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robotwig, (edited ) to photography
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"Come with me if you want to live"
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All shot practically using figures and miniature sets
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desafinado,
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@robotwig fantastic lighting. But what’s with the Viking statue?

desafinado,
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@robotwig nope. Thus my question! Just there for fun?

desafinado,
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@robotwig sure! I love seeing the BTS along with the finished shot. But why the extraneous Viking? Just an Easter egg? Or is it process-related somehow?

Either way, the finished shot is terrific.

desafinado, to random
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What’s at stake this year.

Janelle Bouie: “It cannot be overstated how Trump’s deportation plan would surely rank as one of the worst crimes perpetrated by the federal government on the people of this country.”

Gift link.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/opinion/trump-deportation-immigration-border.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU0.4gm_.PibskbKBJY7i&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

GrimmReality, to random
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"Oh no, I do not have ESPN, guess I have no choice but to go to the bar to watch the NBA game whilst drinking pints of beer," I mumble to myself, very sad and dejected over being forced to resort to this course of action.

desafinado,
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@GrimmReality What’re they having?

vicgrinberg, to random
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Have found out today that (not very close) relatives (and their kids - and the kids they took care of at that moment, they run a childcare thing) in Canada have been victims of a hate crime (a while ago, it took a while to reach me), prompting them to give up on the childcare business thing.

I just feel freaking empty.

desafinado,
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@vicgrinberg 💔

desafinado, to Cats
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Come hither.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, after putting it down for many years, I'm back to trying to read HG Wells' corpus. Interesting thing: all of his famous, lasting, books were published between 1895-1899, when he was aged 29 to 33. There are other novels, lots of philosophical and political thought, but so far I would say none of it comes close to that first few years.

Having read lots of it my feeling is that he was very smart but used up his original ideas quickly and his political thought verged on silly.

desafinado,
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@ZachWeinersmith Surely owning some cool swords is a privilege.

desafinado, to random
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Anyone unprepared to accept the outcome of an upcoming election has no business running for office in the first place.

donni, to random
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How do I monetize this creeping sense of despair

desafinado,
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@donni just add water lilies - presto!

marklemley, to random
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Reminder that Trump plans a dictatorship. Please do everything in your power to stop him, even if Joe Biden is too liberal/not liberal enough for your tastes.

“I ask him, Don’t you see why many Americans see such talk of dictatorship as contrary to our most cherished principles?” Cortellessa wrote. No, Trump said. “‘I think a lot of people like it.”

desafinado,
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@marklemley What’s that from?

RickiTarr, to random
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I refuse to get pregnant, because even though no one will admit it, I'm pretty sure that fetus controls you from the inside like I'm a mech suit for it.

desafinado,
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@RickiTarr Like this?

TonyStark, to random
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A common sense approach, in my opinion.

Open Letter to College and University Presidents on Student Protests | ACLU
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/open-letter-to-college-and-university-presidents-on-student-protests

desafinado,
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@TonyStark It does seem reasonable, or at least internally consistent. On the other hand, it seems like a rejection of the basis of almost any campus speech code, which I think most of us would agree would be too sweeping. It’s hard to imagine learning in an environment of harrasment and intimidation.

Backgrounder here seems like a decent starting point on the subject: https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/campus-speech-codes/

desafinado,
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@TonyStark No, I read the whole thing. If one isn’t pursued “individually,” it says, then there is only “untargeted speech,” which under almost no circumstances crosses the line the ACLU sets out:

“The only exception for such untargeted speech is where it is so severe or pervasive that it denies students equal access to an education — an extremely demanding standard that has almost never been met by pure speech.”

desafinado,
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@TonyStark The problem here, as I see it, is that we all belong to various categories of human. Either euphemistically or explicitly, one may call for the killing, expulsion, or persecution of this or that category in general without making it personal, so to speak - but to everyone in that category, it’s definitely personal. It’s not “untargeted” just because it applies to more than one person.

desafinado,
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@TonyStark I get that the ACLU is standing in the mainstream of first amendment jurisprudence, here. But I just don’t think the issue is quite so straightforward as they make it out to be. YMMV.

desafinado,
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@TonyStark I think that there is some place for campus speech codes and that too absolutist a take on freedom of speech tends to exclude that place. Any clearer?

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Wouldn't post it on that other similar site, because it'd result in inflammatory stuff, but... why do we care what college students do or don't protest? I mean like if a substantial Rotary Club in Idaho had a loud offensive argument about something in the zeitgeist, I don't imagine it'd make news anywhere. Possibilities:

  1. These people are perceived as future leaders and so we want to know their values
  2. These people represent the youth so we want to know their values
  3. Anger-bait?
desafinado,
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@ZachWeinersmith Their antics are good for some outrage, though

desafinado, to Bloomscrolling
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Tulips and azeleas.

donni, to random
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I carry a note at all times that says "KEVIN DID THIS" so if I ever turn up dead, Kevin(s) will be blamed

desafinado,
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@donni Seems as good a guess as any

maxleibman, to random
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Happy Easter, Christians! I hope the Easter Bunny visited you last night and died for your sins or left a tooth under your kids’ pillows or whatever it is you guys are so excited about today.

desafinado,
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@maxleibman For the thousandth time, the Easter Bunny rots teeth.

mcc, to random
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Fantasy world where they have been breeding dragons to be smaller and smaller until they have little toy dragons that can sit in your lap and are popular among noble ladies and if you leave them unattended in a home they will gather up all the low denomination change under dressers and such and push them into a corner to make a tiny $4.78 hoard to sit on

desafinado,
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@mcc Sounds like a convenient way of making toast, too.

golgaloth, to animals
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You know, cats don't really like pyjamas.

desafinado,
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@golgaloth But you know, if they did…

Daojoan, to random
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In hindsight it was always a short leap from "evil goblins with long noses do all the banking" to holocaust revisionism

desafinado,
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@Daojoan Oh dear. What now?

maxleibman, to email
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YOU said "Oh, Inbox Zero is so stupid, it's impossible, meh," meanwhile, I've been sitting here with a completely FINISHED and EMPTY Outlook inbox for the last half hour, and all it took was three hours work on a Saturday night. Who's the idiot now?

desafinado,
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@maxleibman No, no, no! This is crazy talk! The point of the game is to rack up the highest number of unread emails.

I’m deep into five digits now. Should crack six before the decade is out! Catch me if you can…

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