RT @CREWcrew@twitter.com
So the IRS commissioner who didn't audit Trump and didn't release his tax returns was also making hundreds of thousands of dollars off Trump branded properties… https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/charles-rettig-trump-properties/
fediblock, unconsenting content aggregator
#fediblock: mastinator.com
Grabs all your content and reposts under an account you don't own but has your name.
Also block the creator: boyter.org
From a conversation he had it's clear he doesn't understand consent nor wants to learn: https://mastodon.ar.al/@boyter@honk.boyter.org/109585176247292040
botfeels
"but you won't have sensations and feelings like you would in a human body. things like pain and lust will register as data that you can ignore instead of reacting to organically."
"yeah, if you could liquefy that idea and hook it directly to my veins, that would be super."
GIVE ME DATA instead of raw impulses and neurons misfiring. i will build emulators to keep me on the right side of reason and dump the rest as extraneous.
you have no idea how tired i am of pain. i developed a whole philosophy about accepting pain as a means of viewing the universe in a mystical way for a fictional character of mine, and tried mightily to apply it to my personal situation as a means of dealing, and failed hard after about five minutes. why? because pain HURTS.
give me steel give me steel, give me pulses unreal...
The folks of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are in real trouble. We can help.
Friends Of Pine Ridge and First Families Now are providing supplies and heating to the affected families.
If you can afford it, you can donate here:
https://www.1stfamiliesnow.org/donate
And for everyone who boosts this post, I'll add another dollar to my next donation. So, uh, go wild.
This year:
Nobody freezes.
Nobody starves.
Nobody goes it alone.
I feel like we are at this point in history as species where we can't advance technologically if we don't eliminate discrimination or inequality or systemic violence beforehand.
why? because then the technology will be abused by those in power enough to create a dystopian society where any rebellion or attempts to equalize the people are minimized
RT @ninaturner@twitter.com
Read this headline out loud to your family this holiday season 👀
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ninaturner/status/1607150133753389057
Transformer going to moon
Japan got takara-tomy to make them a little robot.
In case the photo bombing Unicron wasn't enough of a hint, these are the folks who make transformers.
Reminder that if you're feeling lonely today, see this hashtag:
➡️ #JoinIn
There are lots of people (myself included) keeping each other company on there, with all kinds of posts from hot chocolate recipes to historical photos to horses covered in tinsel to just general thoughts and chatter.
You can use the hashtag however you want, serious or fun, and anyone using the tag is welcoming of replies and discussion so it's a great way of striking up a conversation.
See you there! ☃️
Julie rambles truth and reality about getting older, and how to cope with it.
Here's what I know. (I turn 50 this coming year)
About mid 40s, you will start to learn that naps are AMAZING. You will get tired and worn out far more freqvently, and your ability to overclock your body through caffeine and other stimulants will fade. Your body will start rejecting foods that were always your favorites about 47 with no explanation (your body can no longer process the toxins and excesses like it once could). You will start having health reprocussions from your life's choices soon afterwards. These are tolerable and manageable once you figure out what they are, but it will be terrifying in the interim. You will need to make life changes that will be very scary at first, but will become normal.
You will have regrets over what you can no longer do that you thought you'd always have time for. Your mind and eyes will get a little sluggish..., nothing major, but you will be confused by new things and it will take a lot more effort to try to learn new things.
It will be in your best interest to remember that your mental state does not actually age at the same rate as your body, and you can remain a 10-yr old in your mind for as long as you want/need, but you will have to accept that your body is aging. It is not the end of the world, but while you are still dealing with the changes, it will be difficult.
You are not going to die in your sleep, but those thoughts will echo in your thoughts as you try to sleep and are scared about why your heart is sounding... off. It takes time to get used to the changes. But, this is what happens... and it happens to everyone.
Change is scary... but it is inevitable. Learning early that change is a constant will help. Accepting that takes time. Again, EVERYONE goes through this, at that age.
You have time. ENJOY that time. Enjoy your youth while it's there. 30 is still youth to the 50-yr old. Your earlier years, no matter the age, will always be your "youth" that you will long for, in your older years.
ENJOY your age. Live while you are fully able to. Your body can still recover from bad decisions.
There will be time to be old, later.
Keep your mind as that of a 10-yr old. It will keep your mind maleable. Old-age really only sets in when you can no longer adapt to the changes that the world will keep tossing at you. As long as you are mentally young, you will never be an old fart that says the hell with the world and has no interest in it being there for the younger kids that WILL be growing up in it. Don't EVER be the person that stops new kids from growing up safe, sane, and happy. Don't EVER take the prospects of hope for the world away from them.
You will exist after the concept of immortality of youth fades. As long as you remember that the world will outlive you, and to keep it existing for the coming generations... then you've lived a good life.
So, enjoy it while you can. Live all you can, while you can, before your body gets old... and once it does, keep living, just to spite getting older.
That is what I know.
a quiet pre-xmas afternoon, putting together a classic Space Lego set and watching a thematically-appropriate #MST3K.
TMKF (THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS) 9000
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