Figure out how to pay my bills offline. No seriously, how did you uncs/aunties do it without online banking?

Do I have to get cheques? How the hell does one get cheques?

Isn’t Bluesky like the most pro-Iran social media site besides some Mastodon instance at this point?

Oh man, this is so Tumblr-coded. I miss pre-Yahoo Tumblr so much…

Yeah, this seems right. I had an easier time going through Brussels Zaventem during the September 2025 airport cyberattacks than I did Dallas-Fort Worth first week of this past January (before the TSA strike started). Even my straightest, cis-est, whitest, most American coworker (this is how he describes himself) got stopped and taken to a separate room for 40 minutes, and then we got rebooked to a flight two days later with no hotel accommodations, and no car. The cherry on top was having to do the whole security dance in full all over again.

Fun.

I’m already in industry and it’s soul sucking 😭 You’re telling me they’re gonna feed on my soul no matter what?

Getting real strong signals from the universe right now that I shouldn’t pursue a Ph.D…

That’s nice, but that doesn’t help us prevent our current predicament, or stop the alienation of disenfranchised voters in the future. Hispanics by and large also voted for Trump, and those were not “protest votes”. That does not mean they deserve the inhumane treatment ICE is perpetuating towards them.

There are 89 million untapped voters, Democrats should be salivating over that. Instead they are pairing with the Cheneys and moving farther right.

Harris broke fundraising records with her candidacy with 64% of those donations being first time donors. They actually could have had the momentum to mobilize non-voters. Instead they capitulated to corporate interests as usual.

Again, the problem isn’t “protest voters”, they are such a small percentage. People focusing on this are ignoring a lot of other factors, and honestly it seems like another way to scapegoat a DNC systemic problem.

Think there’s just more non-voters than this mythically influential “protest voter” everyone keeps talking about. How about we focus on mandatory voting laws and anti-gerrymandering instead of falling for psyops talking points?

You’re really telling me 89 million people “protested” by staying at home, when Kamala lost by 0.96% of the eligible voting population? Or did these people just not care to even show up no matter what?

The image isn’t even used in the article, 100% it’s a ragebait tactic for clicks.

I just googled Tira-292b and you know what, it doesn’t set off that uneasy feeling for me. It just…kind of looks like Westeros? Which is based on parts of Earth so I guess that makes sense.

Alien Biospheres project

Also, thank you for the recommendation, I WILL be checking this out, if only to test my uncanny valley triggers to this a bit more. Time to experiment on myself 😭

Every other planetary surface you’ve seen is rocky dirt, icy dirt, straight-up ice, cratery dirt, or opaque gas clouds

Wait this is so true, and I’ve never even thought about it. Space photography has a lot of pictures from the Moon, Mars, and Venus (I’ve never seen those Titan photos, so thank you for the link), but there are no “real” photos of a planet with oceans. That might be where the “uncanny valley” kicks in, with my brain going “this doesn’t look quite right”. I do get a similar feeling when I see AIgen videos, so you might be onto something!

We almost certainly got no idea what its continents look like at that distance.

I understand this, but I also get unease from RNG maps from games like Age of Empires or Anno, and I’ve talked to a couple of other people who also have experienced this, so I was wondering if there was an underlying psychology to it. However, it’s not an easily Googleable query, and I refuse to ask an AI chatbot about it.

This fit MIGHT get you into Berghain.

No but seriously, why DO continents/landmasses on other planets give a sense of unease/uncanny valley (at least to me)? Is it just the lack of familiarity?

Isn’t the 7 Kingdoms just England? With Scotland being north of the wall (which…LMAO at the implications on that one George)

Futures trading is gonna fucking kill us all. More people have gone to jail over sports betting than market manipulation.

Time to go back to trading pelts.

Bro thinks stealing art gives them the moral high ground? Damn, I wanna know what they’re smoking…

Nah, look at the landscaping in the backyard + loose/random tiling in the bathrooms. I’d be worried about mold.