Icytrees

Escalating when someone slights you can certainly have no parallels to current events, no sir.

It shows you generally being a dick to people you disagree with. One line even said "scums like you should be iced."

I used to live a few blocks away from Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver, on East Hastings, while the occupation was happening. I saw people openly injecting at 1am while I walked home from work. Worst that happened was being asked for money. Mostly? They just said "Hi," and "Good morning."

Yeah, it looks bad when folks are drunk and on drugs in the open, but those people have nowhere else to go. Cops kept raiding and shutting down the independent harm reduction sites set up to keep the worst of it off the streets. No kidding people attack the police, I don't blame them.

“Another futile attempt to breach the legal naval blockade and enter a combat zone ended in nothing,” the Foreign Ministry wrote on X.

That's some Lex Luthor sounding shit right there.

I'm gonna side with the other guy here. You know we can see the modlog right? All I gotta say is wow.

Every. Year.

I'm gonna be a dead horse and keep trying to give people a club.

I look forward to an enchanting Voyvembeur.

Because. Nothing. You were hilarious. Made more coffee.

...when you’re in an echo chamber all the weird misinformation and emotion-driven politics are coming from inside the house.

I love this and I'm stealing it.

I used to get a lot more freelance writing and design gigs before AI. It was great under the table money because, at times, I recieve partial support for my disability, and they deduct from my monthly funds if I make money. It's not enough to live on to begin with, so I relied on side gigs for any savings at all.

Now? I get none. Former clients have outright told me it's just cheaper to use AI or Canva or whatever. I have friends with similar stories, so I wonder just how much of the unseen labor market was affected by this.

I don't blame AI. It's a neat technology and there's nothing inherently wrong with. I blame capitalism for stealing from artists, building unsustainably, and for creating a world where people have to worry about lost funds from designing bullshit web graphics and business cards instead of having the time, money and bandwidth to follow our passions.

I spat out my coffee.

My favorite protrayals of women are "warts and all" characters who aren't really good or strong, but shed light on the diversity of women in the world.

Silicon Valley. Hear me out. There's way more male cast, yes, because it's a satire of that whole scene. However, Laurie Bream is fucking awesome. A successful, probably autistic woman who's quietly ruthless and emotionally clueless. She's not bad or evil. She's never shown in a relationship, though she supposedly has a family who don't appear on screen. She's the type of female character that doesn't get written very often.

Next up? Diane and Princess Carolyn from Bojack Horseman. Complex women who stay true to their core throughout the series while experiencing extensive inner change, for good and for bad.

I really like Siobhan in Succession, too. She's a fucking mess and absolutely relatable. They do a great job of showing she has to work ten times as hard for the same level of respect, and despite kinda still sucking as a person, is clearly more competent than her brothers. Or she would be, except no one respects her position and she endures disproportionate criticism for her mistakes.