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I don’t think people understand how bad this is

The guides industry has taken a huge beating due to SEO-driven media networks pushing writers to create guides for low pay. Ranging from legitimate aid to totally incorrect information

Imagine an AI scraping all that and spitting out bizarre answers

14.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Yeah, that would have been fantastic (though I don't know how well it would have survived this particular edition, black and white and all chopped up to fit the mass market format).

14.03.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet On Friday a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

torrents are undefeated:

www.404media.co/the-removed-...

14.03.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 6119 πŸ” 1883 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 121
Photo of a paperback copy of Marvel's Blade Runner comic adaptation with a Steranko cover showing the movie's cast

Photo of a paperback copy of Marvel's Blade Runner comic adaptation with a Steranko cover showing the movie's cast

Well that's my day made.

14.03.2026 19:30 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Be a tourist in your own town. Share a photo.

14.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

A little change of pace while I finished off prose book number six for the year.

14.03.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yessssss

14.03.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is like ending access to booster shots "because no one was getting them" - when in reality no one was finding out about boosters because CDC gave up on comms, or told *why* they should get a booster to avoid disability/death, and antivax disinfo made boosters seem pointless, onerous, or bad.

14.03.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Shocker: still a really good movie. Maybe even better on aging 35mm?

14.03.2026 05:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I admit to being way more hardline about this than others, but this is too little, too late. This doesn't read as "Oh, real VAs are better!", this reads as, "Welp, our launch hype is dying down, let's address the elephant we left in the room to bring back some of our stragglers!"

14.03.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A collection of 9 anti-ICE or related signs, including signs saying β€œHate Will Not Make Us Great” and β€œKristi Noem Eats Worms”

A collection of 9 anti-ICE or related signs, including signs saying β€œHate Will Not Make Us Great” and β€œKristi Noem Eats Worms”

A collection of 9 anti-ICE or related signs, including signs saying β€œRadicalized by Basic Human Decency” and β€œWe Have Friends Everywhere”

A collection of 9 anti-ICE or related signs, including signs saying β€œRadicalized by Basic Human Decency” and β€œWe Have Friends Everywhere”

I’ve been photographing anti-ICE and related yard/window/tree/street signs around Minneapolis. The variety of commercial and especially handmade signs is amazing, as is the urge for people to let their neighbors know they care and are furious in ways big and small. Batch #13

14.03.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This verdict in particular is an egregious threat to the First Amendment. He was convicted of "corruptly concealing a document or record" for transporting a box of anarchist zines. In other words, transporting printed essays that featured political speech.

13.03.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 139 πŸ” 65 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Pre-storm errands: check
Burrito from the corner taco stand: check
Alien at the Trylon: soon

14.03.2026 01:29 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

one promise the cyberpunk future failed to deliver on is multinational corporations murdering each other en masse (and plenty of good paying jobs murdering corporate suits). would be a lot better if these guys were actually thinning out their ranks instead of banding together

14.03.2026 00:35 πŸ‘ 1087 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 9
A zamboni rider on a hockey rink holding up a cloth banner reading "No ICE, No War, No Kings, No Fear" with the F in Fear made from the Minnesota Frost logo.

A zamboni rider on a hockey rink holding up a cloth banner reading "No ICE, No War, No Kings, No Fear" with the F in Fear made from the Minnesota Frost logo.

Now that's epic. She got all the way around before they took it from her.

14.03.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIf you’re not doing anything illegal, then you got nothing to worry about!”

Also: β€œExisting in public space without buying anything will lead to the authorities being called.β€œ

13.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 159 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I am not enjoying the frequency with which I'm seeing them.

14.03.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of a Cybertruck parked outside an Auto Detailing shop

Photo of a Cybertruck parked outside an Auto Detailing shop

I hope they're laughing at him in there.

13.03.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
B-CLUB No. 72: Zeiram (1991): A detailed sci-fi fantasy illustration features a central female character with long dark hair wearing large round goggles and white futuristic armor, surrounded by an array of monstrous and alien beings including a large blue tentacled creature with a masked face, a white fox-like mask on an orange flame, a blue helmeted entity, a horned demonic skull with glowing blue eyes, a striped robed figure with a third eye symbol, and various other grotesque faces and figures.

B-CLUB No. 72: Zeiram (1991): A detailed sci-fi fantasy illustration features a central female character with long dark hair wearing large round goggles and white futuristic armor, surrounded by an array of monstrous and alien beings including a large blue tentacled creature with a masked face, a white fox-like mask on an orange flame, a blue helmeted entity, a horned demonic skull with glowing blue eyes, a striped robed figure with a third eye symbol, and various other grotesque faces and figures.

B-CLUB No. 72 (1991) collage of Zeiram, Iria and Cyber Ninja for Bandai Magazine by Keita Amemiya.

13.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 625 πŸ” 247 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4

I FUCKIN' CALLED IT!

13.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0
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Pluto - Naoki Urasawa

13.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 7409 πŸ” 2662 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 49
A Japanese ad for Gunsmith Cats OVA volume 3, High Speed Edge. It has an illustration of Rally angrily leaning over an open car door from inside.

A Japanese ad for Gunsmith Cats OVA volume 3, High Speed Edge. It has an illustration of Rally angrily leaning over an open car door from inside.

Cute & Hot: Gunsmith Cats. On Sale on Video and Laser Disc.

The aroma of gunpowder and smoke. πŸ”₯

13.03.2026 15:09 πŸ‘ 253 πŸ” 99 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

"It's more of a component. Like asbestos in brake pads. Or lead in paint. They made people feel like they were improving the product while in reality they were killing the customers and the environment."

oooh, thiiiiiiiis

13.03.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Drone sightings drove surveillance fears as ICE surged in Minnesota Some Minneapolis residents who took to the streets to document U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids believe federal authorities used drones to record and intimidate them. Despite laws govern...

A Minneapolis woman who opposed ICE woke up to a drone outside her second floor bedroom window. A man delivering groceries to a suburban distro house for mutual aid recorded a drone hovering above the house. Whose drones and why? (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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Sickos.jpg

Me, the snow-deprived ex-Ranger

13.03.2026 04:25 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Haha right? Seems to be a short CG film that was maybe done for a similar event a few years ago in Japan

13.03.2026 00:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

MSP folks: Any restaurant recommendations for Iron Range-style porketta/porchetta that serve it plated? I've had a craving but Iron Ranger and Northbound only seem to offer it on sandwiches.

12.03.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Counterpoint: You can always put the blu-rays in the DVD cases

12.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

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