@androcat ...but they were still ok with it, because they knew he was really pretty ancient (I mean, the TV series started in the 1970s, 'nuff said) -- so any parts that weren't replaced with bionics would be increasingly fossil-powered.

@riley Only if you want advanced Opposable Thumb technology which enables opening your own food-cans (warning: may lead to socialism),

I hope when you vote this year that you vote for reason & compassion, science & literacy, a new age of luxury blimp travel, tea drinking badgers in tweed suits, and the deep magic of the old forest gods.

@JennyFluff NaNeverMindMo

(the month when amateur writers everywhere compete to see who can discard the most ideas)

I close my eyes, and she slips away.

#fragPost

@riley I wonder if he was friends with Silhouette Man (famous for his many appearances on pedestrian crosswalks, warning signs, etc.)...

@amcooper Sadly, that is probably the way they think. Here's hoping that "leadership" all gets voted out ASAP.

@vantablack Herb, but no Peaches?

@hellomiakoda Your scowly cantankerousness is my favorite part, though! What's wrong with people. Tsk.

@JennyFluff No Negativity November

@riley It's clearly a probe from the United Feline Planets, using a laser-pointer to see if there's any intelligent life on Earth (i.e. cats).

@briefecology The Trees of Mordor

@barnibu @gildilinie

[looks[

Still ugly. Oh well.

@barnibu Are you saying that generative neural nets do not use large language models?

@gildilinie

Fresh account, hello! Just settled in here after hearing good things about this instance. I mostly plan to post small everyday things - morning walks, kitchen experiments, and the occasional tool I stumble across. Glad to be around.

@SasquatcherGeneral @unsafelyhotboots @alisynthesis @toolbear

Even if voting goes 100% the way I hope, we still have a lot of work to do outside the system; I think 2024 proved that. Up to that point a lot of Dems were resisting the idea of systemic change and talking about how it's ok to elect a "moderate" because we "need time to heal" or whatever...

...and I'm just, like... yeah, we need time to heal -- but that's not going to happen while we're still under heavy fire. If the new leader isn't going to do anything to stop that, then healing isn't going to happen now and it certainly won't happen if we're trampled in the next election.

All that said, I'm seeing some hope in the way progressive Dems are finally winning primaries and even getting into positions of power. The current Dem leadership can keep insisting that they need to lean more to the Right all they want as long as we make sure that both they and the GOP (always worse) get voted out at every possible opportunity, and that their places are taken by progressives wherever possible.

Relatedly: Voter turnout has been pretty good lately, though, hasn't it? That was my impression...

@gildilinie I finally found the post/context -- he's being vague enough that it's hard to nail down exactly where he's wrong... which is probably his whole deal. Doesn't seem worth arguing with.

@gildilinie whoa, wut

@shadowfals It was perhaps unwise and somewhat inconsiderate of me to react as I did when I did. I will try to do better.

@unsafelyhotboots @alisynthesis @SasquatcherGeneral @toolbear

Trans girl here.

I'd vote for Talarico, personally (but I wouldn't be mad at anyone who didn't*). A vote is a vector, not an endorsement.

* as long as they didn't vote for the other guy instead. I mean, come on -- the "other guy" is Ken Effing Paxton, who absolutely needs to be gone.