I am happy some new people carried some signs. I am extremely sad they didn't talk to the previous sign holders though.

Rob Dyrdek > Joe Rogan

Dear Underwear Company,

I bought a pair of underwear. They are nice underwear. I like my new underwear. The underwear are well made and comfortable. I am likely to buy another pair of underwear when I need them. At least, I was.

At first, everything was great with my new underwear. They were cute, really cute. They had hearts and pretty sugar skulls and slightly creepy but also cute dead looking but still colorful butterflies with translucent wings. They were comfy underwear, and made me feel good. When I wore them, I felt cute myself. They were, I thought at the time, the perfect underwear.

So when I got a message about my new underwear, I was excited. Yes, I said, I do love my underwear. Yes, I said, I would buy more underwear. Yes, I thought, this is what buying underwear should be like.

But then another message came. And another. And another. Soon, I was getting multiple messages a day.

Yes, my underwear arrived. Yes, I like my underwear. Yes, I know you have other styles of underwear. Yes, I still like my underwear. Yes, I want to unsubscribe. Yes, I know you still have other styles of underwear. Yes, I saw this new line of underwear. Yes, I really tried to unsubscribe. Yes, I know where I can buy more underwear. Yes, I tried again to unsubscribe. Yes, please, I’m begging you, unsubscribe me, please.

It was becoming too much. I didn’t realize just how far it would go.

Soon I saw my underwear on every site I visited. Reading the news. “This is your underwear.” Looking for a recipe. “Your underwear look like this.” Chatting with my friends. “I know what you are wearing for underwear.”

There was nowhere to go. Anywhere I went, you were there, showing me my underwear, telling me you could find me, letting me know in your friendly voice of customer service and product joy that you will never leave me. Making very sure I understand that you will always be right there, wherever I go, whatever I do. You will will always be as close to me as my underwear.

I don’t want this. I don’t want any of this and I don’t know how to escape. I’m just a girl who wanted a new pair of underwear. I didn’t want to be married to your presence, for ever stalked through the darkened streets of the information highway unable to escape. I didn’t want to be followed around the internet worried who is watching me behind every page scroll. I just wanted a pair of underwear.

Please, please stop stalking me. Please, just let me go. I’m begging you. I don’t even wear underwear anymore. I can’t wear them. I wear loose pants, long skirts, with nothing on underneath. I’m afraid of even trying to wear underwear. I can’t stand the feel them constricting me, holding me, pinning me to an existence of reminders and suggestions and ever present images of what I might be wearing underneath my clothing.

I can’t take another day of you hiding beneath an amateur video of baby sea otters playing in the surf only to spring out at me to tell me that I should buy another pair of your underwear in the Baby Sea Otter Collection which you know I will like. Which you are telling me I will like. Which you are making clear that either I will like or you will follow me until I see reason and buy another pair of underwear so you can wrap yourself around my existence, slowly, gently, firmly, like a python coils around its beloved prey.

Please, Company. Please, just leave me alone. I don’t want another pair of underwear. I don’t want an unsubscribe button, I don’t want an apology, I don’t want reconciliation. I don’t want anything from you at all. I just want to have a normal life. I just want to be left alone.

Please, Company. Please just stop following me. Please.

Miracles do happen: https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/bags-of-cash-stolen-brinks-armored-truck-oak-park/

Criminalizing carrying cash is a problem. Framing it as suspicious is something cops do. Stop it.

@shuvit So stupid.

Hello, Lovely Peeps! 👋

I have a fun, gentle project for you! 😊

For anyone interested, below is the link to "One Minute Park" where you can see one minute of a park from various places in the world & can contribute your own.

https://oneminutepark.tv

THIS IS NOT A WEBCAM - this is a one-minute video, shot by someone there & uploaded.

Eventually they hope to have enough (1440) to fill an entire day. So far they have 219. 👍

#Japan, #UK, #Italy, #Brazil, #USA, #France, #China, #Slovenia, #Australia, #Finland, #Belgium, #Scotland, #Germany, #NewZealand, #Thailand & more are all represented.

(The location of the park is in small print in white in the lower right corner, sound, browse & info buttons are in white in the lower left corner. (They can be hard to see.))

(from website)

How to make a One Minute Park

Walk around a park until you find a composition. Your scene should be filled with many layers of activity without any dominating elements.

Record in landscape mode on your phone. Keep your shot as steady as you can but don't use a tripod. You could even hold your breath. Check the timecode indicator while filming to make your video exactly 60 seconds. Tap record, let it count up to 60, and tap again. No editing needed!

Upload your One Minute Park to this Are.na channel. Videos should be in .mp4 format. Please include the date, time, park, location in the block's title.

I'm looking forward to this! 🤩

#Park #Video #Nature #Outside #GoOutsideForMe

This is all so stupid.

It is very weird seeing all these protest posts. The last time I attended a protest, democrats dramatically worsened the actions being protested out of spite for the protests.

@shuvit such a cool take on transition riding 🔥

If the people whose job it is to keep tabs on protests don't show up to your protest, did it happen?

@alienmelon It has significant problematic sides, but Tony Hawk putting his profits from the games towards The Skatepark Project has helped create over 600 public parks.

The developers of SuperTuxKart, the free and open source kart racing game, have announced they're planning to move to Godot Engine.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/supertuxkart-is-moving-to-godot-engine/

#FreeGame #OpenSource #Racing #GodotEngine

Riis Park Fieldhouse Reopens After Years-In-The Making Renovation
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/01/riis-park-fieldhouse-reopens-after-years-in-the-making-renovation/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Block Club Chicago @block-club-chicago-BlockClubCh

All this time, I am trying to tell you that the thing you do to stop Musk and his companies, is the thing you do to stop fascism, and is the same thing you do to end capitalism before these mad fuckers who care nothing at all for human life and dignity, boil us all alive.

I'm trying to explain it the best I can, but there's a limit to how much I can say in a fascist police state and that limit is not worth testing when I know you already know what I mean.

Shut it down. All of it.

Non-USians wondering why Americans aren’t having mass protests should perhaps consider what happened *last* time we had a national protest movement here, all of - let me check my notes - 5 years ago.

Yes, I am referring to the George Floyd protests in 2020, by some measures the largest protest movement in American history.

#USPol #USPolitics

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i think IDEs which allow you to use "AI" to generate code should always display those specific lines of code in Comic Sans

the fediverse is so full of communists that instead of having many spammers we have one spammer and we all have to share her

"California legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might sound like a reasonable step toward transparency. But it’s an impossible standard that could crush small AI startups and developers while giving big tech firms even more power."

Trash take.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/californias-ab-412-bill-could-crush-startups-and-cement-big-tech-ai-monopoly

DATE: March 16, 2025 at 09:00AM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: Merely Watching Scenes of Nature Can Reduce Pain, Says New Study

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/merely-watching-scenes-of-nature-can-reduce-pain-says-new-study/

A new neuroimaging report says merely looking at nature can help ease how people experience pain by reducing the brain activity linked to pain perception. It is well known to reduce feelings of anxiety and depression as well, and the report serves as a reminder of how much good the great outdoors can do for […]

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