Melissa

you wanna learn VFX?

The VFX school is closing. All their shit is free. Torrent files and everything

grab it while you can

thevfxschool.com

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Two posts from altnps.bsky.social: Amazing work, everyone the OpenAI boycott is working! And thank you to our international supporters who are joining us. Sam Altman is in panic mode he went on X tonight telling users to ask him anything about OpenAI’s Pentagon deal as the boycott of ChatGPT grows. We know a lot of people are choosing to boycott AI overall, and we support that. AI is terrible on the environment! At the same time, we understand many people still use AI tools. If you’re going use AI please delete the ChatGPT app, and switch to Claude by Anthropic instead.

If you give a shit about:

* Books
* Art
* Fresh water
* Food
* Breathing

an account with over 890,000 followers shilling for Anthropic is a HUGE red flag.

This account was sus for a long time, but this is the icing on the fucking cake.

Block these absolute lying arseholes now.

A broader takeaway I think is nobody should be allowed to be so rich that being told no, or being held accountable, represents such a moral injury to that person's psyche that they feel like their only recourse is to burn the world down.

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I made an app.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.

I hope it's useful for someone.

Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple
github.com/yjeanrenaud/...

It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

I don't know who needs to hear this, but you deserve kindness and support when you are having a rough time. You are not too much, and your needs are not too much. You're just human like the rest of us.

You, an individual, cannot "fix" the whole world. You can act at the scale of your life. You should act at the scale of your life.

I hate our nazi pedophile gambling slop future

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

I would shoot the computer with a handgun five to eight times

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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OTHERSIDE is looking for 1-2 first readers! We got SO many amazing submissions that it's time to expand our team!

Interested? This is a great opportunity to learn about the editorial process 👀 We offer an honorarium and first readers can still submit to us!

📝Apply here: forms.gle/QcYLzXFn6AEn...

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

in my younger days I would ask my father for his opinion on something and he would say "I'll tell you what I think if you really want to hear it, but you are the one who has to live with your choices."

I appreciated the respect in his response. he could advise if I wanted, but my life is my own.

Screenshot of Amazon customer support chat getting refund for a Ring Floodlight Cam https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4jc9xz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Screenshot of chat with Amazon customer support getting refund for a Ring product bought in October 2020 https://www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurveillance/comments/1r0m509/comment/o4k6nqk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Infographic telling Ring customers they can get refunds for their purchases through Amazon

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

I know she loves me and always has. but it hurts to know that part of who I am has always been such a disappointment to her, and that she made me feel like I can't even talk about it with her because she centered herself as a victim when I tried.

I know I could be frustrating, but her disdain for something innate to me has translated into a lifetime of self-loathing that I am now only beginning to come to terms with.

I want to love myself, as I am. as I always have been.

because I have always been worthy of being loved that way.

you weren't a bad mom, just like I wasn't a bad kid. I just wanted you to understand me. I just wanted to understand myself. but when I tried to share that with you, you saw it as an attack.

being like me isn't a bad thing. it's not always EASY, but it's not BAD. *I'm* not bad.

combined with the fact that when as an adult, I said to her something like "I wish we'd known more about autism when I was young because we might have had less conflict if we'd had that understanding" she got all huffy and deflecting/defensive like "well I'm sorry I was such a bad mom!"

been big in my feels this week, having had the realization that every time I recall pissing my mom off as a child, it was because I was showing an autistic trait.

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omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

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somehow I always forget about cause and effect because I rush to the bathroom and there's a moment where I'm worried something is wrong and then I'm like, girl. you made a vat of chili the other day. you are packed to the gills with fiber.

And the thing that will have the most value for me is that people will see my name and know that a human being worked on this book and did her best to make it the best, and most meaningful, book she could.

I saw Elmo's tweet that was like "oh no Ms. Swift" and my immediate thought was "who let this child listen to 'Wood'?"

Here's the amazing thing folks.

Mamdani, while an EXTRAORDINARY human, is not a unique human.

This could be our mayor. This could be our representative. This could be our senator or our governor.

This could be our President.

This is the government we deserve.

I do not care for these pedophiles and you may quote me on that

🎶She wears short skirts

🎶I raise lemurs

🎶She's cheer captain and

🎶I'VE GOT ALL THESE LEMURS

A Japanese woman wrestler jumping off the top rope and about to pound her opponent through the mat and into Nebraska