Horses is a Very Bad Time and I highly recommend it. Here’s me on Valve and Epic deciding that a critique of how the powerful use conservative moralism to oppress others is too morally objectionable for their platforms www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...

I think it's worth pointing out that very few video-game companies are as transparent as Shovel Knight maker Yacht Club Games, and I appreciate that the studio was so candid about their story and why their next game, Mina the Hollower, has taken so long www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We love her

wait why do i have a "hate symbol" label? let me just look into... oh for fuck's sake

i love this point bc it really is so absurd that so much of transmisogyny is predicated on protecting girls from the violence of boys so one would think that actively encouraging boys to view girls as their peers and confidants would be good. and yet

not to be harsh but some of you are unknowing puppets of evil and i detest you because i think you make the world a worse place through your actions that perpetuate suffering and misery. i am ideologically opposed to every manifestation of your will because you are a tar pit and a black hole of ill.

I've been into this for a while

1725: Why the fuck did I lose my left hand for the same wages I earned while being 10x more productive than last year? Who the fuck is benefiting here? 2025: Why am I losing my job to a machine that encourages kids to kill themselves and can't actually do my job? Who the fuck is benefiting here?

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

I will always say, the problem American liberals have isn't the actions the current regime is taking, it's that they're not polite, they are crass, rude, they use slurs in public & not in private. If Trump acted like a Bush or a Romney, they'd be a-ok with him.

this is why liberals won't call for actual consequences. nothing trump is doing is something we didn't spend two decades doing throughout the middle east, central asia and africa during the war on terror. it's just that trump brags about it on social media too much

I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...

White House ratio'd by the smallest possible pop star.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

i’m setting you free. i’m releasing you from the discourse

[trans people fired from all federal jobs] [trans people fired from all military jobs] [trans people fired from jobs everywhere] [cis people fired for being accused of being trans] [cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist] [trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi] liberal:

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

A really important thing to learn about fascism imo is that one of its most appealing traits to followers is giving a “place” to the talentless and mediocre so long as they tow the line enthusiastically and assert their superiority to the designated Other.

A lot of what people imagine politically for this country can't actually happen under the current Democratic party. That's something that I don't see lots of people actually reckoning with. There is no way to do most of the things that some people want to do through the Democratic party.

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Believe.

Too many Americans unable to reason have 4 year degrees now because academia has become even more of a class gateway and pay to play than it already was and it’s fucking stupid and it’s making our institutions look like jokes to the rest of the world

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As folks have noted in the replies, the student's mother is something of a MAGA public figure (and lawyer). This is obviously a purposeful stunt to attack a trans graduate student, which is sick af and must be opposed on the grounds. It is simultaneously an assault on university pedagogy.

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It really is precisely the inverse of how much work you actually are doing

This is all true but 1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law 2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all

being ruled by tiny men bereft of both curiosity and the ability to feel wonder is a terrible fate

there’s something so depressing from recognition of the fact that somehow hakeem jeffries is without a doubt the better of the two dem legislative leaders

this headline, and much of the reporting, is the result of believing that the key to good journalism is never taking a position

we gotta do something about the tech world

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

It's maddening that it's considered smart politics to meekly mumble these idiotic slogans in response to being called Socialist instead of saying "Yeah asshole it's good when people have enough to live on and it's bad when billionaire sociopaths abuse us all"

it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago

Pelosi, etc., singing approval for Enhanced Interrogation methods, with the words used being verbatim translations from the Nazi SS handbook for torture of political prisoners and anyone they felt like harming, etc.

I'd believe the Democrats more if Obama didn't spend most of his time in office trying to destroy Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden for revealing the illegal orders that were being carried out.

Bolsonaro may die in prison. Bangladesh's PM was just sentenced to death for ordering last year's brutal crackdown. Are any politicians running on a "We gotta start stacking these fascists like fucking cordwood" platform?

Help, my infinite number of monkeys keeps writing smutty little stories about Christmas elves

tbf I think the fact that execs and managers are infinitely less accountable in the immediate because they've built insane amounts of institutional trust to get to where they are explains this. It's not that frontline staff can't use AI, its that if THEY do it and it fucks up, they'll get fired lol

"how are we going to reach all these disaffected young men turning towards radical right-wing politics in america?"

made a terrible mistake on a couple deadlines and now I find myself w a 1k debt, so I'll be taking more commissions

Hey libs if you really wanna hashtag resist you should read “State and Revolution”

I am challenging The Grinch to a debate

Brutus writing the script Ohio in the snow and the Michigan grounds crew scrambling to get rid of it is a perfect mascot bit

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)