It’s called a skeuomorph, and many times the camera symbol is one too, as most modern cameras don’t look like that.

Plus he regularly abuses stimulants and appears to be in the middle stages of Alzheimer’s: even if he lives another 10 years I doubt he’ll be in office long before he gets sectional 5’d by Vance.

Jeb! is near the bottom just to the left. Dead center* is the most recent image of Carter, presumably taking a nap.

• and nearly needing a comma between the first two words

I’m more excited for Paralives tbh.

I’m just kind of assuming he’s in mid- to late-stage Alzheimer’s and hopefully won’t last the year, probably getting “Amendment 25, sectional 5’d” by Vance at the earliest opportunity, and I don’t think Vance has enough political will behind him to be a dictator. At least that’s my hope, flimsy as it might be.

Conversely, at most 68 million people voted for Harris. That means roughly 270 million people either didn’t vote or voted for fascists, which means they’re either so disenfranchised they couldn’t vote, are idiots, were scared for their livelihoods and lied to (meaning they’re still idiots, but at least they’re also cowardly), or are fascists themselves.

I don’t know when we’ll learn, but given our ever-deteriorating education system I don’t think it’ll be anytime soon.

Same. The vast majority of us are idiots.

What do you mean? The sun gets chased away every night, though I think that gets outsourced to Sköll, a wolf.

I found it via reverse image search, it appears to be by an artist named Mark Ferrari, specifically one of his older works.

You can see it in action here, it’s the “Highland Ruins - Rain” option.

Apparently he’s worked on Lucasfilm games like Loom and the original Monkey Island, so I’ve inadvertently been a fan of his for a long time.

edit: fixed broken link

Maintaining continuity of consciousness is the only thing that would make me feel comfortable with converting myself to a machine intelligence.

From memes cant, this translates to “always has been,” though case and tense may vary.

mmmm veggie curry

Well have fun, maybe you’ll see me some other year.

Well that’s cool. If you pop by in 2-3 weeks (we go the last two weeks, once with kids and one without) and see a guy with a beard in old skiing goggle sunglasses and pseudo-Viking regalia feel free to say hi and I’ll know I met a fellow weird nerd from Lemmy lol.

Maryland Renfest? We go there in a couple weeks, it’s always a good time. Love to see everyone’s fun costumes and drink mead.

Actually, yes we can, and alarmingly easily at this point, even using his general speech patterns (disjointed as they might be). Though I can’t currently do it at my workstation.

Never dehumanize fascists or fascist-sympathizers (redundant but ok), it’s always important to remember that bad faith actors or their stooges are human and cannot be entirely eliminated from society, which is why people that fight for positive change have to set the rules such that bad faith actors’ actions are either quickly recognized and mitigated, or have society structured such that even those motivated solely by unempathetic selfishness can only achieve status by masking and contributing positively anyway.

Alternatively, as a form of scrotal elephantiasis, it could be a parasitic infection, swollen lymph nodes from either disease or medical procedures like radiotherapy, or more rarely a hernia that causes the intestines to drop into the scrotum.

Ah yes, the classic sign and countersign in memes cant.

Yep, my point being that a trans man (AFAB) and a cis man (AMAB) both have their bed nucleus of the stria terminalis roughly the same size, twice the size of a woman’s. A woman’s is half the size of a man’s, regardless of whether she’s trans (AMAB) or cis (AFAB). So regardless of what the gender is assigned at birth, the relative size of the bed nucleus predicts the gender that the individual feels most comfortable as.