Skwiggums, public universal choom

Called my reps about KOSA again. It passed committee and is going to the house for a vote, farthest it's gotten since 2024. Please do the same to kill this thing again.

The angry part of Bluesky remembered KOSA (now under the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, or H.R. 7757) exists but rather yell at you I'll say:

If you have REALLY bad anxiety (like me!), you can call your reps after hours! Voicemail counts! The site 5Calls give you a script to read off of:

This is a bad plan, it would give nothing to the bottom 40% while giving the most to people in the 60-80th percentiles of the income distribution.

lol

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I am *tentatively* opening all commissions for a bit! I have a form on the site but if anyone is interested you can always DM me too C:

stoemwares.wixsite.com/commissions

Yeah this is exactly the thing. Increasingly you are telling people to not believe their lying eyes when you tell them LLMs are useless. Their actual lives will directly contradict this. They will likely discount most other unrelated things you say as a result. This can’t become a left/lib dogma.

Everything is bad so I'm going to drop a non-political hot take: I think the trend of opening marriages is bad and society needs to go back to one person having an affair, not liking it, and getting it out of their system instead of blowing up their lives. We should be more French.

Setback for the Commission: EU MEPs let chat control fail Surprising turn of events in the EU Parliament: The lead interior committee refuses to extend the voluntary mass surveillance of private chats again.

In positive news, Chat Control failed in the EU Parliament:
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Setback-for-the-Commission-EU-MEPs-let-chat-control-fail-11197237.html

<3 good luck, Bruce

fuck

1900: [title too racist to print] by ives 'cracker' whitey 1910: gods blade cuts down the sinners by the smiles family singers 1920: married to frankenstein blues by blind soupy fogg 1930: the st lois choo choo train by willard gibson and his orchestra 1940: i will kiss him in heaven (unless you buy war bonds) by elspeth whitey 1950: makin babies by big 'richard' willie 1960: why oh why (did god take my baby away) by the marvelous wonderettes 1970: why'd you leave me bitch by the baby brats 1980: why did you leave, robot girl? by country club 1990: shit by phlegm

the history of music in the 20th century:

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

It really is something I feel isn't remarked upon often enough that in order to get to a low emissions future we need to build out *so* much new power infrastructure - hundreds of gigawatts minimum! There's just no way around this, any single thing we could cut is a drop in the bucket in comparison.

Shit, I also looked for it! Where was it?

Took a look, no dice. Hope people have better luck I'm the daytime.

I could use a break from work, I'll go take a look.

NITRO VERMIN

Naomi, what the fuck are you doing?

if have any luck this lady stomps platner

Also, just different approaches to building in general. I try to limit myself to parts and techniques that make it so something could be built irl. You're willing to push stud.io to its limits and make some really really big builds.

I try to just ape realism as an aesthetic, which frees up a lot of room for creativity. What impresses me about your stuff is the ability to accurately capture gangliness/scale of stuff and also just sheer output (I like to noodle on greebles more than is probably necessary).

very unfair to call this guy a Nazi merely because he had a Nazi tattoo, retweets Nazis, and praises Nazi shows. after all, he could just be really astonishingly fucking dumb. seems like a great candidate!

these people should all hang

Congrats again to the Platner boosters. You continue to back a great horse.

space america's coneships of the 5th lunar war 2232

Christ, you're so good at this. One day soon, hoping I'll be able to rival ya.

Scale (with and without a rough outline of a Nimitz-class Supercarrier)

Three really dinky images of parrots name cheese pickle and pumpkin. They’re in extreme stupid shapes. Cheese is a pineapple conure with high red colouration He is stretch out tall and has huge feet and alarmed anxious look. He was literally found on the street. Pickle is a slobby sleepy puffed up Quaker parrot boy with sleepy eyes and he’s so round that he’s turning square. Pumpkins is another pineapple conure with a more cinnamon lean. She has huge eyes and lovely eyelashes and is in a hunched position with long toes out. She is coming to Get You and if youre lucky she’ll take ur snack instead of ur toes. She hates toes. She literally bit my toe yesterday. It still hurts but I love her so much I have forgiven her.

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