She’s Best Friends With Wordsmith Because She Loves Fiction And He Can Make The Worlds She Reads Come

What to say when a stranger asks about your cane in an uncomfortable way:

Most recently used: “It’s for emotional support”

Immortality is hard on the knees

I’m a professional pole vaulter

(Look side to side conspiratorially) …you can see it too?

I keep my quarters for the car wash in here

Huh? Sorry I didn’t catch that? Sorry what? (Make them repeat it until they get loud and/or embarrassed)

You should see the other guy

Do you wanna guess?

I drank raw milk once

Nothin’ gets past this guy! (loudly, pointing)

It’s actually for fitness, like ankle weights

Mmmm I just like the fact that I’m disabled is way more interesting to strangers than anything else about me

It’s a very rare pez dispenser

Wow!

I’m never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm

Walking? In this economy? Psh!

Essential oils go in it

For shits, giggles and a debilitating neurological condition

My no-good-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather forgot to carry madam zironi up the mountain

Cane?

It’s how I sneak snacks into movie theatres

Well it’s not for walking

(Croaky voice) I’Ve wAiTed 400 yEars for sOmEoNe to aSk mE thAt QUesTion

Finally someone noticed!

Thirst trap

Have you heard of Benjamin button syndrome

To hit small children!

I’m donating my leg to science

I’m going to be Tiny Tim this Christmas, you know, from the musical

To humble me

I mastered walking and thought I’d like a challenge

I keep rolled up $2 bills in here (whisper) …I don’t trust The banks

It’s sexy and cool

You tell me ;) no really, what’s your best guess? (wait for ittttt…. Boom now they are uncomfortable too)

Religious reasons

Then the last one on my notebook page is just a drawing of those 2 dogs from the ‘y’all got legs’ animation in sunglasses and “I got legs”

So there you go

Ars Technica

New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."

I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.

So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.

Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.

This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.

Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.

And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.

Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.

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“who is linkin park?” - one shot KO by my younger coworker

I'm sorry, but I cannot and will not stop until every video game man has been babygirled and blorbified beyond recognition. This is my mission. Everything else comes second

the ancients: no you can't do that

the shaman-empress: don't worry, i have a permit

one of many little details from SAD-ist's "Hog Hunt"

TW: blood, injury, mild gore

One of the many details I noticed from SAD-ist's animation:

Techno, as he's regenerating from the Totem of Undying, jumps out of the cage. But, he's still coming back together, and his arm is still re-forming-- it re-forms around the bars.

So he has to tear his arm out.

He then falls to the ground, the screen blurring to indicate pain, most likely.

But it refocuses and he stands up when he sees Carl with Dream.

This bit of the animation takes up only a few seconds but it's so incredibly detailed I had to share--

I never thought Slime Rancher would give me feelings but Viktor Humphries is definitely autistic and I love him.

now that trump has tiktok, twitter, facebook and insta in his pocket, get ready for a massive wave of internet censorship. one of trump's greatest weapons has always been misinformation; it's going to become harder and harder to spread facts and criticism going forward. posts that aren't made invisible will be magically ignored by the algorithm. dissidents will have their accounts deleted and voices erased.

this is a suppression tactic. this is another stage of fascism.

man, DiMA hating the Institute for how they treated him and Nick, and the Institute's treatment of synths in general. Him genuinely trying to make the world better not just for synths but for everyone. But then his entire frame of reference of problem solving is so very Institute in the worst ways. And this is so at odds with who he wants to be that he purges the memories of his crimes and never learns from his mistakes. <3