Ohhhh...Stickley♡♡♡

there are also the paid appearances in videos about how sexy they are and how enjoyable it is to have sex with them.
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The odds are good. And the goods are weird.

Mentioned more often than Harry Potter is in the Harry Potter series

@idogcow More often than Jesus in the bible.

Adobe: Just kidding! hehe...heh... unless...?

WTF, I thought they announced that they were indeed removing access.
Adobe is the perfect example of products I was enjoying using and then the great enshittification. I even got to be part of a focus group once and had pizza in their office, had positive feelings about them as a company.

@dad They absolutely did. Those are my screenshots. Yesterday, the letter had a link to a support page that stated in no uncertain terms that, the sky was falling, but you could maybe use some other Adobe skies for some sort of makeshift umbrella. Today, that same link thankfully backtracks like mad.

I am slowly-but-surely trying to move as much of my day-to-day work towards Open Source options. So tired of Adobe and the perpetual subscription model that has taken hold and controls our lives.

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Yeah we had a 24hr panic at work. While we've already shifted away from Animate as a main tool (the content is now mostly 3D-based), there are still all kinds of legacy workflows and tooling that rely on Animate to operate properly. One month to unravel all of that would have been a tech art & engineering nightmare.

Why would there even have been text put together to announce this if it weren't being considered as something they might do?

Adobe makes great tools, and also is a walled garden charging exorbitant rent, and promising only poverty and misery outside its walls.

If only Affinity extended their great work across the Adobe space.

well, at least with it in maintenance mode, they won't be adding in any completely sucky new features like "AI integration" bullshit they're adding to everything else.

still don't trust them, tho

Adobe will have to pry my Photoshop CS4 edition from my cold dead hands.

Imagine having a product that is feature complete, maintained by undoubtedly a small team, and best of all is only available with a subscription. It's free money!

So obviously it makes sense to not just shut it down, but go so far as to prevent current users from continuing to access their files.

I happen to hang out on Discords with people who are much younger and terminally online and I have to admit that I have googled exactly this slimey recently. And a whole bunch of other terms. I feel ancient, I don’t know why they tolerate me.

north-west of the Dagorlad and south-east of the Emyn Muil

Oh great plushie of the frozen lake, what wisdom do you have for me?

Pre Labubu

The Lady of the Lake brought forth Excalibur . . .

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@poorusher I read that as Pere Labubu and had a snicker.

Don't follow the lights

title!

“Mildy NSFW” 😂 where do you work?

...at the 'check out that guy's dick!' factory?

@ba 💀

Amen, bear, amen

I'm with you prayer bear

It’s been a while since I’ve laughed at a Peanuts strip but this is clever and adorable.

@BennyTheIcepick i love the look on linus' face!

...um, but what's the title?

Ex Machina

@bubbalumpkis heh, sorry; Alex Garland's Ex Machina.

@bubbalumpkis Ex Machina, I believe.

The three comments above all happened over 31 seconds.

@kplawver @LocalStain @urlnotfound Thank you!

It's so great how opinions can differ. I found it extremely annoying :-)

A movie whose plot could be entirely unraveled by the existence of thumbprint scanners. I remember enjoying it as a condemnation of techbro culture and the deep misogyny therein. I will give it another viewing.

I remember enjoying the dance sequence

Tag yourself: I'm having trouble as I may not be anywhere to be found in this imaged. Other than I have the letters "s" and "h" in my name?!?

Every movie was kung fu fighting
Those casts were fast as lightning

I think it's a little later than 82. The Master Strikes Back is listed as an 1985 release on hkmdb. And WL Panter might (??) be Wild Panther, which was a 1984 release.

Had I been in NYC in the mid 80s I would have lived in this theater, no doubt.

@ian_whitney You're probably right; I saw it listed as 1982 on Pinterest, I think, and it's not dated at Giannatti's website.

@ian_whitney and you would have had a slimy, perilous walk to and from "home" every day. The whole of that part of midtown was a wretched hive of scum and villainy at that point - and also a vibrant petri dish of edgy sex-industry culture that would look largely tame as dishwater compared with today's internet.

quantum Sluggo

Is it a particle or a wave?

Sluggo is [double s]lit [experiment]

are they ballistic grade? also are you planning on shaving?

@williwaw I doubt I could take a shot. Also I'll shave when if I get serious.

(if don't already know) be careful out there then if they're using sponge grenades & other non-lethals, which can turn goggles into eye killers

son, you need some filters for your mask.

as @williwaw says, you want ones with MIL-PRF-32432 or at the least ANSI Z87.1+ rating if the fascists are shooting plastic rounds at you.

@cristin thinking about just putting pantyhose over my head

@artwells son, why you got a panty on your head?

@cristin exactly

Shout, I thought this was a Covid thing. Simpler times.

Thank you for this. As a glasses wearer, I've been looking for over-the-glasses goggles. Y'know, in case I need 'em...

Be careful! After the tear gas comes even worse stuff.

Kraken Crock

💙 Rose. I've got to rewatch some Pottery Throwdown

@homerj a krocken, if you will

I'm a big fan of the 3M secure-click line of respirators. They have a built in negative seal check button, a speaking diaphragm, and the new filters have more airflow.

downside: the new filters are more expensive.

@williwaw, what cartridges do you recommend for what gases? I've seen conflicting information on whether standard organic vapor cartridges will help with the newer gases, or if acid gas carts are required? I may just say 'fuck it' and get cartridges that are good for both.

p.s. guys, if you don't want to shave, you can get a PAPR, but those pretty much start at $500. PAPR mask/helmets can also be easily removed by fasc if you aren't careful, exposing you to the hazard.

@cristin tl;dr: Get ones rated for BOTH OV *and* AG: for 3M - 6003 cart + P100 filter or 60923 combo unit; or rated MG (multigas) - 6006 + P100/60926 combo). For NATO 40 Mill masks - CS/CN/P100 or CRBN (which is overkill but but sometimes easier to find). If it's from a company that has it's own proprietary system, look for a NIOSH certified CBA-RCA cartridge with a P100 filter that filters "certain organic vapors" and acid gases.

Although you would probably be fine in more situations with just a regular OV cartridge (6001/60921 for 3M bayonets) IMHO (and what I do) definitely get cartridges that are rated for both OV and AG (or just MG) for 2 reasons:

1) We've already witnessed the deployment of at least 2 lesser utilized agents, DM and HC gas. We don't know what else they may use.

2) These are *chemical munitions* that are not being used according to code. They're using far more than regulation, and, more importantly, they're MIXING them. That's a big no-no! Current guides by regulatory agencies for respirators are tested and written for singular use. Not only that, those guides are based upon chemicals that have been properly stored, properly deployed, and aren't expired. I don't really trust these goons right now to follow proper procedures for chemicals when they can't even follow the Constitution. I'm sure "safety third!" is their byword if they even consider it all.

Add in different dispersal methodologies, e.g. solution or aerosols, slightly different compositions/brand name types, and even basic environmental factors - like UV light - within that open and quite stochastic system and whew: I could spend a day just doing the simplest organic chem calculations and come up with a variety of chemical reactions. (Frankly, the use of HC gas scares the hell out of me. Carbon-chlorine bonded compounds can be extremely toxic. And they bioaccumulate very fast. The most famous substance in that compound group? DDT.)

So best to protect yourself by going beyond the simple NIOSH sheets. Make sure you also use a P100 particulate filter, either in a combo unit or with an adaptor attachment. I like using the attachment with 3M masks because you can change the filter on the fly without taking your mask off very easily, which is useful with pepper spray.

You'll want more than one if you anticipate more than 30-40 hours out there. If you know people that can use the same ones, go in together to buy in bulk from 3M directly or a distributor like Uline to receive discounts. And keep 'em sealed until you have to use them!

****If you're in a location that gets quite heavy wildfire smoke - and next summer looks like it's going to be very very bad in the North American west - having some multi-gas rated carts on hand can also be very useful as wildfire smoke has all kinds of nasty toxins in it.

@williwaw TY!

@cristin and any other ladies reading this: I forgot to add something very important - even limited exposure to some of these gases have caused miscarriages, fertility issues, and - important to most gals - reported problems/changes to menstrual cycles. The well documented general lack of research of how anything affects women + this documentation makes me extremely suspicious that some of the standards are for only a certain portion of the population, like, say, healthy young men in militaries, which is another reason I suggest the more powerful cartridges and particulate filter combo.

So hey any ladies out there, if you really want a good gas mask plus the filters but it's a little out of reach financially, drop me a line and I'll see what I can do. Just @ me on an old post if you'd like your privacy. :)

I drove by the home alone house today and there were several bouquets wedged in their front fence.
Such an odd meta-memorial, But just funny enough to befit the queen.

Hail Mary, full of guac, please protect everyone from fascists, especially the parking lot enchilada lady and the taco truck guy and the paletas cart dudes.

@grantbarrett Hell yes, and their kids, wives, & parents. ♡

@grantbarrett @0y3ahSansAcut3 I still think about how shitler's "there'll be taco trucks on every corner" comment should have led to a Clinton landslide.

Mary even has a little burrito belly here

Hell yes! But no.

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@macmanx 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼

Noam Chomsky, though :(

The workers of USAID.
National Public Radio.
The entire State Department.

If I was still doing the online dating thing, I'd put "Not in the Epstein files" in my profile.

The former Librarian of Congress, Billington, WAS in there but only because his daughter married some shitty guy who was bragging about knowing him iirc.

I watched this episode Sunday. It was - relevant.

Learning you live in the mirror universe is a feeling.

I see a little silhouetto of a wo-man ...