hearing that kevin conroy passed away. he had a long and incredible career and he touched so many people. i had the pleasure of meeting him once and he was very kind and warm. i think about this comic he wrote for dc pride a lot. i hope he rests well. (1/3)
In a world where bodily autonomy is denied to you as a right, one of the most radical things you can do is aggressively and enthusiastically reclaim your domain of self
Not finished watching yet, but has been great, not only going into the many failings of trans healthcare under the NHS...
...and examples of how institutions use techniques to shift blame, control narratives and use the very policies they're breaking as a shield from criticism
are you fuckin kidding me dA, you have to edit EACH INDIVIDUAL IMAGE IN YOUR ENTIRE GALLERY to opt it out of being included in AI training??????????????????
We’re introducing new AI tools and controls!
DreamUp, a new tool to generate art
Control the amount of AI art in your feed
Clear labeling of art that’s AI-generated
A directive to opt out of AI datasets
Ability to opt out of prompts
https://bit.ly/DA_DreamUp
The guy who ran billboards all over LA showing how bloated our police budget is won a BLOWOUT victory over the establishment guy who wanted to increase police funding
so I see this video is making the rounds recently - I was planning to upload my work here but it seems I've been beaten to the punch!
so I guess I'll take this time to post 🧵 about some behind-the-scenes info..
Vscript is about to absolutely change what's possible in TF2. Excited to see what people come up with.
I bet @Monsterclip_JM and @iambadmofo would love to see this.
If we used a low resolution texture (64x64) to save memory the “static” would be blurry and not crisp. One engineer on the team came up with a great idea: what if we just use the memory holding the Metroid Prime code itself! We quickly tried it out and it looked amazing.
In this clip as Samus approaches the Pulse Bombu, the screen fills with static to show interference with her visor. As we worked on this a big issue is the memory use of the noise texture. The Gamecube only has 24MB of RAM, so every texture has to be carefully considered.
me when trans ppl say surgery is pushed too much: yea I feel like the medical system sees binary transition as the goal. I was scared of starting transition cuz I could only conceive myself as a trans woman and that didn't fit
me when cis ppl say the same thing: OH NO U DON'T
Kinda wish I wasn't currently stretched between literally over half a dozen social media sites (and alternative forms of contact) at the moment for staying in contact with anyone
But eh, I'm sure I'll adjust in time, and it's less of a big deal than for some folks I know
One of the good (?) things about me increasingly give less fucks and being more open about a lot of things combined with current social media collapse-migration is I'm now joining in conversations of matters I'd normally hide behind private alt (and thus be unable to converse)
Roku's working on it. In the meantime there's VPN (Very Probably No) way to watch it legally. I'm sure you have a TORRENT of other questions, but I have to move along, sorry.
Just remembered that I have the week of the 21st of this month off from work.
On the extremely unlikely chance that any of my mutuals that are unfortunately in the UK happen to be free and able to travel to my neck of the woods, I might be vaguely free enough to be sociable?
A good friend of mine is trying to raise money towards getting T via private healthcare due to [state of NHS Gender Identity Clinics in the UK].
We're halfway there for the initial assessments, would appreciate anything folks have to spare:
More cursed knowledge: at Mozilla, the perf team discovered that it is, in double-digit percentage of cases, faster to re-fetch data over the network from the original web server than to retrieve it from local disk cache.
A good friend of mine is trying to raise money towards getting T via private healthcare due to [state of NHS Gender Identity Clinics in the UK].
We're halfway there for the initial assessments, would appreciate anything folks have to spare:
One of the things I occasionally get paid to do by companies/execs is to tell them why everything seemed to SUDDENLY go wrong, and subs/readers dropped like a stone.
So, with everything going on at Twitter rn, time for a thread about the Trust Thermocline /1
I should have recorded it, but there was a fire and brimstone preacher on my campus and some dude dressed like the Nord Priest in Whiterun from Skyrim started preaching about Talos and I lost it
Especially full of stress and anxiety today, with a lot of the latter being a mix of rational and irrational fears.
Could have done without something later this week that'll make that a lot worse and be exhausting and tank my productivity, but shit happens I guess
In two weeks, Hellena Taylor took the internet from, "How dare they replace Bayonetta?" to "Do we think Jennifer Hale can redub her lines from the first two games?".
People speedrunning the end of their careers is a wild thing to watch.
Anyways, pay and treat VO's better.