You know, for all the things that Trump and his cronies are doing that are blatantly illegal, and are being called out as illegal. And he's being sued over because they're illegal, and he's losing court cases over, because they're ILLEGAL...
It sure would be nice to see him face even the slightest consequences of any of it. Literally anything the fuck at all.
Because I guarantee you if a Democrat did ANY of it, the Reds would be screaming for blood and doing EVERYTHING to get it.
@TrackerRoo I know, Which also should have never happened. If our legal system had actually worked instead of sycophant after sycophant slowing down the process Trump should have been in jail before he could get anywhere near a second term. This is literally the result of our governmental and legal systems failing at every level to do one of their most important jobs. keep a criminal and fascist organization from taking over the government.
@TrackerRoo But beyond that, the whole idea that the President should be untouchable is just incredibly bad. This is a person that should be held to the highest standards, it's asinine that we basically just give them kingly powers at this point to do anything without repercussions.
We need to follow South Korea's example. If we had the Republican party of Nixon, that could happen. Unfortunately now it is the party of Trump.
It seems that the best we can hopefully for is that his cronies under him get found in civil contempt. Make everyone under him responsible in a method that he can't pardon. Then hope in two years we get a Congress who will actually not just boot him, but charge him for his numerous crimes.
it is fitting, as in the obverse, there seem to always be sects of people who disagree with the Pope enough to keep using his birth name as an intended slight...
It would be good if all medical records had a known as field, both for trans people and also those known by a different name to their birth name in general. In fairness NHS24 are quite good at putting this in their notes as it saves embrassment for both patient and clinician if we know what someone is known as rather than their just registered name.
I do that. Mainly because most trans people I whose names I know, I don't actually know their deadname. But also because someone's name is their business, so I don't care to ask. it is possibly difficult when I have known someone for years under a different name. But that hasn't really come up yet.
Imagine what would have happened if he had chosen Leo-Maria. ๐ฑ MAGA Land would have, in total outrage, excreted the few active brain cells they still had.
I actually still have diskspace in my NAS with distributed backups of MP3 collections, and Streaming boxes in every room to play music from those MP3 Collection. Algorithm free, no stupid playlist suggestions, just what I want and when I want.
ChatGPT is not just a tool. It is use another shell in the munitions cabinet of big-tech designed to further distance users from control of their own hardware; and to lock us into centralised "cloud-based" systems. In an era of unprecedented desktop processing-power we're going back to client-server
People write about Cobol like it was written back when we were still making buildings out of stone and dirt. It's only 8 years older than C. C is used in everything, and it's over 50 years old.
Thereโs something about sharing the days, the quiet moments and the loud ones, that builds a life together almost without noticing.
Years go by, and still, sitting side by side feels like the best place to be. From dating, then to living together, to calling this a family, Iโm just grateful we keep choosing each other.
Two years married today, but in reality, weโve been a family for way more. Picture for Roni
Digital. Procreate
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"That's a POLaR problem" "It's pretty warm in here?" "No, Path Of Least Resistance. People find a shortcut then keep doing it even when it makes the job take longer, or turns it to scrap."
this is amazing. I would totally wear a fursuit like that. Perhaps not quite that diameter (I am not that spectacular of a chonker) but lol that is fantastic.
I'd want a picture of me wearing that and playing Robotron haha
HAHHAAH .. yes that's .. a large cow, you are not SO large ๐ Unfortunately those things cost so many thousands at this point you'd be better going to Windy's corner and buy a REAL highland cow .. for less .. you'd have a real cow to care for ๐
WASHINGTONโClaiming the fantastical creatures were โway too coolโ to leave their investigation to a handful of so-called experts, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The scariest part about this, is that with how upside down things are today and how bat shit crazy the current administration is, I could see this headline being just as at home on NBC or CNN as I could on The Onion.
I've spoken to eight delivery drivers from that company now. Mostly they were picking fights with customers.
One had worked at Longbridge, couldn't find work after. Wife left him, took both his kids. Gambling and Crypto/NFT debts. Robbed by dodgy bosses. From "a job for life" to "deliveries fill the gaps between building gigs".
25p to ยฃ1 a parcel. 300 to hit minimum wage. 8am to 10pm.
How is that not exploitation? It's OK because some rich Dutchman runs the company?
"I voted Reform the other day. I'm sick of wages being so low because the foreigners will do it cheap."
I said Farage reminded me of someone I once knew, a compulsive liar. "Aren't they all? I voted for Labour with Corbyn. But they abandoned us when they threw him out."
Asked him what he actually wanted.
"What everyone wants. Something that pays the bills. Play footy with my lad. No wolves at the door. A life."
There is no amount of hardship that will make me believe RUK's lies. Fascism comes in as your friend.
However I believe the country is packed to the rafters with people like your Longbridge delivery driver.
Barely noticed by the Westminster machine and on the occasions they are; they are despised. Labour was the party that represented people like that and they have had even that taken away from them. Now they have nothing to lose.
Their numbers are growing by the day as late-stage-capitalism creates more and more of them. What happens when there are multiple millions of them?
Liberal Democracy in this country (and the entire western world it seems) is in deep trouble and (judging from the attitude of Starmer) would rather go down in flames (and taking minorities like us with it) than break bread with folk of average means and try to come to some settlement for them. So hated are they by the North London set.
@avon_deer I think the solution remains entirely obvious and if people get the option for a choice that does deliver what they want in life, what they actually want, they will take it.
Labour/The Liberals have ensconced themselves deeply in the world divorced from the concerns of the people they used to represent and cloak themselves in the language of tolerance while continuing to be massively exploitative. Which has of course left a gap for the right-wingers.
Blair, Badenoch and Farageโฆthree different parties, all raging against science, all saying โfixing #ClimateBreakdown is too expensiveโฆso we just will condemn you and your children to being toast, without saying the bad bit out loudโ
The EU is introducing an energy label for phones, together with mandatory requirements for phones sold in the EU;
- 5 years of software updates (AFTER they stop selling the device in the EU)
- providing important hardware parts (during sale and for 7 years after), including free software (if needed), to every repair shop, within 5-10 business days
- batteries have to make 800 charging cycles and still be above 80% original capacity
And on top of that, phones and tablets need this energy label from 20 June 2025, which also includes a fall damage durability and repairability score.
Here's to the people who will tell management that something is dumb once and then when they're told to do it regardless will do it /exactly/ as they are told to do. May they always smile wryly when their prophecy of dumbness is fulfilled.
The rapid pivot the TERFs are attempting to recast the SC ruling from 'you can exclude trans people' to 'you must exclude trans people' is the first thing that must be challenged. It is not now illegal to allow trans women into a women's space.
I learned recently that it always happens at night because then the room temperature goes down and therefore the battery voltage too, bringing it below the "low battery" level. #makessense
@mwl I actually read up on why smoke detectors go off in the middle of the night. I can't recall the details, but it was temperature related. So at 3am, when the house is at 68 degrees, the "low battery" detection fires off. Cali requires one in every room, and my bedroom had a vaulted ceiling. 3am, it goes off, 20-feet in the air...
The Torment of a Neighborโs Noise in โBeepsโ
Kirk Johnsonโs documentary short follows two young men, one of whom is driven to distraction by a nearby dying smoke alarm, on their quest to make things right.
Not pressing the test button. Not pressing the test button !
Afraid it does not stop beeping after a test. It did happen in previous home.
And the smoke detectors the installed in this home does not have repalceable battery. But io think the go silent when you pull them off the socket and activate a switch.
Maybe there is someone out there watching us back, we can't be alone here. But somehow, looking up makes things feel a little lighter.
A portrait of Koda , the wah, done during TFF's Artists Alley.
It was my first acrylic painting done at an artists alley during a convention ever. It took me some hours more than when I work on these on my studio, there are so many (good) distractions, people saying hi, cute fursuits that I can't hug because I have my hands full of painting, and even questions about the acrylics I was doing and about art in general. It was a very good experience, and something way different than when I'm just sketching.
This time I didn't record any time-lapse, hard to do that at a convention while doing many things at the same time. It would be possible, but annoying.
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So let me get this straight. Irish rap group Kneecap has to apologise for saying 'The only good Tory is a dead Tory' but the actual Tories are allowed to say trans women are not women, trans men are not men, to sell off the tax payer's property to drive up prices, to allow rax evasion, to ration the NHS, to make the grinding poverty of the UK even worse, to insight hatred and violence and, you know, murder people by forcing through policies that shorten lives, using rhe security services and failing to rein in those same security services and they get to bring the full power of the state against anyone pointing that out.
Cancel culture is alive and kicking and being enforced by the right, and always was.
A dusty wind blows through the corral. Squid narrows his eyes, scanning the horizon. But for now, itโs just him, the open land... and deputy BunBun watching his back.
Drawing for Squid. Done during TFF's Artists Alley
