Don't take this the wrong way, but the memes about Ellen Ripley being a childless cat lady are not correct.

The sequel, Aliens, established that Ripley had a daughter, Amanda, who died before Ripley returned to Earth.

Not withstanding, I think I know how Ripley would react to the marginalization of cat ladies.

#News #Ripley #Alien #Catladies #Monsters

“Andrew Tate OBLITERATED by a TRUE alpha male”
@/RightWingCope@birdsite

// Only weak men need physical dominance to define their masculinity. Tate is one of the least attractive men alive. In a world that advertises Tate, be an Anthony.

AfD und BSW streben einen starken, autoritären Staat an, der durchgreift. Das spricht viele Menschen im Osten an, denn das kennen sie aus der DDR.#BündnisSahraWagenknechtBSW #Freiheit #Demokratie #DDR #WahleninOstdeutschland2024 #Deutschland #Politik #Schwerpunkt

The "cat lady" stereotype derives from the independence of cats, which can be linked w/ a suspicion of independent women. “A woman that chooses an animal that is arguably never entirely tamed is to be suspected of being untamable herself.” https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/27/us/cat-lady-explained-cec/index.html

Tommeh is libelling that refugee again, because that's what bullies do

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/27/eight-arrested-at-far-right-tommy-robinson-protest-in-central-london

#TommyRobinson #UKPOL #Ukpolitics

Link to Kamala Harris Victory Fund

https://secure.kamalaharris.com/a/womenforharris-hvf?attr=112974915

wip🎁

https://www.europesays.com/1365153/ Project 2025 Wants to Propel America Into Environmental Catastrophe #Climate

https://x.com/anneapplebaum/status/1817167543313834441

#KamalaHarris2024 #Kamala #KamalaForPresident #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsAFelon #GOP #mysoginy #sexism #GOPsexism #democracy #politics

Things you can buy at a Bass Pro Shop:

Various meat jerky
“Old fashioned” candy
A pontoon boat
Enough fishing gear for Sauron’s army
Handguns
Industrial meat grinders
Shotguns
Kid sized camouflage
A machete
Stuffed animals shaped like fish
Semi-automatic rifles
Crocs

Mrn.

If only every game in my library was awesome. Sadly, there’s a lot of clunkers. One example is Skyflower.

I want to like this game, I really do. It had so much potential. Who wouldn’t want a bullet hell top down shooter with RPG elements? To me, that sounds like a recipe for success.

But there’s a big problem: Skyflower is in “early access”.

I put “early access” in quotes because that’s a bald-faced lie if there ever was one. Skyflower has been in early access since Jun 2015. For nine solid years, there has been no indication that it will ever come out of early access.

In reality, Skyflower is abandoned.

Let’s call a spade a spade. The developer ain’t finishing it. They had ample time to complete it and it won’t be happening.

So we’re stuck with annoyances. There’s lots of graphical glitches. When a level starts, the music is already halfway through. Weirdly, the game is more difficult at the beginning than at the end.

Skyflower had so much potential. I like the basic visual aesthetic. The power ups are great. Specifically, I love how weapons get more and more badass as time goes on.

The developer, The Taco Heaven (a.k.a., Kirisame Jump) made another game, RAIN Project. They apparently finished that one.

You might wonder why I care, and it’s for this simple reason: I paid money for Skyflower. And I paid with the expectation that we’d have a finished game. Now this game may have been cheap, but if a transaction happened, developers should at least try to complete their work.

Games like Skyflower are why I no longer trust “Early Access” on Steam.

TIL that Jamie Hyneman was an early competitor in Robot Wars (where people design robots that fight each other), but his robot Blendo was deemed too dangerous for competition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Hyneman
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edpri6/til_that_jamie_hyneman_was_an_early_competitor_in/

Saturday #3GoodThings

1) My bestie left a tub of Roses on my doorstep
2) It didn’t rain, and we got loads of washing dry
3) I finished a page-turner of a thriller

Goodnight!

TIL Strain 121 (Geogemma barossii) is a single-celled microbe that is able to reproduce at 121 °C (250 °F). It was (at the time of its discovery) the only known form of life that could tolerate such high temperatures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strain_121
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1edt6cv/til_strain_121_geogemma_barossii_is_a/

When thinking about Big Tech and in particular #Google, comparisons to the maxim about political systems may be relevant. The one of particular relevance is that "Democracy is the worst of all the systems, except for all the others."

Similarly, as much as I pound on Google's recent trajectories and what I view as a variety of unforced errors and poor user experiences (especially for user groups who are not seen by Google as being the most valuable, e.g., relating to account recoveries and lockouts), it is still true that in the Big Tech pantheon, it can still be argued that Google is the least bad.

This is not a trivial observation, nor do I expect everyone to agree with me.

O orgulhoso sionista e o seu governador colonial — Herodes o Grande https://maisribatejo.pt/2024/07/27/o-orgulhoso-sionista-e-o-seu-governador-colonial-herodes-o-grande/

I'm on a campaign to declutter my life. I try to find one thing everyday and throw it away.

Today's target: these binders with college coursework from ~30 years ago.

#Declutter #OneThingEveryday #JCHOTE24

Representative Brad Sherman: "Why is Bitcoin more valuable than Skibidi Coin? It is today. Maybe not after the movie."

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

This is a crude recreation of a cartoon that flew by in my feed, I haven't been able to refind it, anyone got a link?

GNR suspeita que três homens estariam em situação análoga à escravidão em Almeirim https://maisribatejo.pt/2024/07/27/gnr-suspeita-que-tres-homens-estariam-em-situacao-analoga-a-escravidao-em-almeirim/

Currently thinking about, web site stuff, email stuff, work stuff, cleaning stuff, naughty stuff and all those have at least 5 sub headings ... Except the naughty stuff that has 26 sub heading

Giggles ... Blushing ... Oh my that's naughty

All this thinking is paralysing

Hugz & xXx

Following the news this weekend regarding the closure of #AppleVis, #DoubleTap will air a special episode Monday focused solely on the news, with a panel discussing the history and value of the site, as well as what this means for the #blind Apple user community going forward. If you have a comment you’d like to be included drop us a message here or email feedback@doubletaponair.com or call our listener line on 1-877-803-4567.

Found 13 new servers and 20 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

21,386 servers checked. 14,092,938 Total Users with 1,027,270 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

sns.kuiper.dog a #mastodon server from The Netherlands
ingenthron.social a #mastodon server from Portugal
neodb.thedevane.family a #neodb server from Private
amskey.f5.si a #sharkey server from Private
codemacabre.social a #mastodon server from Portugal
firefish.gameguard.moe a #firefish server from South Korea
inu.cafe a #mastodon server from Private
mi.moris.day a #misskey server from Private
mi.yyya-nico.co a #misskey server from Japan
mi.tomadoi.com a #misskey server from Japan
gs.umearbo.net a #gotosocial server from Private
akko.cuddleslut.fr a #akkoma server from Finland
mastodon.noahduffy.me a #mastodon server from France

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

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5 apoiantes do Just Stop Oil foram condenadas a 4-5 anos de prisão https://indymedia.pt/2024/07/26/5-apoiantes-do-just-stop-oil-foram-condenadas-a-4-5-anos-de-prisao/

Borel Fire rising up above Isabella Lake. #BorelFire #wildfires #CAwx

I haven't seen this name as a potential #veep choice for #harris much, but some think it's him:

#roycooper, govenor of #northcarolina

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democrats-roy-cooper-kamala-harris-top-vp-pick-rcna163844

"...10 states have not expanded Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care for low-income people. They are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

The Affordable Care Act allowed states to expand Medicaid to cover people up to 138% of the federal poverty line. The costs of insuring more people would be paid for primarily with federal funds..."

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/07/25/in-the-10-states-that-didnt-expand-medicaid-1-6m-cant-afford-health-insurance/

#HealthPolicy #Medicaid #insurance #ACA

Insert coughing fit

Hugz & xXx

We watched the #openingceremony and want to remind the world that France has made composting mandatory.

If we can compost on the scale of a country, we can fix the landfills and limit the greenhouse gasses that they generate.

That is how we can start working for the #climate and invest for the future.

What if the possibility of some future revolution is the new opiate of the masses?

I am certainly not defending that orange chump nor do I believe that he actually considers himself to be Christian in any sane definition of that religious belief, but I don't think that we should assert that he told his audience that he's not a Christian.

That part of the speech was mumbled too much imo to know for certain and by us asserting that we do know it reduces what trust his potential supporters might have in other things we say about him.