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do i know anybody i could commission to make some ANSI art?

edit: will respond to everyone roughly in the order of replies once i recover from travel

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the tech company is certain. "cats want to know what time it is!". they design a wristwatch for cats. a watch, to tell cats what time it is. but adoption is poor. cats aren't using the product. "actually, cats just want to know whether it is time for dinner". a new streamlined version, to tell the cat whether it is dinner time. still no success. billions wasted. more research. "it seems cats just want to eat dinner". theres no tech solution to this. whole department is laid off. cats still unfed

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"In the last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries - some as many as three or four times.
None of those countries has ever attacked Russia.
So (Russia) doesn't need security guarantees.
The Security guarantees are needed for everybody else."
- Kaja Kallas, Fmr. PM of Estonia

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How to be a modern autocrat. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#democracy #dictators #leadership

Cartoon showing 4 big steps, with small white men trying to climb up the giant steps. A big sign reads 'How to be a modern autocrat - training course'. The first step has a sign that reads 'Be a narcissist'; the little men on this step are gazing into mirrors. The second step has a sign that reads 'Deny reality'; the little men on this step are doing a quiz. The question on the screen is 'Climate change is A: Real B: Fake'. The contestants all choose the answer 'fake'. The third step has a sign that reads 'point the blame'; a little man on this step is directing riot police, who are driving a migrant family over the edge, into a giant waste bin that is already filled with people carrying signs 'See the earth' and 'human rights'. The fourth and final step on the ladder has a sign 'Grab power' and a red chair, place on a red carpet.

@Larix_Fleur @JonaLendering

Dit wordt wat te "meta":

TL;NG: "De functie van het woord [paradigma] is: aangeven dat wat volgt, grotendeels onzin is."

Dus, "waarom is paradigma?" ;-)

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Sommige woorden zijn nuttig omdat ze nutteloos zijn geworden. "Paradigma" is zo'n woord.

https://mainzerbeobachter.com/2025/12/15/nuttig-en-nutteloos-paradigma/

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Gisteren was ik samen met cartoonisten Hajo de Reijger en Jip van den Toorn te gast bij de podcast 'De Cartooncrisis' van HUMAN. We gingen in gesprek met Stine Jensen over het afgelopen jaar en wat 2026 ons zal brengen (en hoe we daarover gaan tekenen).

Luister 'm hier: https://npo.nl/luister/podcasts/953-de-cartooncrisis/134728

Foto van Tjeerd Royaards, Jip van den Toorn, Hajo de Reijger en Stine Jensen.

@jonathankoren @X00001 @nocontexttrek

OR Riker is just vibing and can't tell an android's bottom from a chicken's cloaca

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Disney gives OpenAI a billion dollars, sets new world record for ransom payments.

https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/11/openai-and-disney-reach-landmark-agreement-to-license-characters-on-sora/

Anyway here’s a Mickey Mouse 35mm camera.

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Since yesterday my server has again been getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers. This time, though, load is below 1, but I'm getting up to 10 requests a second and all of my Apache workers are in state "R". What levers do I have to pull on this? ...

UPDATE:

Please do not hit reply to tell me about robots.txt or the first shit you googled. I had specific technical questions and would like specific technical answers, not vibes.

https://jwz.org/b/yk0T

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@rtvnoord houdt een enquête over vuurwerk voor Groningers:

#groningen
https://mstdn.social/@rtvnoord/115707528265381844

@JonaLendering
En wiens uitvinding was nieuwerwets Kerstmis? Disney all the way down? Maybe Warner Brothers?

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Two Europes. Cartoon from 2022.

#migrants #Europe #HumanRights

Cartoons showing a bridge with a fancy gate at the end with EU banners hanging on either side. Rich white people are walking freely in and out of the gate. Beneath the bridge hangs a rusty cage filled with migrants. Border patrols are chasing other migrants with dogs.

@scalzi

birds of a feather

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Begrijp dit: het ministerie van Klimaat en Groene Groei besluit een vergunning te verlenen aan #Nobian voor het doorgaan met de zoutwinning in het zogenoemde Heiligerleeveld.
Hoezo?
#groningen #zoutwinning
https://www.rtvnoord.nl/politiek/RX-846/zorgen-over-verlengen-zoutwinning-bij-heiligerlee-omwonenden-spannen-rechtszaak-aan-update

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#Amsterdam, #Utrecht #Groningen, #Deventer, #Gouda, #Haarderwijk. Alles niederländische Städte die als "schön" und "gezellig" gelten. Meistens wird gesagt, wegen der tollen, alten Gebäude. So was hat halt #Duisburg, #Essen, #Bochum o. #Dortmund nicht.

Mitlw denke ich, dass das Unfug ist. NL Städte kübeln halt einfach nicht immer weiter #Autos in ihre Stadt. Das vor allem macht die Städte lebenswert. Die #Ruhrgebiet sstädte verstehen es einfach nicht.

#autokorrektur
#verkehrswende
#Feinstaub

@krijnsoeteman

Ik kom ook vaak fietsen en zelfs bromfietsen tegen waarvan de koplamp niet verstelbaar is. Worden die dingen dan niet gekeurd?

@krijnsoeteman

Hoe vaak hoor ik mijzelf niet roepen naar andere tweewielers: "Richt die lamp omlaag!"

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