Notices by alex :disabled_knife: (alex@godforsaken.website)

work & pensions committee is launching an inquiry into the government's proposals to further impoverish benefits claimants. i'm too cynical to believe this will do much good, but it's one possible route of undoing the cuts before they happen.

https://committees.parliament.uk/work/9065/get-britain-working-pathways-to-work/news/206290/governments-welfare-reform-proposals-subject-of-new-committee-inquiry/

the "ghibli-style" AI image filter is not producing "ghibli-style" images because ghibli's "style" is not determined solely by its visual appearance. Studio ghibli would not produce a fascist image, for example. its drawings are made by a team, in a communal studio space, in conversation with each other.

@touk got to be these wee bastards. have actually seen them for real at an exhibition of Harryhausen's work (and got a mug from the gift shop)

captain's log: another crewman has died from the plague. just got to keep professional and get all these rats shipped to our destination.

imagine being a normal estate agent and one day you come into work and your boss, also a normal estate agent, is like tee hee hee hee, i am sending you to meet a most special client, hee hee hee, in transylvania, hee hee hee, ohhhh!!!

(dracula checking his house move checklist) coffin full of dirt, coffin full of dirt. dirt coffin... coffin full of dirt. all ten coffins, full to the brim with dirt. now what am i forgetting? oh yes! 😅 me! (climbs into one of the dirt coffins and closes it) (muffled voice) hit it, horses

i think i'm going to start adding this caveat to any discussion pertaining to finance actually. while i've no doubt that the majority of bankers are upstanding rule-abiders, there's no doubt a determined minority of them are "taking the mickey" and "pilfering from the public purse". but we should of course support the good bankers, who simply can't help their circumstances.

it's astounding to me about how every conversation about disability benefits has to include a disclaimer to the effect of "of course there's undoubtedly some fraudsters taking advantage of the system". like: this is no more true of benefits than it is of any other system? statistically benefits fraud is vanishingly low. and yet no one feels compelled to add this admonitory caveat to any discussion of banking, or employment, or business management, or governance, or or or

(offended) really? during goblin week?

to cut through the liberal equivocation about hand angles etc, one can simply point out it was a nazi salute by definition because it was a salute delivered by someone who is already provably a nazi through his expressed political beliefs and actions. dude could be coming up with totally new salutes and they would already definitionally be nazi expressions.

@floppyplopper oh i think there was, and still is, equivocation about Pepe. liberals love giving fascists the benefit of the doubt.

If i met one of my mufos onhere in real life, I'd be like: oh!, it's [semantic non-language glyph that my brain attaches to the concept of that person when recognising a combination of their pfp, username and personality; an identifying tag which does not have vocal or textual content, but still functions like a word to my interior brain-language]

@Aleums 🧛 💞 🦍

@Aleums Nosferatu x Kong

Shin Nosferatu

very funny to think about dracula moving house

(i'm slowly watching herzogsferatu)

(removal guys): do you want us to pack that big clock with the human skull on it that the skeleton pops out of, count dracula
(dracula): no just the soil please

the publication of "Dracula" introduced readers to a uniquely loathsome and vile creature: estate agents

it's still really funny to me that the main character of "Dracula" is an estate agent