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Someone should notify Ossoff that there is no link to donate to his senate campaign at the link provided. I mention this since you suggested we donate a few bucks and I tried, without success. I hope this time the Democrats are not going to fall so far behind the Republicans internet-wise, like they have in the past.

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May I offer a coyote meme in these trying times?

Servo Academy's avatar

I swear he was kinda weedy when we voted him in.

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𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘺, 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘶𝘨𝘭𝘺, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘉𝘪𝘨 𝘓𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘑𝘋, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘕𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘣𝘢𝘥 𝘉𝘖 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳.

Since I own a couch (and love seat!) that I purchased from Big Lots, and am very happy with it, and I'm sure it would recoil at the very thought of JV even touching it, I feel that I need to say... BIG LOTS COUCH LIBELZ!!!!!

And Stephen Miller is always invited to fuck himself with a dull, rusty dagger.

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This may be a rather geeky article, but it highlights what sane tech people knew: the AI world has been growing based on "free" usage. That business model ... the one that justifies its existence based on the number of users ... is getting a BIG dose of reality. All of a sudden the cost of using "AI" everywhere is becoming too high to justify its widespread usage. Meaning: if a company has to pay the actual costs of using AI, its value drops YOOGELY. All those AI-bro cheerleaders are now having to grapple with the real world and its costs.

𝗔𝗻𝗴𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝘀 𝘃𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗲 𝗚𝗶𝘁𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗱

'16% of my monthly Pro+ allowance. Gone. For basically nothing'

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/02/github-copilot-users-threaten-exit-as-metered-billing-kicks-in/5249826

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I use Copilot for work sometimes. It still needs some tweaking, but it does save time.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

None of the tools are bad ... I use Claude a fair amount to assist with work tasks. But the amount of money invested isn't going to be able to sustain all the investment in them.

FukuiSanYesOta's avatar

Yeah I use Claude with the cheaper Sonnet engine

PaulDietzel's avatar

I saw the chyron in MSNow the other morning that Claude in one month had spent 500 Million on AI and had realized no profit. I'm not sure that's a sustainable business model.

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

It seems like the only thing AI has accomplished is making people flood the internet with AI slop.

eppe's avatar

At least you, first among equals, are fighting back with high quality kitten pictures. Thank you for your service.

verne's avatar

hear hear eppe

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It's like the AI merchants took a page from the game people. Offer a bit free. Then start subscription nonsense and DLCs.

Only thing is, people will pay for games because games. But they sure ain't gonna be interested in that for most other aspects of life. Should be interesting.

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Are Jill and Joe Biden so hard up for money that she needs to be writing and talking about Joe's cognitive decline five months before the mid-terms?

It's a reflecting Jen!'s avatar

To be sure, I really could not care less considering *waves hand* everything. But, if we do not do anything because there is an election upcoming, we will never do anything, because there is always an election upcoming. In other words, at least it is not one month to the midterms

NatalyaResists's avatar

I can't with this. And I like her!

NatalyaResists's avatar

Dr. Jill's book tour is a little much right now.

VaselineHabits's avatar

It's real fucking weird

Bradthe🤖's avatar

Yeah, I had the exact same thought. They have a net worth of $7 million. This is a vanity project, not a fundraiser. And the timing sucks.

VaselineHabits's avatar

Amazing how "our" peeps also keep showing their ass. I'm frustrated the Bidens still dont understand THIS IS NOT NORMAL TIMES.

TootsStansbury 🇺🇦's avatar

I’m beginning to wonder 😵‍💫

VaselineHabits's avatar

This last 18 months have made me question almost every Dem. I guess the attitude has been "business as usual" and we'll just get through this... but chances are the entire country will be destroyed in that time. For what?! Why the fuck is everyone with power *waiting*?!

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

It is the lack of concern that bothers me ... yeah, maybe those Dems will be OK ... they got their money. But they are NOT thinking beyond the next check to what happens when the fascists actually run all the shit?

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𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐚𝐲, 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐚𝐧

𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑎 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑇𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦’𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡 42 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔

The conservative California community of Huntington Beach, known for banning the Pride flag from city property and fighting the state over pandemic and housing policy, could soon be represented by a gay, Democratic congressman.

Robert Garcia, an incumbent two-term Democratic LGBTQ+ congressman, immigrant and Donald Trump critic, is considered the leading contender in Tuesday’s primary race for the US House seat. Thanks to a successful restricting effort that redrew California’s voting maps to favor Democrats, Huntington Beach is now part of Garcia’s congressional district 42.

California’s redistricting effort, known as Proposition 50, was overwhelmingly approved by voters in November. Trump set off a wave of new mid-decade redistricting after urging Texas to adopt changes to favor Republicans during the midterm elections. California soon followed, as have a number of other states, reshaping representation across the US.

Since 2025 Dave Min, a moderate Democratic, has represented the district that includes Huntington Beach. Conservative officials in the city have expressed frustration about the changes underway.

“It’s just California ugly-ass politics, and they are all about their agenda and not about the people. They don’t care about the people of California one bit,” Pat Burns, a Huntington Beach city councilman, told Reuters.

The Orange county city of just under 200,000 people has some 56,367 Republican voters, and 41,156 Democrats. Its city council is entirely Republican, a group that refers to itself as the “Maga-nificent Seven”, according to SFGate.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/01/california-robert-garcia-huntington-beach-congress-race

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Almost as funny as JK Rowling now being represented by a trans MSP

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a group that refers to itself as the “Maga-nificent Seven”

A group that refers to ITSELF.

God, they sooooo thirsty

C&A Bongo Man's avatar

They do know how many survived that film, don't they?

It's a reflecting Jen!'s avatar

Had to refresh myself on the ending, but then I am not calling myself the Jenificent seven or anything.

Also: I did not know that the original ending had them ALL die, but test audiences did not like it, so they reshot that.

Opalescent Riddles's avatar

Test audiences hated them so much that they wanted them to all get shot a second time? Wow, that's next level unmagnificence!!

RandomNameAllocated's avatar

And weren't they a pretty diverse bunch?

C&A Bongo Man's avatar

What, the Swiss-Russian-Mongolian or the German Mexican?

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Clark is trouble with a capital "T"

2Cats2Furious's avatar

There’s a treat right by your back left paw, Clark!

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

The Mini Crew just absolutely lurves their treats!

2Cats2Furious's avatar

Have you introduced them to TUBES? They are the most favorite treat at Casa 2Cats.

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

I got Churu. They absolutely love Churu.

2Cats2Furious's avatar

Churu is the brand preferred by Pi and Axl as well. I’m pretty sure it qualifies as kitteh crack.

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Lord, I did NOT sleep last night. My mind was racing about how excited I am to squeeze some more cash out of my paycheck to start paying ahead on the condo. I'm fairly certain that I can get it paid off by my 55th birthday, which would save me nearly $35K in interest. If I paid the mortgage as is, I would pay like nearly $45K in interest and HELL NO. So I'm reworking my budget so that I pay certain bills ealier than others. I love futzing with my budget.

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Meanwhile, in the continuing Saga of Evil:

"The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago to monitor coastal environments, marine ecosystems and powerful currents that affect the global climate."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Bradthe🤖's avatar

That’s so we can’t see the quickly approaching AMOC collapse!

The Wanderer's avatar

It's a Chinese hoax, you know.

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

Because of course he's going to do that.

MRK's avatar

That's going to cost more to dismantle than it does to keep it running.

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

Yeah. Trump is dismantling it so that he divert most of the cost of the dismantling of the system into the pockets of oligarchs and, of course himself.

It's all about the grift and the graft.

VaselineHabits's avatar

We need to take ALL the money these "rich" have to repair it. Deport and Ban Musk, take everything from him and same with Thiel if they have assets in the US.

Bezos, Zuck, Trump, etc - taxed at 99% I'm so fucking over this shit.

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what other budget did he illegally raid for funds?

It's a reflecting Jen!'s avatar

Tax payer money so he don't care

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8 killed in Lebanon the world shrugs. 8 killed in Ukraine in “massive wave of strikes” and world is ZOMG!!1!!

It's a reflecting Jen!'s avatar

To be fair, not shrugging this time. Not sure why this attack is different from the 45234523 others Israel has launched against Lebanon since they started doing that again, maybe because it scuttled the peace "deal" but at least it is actually being reported.

VaselineHabits's avatar

I think people are getting real sick of Isreal/Bibi's shit. Even red hats have their "celebrities" talking about how evil Isreal is.

Maybe the tide is fucking turning 458726388 times later

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To be sure, they are talking about how evil Israel is because of the (((Jews))) and how it can't POSSIBLY be Trump's fault. Without pausing to consider how really bad it makes Trump look to go about claiming some tiny middle eastern company totally controls him.

But logic and reason and, indeed, even thought, are not their strongest suits.

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The Mini Crew are sleeping in their Refuge Condo. They are up in their little loft sleeping. I'm here at Workstation with Simba who is so happy to hang out with me without Lewis and Clark pestering the shit out of him. Here is a pic of the Mini Crew taken earlier: Lewis and Clark. Clark is the orange kitty. (They are difficult to photograph while they are mayhemming.)

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ETSk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2Fa200d983-6ac4-4995-83e6-4c11436e7156%2F65d8bdd7-0aa5-40d7-8e3f-69875e003ac3.jpeg

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I would never be able to sleep with those cuties around!

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

I needed earplugs because Mini Crew decided to play inside the Refuge Condo. They made a lot of noise before they finally settled down and fell asleep. The Refuge Condo takes up about 2/5ths of my bed.

M-X's avatar

They are perfect kittens. Seriously!!!!

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

They are also purrfect. Simba and LF are purr monsters but the Mini Crew is at a whole different level.

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"Reporting for duty, Sir!"

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

Li'l Feller is in Finland right now.

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I flew Thai Asia Airlines to Cambodia with an all female crew 2 years ago.

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[Ed. Note: SpaceX is also twitter & Grok. Elno merged his two loser companies into SpaceX to hide how bad they suck. Now let's see what happens when SpaceX starts trading publicly]

𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘟 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 “𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘥𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘣𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘰𝘳 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦.”

𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗸 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗫’𝘀 𝗜𝗣𝗢

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/01/water-access-is-now-a-risk-factor-in-spacexs-ipo/

MRK's avatar

The utter fantasy of both his space and AI goals, the absurdity of how much money he says they can make, and the fact that his companies have only ever survived on stock manipulation and government contracts and/or subsidies should all tank the price of that IPO, if it had any connection to the actual viability of the company.

It's a reflecting Jen!'s avatar

Translation: Remove the regs. People can buy gatorade!

Bradthe🤖's avatar

Brawndo, it’s got electrolytes!

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

I'm so fucking tired of this data center bullshite.

PaulDietzel's avatar

And I'm so fucking tired of any of this Elon bullshite.

tek's avatar

The SpaceX IPO valuation should be $49.95 plus shipping and handling.

Thixotropickle's avatar

1 pint per paragraph.

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

I think the going rate for software grunts actually documenting their shit properly is about a gallon of blood per paragraph. And they are very short paragraphs.

Hamilton & The Crew TEAM ALGAE's avatar

Nice to see Thai Airlines get with the program this one time.

Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Ben Shapiro won't be flying Thai Airlines anymore ...

verne's avatar

but he certainly will fly with the dolt who intentionally drove elno's fisher price truck into a texas lake