Trump has done what now??????

[parentheticalaside]

Jesus fucking Christ people this should be branded on your brains by now…

Also:

[churropussy]

Pence also said the reason he didn’t get in the car was because he knew that if he did, he would be killed.

[beesmygod]

ed zitron, a tech beat reporter, wrote an article about a recent paper that came out from goldman-sachs calling AI, in nicer terms, a grift. it is a really interesting article; hearing criticism from people who are not ignorant of the tech and have no reason to mince words is refreshing. it also brings up points and asks the right questions:

if AI is going to be a trillion dollar investment, what trillion dollar problem is it solving?

what does it mean when people say that AI will "get better"? what does that look like and how would it even be achieved? the article makes a point to debunk talking points about how all tech is misunderstood at first by pointing out that the tech it gets compared to the most, the internet and smartphones, were both created over the course of decades with roadmaps and clear goals. AI does not have this.

the american power grid straight up cannot handle the load required to run AI because it has not been meaningfully developed in decades. how are they going to overcome this hurdle (they aren't)?

people who are losing their jobs to this tech aren't being "replaced". they're just getting a taste of how little their managers care about their craft and how little they think of their consumer base. ai is not capable of replacing humans and there's no indication they ever will because...

all of these models use the same training data so now they're all giving the same wrong answers in the same voice. without massive and i mean EXPONENTIALLY MASSIVE troves of data to work with, they are pretty much as a standstill for any innovation they're imagining in their heads

[cuddlycryptid]

listen. if you had an abusive parent who is good at behaving themselves around other people- ones who stay calm, and smile, and speak kindly when interacting with the public despite never doing that with you? you’re amazing. if you had to hear “your dad seems cool” or “i love your mom” and nod and feel the way they hurt you go unnoticed? you’re so strong.

it can feel like you’re making it up, because all your teachers really like them. or it can sting, when you see how theyre capable of being thoughtful and polite but they choose to hurt you anyways. but you are wonderful, and brave, and things will get better. you will have people who acknowledge how they treated you. you will thrive. keep fighting.