making my own post in a similar vein to this one because i don't want to derail, but:
i just need yall to know that, if you ever message the mods of a reddit, reddit now automatically includes an AI generated summary of your entire post history with whatever message you send. yes it includes extremely personal information. i mod a support group for victims, the AI summary will regularly list out peoples' child abuse histories along with information on shit like them using reddit to seek out extramarital affairs
i don't think reddit has put out any official statements letting people know this is happening, so just as a heads up
I'm a thief. I steal. I break the rules. Sometimes I break the rules because the rules let people get hurt. No. The rules say it's okay to hurt people. To be cruel. And it's not. People need to be kind. And if they're not kind, I will steal their stuff and Eliot will punch them in the face until they are kind. But the main to do this my way is...it's our way. And doing this lets us be us. And that's enough.
Beth Riesgraf as Parker in season 3 of Leverage: Redemption (2021-2025)
created by John Rogers and Chris Downey
Martha Jones (Doctor Who) vs. Regine Hunter (Living Single)
Martha Jones
Regine Hunter
Remaining time: 6 days 5 hours
Propaganda below the cut:
Martha Jones:
She was the first main Black companion on Doctor Who…I'll just talk about the fandom racism/misogyny itself and not the racism/misogyny in the show itself. She was subject to overt and subtle misogynoir from the fandom, especially since she came after white fan-favorite companion Rose Tyler. People disliked her for having a crush on the Doctor, which Rose also had, and was unfavorably compared to Rose. There's a lot more, but I don't want to write a whole essay.
She's a medical student, and incredibly smart and capable! In her stories, she's incredibly compassionate to those around her, and offers emotional as well as medical assistance. Also, she has incredible style!
Martha gets absolutely shafted by the fandom, most of whom cannot seem to forgive her for not being Rose Tyler. That she dares to leave the Doctor and live her own life is apparently an act more evil than any the Daleks could dream of. A lot of fans insist that Martha's race has nothing to do with why they dislike her. A lot of fans are fucking liars.
Martha is competent and intelligent and screams way less than usual for a companion so she is clearly excellent.
I think fandoms been very racist and misogynistic towards her, relagating her as some spineless woman always pining after the doctor instead of a badass MD who saved the day many times
Not only misogyny but racism too. Martha is an incredibly smart and brave character who doesn’t get half the credit that the Doctor’s other (WHITE) companions get. She gets dogged on by the fandom for a lot of reasons that are overlooked or forgiven when Rose Tyler does a lot of the same things.
She was the only RTD companion who wasn’t given superpowers in order to save the day. Girl saved the world with nothing but gumption and a good pair of walking boots.
Regine Hunter:
Idk if this is too old school for most of tumblr but in the 90s while the show was airing people HATED her for being "shallow" and caring about how she looked. Like tv critics lit into her over it.
They Welcomed 37 Data Centers to Town. Now Their Schools Have to Dim the Lights to Cut Energy Costs
Henrico County has been home to massive data-center investment. However, now, a 25 percent electricity-rate increase is hitting its government and schools.
Henrico County, Virginia, has spent years courting data centers. Now it’s asking public employees to help shrink the power bill.
Beginning July 1, Henrico’s electricity rate will rise nearly 25 percent, adding about $5 million in annual costs across county government and school facilities. In a June 26 email, County Manager John Vithoulkas asked employees to turn off lights, shut down computers, unplug chargers, adjust blinds, and avoid space heaters, which he said can cost the county $150 to $300 a year each to run.
Henrico says the message was not just about cost-cutting. Ben Sheppard, the county’s communications director, told Inc. the email reflected “good fiscal stewardship and good environmental stewardship,” both of which he said are core values of the county.
The request landed in one of Virginia’s fast-growing data-center hubs. Henrico is home to 37 data centers, according to a county planning staff analysis, with major facilities clustered around White Oak Technology Park.
The rate increase comes through a new electricity contract negotiated by the Virginia Energy Purchasing Governmental Association, which buys power for local governments, school systems, towns, cities, and public authorities in Dominion Energy territory. VEPGA has said members will see a 24.9 percent overall increase beginning July 1, followed by at least another 12 percent increase in July 2027.
Dominion Energy told Inc. the municipal rates reflect “inflationary pressures and rising costs of fuel, purchased power, grid equipment, and the necessary investments to maintain a reliable grid to serve growing demand.”
The grid fight
The demand is now the fight. Monitoring Analytics, the independent market monitor for PJM, said wholesale power costs across PJM rose 62.7 percent in the first five months of 2026 compared with the same period last year.
Capacity costs—payments meant to ensure enough power supply is available in the future—rose 412.9 percent. The market monitor estimated that data-center load accounted for 74.7 percent of the increase in capacity-market revenues in the 2025-2026 auction and increased wholesale power prices by $11.26 per megawatt-hour in the first five months of 2026, a 24.4 percent increase.
Joseph Bowring of Monitoring Analytics told Inc. that PJM proposals discussed this week would increase those impacts and shift costs and risks to other customers.
PJM said it is trying to ease the supply-and-demand imbalance driving higher capacity costs. Dan Lockwood, a PJM spokesperson, told Inc. the grid operator is working on market reforms, faster interconnection of new power resources, new rules for integrating large loads such as data centers, more demand flexibility, and better demand forecasting.
The timing is not incidental. PJM members this week advanced a plan to source more electricity for rising data-center demand after capacity prices in the region surged more than 1,000 percent since roughly 2024. PJM’s board will make the final policy decision on the matter.
The data-center industry says it is being blamed for a broader electricity problem. Nicole Riley, director of Virginia government affairs for the Data Center Coalition, told Inc. the industry is “committed to paying the full cost of the energy it uses.”
“Nonpartisan studies by JLARC, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and others have consistently found that data centers do not raise energy prices and that data centers pay for all the power they use, just like any other customer,” Riley said.
Dominion also pointed to Virginia’s new large-user rate class, saying the state has “among the strongest protections in the country to prevent data center costs from being passed onto residential or municipal customers.” The new class increases upfront commitments and minimum demand charges for large users, including data centers.
The local trade-off
Henrico has benefited from the boom. Sheppard said the county established its Affordable Housing Trust Fund in July 2024 with $60 million in data-center tax revenue. So far, 69 homes supported by the fund have been sold to first-time homebuyers, and another 401 have been awarded development funding.
But the public cost side is moving up the agenda. Henrico has tightened its approach to data-centers, adding guidelines around utility adequacy, buffers, noise studies, and setbacks from residential areas.
Henrico’s problem is now the problem facing communities across the country: Data centers can make local budgets richer while making the regional power system more expensive to run. The next test is whether new grid rules can keep those two ledgers separate.
they're not super common but i really do appreciate characters who are introduced as one gender and later revealed to be closeted trans. i like that it challenges the audience to really think about how they perceive trans people because realistically not every trans person you meet is going to be out to you at first. yes we introduced this character as a man and now we're asking you to reframe her as a woman after you've already gotten to know her. can you be normal about that? can you be normal when it happens to people you know in real life? i hope you can.
[Image Description: Testicular Self Exam from the Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation. Each point is accompanied by an image of the corresponding action.
1. cup one testicle at a time using both hands, best performed during or after a warm bath or shower
2. examine by rolling the testicle between thumb and fingers, use slight pressure
3. familiarize yourself with the spermatic cord and epididymis, tube like structures that connect on the back side of each testicle
4. feel for lumps, change in size or irregularities, it is normal for one testis to be slightly larger than the other
[ID: Breast Self Exam graphic. Each point is accompanied by an image of the corresponding action. The points read:
"Once A Month, 2-3 Days After Periods", "Examine Breast And Armpit With Raised Arm", "Use Fingerpads With Massage Oil Or Shower Gel", "Up And Down", "Wedges", "Circles", "Examine Breast In The Mirror For Lumps Or Skin Dimpling", "...Change In Skin Color Or Texture", "...Nipple Deformation, Color Change Or Leaks Of Any Fluids".]
Hey so a small thing that literally everyone who sees this is capable of is correcting any “used to” statements about native people in this country.
“Native people used to live in this National Park” No. They still do.
“Native people used to tell these stories-” No. They still do.
“Native people used to use this plant as a natural remedy-” No. They still do.
Better yet, familiarize yourself with the tribes local to you. Odds are, they do not yet have federal recognition. You can still read the stories they have to share, you can share their ongoing battle for recognition with others, you can sign petitions and spread the word to others to do so as well. But do something.
I think it’s kind of awesome that what happened with wick at obrimus felt like such a perfect beat to leave him at at the end of the arc. knowing this is obviously represents a huge change for him and we’re going to get to see what that ends up meaning for the character over the next schemers arc. and it only happened bc sam rolled like shit and brennan wanted to give him some agency in how he died. and instead sam decided to have wick slash a completely innocent woman’s throat to save his own skin. the dice tell a story and that story is wick better start killing or else
Autism Representation written by an allistic: My name is John Autism and I like the designated autistic interests
unintentionally autistic character written by the creator who hasn't really thought about whether or not theyre autistic: I wish I could be human like the way everyone else is but I know they can tell I'm not. And I know they're right
The really unfortunate thing about mental health progress is that sometimes you realize you've made it in the form of "wow, I haven't felt this bad in a fucking while"
On the one hand it's a bit of a pick me up in a dark place to know that this will pass because it has passed before on the other hand sometimes it isn't entirely a pleasant thought to go "wow, I used to feel like this all the time. That was pretty fucking bad. It's pretty bad right now too also."
hey don't cry. on december 3, 1926, agatha christie went missing for eleven days and because the uk police didn't know what to do they recruited sir arthur conan doyle, creator of master detective sherlock holmes, but all he did was conduct a séance to try and contact her distressed spirit
Also I get the sense that very few people in DC are aware that federal officials wrote detailed analyses warning of the air quality health risks of the enormous 850K fireworks set to go off — and that the admin did not release those findings to the public
