There is an interesting connection between long-termism and anti-abortion beliefs. They both believe that someone who does not exist now can be harmed by not being brought into existence.

ORPHANED CATS NEED FOREVER HOME IN NORTHEAST (PLEASE READ *ENTIRE* THREAD) My wife's childhood friend died Thursday, leaving his two *mildly* special-needs cats. The elder, Wally, is about 13. ABSOLUTELY affectionate cat; GLORIOUSLY dim. His only issue is that he poops in bathtubs if given a chance

When my brain broke, I set about trying to fix it the same way I do with anything — by pulling it apart to figure out what's jammed. This started as a cultural history of writer's block, and ended up in the neuroscience of how creativity itself works (or doesn't): thestory.au/articles/wri...

Grief Breaks the Brain: A Writer's Long Journey Back to the Page

When tragedy destroyed his ability to write, Patrick Pittman went looking for a way back to the page. But is the cure for writer’s block in your heart, or in your head?

thestory.au

I just realized. In Star Wars, stormtroopers are ICE. Now I want to rewatch Star Wars

My pot from @roseschmits.bsky.social arrived! I was worried about shipping because of all the tentacles, but it came wrapped in so much bubble wrap that it was a 20-minute operation to get it out. Here's a picture (wizard provided for scale).

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Tell the FCC that LGBTQ Stories Don’t Need a Warning Label | GLAAD

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

glaad.org

Shards of Reflection has 6 days left and needs 1.9k! Here's a thread that is a run down of everything in the kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/149...

Shards of Reflection

A newly made vampire searches for the vampire who made her while unable to trust her new senses and memories.

kickstarter.com

Kel McDonald@kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Shards of Reflection needs 2k in 10 days! www.kickstarter.com/projects/149... Here's a run down of everything you can get! Firstly the book, Shards of Reflection about a newly made vampire trying to find their sire. #comics #webcomics #urbanfantasy #vampires #werewolves

"Building your city on a dead god was better than two silver mines and a good stand of timber.". I can't help but feel that Adrian Tchaikovsky has been playing Civilization.

I want the Nobel prize committee to announce that now that Trump has the FIFA Peace prize, he's no longer eligible for the Nobel Peace prize because you can only win one peace prize

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Hang on guys. Don't give up on Platner yet - maybe Sue Collins has a tattoo of a rat's anus!

When people are talking about genocide it feels like people think of the Holocaust as the archetypical example of genocide, so if a situation doesn't measure up to the Holocaust, it's not really genocide. It's weird; like if we were talking about theme parks, and people were saying 1/2...

I showed up late, but there's still a lot of people here

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family

On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.

popular.info

I went to a protest today. The organizers said 10 times as many people showed as they expected.

I went to this Tesla protest a month ago, and there were only about a dozen people. There's easily a couple hundred people today.

I just had a weird thought. You inherit 23 chromosomes from your father and 23 from your mother, and it's always exactly 50-50. But which 23 you inherit is random. Your mother could give you exactly the 23 she got from her mother. Then you'd be genetically unrelated to your maternal grandfather

I was a member just cause I happened to buy some camping chairs last year. Registering to vote was super easy. This is the article that convinced me to vote 'withold' www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/03...

REI board blocks labor-backed candidates from ballot

Unionized employees are asking members to mark “withhold” on their ballots after a Seattle activist and a top Greenpeace leader were excluded.

cascadepbs.org

Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2y ago

For any REI members who may not realize there is a Board election, or that it is contentious, see this. I ended up supporting one and not supporting the other two. do your research, make your call and VOTE.

Random napkin math: LLMs training sets contain about 15 trillion tokens. At 1$ per word (what Google says is a low-end rate for a magazine article) this means the value of the training set is about 6 trillion dollars (a word is usually 2-3 tokens)

Introduce yourself with your Top 5 #TTRPG picks! Apocalypse World D&D (any edition) Over the Edge Paranoia Capes

POCGamer aka PanzerLion!@pocgamer.com · 2y ago

Introduce yourself with your Top 5 #TTRPG picks! - Traveller (T4 and Hero!) - Pathfinder 2e - Cyberpunk RED - Open Legend (waiting on that new SRD!) - The Sprawl Honourable Mentions: FATE, Basic Fantasy, Savage Worlds, Blue Planet, and Macross II!

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I've just realized I have an unhealthy parasocial relationship with America, and that's one reason why I feel so shitty today

I had been expecting bullshit like this from the Republicans, but I'm surprised how pissed it makes me when I hear about it

Col. Boozy Badger@boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 2y ago

For the first time ever I had my identity challenged by an election inspector before they let me cast my vote. The reason? The “T” on my signature was slightly different from the “T” I put on my over decade old voter registration when I moved to PA.

Trumps insistence that he was wounded by a bullet is really reminding me of his reaction to his inauguration crowd size. It shouldn't be a big deal - despite the best efforts of the Republican party, most Americans have not been wounded by a bullet. He's just decided that it's important.

I just realized that LLMs are Douglas Adam's Electric Monk. They have read the entire internet, and they believe _all_ of it.