Thela Astame
@thelaastame.bsky.social
Goth Graveyard (Media!) Girl || Thirties || 🏳️⚧️ || 🐾 ||I live in the woods and do lots of things! || They'll ban me if I don't post, so I'm just gonna be annoying as hell! Have fun! || I refuse to learn to spell. ||
as a Good Person, I enjoy theorizing how much more valuable my life is than the life of an infant.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 1h agoDario Amodei of Anthropic is Very Normal and Can Be Trusted With the Future of Humanity: “…in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death.” blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/m...
NEW: Epic Games has delayed its upcoming (not yet announced) Star Wars + Marvel shooter as it pivots to complete AI game development. "No more hand-written code," a director told staff. All art "generated with full AI workflows." Full scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers to Use More AI
The company told the team behind the upcoming shooter that it will now be an ‘AI first’ production
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whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again"
agreed with the caveat that i think taco bell should make it explicit in their marketing that the chicken crunchwrap, their boldest innovation in decades, is transgender
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 16h agoYes, of course McDonald’s posting about National Coming Out Day is “performative.” Nobody thinks Ronald McDonald threw the first brick at Stonewall. Nonetheless, the biggest and most influential institutions in American life performing affirmation of LGBT social and civil equality is a good thing.
I think a shocking number of our major societal problems would vanish overnight if you could magically pull the plug on the X platform and Meta, both of which are carefully designed to turn people into the worst version of themselves.
its very convenient when people admit their crimes like this, if only there were actually going to be consequences, its a shame crime is legal
RoseMarie@rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 14h agoStephen Miller’s podcaster wife had to double back after overplaying her hand. Katie Miller quickly deleted a post on X gloating over the ICE raid on Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday, (cont.) www.thedailybeast.com/katie-miller...
I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.
The SS United States is set to be sunk in mid-November
Okaloose County expects to sink the SS United States the second week in November, depending on weather.
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There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 19h agoI do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
So Danny Trejo was manipulated and tricked into being in Ben Shapiro's newest film. Holy shit.
Deadlock Secrets #1: McGinnis has a Valve on her back. This is because she is a character in a videogame.
The furry community is really bad about promoting furry media that's actually made BY FURRIES and will instead exclusively promote childrens media that happens to have anthro characters There's furry books, comics, there used to be conlang projects Support your fellow artist if you want furry art
laser 🍩 paints@laserpaints.com · 10mo agogive me your hottest furry take
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2d agoWe’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
I know this is gonna sound goofy coming from someone who made a living drawing furry art for years but like- I finally get it!?! Like in the sense I loved using the bunny and puppy sonas and still will but I think Im finally getting that excitement I always saw in clients but could never-
Phobia@phobia.bsky.social · yesterdayOkay whipped this up this morning to try and get a vrchat avatar commissioned. Nothing too wild just something to run around with other than the public free ones. Also just never actually nailed down my personal fursona?? The bunny and puppy are always a vibe and this is more like mine lol.
this isn't a kink post this is a Charlie Kaufman movie that hasn't been made yet
ProPublica designed a reporting experiment to demonstrate how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. We succeeded in opening two schools. No credentials or background checks required.
How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.
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bigotry aside: imagine having to design an enforcement policy for this. what are we doing y'all?
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · 2d agoICYMI: The nation of Niger has become the first nation in the world to criminalise asexuality as part of a wider crackdown on the LGBTQIA+ community
But the video is about how the performance of empathy can often function to obscure difference and reduce our ability to understand people, and about how Jubilee, an often incompetent show, designed and cast their debate in a way that foreclosed on the possibility of genuine political challenge
Here is a running list of LOTR lines I've said out loud to my dog Frodo: Going up the stairs into our apartment: "Up up up the stairs we go! And into... the tunnel!" (Gollum voice)
Worse---his self-defence plea was initially rejected, but it has been successfully argued that the jury should have known the woman he killed was trans and not cis. Because apparently, the woman he killed being trans makes the killing more justifiable.
Sarah Clarke - Not your doll@damselindystopia.northsky.social · 2d agoSo if I'm reading this correctly, a chaser murdered a black trans woman and is being allowed to use trans women being scary as a defence in court.
As I said the first time this study was proposed, this is unconscionable and would absolutely not fly in any wealthy nation. Medical experimentation on babies (withhold a lifesaving medical intervention just to see what happens) does not magically become okay if they happen to be poor African babies
Rachel Fairbank@sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 2d ago“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.
“…the Supreme Court has effectively ratified third-country removal of the sort that Gakou faces…”
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 2d ago5th Cir. issues a rare Saturday order. Holds that the Supreme Court's stay in D.V.D. forecloses a stay of removal for a Senegalese man with witholding of removal to Senegal who DHS intends to immediately deport to Sierra Leone. www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
