This is the Davest I have ever been
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Retired and loving it. Gaming as much as possible.
"What I cannot love, I overlook." --Anais Nin
"What I cannot love, I overlook." --Anais Nin
The perfect quote for Hogswatch day. I'm only sorry I wasn't home to repost it.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The perfect quote for Hogswatch day. I'm only sorry I wasn't home to repost it.
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line.
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
JUST IN: This morning, hundreds of baristas have joined our national ULP strike.
☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause.
Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee
☕ The solidarity is strong: For every one barista on strike, dozens more allies have shown up in force to back our cause.
Our strike continues to grow in strength and power! #NoContractNoCoffee
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line.
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!
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I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
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I wrote this earlier this year and I still hope it can be of use! www.eater.com/24364171/ice...
December 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I wrote this earlier this year and I still hope it can be of use! www.eater.com/24364171/ice...
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
WTF were McLaren thinking?
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
WTF were McLaren thinking?
End of an era. www.avclub.com/dr-demento-f...
Dr. Demento ends 55-year run as radio's weirdest DJ
Dr. Demento ends 55-year run as radio's weirdest DJ
www.avclub.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
End of an era. www.avclub.com/dr-demento-f...
(It's a joke, I swear.) Well, I'm sorry Bengals fans, but Ja'Marr Chase will be injured most of this season. I know this because I have randomly been chosen to draft first in my fantasy football league.
August 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
(It's a joke, I swear.) Well, I'm sorry Bengals fans, but Ja'Marr Chase will be injured most of this season. I know this because I have randomly been chosen to draft first in my fantasy football league.
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Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
December 17, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;
2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;
3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.
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The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
🔗 www.404media.co/steam-itchio...
🔗 www.404media.co/steam-itchio...
The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.
www.404media.co
August 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
🔗 www.404media.co/steam-itchio...
🔗 www.404media.co/steam-itchio...
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This is going around for some reason, just gonna point out that many studies have been done about porn addiction, held by researchers who believed in porn addiction, only to find that porn addiction is not real and never was. Turns out it was religion.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...
July 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This is going around for some reason, just gonna point out that many studies have been done about porn addiction, held by researchers who believed in porn addiction, only to find that porn addiction is not real and never was. Turns out it was religion.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...
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Based on my personal experience in martial arts, I believe that sports communities that welcome trans women and girls end up being more welcoming and beneficial for all sorts of women. I wish more people stopped focusing on what we could ostensibly loose through inclusion when we gain so much.
July 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Based on my personal experience in martial arts, I believe that sports communities that welcome trans women and girls end up being more welcoming and beneficial for all sorts of women. I wish more people stopped focusing on what we could ostensibly loose through inclusion when we gain so much.
I made some changes as a consumer (and former MC customer) instead of an artist, but this is a good start.
Here's a contact form for Mastercard: b2b.mastercard.com/contact-us/ (h/t to @kaizeal.aquakatpublishing.com).
Feel free to use what I wrote (just copy the alt text). I know it can be a struggle to write this kind of message, so I hope this makes it easier for folks to voice their concerns.
Feel free to use what I wrote (just copy the alt text). I know it can be a struggle to write this kind of message, so I hope this makes it easier for folks to voice their concerns.
![Hello!
I am writing to you concerning the recent policy changes regarding transactions that involve (completely legal) sexually explicit material.
As someone selling artistic work through various platforms, I rely on customers being able to freely choose how to pay for the work I offer. Part of that is payment processors being both transparent with their guidelines AND as hands-off as possible when it comes to what people actually pay for. I believe that, as long as everything in the process is legal for all parties involved, a payment processor should not arbitrarily restrict what kind of goods and services can be purchased by their customers. This both causes confusion and hampers business operations in a variety of industries around the world.
In the interest of allowing businesses who fully adhere to the law to operate smoothly, and to ensure a good customer experience, I urge you to reverse these policy changes, and in the future refrain from trying to restrict perfectly legal industries and businesses in this manner.
Mastercard has a long-standing reputation for reliable service; being this disruptive in the face of a tiny minority with an entirely unreasonable bone to pick simply cannot be in the company's best interest.
Regards,
[Name]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mettfa2mt3iuujx4qtamul5x/bafkreigwdjzl55zo6adfoekwggf7qw252ng6uttxvdmdyexxhqhb7qj4fq@jpeg)
July 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I made some changes as a consumer (and former MC customer) instead of an artist, but this is a good start.
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education standards in Canada and the USA have been enshittified for decades. I don't think people really know how to research beyond typing whatever in Google and they don't know how to examine the results
and they fight for their lives when i say "chatbots are not good for research, oh my god"
and they fight for their lives when i say "chatbots are not good for research, oh my god"
ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.
AI was trained on my books (without my permission and against my will) so this annoys me. I never use AI. Not for research, not for images, not for writing. AI used me.
June 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
education standards in Canada and the USA have been enshittified for decades. I don't think people really know how to research beyond typing whatever in Google and they don't know how to examine the results
and they fight for their lives when i say "chatbots are not good for research, oh my god"
and they fight for their lives when i say "chatbots are not good for research, oh my god"
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Discworld QOTD, from Making Money
June 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Making Money
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If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year.
Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally.
I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data.
Share widely.
Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally.
I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data.
Share widely.
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trevorredcap.trvr.org
June 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If anyone you know is 13-24, in the US, and is LGBTQ+, please have them complete the Trevor Project survey this year.
Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally.
I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data.
Share widely.
Their last survey has been integral to protecting LGBTQ+ rights globally.
I can't understate how big an impact it has. Multiple publications come from the data.
Share widely.
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He is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.
President Trump’s immigration crackdown reached influencer level last week when Khaby Lame, the world’s most-followed person on TikTok, was detained by U.S. immigration agents in Las Vegas and then left the U.S. nyti.ms/44bwoac
June 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
He is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.
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Despite CDC’s recent update, ACOG continues to strongly recommend COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy in any trimester and during lactation. The vaccine is safe, effective, and protects parents and infants, especially in the first six months of the infant’s life. Learn more: bit.ly/3RWsM3z
June 6, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Despite CDC’s recent update, ACOG continues to strongly recommend COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy in any trimester and during lactation. The vaccine is safe, effective, and protects parents and infants, especially in the first six months of the infant’s life. Learn more: bit.ly/3RWsM3z
I was fortunate enough to purchase the DVD during the short time it was available, so I have watched Dogma many times. It is one of my favorites, and I could not resist the chance to see it on the big screen. Still wonderful!
June 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I was fortunate enough to purchase the DVD during the short time it was available, so I have watched Dogma many times. It is one of my favorites, and I could not resist the chance to see it on the big screen. Still wonderful!
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Republicans are lying about Medicaid work requirements. The truth is that a vast majority of recipients who can work are already working. Work requirements are just a shady way to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
June 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Republicans are lying about Medicaid work requirements. The truth is that a vast majority of recipients who can work are already working. Work requirements are just a shady way to fund tax cuts for the wealthy.
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(It probably goes without saying, but the Utah state legislature's response has been to repeat "the science isn't there" like if they do it enough it will become true.)
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
www.sltrib.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
(It probably goes without saying, but the Utah state legislature's response has been to repeat "the science isn't there" like if they do it enough it will become true.)
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ICYMI, via @parkermolloy.com: Utah legislators commissioned a study to justify their ban on gender-affirming care for trans kids.
It came back last week, and it turns out the science shows gender-affirming care is GOOD for trans kids.
And crickets from the media.
It came back last week, and it turns out the science shows gender-affirming care is GOOD for trans kids.
And crickets from the media.
The Study Republicans Demanded About Trans Kids Just Backfired. Guess What the Media Isn't Covering?
Utah commissioned actual experts to review the science on gender-affirming care. The results? Inconvenient truths that don't fit the narrative.
www.readtpa.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
ICYMI, via @parkermolloy.com: Utah legislators commissioned a study to justify their ban on gender-affirming care for trans kids.
It came back last week, and it turns out the science shows gender-affirming care is GOOD for trans kids.
And crickets from the media.
It came back last week, and it turns out the science shows gender-affirming care is GOOD for trans kids.
And crickets from the media.
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I must not quote dunk. quote dunking is the mind-killer. Quote dunking is the promotion bad take havers want. I will block the take haver. I will permit it to disappear. And when it has gone I will turn no eye to see its path. Where the quote dunk would be there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
June 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I must not quote dunk. quote dunking is the mind-killer. Quote dunking is the promotion bad take havers want. I will block the take haver. I will permit it to disappear. And when it has gone I will turn no eye to see its path. Where the quote dunk would be there will be nothing. Only I will remain.