#dirty trick

[spacevixenmusic]

Source: Ranma ½ [1992]

[lbeth1950]

Perfect Timing

Life presents us some perfect moments it would be a sin to ignore.  Bud, my husband of fifty-four years, and I were walking across a parking lot on a drizzly day when Bud, my husband of fifty-four years, noticed my boot lace was flopping.  “Tie your shoe!” “I’ll tie it when I get inside.  I’m not standing in the rain to tie it,” I spouted. “Stop!  You’re gonna break your dang neck!  I’ll tie…

[odinsblog]

The website says it will help the viewer register to vote. But once a user clicks “Register to Vote,” the experience he or she will have can be very different, depending on where they live.

If a user lives in a state that is not considered competitive in the presidential election, like California or Wyoming for example, they'll be prompted to enter their email addresses and ZIP code and then directed quickly to a voter registration page for their state, or back to the original sign-up section.

But for users who enter a ZIP code that indicates they live in a battleground state, like Pennsylvania or Georgia, the process is very different.

Rather than be directed to their state’s voter registration page, they instead are directed to a highly detailed personal information form, prompted to enter their address, cellphone number and age.

If they agree to submit all that, the system still does not steer them to a voter registration page. Instead, it shows them a “thank you” page.

So that person who wanted help registering to vote? In the end, they got no help at all registering. But they did hand over priceless personal data to a political operation.

Specifically, a political action committee created by Tesla

CEO Elon Musk, one aimed at giving the Republican presidential nominee Trump an advantage in his campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris, the de facto Democratic nominee.

“I have created a PAC, or a super PAC ... the America PAC,” Musk said in a recent interview.

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[auslanderka]

funny yes but not funny haha.

character sorter link

[taehyunghobi]

Hobi's victory dance (aka the pikki pikki dance) 😭🤏

[anticidic]

big fan of the idea of when skk were younger and sparring with one another, they also made dumb bets or said stupid insults to needle one another into bringing their A-game. but by doing this, they also improve one another.

because, normally, Dazai didn't care much to try to match Chuuya's pace while sparring. he'd block kicks and punches and even had the audacity to turn his back and walk away with an exaggerated yawn if Chuuya was doing his usual moves that Dazai already committed to memory when they were 15-16. but with enough persuasion, and a little bit of pride on the line, he'd do his damnedest to come out on top and maybe try new tactics to throw Chuuya off-guard because those times that Chuuya's eyes go wide when he can't predict what Dazai will do next are satisfying and make it worth it to him.

observing how Chuuya moves and why helps Dazai understand Chuuya better as a partner, and it's useful information he tucks away for their missions together—until more than once he's flipped over and lands on the ground or against the wall with a hand against his throat. he blinks several times, and Chuuya can see the gears turning in Dazai's head as he replays in his mind what the hell just happened in the span of not even two seconds for him to be beneath Chuuya with the hard floor digging into his back and a foot pressing down on him.

then Dazai laughs when he sees the challenging look in Chuuya's eyes and something about how weak and pathetic he is for lowering his guard and getting pinned, because now he owes Chuuya something for losing.

...until he doesn't and kicks Chuuya's legs out from under him, making him also fall down. then they repeat. their movements are less fluid and more like two cats fighting on the ground.

there are times where they come up with new moves as a duo so they can work in unison, and times where their session is spent rolling around and wrestling on the ground.

[porterdavis]

Cheat to win

[revcnqe]

【 . . . 】 Fuck  "letting  go."  You  should  be  out  there  with  a  fucking  chainsaw,  going  after  'em.  Where's  your  fucking  RAGE?!

A STUDY IN: Revenge served cold, grief, moral corruption, ruthlessness, suffering for sanity, becoming what one once sought to destroy, doing whatever it takes and being a motherfucker 24/7.

⸻ #revcnqe, independent & semi-selective BILLY BUTCHER from the Amazon Series THE BOYS, as V'd up by 𝚖𝚒𝚍𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝.

[nikisdaughter]

Are u guys trying to tell me that this little kitten here is responsible for almost killing the great Alain Prost in 1990???? I don't believe in u

[sweepingboy]

Mu Qing starts wearing glasses and the next time they are about to throw punches Feng Xin being mindful of their price and fragility carefully takes them off him and kinda forgets he was about to hit that annoying man as Mu Qing blinks in confusion. They both are so startled with the sudden gentleness of the gesture they don't want to fight anymore... The mood is ruined!

[quotidianish]

Adam and mortal lute (louanne) lore

[cephalotyrant]

what really mattered in the book 6 update (based off of these images)

[flying-cat]

my brain, 7 times a day: you mean... you're... quirkless again?

[odinsblog]

Caveat Lector 🚨🚨🚨

Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.

BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.

Mr. Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden's election win in 2020.

But there's no evidence directly linking these images to Mr. Trump's campaign.

The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a “strategic narrative” designed to show Mr. Trump as popular in the black community.

A creator of one of the images told the BBC: “I'm not claiming it's accurate.”

The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November.

Unlike in 2016, when there was evidence of foreign influence campaigns, the AI-generated images found by the BBC appear to have been made and shared by US voters themselves.

One of them was Mark Kaye and his team at a conservative radio show in Florida.

They created an image of Mr. Trump smiling with his arms around a group of black women at a party and shared it on Facebook, where Mr. Kaye has more than one million followers.

At first it looks real, but on closer inspection everyone's skin is a little too shiny and there are missing fingers on people's hands - some tell-tale signs of AI-created images.

“I'm not a photojournalist,” Mr. Kaye tells me from his radio studio. “I'm not out there taking pictures of what's really happening. I'm a storyteller.”

Disinformation tactics in the US presidential elections have evolved since 2016, when Donald Trump won. Back then, there were documented attempts by hostile foreign powers, such as Russia, to use networks of inauthentic accounts to try to sow division and plant particular ideas.

In 2020, the focus was on home-grown disinformation - particularly false narratives that the presidential election was stolen, which were shared widely by US-based social media users and endorsed by Mr. Trump and other Republican politicians.

In 2024, experts warn of a dangerous combination of the two.

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[jacki-daytona]

YOU WON’T TRICK ME WITH CUTE UNCLE BUCK AND JEE.

NOPE NOPE NOPE

[tempo-takoyaki]

Uh oh, someone spiked the tea!

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