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writing a real bummer of an author newsletter about the implosion of itchio

so I'm sticking a chapter of my novel draft in there to make it more fun. romance! spies! sci-fi drugs! (though not in this excerpt)

feliciadavin.com + "subscribe," if this is of interest!




A quick little relax

{As I sink into the lounge}

Hugz & xXx



in reply to kali

Like a salaried government employee will be an honest watchdog against trillions of dollars made from holes on the ground.

Like the EPA run after peoples' outboards and lawn mowers while rivers turned red, the atmosphere yellow, drinking water purple, and lakes boiling ammonia

Or the work safety watchdog who made appointments in advance to come and inspect a workplace, creating a frenzy of digging out helmets, goggles, eye-baths, and

@kaliagainstallodds

FUCK #500characterlimit #mastodon




Mastodonen norbaitek 1K jarraitzaile baditu, 1000 jarraitzaile esan nahi du?




I need someone to explain to me, like I am 5 yo, how the intentional starvation of people including children, it’s self defense.

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in reply to Schneewittchen

It's simple: if you kill them when they're young they can't grow up to be a threat. It's morally bankrupt but rational if you are a fascist.


The Mighty Nein Amazon show will breathe new life into Critical Role’s clunkiest romance polygon.com/critical-role/6171…


europesays.com/2286062/ Nochmal meine Aubergine… #Garten


This is a really interesting use of an LLM. I’ve used it before for learning, but the training wheels are very helpful fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/…


OpenAI launched a "study mode" for ChatGPT today, and it appears to be almost entirely implemented as a system prompt

Thankfully OpenAI mostly don't take measures to protect their system prompt these days so it's easy to extract it and see how it works simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/…




#OnThisDay in 1923, #JimMarshall, British businessman and electric guitar amplifier pioneer known as "The Father of Loud", born in Acton, West London, England (d. 2012).
#RIP 🕯️


I have a suggestion what if we stop using #AI for everything and then maybe we won't have to spend so much energy and water using AI to predict the impacts of all the energy and water AI is using Just spitballing nanoschool.in/ai-courses/a...
#ai

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alojapan.com/1333763/qudan-rie… Qudan Rie: The “Sympathy Tower Tokyo” Author on Language and Rhythm #AkutagawaPrize #books #literature #MishimaYukio #news #novels #Tokyo #TokyoNews #Translation #東京 #東京都 After winning the Akutagawa Prize in January 2024 for Sympathy Tower Tokyo, author Qudan Rie drew publicity with a comment that she had used generative AI to write parts of the story. With an English translation forthcoming, we met the author to learn more about the backgrou


50 Avant Garde And Experimental Films Gallery: From ‘Meshes Of The Afternoon’, ‘The Holy Mountain’, ‘Scorpio Rising’ To ‘The Lighthouse’ & More
https://deadline.com/gallery/50-avant-garde-and-experimental-films-gallery-from-meshes-of-the-afternoon-the-holy-mountain-scorpio-rising-to-the-lighthouse/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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India Tariff Rate Not Finalised, May Pay 20–25%, Says Donald Trump ndtvprofit.com/economy-finance…
in reply to Ned Hamson

Why do news outlets repeat nonsense like "The country may pay tariffs in the range of 20% to 25%'"? India will pay nothing; the Americans who buy their products will pay. #TrumpLies

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in reply to Bruce Mirken

@BruceMirken Press currying favor with Trump by not calling tariffs taxes - weak knee press afraid to print facts.
in reply to Bruce Mirken

@BruceMirken The tariffs are an additional tax burden on working class Americans. I don’t understand how the mental gymnastics that the MAGAts use to think otherwise.


EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has signed Europe up to a humiliating, unequal trade deal with the United States. The terms dictated by Donald Trump reflect Europe’s vassal status as an increasingly junior partner to US empire

jacobin.com/2025/07/europe-dep…

in reply to Michael

This &^%$)(& comet of a bureaucrat has received 0 votes in her entire life to represent a single European. She was propped up by conservative German industrialists and bankers to decide for "Europeans"

This reflects on how "democratic" EU has become under the 4th Reich of Deutche Bank where one non-politician decides for hundreds of millions of zombies.

Keep quiet and take it zombies .while supplying arms to the most vicious fascists' regimes engaged in ethnic cleansing

@therightarticle

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alojapan.com/1333761/video-hig… VIDEO: High-end ‘ginbura’ window-shopping in Tokyo’s Ginza District #Ginza #GinzaClocktower #GinzaFashion #GinzaGodzilla #GinzaShopping #GinzaSightseeing #GinzaTravel #GinzaTrip #Tokyo #TokyoGinza #TokyoTopics #東京 #東京都 The Ginza4-chome intersection. (Photo by Takahiro Takiguchi) In Tokyo, Ginza District is one of the centers for luxury shopping, fine dining and entertainment. This fashion and high-end shopping district draws crowds looking to



‘The man is a genuine perv!' James Carville unleashes profane takedown of Trump twp.ai/E6AS7B






Wrote about the DOJ's investigation into the faculty at George Mason for daring to... support their President after a series of bogus DOJ investigations into him and the school. And I wonder where all the "but mah academic freedom" people are, noting that Bari Weiss's Free Press is silent...
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:l4edf…

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“It’s shocking”; Massive raw milk outbreak from 2023 finally reported
The outbreak occurred in 2023–2024, but little information had been shared about it.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/07…

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in reply to Ars Technica

"The report describes the outbreak as 'one of the largest foodborne outbreaks linked to raw milk in recent US history.' " Gee it's almost as if something has changed in the last few years. #misinformation #antiScience


Pilot surprises grandmother with sweetest surprise
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/video/pilot-surprises-grandmother-sweetest-surprise-124184400?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-abc

@News


#fabulamurina (mouse story) 452
Silvius litus scopulosum explorat (Silvius is exploring a rocky beach). reticulum per aquam lacunae inter saxa verrit (He sweeps his net through the water of a rock pool). hodie algam et littorinas invenit (Today he finds seaweed and periwinkles).
in reply to Minimus

Yum - ask Minima if seaweed soup is on the menu, Silvius! You’ll be a miso musculus!

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@inpc youtu.be/wwOipTXvNNo?si=9Uppp9…
@inpc



Imagine speaking of girls this way. Just mere objects to be counted among his "inventory".

crooksandliars.com/2025/07/he-…