re: @noescapevg.com got me to play Harvestella because I am a deeply weird, curious person. My thoughts come to bear in.... deep-hell.com/sweet-fruits...

Who the fuck is going to buy a PS5 for a grand

"wine moms" this, "wine moms" that, everyone disrespecting moms did nobody fucking learn from the beginning of final fantasy 13?? moms are TOUGH buddy

You should read this settlement offer, even if you're not in the habit of rubbernecking legal cases. J. Remy Green opens Jeff Tarzia up like a can opener in this thing, and we get to see such flashes of brilliance as "arguing with a chatbot over whether trans people are violent (gpt said no)"

Ahead of ex-tropical cyclone Narelle, the dust-filled sky over Shark Bay in Western Australia turned deep red.

It’s really funny to watch the 2011 nardwuar interview with Henry Rollins because everyone in the comments assumes Rollins is genuinely upset or mad, failing to recognize that he’s wearing the same getup he wore in ‘98. Sometimes with nardwuar interviews both host and guest are doing a bit.

Epitaph uploaded this classic video from The Gray Race yesterday and it looks so cwisp www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v-A...

Here it is with the full alt text and a link to download the PDF: crimethinc.com/zines/what-d...

The correct answer to this is not to wring our hands about how some sheet of paper technically defines citizenship a certain more inclusive way; that's institutionalism rather than raw mass democratic politics. We just need to remember that democracy is another pernicious form of authoritarianism.

When you see Christopher Caldwell conceptualizing and defending MAGA as a populist uprising around restoring democracy in the face of elitism & institutionalism, he's entirely correct. They think they're a native autochthonous base whose democratic will is being thwarted and undermined.

Years back there was some absurd pushes by a couple theorists on the left to argue that Trumpism wasn't fascistic but democratic, and of course everyone knew instead that answer is it's entirely both. MAGA is fundamentally a democratic populism for boomers, and that's fascistic to the core.

I keep increasingly emphasizing anarchism's hostility to democracy because folks really need to grapple with how democracy is tied to the evil of borders. A majoritarian collective decision-making process requires inclusions & exclusions, and *regional* exclusion is popular pretty much everywhere.

A one-day walkout is not a general strike. retail businesses closing early is not a general strike. giving folks who are able to take PTO a month to lock that in for May 1 with their managers is not a general strike. It's at best a nice day at the park where you might learn some labor history.

Getting folks out in the streets—that's awesome. Providing an opportunity for other groups, including more radical ones, to organize and get ready for mobilization? fantastic, we love to see it. Lying about organizing a general strike? Now that's not the live mas mentality

man it must be fucking sick to work for Bluesky making like $350,000 a year to give myself AI psychosis and use Claude code to vibe shart Twitter's algorithm into an app anyone can use

if you're wondering why I'm not posting about no kings either positively or negatively we're going to ask ourselves two questions: 1. who the fuck am I that you need to hear my minute-by-minute hot take on a protest rally and 2. why should I repeat the things I said the first several times?

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

am i incredibly naive / uninformed?? bc is this the first i'm hearing about ukraine providing anti-drone tech to the gulf states in support of the US/Israeli war of aggression against Iran? i mean i know where ukraine's bread is buttered but this is news to me www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

seeing this come to life over time has been a gift. micaela is the strongest personal essayist i know, and this is no exception. an incredible, painful piece. stop caring continues to be the home of the field's best work.

Rest in Peace, Mr. Sato from the pillows. It was truly an honor to have been able to work with you and your band. You will be missed by many fans around the world. #thepillows 一緒にアメリカツアーでお仕事が出来たことは一生の思い出と誇りです。ご冥福をお祈り申し上げます。#ピロウズ

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...

Listening to Fucked Up’s Zodiac series and remembering when Mysterious Guy Hardcore was a thing

I can't repost hard enough so: I don't understand, really, how we arrived at this level of ignorance. It's clear though that when we allow "sex & gender are different" to be something libs and McAllies get to use unsupervised, w/o the caveat that sex is neither binary nor immutable, we lose.

Whole ass nation states are attempting to confine trans people to the home—preventing us from using the toilet, playing sports or accessing medical care without exposure to violence—on the basis that “changing your sex is impossible” so if you’re saying that to trans people too, meet your allies.

this is what it's like being a paper for the establishment.

No matter how much feminist rhetoric you use, if you're any kind of essentialist you'll end up talking yourself into bullshit like "men are stronger than women therefore strength is masculine therefore anyone strong is a man" and if that sounds like an absurd hyperbolic strawman exaggeration, well:

Any movement that wants to define who *really* gets to be a woman is ultimately antifemimist and antiwoman. It's that fucking simple.

Technically @rcmacleod.bsky.social isn't giving this article away for free, but this essay is so fucking good it feels criminal that I'm able to access it so easily.

I'm sorry dude you can't fucking call your indie journalism subscription bundle site TRUST FUND but spelled like a quirky tech startup from 2015. you simply cannot fucking do this lmfao

Sony doesn't even have to be the subject of a boycott to be the least appealing console manufacturer, because their shit's far too expensive for so few games relative to everyone else. Like you had a better chance of finding a scalper with a golden heart in 2020 to get a "cheap" PS5 than now.

Of course Sony’s raising prices. Everyone else has. It’d be stupid of them not t- Oh. You mean again. Twice in a little over six months arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Lmao welp

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

the IOC ban on trans competitors really kicked the shit out of me yesterday

In Marathon (2026) it's 2893. there are strange esoteric dei ex machina controlling the major corporations across time and space and you can live in any body you want, but the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers still exists and they're still enforcing 802.11 and the Internet Protocol.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Accelerated for Power Macintosh!

oh hey a new Life Is Strange game featuring Max and Chloe is out. This is a great time to repost @velcrocyborg.bsky.social's 5-year anniversary piece on the game's central choices. noescapevg.com/the-teenage-...

I have complicated feelings about this. On one hand, it was apple's most excessive computer, costing several thousand dollars at minimum and configurable to a ridiculous, house-or-car-flavored price point. On the other hand: where will we get our low-rent memes about cheese graters now

It's gonna get worse.

Signal chats, zines, crowdfunding, black clothes all used as evidence of being “Antifa”(+ coerced confessions/cooperating defendants) If we collectively sit back & let this pass then Prairieland becomes the basis for how they plan to come for all of us. Pay attention. @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social

Please boost the shit out of mainstream media coverage of Prarieland. This is the beginning of a lot of starker political repression and getting normies and libs to freak about it is our number one protective factor.

Michael Ian Black is the kind of liberal who would show up to a house fire carrying a garden hose and when you say "hey good effort but that's not going to be enough to put the fire out" he fucking crashes out on you like "what the fuck? what the fuck? you're turning MY help down? I'm doing my best"

What's really funny to me is that Harry Potter fans talk about having to give up their favorite shit like nobody's ever had to do that before, meanwhile ask any anime fan about Rurouni Kenshin, or any punk fan about Anti-Flag

Wrote about Marathon! And AI! And capitalist dehumanization!

IGN really out here with not one but THREE posts full of photos from the new Harry Potter trailer. That's conspicuous

You cultivated a media environment that made empowered and encouraged the government to crack down violently on student dissent. You shoved the gag in their mouths and ask why they're silent?

Shut the fuck up

review: game good, i like it comment: then explain these player numbers??? We have to take SteamDB away from people who don't know what having taste is.