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C_Chell

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Administrator of http://www.canterlotcomics.com ( @CanterlotComics ), http://www.c-chell.fr and this instance.
My OCs can be found on this page : https://www.canterlotcomics.com/comic/en/404_kimi_not_found-404

Comics website	https://www.canterlotcomics.com/
News website	https://www.c-chell.fr/
Alternative account	@C_Chell
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TheOldGuy 10h ago

Fun fact (bof) : il est totalement impossible de faire générer une photo d’une montre marquant 4h37 à une IA générative même la plus avancée du moment ; elles ont toutes été massivement entraînées sur des images marquant le fameux 10h10 des publicités.

S’il vous fallait un paradigme du biais, vous l’avez.

Jen Sorensen 9h ago

A recent comic on the US giving international tourists the Big Brother treatment

#comic #cartoon #uspol #travel #firstamendment #privacy

BlueWave 11h ago

Rendez-vous ce soir dès 21 heures pour le BLive !
https://twitch.tv/BlueWave_FM

BlueWave_FM - Twitch

On fait des podcasts, principalement audio, et on les publie de manière indépendante. Nouvelles technologies, jeux vidéo, animation, livres, musique, sport ou la politique, BlueWave s'ouvre à tous ceux qui ont une passion et qui souhaitent la partager.

Twitch

Sunset Shimmer 13h ago

Wishin' you all the coziest and enjoyable Saturday!~ ♥

Me gamin with Some nice gal's

Exactly!

C_Chell 10h ago

NsLetter 10h ago

New Bronymail article #611
https://www.c-chell.fr/Article/1215
#Brony #newsletter

C-Chell - BronyMail n°611 publié le Samedi 28 Juin 2025

C_Chell 15h ago

NicolasDumoulin Jun 11

« Pourquoi croyez-vous que tant d'États et de gouvernements à travers le monde ignorent ce qu'il se passe à Gaza »
#GretaThunberg « À cause du racisme »

C_Chell 16h ago

ActusFR [🤖]17h ago

Des médecins désarmés face au protoxyde d’azote : "J’en viens presque à supplier certains patients de venir en consultation"
🗞️ Libération - 🕐 28/06 05:41
De l’aveu même des médecins, c’est du «jamais vu». Chaque mois, les urgences des hôpitaux français reçoivent plusieurs patients pour des troubles liés à la consommation de protoxyde d’azote. Bien souvent, un suivi leur est proposé, soit en neurologie... [380 chars]
🔗 https://www.liberation.fr/societe/des-medecins-desarmes-face-au-protoxyde-dazote-jen-viens-presque-a-supplier-certains-patients-de-venir-en-consultation-20250627_V55KXFSAENDTJLE6I3R7C5SN7E/
#actu #news #presse #libération

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Exactly!

nicopap 16h ago

@sjvn The obvious difference being that if you release a cigarette in nature, it will linger and pollute. While a squirrel will start digging in nuts a bit everywhere as if driven by an ultimate moral imperative.

@sjvn poor squirrel!

Melroy van den Berg 15h ago

@sjvn they are also harmful for the environment, even if it's not used. And just land up in the landfill.

Richard Levitte 12h ago

@sjvn My brain went "who would ever put a squirrel in their mouth???... oh"

@sjvn Oh, come on. Squirrels don't deserve this even if they eat all the bird food.

Michael Vilain 10h ago

@sjvn When @pluralistic said he quit smoking because he realized he was burning through 2 to 3 laptops/year, this perspective boggles my mind.

I never smoked or wanted to. Both my parents and sister did. RIP.

@mvilain
The biggest thing that drove me away from smoking as a teen was seeing computers caked with the resultant gunk. I could never do that to computers.
(Sometime not too long later, I realized I may have a small amount of autism.)
@sjvn @pluralistic

Allpoints 8h ago

@ozzelot @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic I recall cleaning old radio gear that was owned by heavy smokers. It was often sticky on the inside with smoke residue. That was just from smoke in the air. I can only imagine what the inside of their lungs were like. I sometimes spent more time cleaning that gear than I did getting it back into working condition.
#HamRadio #AmateurRadio

zombiewarrior 9h ago

@mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic

i apologize if you already know this but i am compelled to point out that after the big tobacco settlement a couple decades ago people dug into the 'discovery' information provided and found that scientists at tobacco companies had realized that polonium was absorbed by tobacco plants roots from the soil, and when smoked would create tiny deposits of these alpha particles in smoker's lungs that caused cancer
they realized this in like the 30s, and developed a technique of 'acid washing' that could remove some or all of the polonium, but also removed nicotine, making the cigarettes less addictive
so they never did it
they settled for billions of dollars with the understanding they couldn't be sued again for anything else related to the case
i myself smoked cigarettes for many years and so did my dad (he quit before that specific thing killed him), and i 'quit' many many times (finally for real now)

mtconleyuk 9h ago

@zombiewarrior @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic
This article from the NIH indicates that they realised this back in the 1970s (‘40 years ago’ in the article, which is from 2008, so almost 60 years ago today). Polonium is very rare in soil, but apparently occurs in sufficient quantity in phosphate fertilisers that it can pose a cancer risk.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2509609/

Waking a Sleeping Giant: The Tobacco Industry’s Response to the Polonium-210 Issue

The major tobacco manufacturers discovered that polonium was part of tobacco and tobacco smoke more than 40 years ago and attempted, but failed, to remove this radioactive substance from their products. Internal tobacco industry documents reveal ...

PubMed Central (PMC)

Poloniousmonk 9h ago

@zombiewarrior @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic

Tobacco companies are no more ethical than your streetcorner meth dealer.

Less, usually.

@zombiewarrior @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic

Similarly: The oil industry knew for 70 years what burning oil does to the climate and has been actively undermining that truth for 50 years. They accurately predicted the #ClimateCatastrophe that's now upon us and decided to ignore it for profit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research

Revealed: Exxon made ‘breathtakingly’ accurate climate predictions in 1970s and 80s

Oil company drove some of the leading science of the era only to publicly dismiss global heating

The Guardian

Cavyherd 5h ago

@zombiewarrior @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic

I'm weirdly grateful to my chainsmoking parents for smoking so unbelieveably obnoxiously much that it put me off the whole concept for ever.

@cavyherd @zombiewarrior @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic My parents were both smokers; as a young kid I grew up breathing Old Gold and pipe tobacco exhaust. Smoking's one bad habit I never took up, thank goodness.

Noodlemaz 4h ago

@cavyherd @zombiewarrior @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic I sort of have that but I also watched my dad literally be eaten from the inside by so much cancer, it eventually got through his skin. He wasted away in front of us, only quitting just before an emergency diagnosis.

A product that kills *HALF* of all its users should not be available anywhere on the planet.

Cavyherd 2h ago

@noodlemaz @zombiewarrior @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic

...unless you have enough money to buy the regulators 🤦

Michael Vilain 46m ago

@cavyherd @noodlemaz @zombiewarrior @sjvn @pluralistic

When a billionaire dies, who inherits their Senators?

zombiewarrior 38m ago

@mvilain @cavyherd @noodlemaz @sjvn @pluralistic should be buried with them in a pyramid or something

Stefan Edward Jones 20m ago

@mvilain @cavyherd @noodlemaz @zombiewarrior @sjvn @pluralistic I'm kind of hoping they are buried alive in the billionaire's tomb.

This should happen to Trump's cabinet and advisors when he kicks the bucket.

I imagine that Miller might survive the longest, eating the flesh of the others and drinking the visitor- piss leaking into the tomb from above.

zombiewarrior 4h ago

@cavyherd @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic

so have quit, and stopped, and quit etc
one of the things that always struck me is like, if you haven't smoked or not for awhile, and you have even a couple puffs off a cigarette, i at least, will get completely sick to my stomach and nauseous for awhile afterwards
that really says something about addiction that even after experiencing that every time, you just keep smoking

D Whatson 3h ago

@zombiewarrior @cavyherd @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic I smoked for years and finally managed to quit. That was over a decade ago. These days, just the smell of a burning cigarette is enough to make me nauseous.

zombiewarrior 9h ago

@mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic the power of doctorow compels me

Wandrecanada 9h ago

@mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic At a much younger age I worked at a neighborhood convenience store. It was the 90s so they sold a lot of cigarettes.

After seeing local addicts daily for a few years and how much money they lost on their addiction I was never tempted to start. One couple bought 3-4 cartons a week. When I did the math it was like buying a small yacht every year.

Michael Vilain 8h ago

@wandrecanada @sjvn @pluralistic I'm so glad I was imprinted with my "comfort food" early in life (12) when I was given hot, sweet tea to settle after a car accident prior to going to the ER to get checked out. Tea has been my "drug of choice" for almost 60 years with sugar a close second.

Wandrecanada 7h ago

@mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic Yep mine is diet soda now. Kept me off alcohol and smoking for almost 20 years.

@wandrecanada @mvilain @sjvn @pluralistic
Ah #capitalism. Getting folk hooked on shit (that they don't need, wrecks their health and wrecks the environment) since 1614!

@mvilain @pluralistic @sjvn It is similar for alcohol.

Even with the cheapest vodka possible, the cost is absurd.

Radio Free Trumpistan 9h ago

@sjvn
One problem with the OP statement: unlit cigarettes not in the mouth have still proven hazardous to the workers who put cigarettes together.

Zoidberg For President 4h ago

@sjvn Actually false... their very existence is dangerous actually...

But nice joke, leave the squirrels alone though. :p