Frankly this article starts off weak by pretending the problem with Trump is that he has no class and finishes weaker by pretending the Bondi Beach shooters and the United Healthcare assassin are in any way morally equivalent

In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.

you have mistaken me for a *checks faq* vulva owning woman but i am sadly possessed of the organ of the patriarch

i’ve completely changed my mind on this. starfield is a good game and everyone else is wrong.

Being unable to afford rent or a mortgage is exactly why I ended up homeless.

Given SFFD hires guys like Dave Waters maybe it should be fuck the fire department after all

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

Trying to imagine what it’d be like for an experienced 60 Minutes producer or reporter, who’d spent many weeks preparing a detailed investigation of a notorious El Salvador prison, to be getting input from Bari Weiss or one of acolytes, just hours before airtime.

A reminder that The Escapist that people remembered does not exist anymore. Almost all the core staff packed up and left. Most reformed as Second Wind, which is doing decent work. The Escapist now exists to promote online gambling and act as a mouthpiece for unhinged venture capitalists. Let it die

[STARFIELD] Learning from experience, Bethesda has split the obligatory embassy level into the Passive Aggression Embassy and the Combat Embassy

To be fair to Bethesda, STARFIELD has its head on a lot straighter about politics than SKYRIM did. I've been shitting on CDPR for how politically incoherent C2077 is, but the video game of which C2077's politics remind me most is absolutely SKYRIM, hands down

[CYBERPUNK 2077, STARFIELD] Bethesda and CDPR both have issues with cop-loving CDPR wants to have a capitalist dystopia where the cops are brutal, corrupt animals, but then pushes you to do NCPD Scanner encounters to level grind

[STARFIELD] "SSNN [Settled Systems News Network] has managed to remain mostly unbiased and objective through multiple faction wars" Yeah, sure, the outlet with its headquarters in the MAST district of New Atlantis is neutral. Pull the other one

[STARFIELD] The vocal performances in this game are the best balance of "good" and "normal" I've heard in a Bethesda game. ESO has more "normal" but a bit less "good" (although is still often "good"). OBLIVION is consistently "good" but also "what the fuck"

[STARFIELD] Love that the Freestar Collective has two major cities and they're Goodsprings and Night City

not to mention that speed cameras are dominantly placed in areas more populated by minorities and especially in or near black communities.

caring about people speeding and cracking down on it is like maybe bottom of top 10 for what the government uses them for.

speeding cameras are literally 1984 and you’re a mark if you think otherwise

Anyone making an anti-trans argument is arguing for the assaultability of children. The vast majority of CSA is not stranger danger or epstein islands, it's in family homes. 'Parental rights' = parents' rights to molest

Transition is a form of ultimate total bodily autonomy and these are people who get off on total subjugation, on total power over someone else's body. Opposing transness is a currently socially acceptable way to support pedophilia and rape

nothing i can say about these people is crueler than their behavior toward each other

Tim Heidecker's character from On Cinema is one of the most accurate depictions of the right-wing grifter psyche ever put to screen and it's not even close. This is the Tom Cruise Jr. arc with a bigger budget.

The reporter, Farid Farid from AAP, asked Minns what he thought “intifada” meant, and said: “If it is going to be banned then people need to know what it means.” Minns responds: "I think we understand the meaning of it." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Your girl is desirous of eating some protein. 2 minute noodles aren't cutting it

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The fact that resist circles are already trial ballooning differing approaches to telling people to accept universal rights being rolled back means they do not plan on fighting for human rights but in fact plan to curtail them.

I go outside literally an absurdly low percentage of the time and I live with a housemate who has the same problem so we're organising each other to try to spend a reasonable amount of time outside. Will phone back if it works

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It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas 34 degrees High of 88 percent local humidity Stop boiling me alive now if you please

The only kind of leader I can think of is this one asshole from Minnesota who constantly qts people with the most bad faith misrepresentations of what they say and then keeps at it for days and days on end because they have the temerity to point out his bad faith presentations

[STARFIELD] Thought I recognised that voice — the captain of this medical transport I've just interdicted is voiced by Razum-dar from ESO

[STARFIELD] Oh cool I'm Dragonborn now

[STARFIELD] Incredible that Sam Coe quit the Freestar Rangers because he realised ACAB. I like him significantly more now

‘The blank page’ scares me Hell, it’s why I don’t write things anymore Tutorials are only helpful when they’re made for the version of the thing you’re using AND said in very basic step-by-step Everything just feels so hard. How the hell am I meant to do anything

I have half an idea of what I could do in blender to have my own models Start with a pre-made basic human model, build off that But I don’t know where to get a basic model like that, and anyway, it feels like cheating Like decorating a pre-made sponge cake and saying you made something

I feel like Bethesda RPGs have worse micro-scale writing but better meso- and macro-scale writing than CYBERPUNK 2077 (and possibly other CDPR RPGs, but C2077 is the only one into which I've sunk significant time)

[STARFIELD] I love Bethesda voice casting. The mayor of Akila City is clearly meant to talk in a Texas drawl because it's an Old Western town in space, but he's actually got a narrow RP accent, but he says "ain't" anyway, and it's Bethesda meaning I have no reason to think this was intentional

[STARFIELD] Wonder how many of the ELDER SCROLLS cast members in this game you could get into the same room

This is a prime example of how often fascist lies are just the truth with a load-bearing word added, removed, or changed — in this case, the addition of the word "merely"

Giving everyone sexual-moral OCD by finding edge case exceptions to the Harkness test

our emotional & practical survival over the next year is going to depend on us developing the emotional depth to say "hahaha fuck yeah, shit has gotten so bad that even [terrible person] is trying to save themselves" without being like "so they're not terrible anymore, maybe?"

A Lord of the Rings cover artist called Nenya (— @rhotrans.bsky.social)

"Political violence is a patient virus, waiting for chaos, then finding a new victim."

His supporters shrug it off as “authentic” or “funny,” party leaders stay silent because criticizing him is a political death sentence, and media outlets cover the spectacle like it’s a circus act instead of a crisis of competence.

And yet, somehow, he gets away with it. How? Because the rules that govern normal human decency, let alone political leadership, don’t apply to him. Every inappropriate tangent, every crude, self-absorbed confession, every public meltdown is priced in.

Watching Trump stand on a stage and ramble about Melania’s “panties” is like witnessing a toddler run wild in the White House gift shop shouting whatever pops into his head and leaving chaos in his wake.

Average bluesky users. They love their pedos, hate the opposition pedos. american partisans don’t care about child rape unless it’s weaponized against their enemies

if Epstein's communications tell us anything, it's that there is no 'argot' or 'cant' for pedophiles. They openly discuss doing pedophilia on open channels because they knew there would be no consequences. Buddy, they were making diddle scrapbooks.