Upthorn
@etherealupthorn.bsky.social
a person, maybe?
Will occasionally repost NSFW
Will occasionally repost NSFW
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GOD.
Did you listen to anything memorable over the past year?
-> You did? Then why do you need the computer to tell you that you did?
-> You didn't? Then why do you spend so much time listening to music on a service that gives you no memorable music?
Did you listen to anything memorable over the past year?
-> You did? Then why do you need the computer to tell you that you did?
-> You didn't? Then why do you spend so much time listening to music on a service that gives you no memorable music?
becoming one of those irritating "get off twitter" guys but for spotify wrapped
December 5, 2025 at 8:34 AM
GOD.
Did you listen to anything memorable over the past year?
-> You did? Then why do you need the computer to tell you that you did?
-> You didn't? Then why do you spend so much time listening to music on a service that gives you no memorable music?
Did you listen to anything memorable over the past year?
-> You did? Then why do you need the computer to tell you that you did?
-> You didn't? Then why do you spend so much time listening to music on a service that gives you no memorable music?
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Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Men don’t have to “pretend to be women” to enter women’s locker rooms, changing rooms, and bathrooms. Famously, Donald Trump just strolled right in
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Relax. Flu is *checks notes* just a flu.
Or, you know, clean the air FFS and stop minimizing infectious diseases.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Or, you know, clean the air FFS and stop minimizing infectious diseases.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Children’s hospitals face flood of flu visits as physicians urge Canadian families to get vaccinated | CBC News
An early start to Canada’s flu season is hitting children hard, sending a flood of young patients into multiple pediatric hospitals as medical teams warn that emergency visits and admissions could kee...
www.cbc.ca
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Relax. Flu is *checks notes* just a flu.
Or, you know, clean the air FFS and stop minimizing infectious diseases.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Or, you know, clean the air FFS and stop minimizing infectious diseases.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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this is easily the most fucked up thing i've read all day this rules
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
this is easily the most fucked up thing i've read all day this rules
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Control (2019)
I was masking a house out of a photo for an edit and accidentally made an ontologically evil image
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Control (2019)
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What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
America’s plan to protect pedestrians failed. A young woman’s death reveals why.
U.S. officials adopted Europe's Vision Zero initiative, but many cities have seen an increase in pedestrian fatalities despite efforts to improve road safety.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...
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The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
December 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
The coup was over in hours because people said no.
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rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
Kennedy’s Methodical 2-Decade Quest to Dismantle Vaccine Policy
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.
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Patreon Policy Team emailed creators saying they'll host a livestream clarifying existing 18+ guidelines on DEC 11.
If you're a creator please show up!
You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.
If you're a creator please show up!
You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Patreon Policy Team emailed creators saying they'll host a livestream clarifying existing 18+ guidelines on DEC 11.
If you're a creator please show up!
You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.
If you're a creator please show up!
You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.
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congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was federally indicted after an anti-ICE protest, is taking a unique approach to fundraising for both her campaign and legal battle: twitch streaming. so far, it's working
![Buerk said that Abughazaleh’s donors were the kinds of people who’d kick in hundreds of dollars, not thousands, and as a result, call time was not exactly pulling in money hand over fist.
“In the best of times, we would get $600 an hour [from call time],” she said. “The stream has obviously crushed that. Today we raised $12,000."
The FNAF stream lasted two hours and, thanks to a simple offer of a sticker featuring Abughazaleh’s cat for anyone who donated $10 or more, performed as well as 20 hours of call time. Even during lower-yield streams – the floor, so far, has proven to be $2,000 during a single broadcast – that’s still far preferable a fraction of the money for double, triple, or quadruple the work.
"Kat is busy at events,” said Buerk. “Kat is dealing with a lot of really insane, horrible things. She doesn't have time to be calling people and trying to convince them to donate for 40 hours a week."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreiev5vfq6o36yivaj74yzc63ehlec7zee7jznl2x6sim463fxfg46y@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 PM
congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was federally indicted after an anti-ICE protest, is taking a unique approach to fundraising for both her campaign and legal battle: twitch streaming. so far, it's working
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zionist ceasefire = You cease, i fire
🔴 Breaking: At least six people were killed after Israeli forces bombed tents sheltering displaced families in western Khan Younis, in the Mawasi area along the coast.
(Footage is from Gaza journalist Mahmoud Bassam)
(Footage is from Gaza journalist Mahmoud Bassam)
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
zionist ceasefire = You cease, i fire
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Someone finally tied it all together.
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Someone finally tied it all together.
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Vaguely improved(?) that for you
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Vaguely improved(?) that for you
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Boosting this again, Jean's legit & is one of the few academics who's been doing very important, very savvy research work on porn & porn games. Definitely make the time for this!
We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Boosting this again, Jean's legit & is one of the few academics who's been doing very important, very savvy research work on porn & porn games. Definitely make the time for this!
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Everyone is vulnerable to believing that their expertise - writing, tech, engineering, philosophy, whatever - is The Most Important One that’s going to Fix Everything, but there’s something unique about gambling addicts saying “what if we tried gambling our way to the truth?”
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Everyone is vulnerable to believing that their expertise - writing, tech, engineering, philosophy, whatever - is The Most Important One that’s going to Fix Everything, but there’s something unique about gambling addicts saying “what if we tried gambling our way to the truth?”
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this is unbelievable. i have cancelled my subscription and you should too until they fix this. it's not worth letting this seep further into media
Please tag me if you see any anime that appears to plainly be using AI transcriptions for closed captions. That's CLOSED CAPTIONS (SDH) for ENGLISH DUBS, not subtitles for Japanese audio. I wanna publicly keep track of some of these and start holding platforms accountable.
December 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
this is unbelievable. i have cancelled my subscription and you should too until they fix this. it's not worth letting this seep further into media
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Existing disability services are deeply underfunded, aggressively audited, means-tested constantly, and can be labyrinthine to even access or maintain without assistance. As someone who spent two decades as a cog in that system, concerns about fraud are overblown compared to the real existing need.
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Existing disability services are deeply underfunded, aggressively audited, means-tested constantly, and can be labyrinthine to even access or maintain without assistance. As someone who spent two decades as a cog in that system, concerns about fraud are overblown compared to the real existing need.
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AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches […]
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infosec.exchange
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches […]
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Basically it's gone from under $400 to commercially license a font for a game, to a subscription model that's $20,500 a year lmfao.
No other options, no other recourse beyond "hope they change their minds I guess, this sucks!".
Monotype can go to hell lol they've always been like this.
No other options, no other recourse beyond "hope they change their minds I guess, this sucks!".
Monotype can go to hell lol they've always been like this.
automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...
Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
Wild story, a font service was bought out by a US company and now they are absolutely dogshit and it'll particularly heavily affect JP games, especially service titles.
December 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Basically it's gone from under $400 to commercially license a font for a game, to a subscription model that's $20,500 a year lmfao.
No other options, no other recourse beyond "hope they change their minds I guess, this sucks!".
Monotype can go to hell lol they've always been like this.
No other options, no other recourse beyond "hope they change their minds I guess, this sucks!".
Monotype can go to hell lol they've always been like this.
I feel like there's a multimillion dollar opportunity here for someone who can write software to simplify the creation process for Chinese/Japanese fonts.
Monotype (evil) bought Fontworks (used by basically every Japanese video game you've ever played with romanized typefaces) and Enshittification is Occurring, as you may well expect.
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I feel like there's a multimillion dollar opportunity here for someone who can write software to simplify the creation process for Chinese/Japanese fonts.
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It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
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An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
December 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
An easy way to explain luddites:
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand.
And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before.
That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.
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Plutocrats used to build public works as part of an implicit understanding that there is a thin fucking line between your bullshit and a public execution. The dismantling of those works is acknowledgement that the compromise is null and void. Now they live in terror, divorced from the world.
December 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Plutocrats used to build public works as part of an implicit understanding that there is a thin fucking line between your bullshit and a public execution. The dismantling of those works is acknowledgement that the compromise is null and void. Now they live in terror, divorced from the world.