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You won’t find this pigeon on the streets of New York City. Meet the Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans)! This colorful bird can be found throughout Southeast Asia, where it inhabits forests. It hangs out in small flocks in the treetops, foraging mainly for fruit. Distinguishing males from females isn’t too difficult: Females lack pink necks and are mostly olive-green in color!
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In light of recent events, I have begun submitting bug reports when I see mature content labels applied inappropriately to posts, especially if an appeal has been rejected.
Extremely good idea - how are you doing it? Through the contact us option?
Yeah it’s one of the options on the Contact Support form:
Society should forgive the occasional diva moment
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trans women and trans men and nonbinary people and everyone else being friends and holding each other close and falling in love and thinking of each other. I'm making this my future. let's all be okay together
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Do you ever think about how so much of the deadly anti-science rhetoric that fills America today and is killing countless vulnerable people can be directly traced back to one fucking guy who decided to just straight-up lie about vaccines causing autism because it would make him a profit? Do you ever think about that? Because I think about it a lot.
Here's the original post (on FB, alas)
[ID: Screenshots of a Facebook post of user Zed Potts on April 3rd, 2026 at 8:10 PM reading:
The one thing about Al that most people don't seem to get, the really critical thing, is that this whole thing isn't a "tech miracle" it's just the wal-mart scam. When wal-mart moves into town, the first thign they do is they run a bunch of sales, for years and years.
not because they care. Not because they just really wanna help. But because they really want to drive every single store that sells the same things they sell out of business. And because they don't really want to (and can't really compete) on the quality front, they do this by just leveraging deep pockets to offer really, really, really cheap prices. They do two things with this: First, they close every single other business that sells the things they sell. Second, they manage to get everyone used to shittier versions of the stuff they used to have higher standards on - it may not be as good, but hey, it's cheap, and who can complain these days?
Al art costs a LOT to make, and it costs way way way more to build the machine models that make it, and this money all goes straight to creating a bunch of waste power, heat, and pollution. It's the anti-environmentalist effect your mother told you about. But it's virtually free to you to use right now, even for the paid services. Do you know why?
Because they want you to use it. They're trying to kill off every source of news writing, picture painting, song singing, book writing, movie making, library storing, lesson teaching, code writing, information sharing, community building, thought thinking they can POSSIBLY manage to replace with worse (but cheaper) versions that can run through machines they run
and then they can charge you for it, and get BACK some money for the billions and billions and billions of dollars that they keep pouring into this stuff.
The people who build this stuff aren't your friend. This product isn't cool. It's not "no big deal" when you share an Al thought, or project, or message - it's about you willingly hopping on board with the people who want to kill everything you love so they can run a zombie robot version of it that they can rent to you later when it's all you have left. this isn't a "conspiracy". It's not secret. It's just the fucking plan and it's right out there in the open and these people even say it out loud if you'd start listening.
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Mostly accurate, but what I'm missing here is that a lot of these AI's don't want to charge YOU for it.
They want to get you hooked in AI as your main search engine and then charge advertisers to determine the results when you ask for the best new smartphone.
They want to get you hooked on putting all your e-mails through AI and then charge companies for your data, your most private thoughts.
And of course they want to get states, military and big coorporations hooked on AI and then charge them a fortune. So your taxes go to an AI that decides which neighborhoods to police, who to accuse of insurance fraud, and who to kill by drone (already all happening now).
Plenty of these services might continue to be free for you because you are the product.
What are Bolaire's alternatives?
A lot of people are talking about the horrific implications of what Bolaire does to survive, but I haven't seen anyone talk about what other choices are available to him. I wanted to bring this up because Bolaire has clearly thought about these alternatives, since he brought up to Hal before The Stab that he could choose not to put Bolaire on a new body, so long as Hal didn't leave him in the sewer to be found.
The choices that Bolaire has available to him, other than body snatching, are:
Find a way to destroy himself permanently.
Find a way to have himself sealed away in a dormant state.
Allow himself to be used as a weapon again.
Option 2 is, for Bolaire, pretty much the same as option 1, since he has no consciousness or life when he's not being worn. The main difference is that option 2 could be reversed, which would land him back in option 3, or body snatching again.
I think it's pretty clear that Option 3 for Bolaire would be a fate worse than death. The life he led before he ran off with Castep's body, if it can be called a life, was nothing more than slavery in service of mass death. And if anything, he got off lightly compared to how bad Option 3 could get for him. Can you imagine what someone like Primus Tachonis or Yanessa Halovar would do with Bolaire? It'd be a lot worse than simply being wielded by a soldier to slaughter the enemy.
So let's return to options 1 and 2, because there's a strong argument you can make that these are Bolaire's only ethical choices, and furthermore, Bolaire himself has intense body dysmorphia and doesn't actually enjoy snatching bodies, so he's surely contemplated these options.
Option 1: suicide. We don't actually know if Bolaire can be destroyed outright, and Bolaire himself may not know either. There are high level spells like Disjunction that can destroy magical items but with legendary artifacts and such, even a ninth level spell like that is not a guarantee. But let's suppose Bolaire wants to give it a try: how would he achieve this?
Well, to even have a shot at his assisted suicide actually working, he would have to recruit the assistance of a high-level sorcerer or wizard. So his options would be the Sundered Houses or the Penteveral. But these options are both very risky. Bolaire fought in the Falconer's Rebellion against the Sundered Houses, so he would distrust them, and rightly so. He would have to explain his nature to anyone who was going to help in the assisted suicide, and once they knew that, well, who knows what a Sundered Houses sorcerer might choose to do with that information? And until he became friends with Murray, which was very recent, Bolaire didn't have anyone at the Penteveral either who he could trust to definitely just aim to destroy him instead of turning him into a magical experiment or a weapon. And even now that he has Murray, she's a third-level wizard and definitely doesn't have the juice to have any chance of destroying him permanently.
Now let's consider Option 2. The benefit of option 2 is that you don't have to be a super high powered wizard or sorcerer to be able to seal Bolaire up in a box or something. The problem with option 2 is that if your Bolaire storage solution isn't absolutely airtight, someone could find him and get him back in the situation of being a slave / weapon / magical experiment. Once again, we run into this problem: who could Bolaire trust to know his secret and do a proper job of putting him away forever? Up until two days ago when Bolaire confessed his nature to the other Schemers, he had no one he could trust with that. It's notable that, as soon as he did have people he could trust to do that, he told Hal before The Stab in episode 22 that he trusted Hal to put him away somewhere safe if he didn't want to put Bolaire on the Crow Keeper. So Bolaire became open to this option as soon as it was viable. Could Bolaire end the campaign by surrendering himself up to Hal to seal him away somewhere secure forever? Very possibly.
I wanted to lay all of this out because it makes it clear that while Bolaire's choice to murder people to survive is, uhhh, troubling to say the least, his other choices have all been absolutely dogshit until about two days ago.
I'm reblogging this because there are a lot of people in this fandom who believe that Bolaire has a huge wealth of great options before him and chooses murder just because it's fun, funky, and comfortable. Those three options above are the only ones he has! You could argue that there's a fourth option, which is for Bolaire to find hosts who are willing to have him drain their life force and steal their bodily autonomy until they die from the strain, but exploiting suicidal people so he can have "willing bodies" is just as morally repugnant as murdering people, if not more so.
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i think avoiding everything is going to save me for real this time
i think avoiding everything is going to save me for real this time
