Ben Tillman

@tdesign.bsky.social

Architect & Sustainable Designer Trying to build a better world, otherwise playing old video games.

Being a parent is pretty tough, but it's all worth it for that moment, every once in a while, when you get to take your kid to the city to see a marching band and say, "Will you defeat them? Your demons and all the non-believers, the plans that they have made?"

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

The Trump administration has gone months without paying attorneys who represent unaccompanied immigrant children as part of a years-old, congressionally-funded effort. The latest in a series of temporary bridge contracts ends tomorrow, with no replacement in sight: www.huffpost.com/entry/unacco...

These Lawyers Make Sure Children Don’t Face Deportation Hearings Alone. Trump Hasn't Paid Them In Months.

“We know what happens when children go to court without an attorney,” a lawyer said. “One word: deportation.”

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“Avatar Korra, I’m finally able to commune with you! Do you have any avatar wisdom?” “Yeah, listen kid, you’re a girl, so try to save the world in a way where you never have fun and are never cocky, if you do either the internet won’t shut up about how much they hate you for the next ten years”

in Kansas, severe cuts to SNAP/EBT fifteen years ago led to grocery stores cutting hours or closing outright in case some gremlin deep down in u says "well im not on food stamps, so"- it affects everyone; limited operating hours, your favorite grocer closing, your community increasingly unemployed

Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.

This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.