when the party tank and dps are happily married #wenduag

Fucking hell. The music in this episode of Batman: The Animated Series has no right to go this hard.

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Audiences, famously, don't know what they want I sure know *I* don't know. I know what I want to *create* but that's because I'm a weird freak. So, make stuff you want to make, and you'll find an audience. Or not! But do it anyway.

bad news about what estrogen does...

There is an undeniable shared understanding in humanity. When people see "I hope this year it will happen" there is not a slightest doubt what "it" means.

Perhaps no man embodies our time more than he did. 🫡

one last time, for the road

they're gonna just ship 2026 in unplayable condition and hope some community management bullshit will bridge the gap until the first major updates, I can tell

For me, I saw him as a man who struggled all of his incarnation with the reckoning that the Time Lords gave him a new regeneration cycle when by all rights he should have been dead. In the face of this unprecedented gift he asked, "am I a good man?" As in, am I worthy of this new lease on life?

Ms. Rachel's stated main reason for wanting to be involved in Mamdani's admission is so kids get free books.

my one plea as we ring in the new year with Zohran being sworn in as mayor is to take some fucking wins he’s not going to be perfect, there will be setbacks and disappointments, but take some joy and some pride in the good that comes out of this good things are more durable when we celebrate them

noodle faces

One last pride-related piece before the end of the month

A year and a half ago or so, I read that an entire stadium in Tacoma had booed a trans runner. I wanted to know more. She was 16, and she had stood on a podium in one of the country’s most liberal states and listened to 10,000 people boo her. What I learned surprised me: wapo.st/49lnBUK

Here, in case you missed it, is the first entry of @radleybalko.bsky.social's highly detailed takedown of the attempts to exonerate Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. Fact-based and overwhelmingly persuasive. But "The Free Press" didn't think that mattered.

Weiss believes she is engaged in a game in which the point is self-aggrandizement, and that everyone else is involved in that same game, and she fundamentally cannot *understand* criticism on the grounds of integrity or virtue.

I just sniped a kid in Overwatch and he wrote "ohhh Kirked me" and I just found out they're using that as shorthand for a good snipe HOLY SHIT LOL

Yes, YES.

I don’t love that NYE every year leans harder and harder into being a “fireworks” holiday.

"I'm actually a real nice guy you fucking bitch"

Here's another one I like. This one's from Sam Morril:

I'm glad to see more normies and normie adjacent figures fucking finally talking about the subject, specially by bringing actual sex workers to talk about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjWU...

Anime, VTubing, adult content, table top, and videos games. So basically, anything fun is "high fraud risk". Got a complaint? Here's a list of their numbers. And a couple helpful links to contact other paypros. #SaveSpeech #StopPayPros stop-paypros.neocities.org anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor. Who could have predicted? Oh, right.

"Bad Company" is one of the best-written and most readable books I've read during this godawful year. @greenwell.bsky.social did a great job with this! Thanks!

Extremely cute and inoffensive SFW furry art account gets nuked by paypros. Come on, this is insane. Get to those phones. Don't let them rest.

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If you wanted to "clean up" social media, you could start by enforcing laws and regulations governing tech platforms. That would be messy, awkward, and might achieve something. No, instead, this government is introducing new laws to monitor what citizens say and do online.

KOSA is never about protecting kids. It’s anti-queer and about making sure kids don’t have access to information they need to survive - from health basics to knowing they are not alone and not broken. And it will destroy the internet as we know it.

I remember when one dude in the 1970s slipped a bit of poison in a few bottles of Tylenol in one single city and then the entire drug industry recalled everything and turned every pill bottle into an enrichment puzzle to open.

This framing is especially foul because statistically, most minors are groomed by family members or other people in positions of authority, not just random strangers Making it taboo for adults to ever speak to a child that isnt theres will, if anything, only make abuse easier to hide

This is why I truly believe that no old fart politician without any knowledge of the field they are regulating has any business drafting or pushing any fucking laws regulating it. You need actual experts, the people being affected and people actively using the thing you are regulating.

When I say that all the "protect the children" bills are nothing more than surveillance and control trojan horses this is what I mean, no matter the politician, the internet is something that deeply pisses them off because they can't control it how they want.

Many wonder why games journalists really struggle to cover adult games censorship I think this games journalist posting on ResetEra about Horses really gives a pretty unprecedented look into how games journalists think about these things, including the incorrect read on the censorship angle

Nice argument. Unfortunately, I have already depicted myself as the near-perfect normal brain and you as the abnormal criminal brain from the lecture hall scene in Frankenstein (1931)

If you reframed this as “values”, people might find it harder to pretend it’s a problem. If someone has fundamentally different values to yours, you might be less inclined to form a relationship with them. It goes beyond preference.

It’s not. The Labour Party are run by terrible people with their own interests at heart. They kicked out anyone opposed to that - people who wanted to work toward the benefit of the nation. They solidified their own careers outside of/after politics. They embolden fascism.

Joining everybody else in pointing out that there is absolutely nothing "mind boggling" about this. This is exactly what everybody predicted would happen when the Labour party lurched rightwards. Anybody surprised by this, or pretending to be surprised by this, is a moron.

Starmer had a very important job to do and he’s gone about not doing it with laser-like focus. Worse, the things he has decided to do are deliberately spiteful and cruel. The man is a moral coward and I hate him for it.

On the loathing level I have some sort of vague media theory about the “we’re all in this together for the tough times” messaging copied from Cameron being wildly unsuited for a nation of tired strung out post-pandemic people watching endless TikTok videos of dickheads doing coke in Dubai penthouses

These wonks really just can’t comprehend anything beyond aesthetics. Because labour is boring and “serious” about the shitty things rather than gleeful and uncouth like bojo or truss they expect people to like it

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

You know in movies where they kinda wipe their hand gently over the face of a dead guy and it closes their eyes. It would be a good gag if they did that on a guy with glasses. Either his eyes close or the glasses turn into sunglasses.

Would killing us off be a solution? A "final" solution, if you will?

Israeliboos have never had to actual be persuasive to the public and have mistaken their narrative dominance for 50 years in much of journalism and media to the fact their cause was obviously just and not just that american media/journalism aligns with the American state who likes Israel lol.

I know a lot of people are going to put in complaints about the BBC article here. When you do it. Make sure you use this handy tool! tacc.org.uk/media-compla... It helps funnel information to @tacc.org.uk so they can help hold the BBC to account!

It. Does. Not. Think. The thoughts are humans. Stole human thoughts, sorted by human workers. Stop

Spoiler: They used the money just as wisely as anyone else would, and it's so frustrating that this still isn't a common sense assumption to make.