Ft. Rommy the Poster Welcome to the Next Level In 32X World

still a bit before I have a chance to get my full speaker setup, er, set up, but our little bluetooth speakers can take a line in so it's a nice way to give some records a spin in the meanwhile

The dog now has 3 blankets just for him

That looks amazing. Do you have a recipe you can share?

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

aryel: is there anything in theaters?
me: i'd like to go see Pillion
aryel [looking it up]: why do you always want to see these movies that aren't about anything

guess that's going on the "watch at home" pile!

Alex'sasianmoviereviews could never lead me astray

there's a non-zero amount of "thick white women who then lose weight and immediately become problematic" and i wonder what's going on there, or if i'm just extrapolating off of like 3 examples

Trans Movie Night Program Us of All People (2024) dir. Amilyn Alma Jones [10 mins] The Estrogen Gospel (2024) dir. Robyn Adams [16 mins] Pet Lizard dir. Zoë Wolfe [1 mins] Blue Ball (2025) dir. Gigi Servant [10 mins] You're Still Awake (2023) dir. Lexi Greenslade [7mins] The Trade (2022) dir. Kendall Hennessy [23 mins] Tourniquet dir. Marceline [8 mins]

Here's the program and what y'all can expect to see on Trans Movie Night! Excited for everyone to experience a night of beautiful films and to be surprised and inspired.

the movie's also being super weird about Judy and Nick's relationship where it can't admit they're fucking but also spends a tonnnnn of time going on about them as partners, putting them in couple's therapy, having them celebrate an anniversary, all through the lens of "friends"

watched Zootopia 2 tonight which i think manages to clear the first for not being such an awful racism metaphor but also only works if everyone is completely oblivious to anything going on outside their immediate line of sight

Like maybe if you're a kvlt black metal chud type guy (chvd) you get there but so many other genres have such important, defining women in their history and you just.... Ignore that? It's so alien.

Sometimes i run into the idea of people who don't voluntarily listen to women musicians and it feels so alien I don't even understand how you can like, get that way

got the heating bill for the big cold snap and whoooooof. thank goodness i got some overtime pay recently!

like i need to pop open my 360 and see why the disc drive isn't spinning, need to replace a shoulder button on said 3ds, and want to refurbish an ipod so i can be That Guy, and while this wasn't crazy, it was still like "hey even MY stupid hands can do this!"

circle pad on my 3DS crumbled up under my finger one day and the replacement process was a surprisingly involved "unscrew it and take out ribbon cables" type process but I managed to do it and put it back together and it works! feel really proud of myself, been wanting to do more with repairs

head, shoulders, knees and ankles, by hemlocke springs from the album the apple tree under the sea 🅴

hemlockesprings.bandcamp.com/track/head-s... it was this and all i'm saying is i'm right

checking out an album on bandcamp i'd heard some parts of and the first review i see is "the third song is annoying af but the rest is good" meanwhile the third song was the one that made me go "oh FUCK yes" lmao got my finger on the pulse

i'm really worried the animal crossing comparisons are from people who really liked New Horizons which is what's putting me off (also needing to buy a switch 2)

Because you enjoyed Nightmare Alley: Ungirls by Lauren Beukes. In the near future, lab-grown sex dolls are the (it ends there)

....not.... super sure that makes sense as a recommendation based on that.....

Officer having anxiety attack took ambulance sent for man dying from police shooting, report says A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

guess she gets something to do at least. I do find these books tended to be pretty good about having female protagonists who do things, and side ones that get good moments, but also like, they're squirrels, and mice, so i dunno how much of a "representation win" that is

"the love interest just happens to be up serving meals at night when she sees a siege tower coming at them, and throws the lantern she has with her and it burns down" is like pretty up there, since the siege tower really only made its first appearance a chapter ago and now it's just gone, no threat.

the "something bad is going to happen but then a Coincidence Occurs to save the day!" thing in the Redwall books is a really big part of their storytelling style and while it generally works, sometimes it does push a bit far, but like y'know these are books for children so whatever

Aryel got so mad at the ending they left the room lmao ryan murphy you did it again

Realizing this show's pulling a move of taking liked, enjoyable actors and replacing them with less known, worse actors, and expect us to still care as much

finally achieving the final form of couch co-op

The Swiss Cheese protection method showing slices of hole-filled swiss cheese, and arrows labeled "One Battle After Another," "Sentimental Value," and "Sinners" all being stopped by the solid parts, labelled Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, and Best Original Screenplay, while Marty Supreme is able to pass right through to arrive at Best Picture unchallenged.

basically it'll be like this

looking forward to this sunday's Marty Supreme sweep that's just going to leave everyone pissed off, which is appropriate for him honestly

Mercury is really in gatorade huh

Aryel took the trolley today for the first time and wound up getting stuck in a tunnel because the electricity went out. Someone on the trolley with them noted the last time this happened was like 40 years ago lmao