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Are there sections? Consider transitions

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A black-and-white photo of an Oblique Strategy card. The card reads: 'Are there sections? Consider transitions'.
#obliquestrategies

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Post of r/GradSchool titled: "How to cite a dream/hallucination in APA 7th?" The first comment under this post is "What?" to which OP replied: "I want to include something that was revealed to me in a vision in one of my research papers. But I do not know how to cite it."

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@mcc Citations are so other people can check and share your sources, I’m afraid visions count as original research.
@mcc
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that depends on whether the hyperspatial machine elves are real
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#Tarot underneath/shadow card of evening: The Magician-I.

Good news is you have the tools and knowledge to make the best of this situation. Be creative and be ready to imagine differently.

#SciFiTarot #occult #cartomancy #divination #pagan #heathen #witch #ItinerantLibrarian #esoterica

Card from the SciFi Tarot deck by Todd Alcott. The Magician-I. A man behind a table controlling a robot at the center of the table. The robot has four arms and holds various objects in its hands.
#pagan #tarot #occult #divination #ItinerantLibrarian #esoterica #witch #heathen #cartomancy #scifitarot

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I AM TOO TIRED TO DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING ANYMORE BUT POINTLESS DAY JOB TO MOVE MONEY AROUND IN CIRCLES TO BE ALLOWED TO NOT DIE UNDER THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE MARKET!

FUCK THIS!

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Anyway I could feel another imaginary argument beginning to wind up, so I have tooted the fropwhistle pretty early today.

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I wish all fedi software/interfaces always had a "start writing post now" button. Too often a fedi thingy will only put the Write Post button on the main timeline page, which means by the time I click to a different page and wait for it to load I've often forgotten what I was gonna say.

Less speedbumps plz.

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If you ever used to lay in bed at night as a child while staring at the ceiling and wondering when (or if) you'd EVER be "free"?

You're not alone there, either. And that feeling doesn't go away, even when you GET away. You gotta learn to LET yourself feel free.

Otherwise you'll wind up trapped inside a cage of your own making and you can't even see the bars.

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And what?

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Sorry, I don't normally post memes, but I just came across this one I had saved to my computer and wanted to share it. I think it is so funny! (Ya, I know, I'm weird.)

#Paleontology #Life #Evolution #Memes #Science

A color portrait graphic that has two panels at the top, one large panel across the page in the middle, and a third panel across the page at the bottom. At top-left is the picture of a strange creature that looks a bit like a dog. Above the image it says, "Indohyus, my brother, I've decided to search for food in the waters. At the to-right adjace3nt to the first frame it shows the shoulders and head of the animal in the first frame, as though it had walk into the frame and on the right another slightly different dog like creature. Above the second creature it says, " You will regret this, Pakicetus. The environment will force you to adapt." Over the creature that from the first frame that is entering the second it says, "I just need some shrimps, lol. I will be perfectly fine. Below, in the middle edge to edge frame it shows a present day blue whale (the largest creature ever to live) pointing to toward the right. Below the whales chin, tiny, on the right is the face and neck of a deer. The whale is saying, "Aaaaaaooooooaaaaaaah muruuuuuuuh." In the bottom wide frame it shows a closeup of the whale's face and the Deer's face. The whale is now saying, "Bwooooooooeeeee." Looking out of the frame, over the deer's face it says, "WTF."
#science #Paleontology #memes #life #evolution
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Real talk though, it blows my mind that my great great great etc. grandmother was some kind of fish thing.

Like, direct relative.

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@contrasocial And since you can't evolve your way out of a clade, we're still some kind of fish thing. 😁
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I HAVE THE STONES OF THE FIVE MAGICS!
SO CAN YOU!
JUST GET FIVE STONES!
THAT'S IT!
THERE ARE FIVE STONES AND FIVE MAGICS!
YOU'RE DONE!
YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO PAINT THEM!
YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO PICK THEM UP!
YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO LEAVE WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW, JUST VISUALIZE THE STONES IN YOUR MIND!
THE EMPIRE CANNOT STOP THE STONES!
FOR THE STONES ARE ALREADY HERE!
THE STONES ARE BY THE HIGHWAY!
THE STONES ARE BY THE BUS STOP!
THE STONES ARE BY THE DUMPSTER!

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3-card draw from Mystical Manga #Tarot

Nine of Coins
The Lovers
The Hanged Man

--Interpretations welcome.
#tarotcards #tarotreading #taroart #writingprompt #drawingprompt #psychology #symbolism #synchronicity #archetypes #art #illustration

#art #tarot #illustration #TarotReading #tarotcards #taroart #writingprompt #drawingprompt #psychology #symbolism #synchronicity #archetypes
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Hello!

You are now aware that your #CardOfTheDay from the #CrypticaTarot is the King of Cups

The following key words and phrases may or may not be relevant: tolerant, helpful, confident, wise
#tarot, #divination, #cartomancy

#tarot #divination #CrypticaTarot #CardOfTheDay #cartomancy

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I'm glad you've figured out the right kind of people staples!
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A very informative flow chart.
"Do I need AI?" in an oval with a single line pointing down and connecting to, "No" inside a rectangle.
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I'm slowly working on an article on AI, covering all the bad and all the good (at the end of course). Please link me to any sources not already linked at the bottom of this blog post: trinityblair.com/stop-generati…

Stop Generating AI "Content"

While the theft of content is bad enough, AI servers have a high demand for water and a large output for pollution making this an issue of ethics.
Trinity Blair
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Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them

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#obliquestrategies

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The paper artworks of Asya Kozina who also designs life-sized sculptures, wedding dresses and masks, 100% out of paper

#WomensArt

Photo of a white woman, upper half facing left, wearing a huge head piece created with white paper resembling an enlarged 18th century wig with a ship with sails on top
#womensart

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Don't break the silence

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A black-and-white photo of an Oblique Strategy card. The card reads: 'Don't break the silence'.
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#oldage #tarotofthings #tarot #tarotcard
#tarot #oldage #tarotcard #tarotofthings

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One of the bad parts of having active accounts on three different types of fediverse servers is that the interface on all of them is different on each in a hundred tiny ways. Which means that I have to re-figure out how to do stuff in each one pretty much every time I switch. And since I'm not solely using one, I don't really build up the "mental muscle memory" to just know what each little icon means and what it does and how it works on this particular server.
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It's kinda like if you've used photoshop a lot (for example), and then you were trying to do stuff in Krita and GnIMP. You have to figure out what each icon is, how it's different, what this particular software decides to call a feature (that has a completely different name than the feature did in the other softwares), where they've tucked away all the settings and tools.

Yeah, eventually using all three will be natural to you, but it's a lot easier to learn each in isolation that to try to keep three conflicting sets of HOW TO USE in your mind.

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And of course, each software has unique features, and lacks common features from other softwares, so you also have to remember what is even possible in your current account

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I guess you can have italic emojis in Friendica?

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Spotted today in a freezing cold outdoor toilet block that smelled of old cigarettes
A bin lined with a black bin bag, viewed from above, inside is a discarded piece of A4 paper with the printed words - tantalising liminal space

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Fuck Ronald Reagan. Every time I think of him, I get more and more infuriated that by basically any conceivable metric you can find, the US started its dramatically worse trend in the 1980s.

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I always loathed Reagan and what made it worse was how people would insist he was charming... at least it was widely accepted that Nixon was a creep* but even people who disagreed with Reagan somehow were dazzled by his so-called charisma. Ugh!

* pun not intended but I'm leaving it in

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As one who lived through it, I can confirm this was indeed the point at which the die was cast.

One of his first actions was to fire striking air traffic controllers ushering in the era of both stressful flying & the destruction of unions.

How we got to Reagan was that the Republican Party committed itself to racism (dubbed, somewhat inappropriately, the southern strategy — plenty of northern racists, then & now).

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#BlankFriday is coming up the day after Thanksgiving. If you need to prep, for instance by getting a pocket full of cash, today is the day. And it's ok to use transit cards if you bought them with cash.
Blank Reg from "Max Headroom" says "USE NO I.D.! CASH ONLY!"
#blankfriday

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Happy International Subtractive Poetry Day to all who celebrate!

(from War Battles No. 6)

#nonsense #silly #poetry #subtractivePoetryDay

A modified comic book cell with three soldiers. One word bubble says "DOPE!" and another says "HOPE!". The background is bright reddish orange.
#nonsense #poetry #silly #subtractivepoetryday

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Oops, I did a Rainbow!
Chain mail dice bag hold six standard sets.

#dice #jewelry #chainmail #maille #ttrpg #rpg #handmade

Chain mail dice bag in rainbow colours
Chain mail dice bag in rainbow colours
Chain mail dice bag in rainbow colours
#dice #handmade #ttrpg #rpg #jewelry #chainmail #maille

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Hello!

You are now aware that your #CardOfTheDay from the #CrypticaTarot is Mars.

The following key words and phrases may or may not be relevant: War
#tarot, #divination, #cartomancy

#tarot #divination #CrypticaTarot #CardOfTheDay #cartomancy

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The Cryptica path is pretty much entirely based on synchronistic happenings, so I'm not really surprised😸
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I find it disillusioning to see the casual use of "AI" slowly creeping into our hacker circles. Most of the discussions about AI focus on the quality of its output. I think we're not doing a good job communicating its more fundamental dangers.

In this blog post I write about how tools shape who we are and why the resource intensiveness of AI is ingrained in its purpose. About the devaluation of skills, and power cycles.

Let me know what you think.

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I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus

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When AI was first all the buzz, I downloaded gpt4all, and fed it a *ton* of Sega Dreamcast hacking notes I and others had compiled. Figured I could use it like a quick reference. First day, I tried to ask it some things, and was impressed how it had answers. Then I tried implementing the answers, and quickly realized it was constantly full of shit. Even when trained entirely locally on hyper specific documents, it'll lie and give me crazy bullshit answers. It's useless for this stuff
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In order to actually effectively use AI like this, you have to know the subject to be able to constantly check its work, which defeats the purpose of using a cheat tool to get around knowing the subject. It's like a dunning-kruger machine, how much you trust it reveals how little you know about the subject.
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You've made it to Humpday morning without planting the numpties under your patio. That's all anyone can ask in the current climate. Just because they can't ask doesn't mean then you shouldn't keep going anyway. So choose the things that matter, knuckle down, and grind through to the other side of Friday as best you can.

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#giftideas #gifts #giftidea #motivation #motivational #funny #workshop #work #WorkFromHome

A metal sign telling us all the truth: Everything is Fucked, and how we can fix it.
#funny #giftideas #work #workshop #gifts #motivation #workfromhome #giftidea #motivational

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I am a grown-ass adult who wrote this #RGBots comic for you. You can't put it back in the box.

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#robots #comic #webcomic #buttholes

Burning Question Transcript This is a transcript of the November 25th, 2025, RGBots comic. Panel One A shot of white text on a black void of textured paper. Question: If you could ask your creator one thing, what would it be? Panel Two Red answers the question. Red: I guess I would ask why I was built with a butthole. Panel Three Red continues thinking about what he would ask. Red: Well, I’d probably also ask why they designed it to be itchy all the time. Panel Four Red considers the implications. Red: That feels kind of fucked up.

Burning Question

We really pulled this one out of our asses. Burning Question Transcript This is a transcript of the November 25th, 2025, RGBots comic. Panel One A shot of white text on a black void of textured pap…
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#comic #webcomic #robots #rgbots #buttholes

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Hello

You are now aware that your #CardOfTheDay from the #CrypticaTarot is Justice.

The following key words and phrases may or may not be relevant: facts, truth, clarity
#tarot, #divination, #cartomancy

#tarot #divination #CrypticaTarot #CardOfTheDay #cartomancy

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By Rory Blank
A 4 panel comic with Porky Pig where it says 'love those Looney tunes? Thrill and delight as Porky Pig is flattened between two sheets of glass'. And then Porky begins to question reality and the nature of his very existence as he's crushed

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Quick 30-minute skeletal astronaut.

Drawn while doing chargen for tonight's ZSF game.

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Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them

#ObliqueStrategies

A black-and-white photo of an Oblique Strategy card. The card reads: 'Discover the recipes you are using and abandon them'.
#obliquestrategies

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My @nora wreath ornament AND my Choctaw Nation ornament arrived before Thanksgiving! My tree will be ready to go on Friday.
A hand holds up two ornaments, suspended by ribbons. On the left is the flag of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, purple, framed by a pewter circle. On the right is a glass wreath of sparkly mixed greens, with 5 faces on it. The description said they're smug, but to me they look more relaxed.
@Nora Reed

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thanks! it took many photographs of glitter/holographic nail polish back in the day before I lucked into the right instincts
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Are you an #Antifascist #musician on the Fedi? Please share your #Bandcamp or other #music link for us to share & support your work.

I'm pinning this post for easier future reference/access for myself & others.

#AntiFascistMusicAlliance #IndieMusicians #MastoMusicians #FediMusicians

Circular logo for Antifascist Music Alliance, featuring musical notes, a microphone, and headphones in red and black, with text "Antifascist Music Alliance" encircling the image.
#music #antifascist #bandcamp #musician #antifascistmusicalliance #indiemusicians #mastomusicians #fedimusicians
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I can already feel the rain that should be here in like 11 more hours
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Hello

You are now aware that your #CardOfTheDay from the #CrypticaTarot is The Sun.

The following key words and phrases may or may not be relevant: life ain't too heck
#tarot, #divination, #cartomancy

#tarot #divination #CrypticaTarot #CardOfTheDay #cartomancy

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Wanting to change.

#tarot #tarotreading #theangeltarotjaynewallace #💙

#tarot #TarotReading #theangeltarotjaynewallace

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Hello

You are now aware that your #CardOfTheDay from the #CrypticaTarot is The Happy Squirrelleton.

The following key words and phrases may or may not be relevant: WHARRGARBL
#tarot, #divination, #cartomancy

#tarot #divination #CrypticaTarot #CardOfTheDay #cartomancy

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Hello

You are now aware that your #CardOfTheDay from the #CrypticaTarot is Hot Pink Death.

The following key words and phrases may or may not be relevant: DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH oh actually it just means change and stuff
#tarot, #divination, #cartomancy

#tarot #divination #CrypticaTarot #CardOfTheDay #cartomancy

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