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JUST NOW: Dems HAVE flipped the mayor's office in Jacksonville, Florida.

This was the most populous city with a GOP mayor anywhere in the country. No more.

Donna Deegan, who faced attack ads for… simply attending a BLM rally, will be the next mayor.

1. I created a Game Boy filter, which takes any image or video and turns it into a Game Boy screen, including limited Game Boy Color support.

I confusingly turned it into a Twitter account that posted random King of the Hill screenshots turned to Game Boy images, but you could use it for non-King-of-the-Hill content too I guess.

#BoardGames idea: Mend

There are plenty of engine builders out there, where typically you get your engine up and running and then get to turn the crank once or twice before the game ends.

What if, instead, we had an engine maintainer?

Your economic engine would be up and running at the beginning of the game. The task is to maintain it by:

* Repairing or replacing components that wear out over time

* Performing preventive maintenance to prevent wear

* Fine-tuning the engine's efficiency

* Adapting the engine to a (relatively slowly) changing environment

* Occasionally recognizing that an entire multi-component part of your engine needs to be replaced. You'd want to cannibalize what you can to both avoid the expense of buying new things and the cost of disposing of waste; limited space means you do have to get rid of your waste.

Thoughts? Does it already exist?

#GameDesign #mend #mending #repair

Lovely morning to pedal the 17 mostly rural miles to work. #BikeTooter

How do you usually find new bots to follow?

#bots #CreativeBots #botmakers

"The constant diffusion of statements in snippets, the constant excitements of feeling unjustified by fact, the constant formation of hasty or erroneous opinions, must in the end one would think, deteriorate the intelligence of all whom the" ... wait for it .. "telegraph appeals." The Spectator 1889

President Biden cites facts that white supremacy terror is America’s greatest domestic security threat—and MAGAs lose their minds.

Here’s the thing.

I’m Muslim. I don’t feel attacked when people condemn the Taliban because Taliban do not represent Muslims and I proudly take the lead in condemning Taliban terrorism.

If you’re MAGA white and feel personally attacked when Biden condemns white supremacy terror—you are absolutely telling on yourself.

"Isaac Asimov, a visionary in the realm of science fiction, unknowingly pioneered modern Prompt Engineering through his thought-provoking exploration of Human-Robot interactions" (#LLM)

https://lojones.github.io/2023/04/30/asimov-prompt-engineer.html

I need to do an updated #introduction post, since my pinned posts are now out of date. I'm #RaimaLarter, the Nonfiction Editor at Utopia Science Fiction Magazine @UtopiaScienceFiction and we are interested in reading your work!

Send us your #sff & #scifi #fiction, #poetry and short nonfiction #science articles. Submission guidelines here: https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/submit

This is the cover of one our issues from last year, but it's still cool. Get a copy of the new one here: https://www.utopiasciencefiction.com/

Music in the 90's could have taken an entirely different, and way cooler turn than it did...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqGzBqPnNBk

Fantastic #books #bookstodon

Giuliani said he was 'selling pardons for $2 million, which he and Trump would split': ex-associate complaint https://www.alternet.org/giuliani-2660263397/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

A weird poll but:

Do you believe #batman stories have been honest about bruce's and Batman's socio-economical impact on #Gotham City?

I would love to read why you think either way(s) :

Tags: #DC #BruceWayne #Superman #SocioEconomics

"The late Greek Erôtes ("Loves", "Forms of Desire", "Affairs of the Heart"), preserved with manuscripts by Lucian, contains a debate "between two men, Charicles and Callicratidas, over the relative merits of women and boys as vehicles of male sexual pleasure." Callicratidas, "far from being effeminised by his sexual predilection for boys... Callicratidas's inclination renders him hypervirile... Callicratidas's sexual desire for boys, then, makes him more of a man; it does not weaken or subvert his male gender identity but rather consolidates it." In contrast, "Charicles' erotic preference for women seems to have had the corresponding effect of effeminising him: when the reader first encounters him, for example, Charicles is described as exhibiting 'a skillful use of cosmetics, so as to be attractive to women.'""

Interesting...

I had an inkling about this. Is the CEO #birdsite job an #ElonMuck scapegoat set-up?

What you need to know about a glass cliff and why it could put Twitter's new CEO in danger

https://apnews.com/article/233e5eada047694aa743af2e310875e7

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2023 #SL viewer release summaries week #19 - https://wp.me/pxezy-xQq - #SecondLife

Two cats on the patio 😻😻 #CatsOfMastodon

Top economist regrets urging people to accept they are poorer https://trib.al/4QKMJaq #news #worldnews