Not gratuitous but the key to the whole thing. These people look at "woke" & see the teeming, degraded masses coming to tear down Great Men & take their hard-earned money.

The full count as of today: YouTube suspended Twitch banned 3x Patreon suspended (temporary) Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi) Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?) Buy Me a Coffee suspended Vice reporting censored Pornhub censored 3x times Fansly censored 1x

For some reason that link triggers security warnings on Safari, so I just googled real quick and found a second article covering the research paper. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Is it really a conspiracy to say Ana is being explicitly flagged by finance bros when she's now been banned (or censored) from Twitch, Patreon, Buy Me A Coffee, Ko-Fi, and *PornHub*??

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

The debate over whether this is 'fascism' is a silly semantic one in which a small minority mean 'completed fascist authoritarianism' and the vast majority mean 'the people in power say and do things that demonstrate completed fascist authoritarianism is what they want to achieve.'

Yale University has a Brutalist rare book library and it is amazing

Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out. Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent

I reviewed Sacred 2: Remaster. I fondly remember the original, but this is broken beyond absolute belief. An inexcusably defective product that does Sacred 2 dirty. Read here: www.thejimquisition.com/post/sacred-...

Pretty complete summary of how we got into this mess.

Pressed to outline how the LNP will reduce emissions with their new energy plan, Sussan Ley says they’ll rely on “breakthrough technologies” in about “25 years time”😳 - ones not invented yet & “we’re not talking about today”🤔 There you have it. As bonkers as it gets. #auspol

Oh my

If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies. "Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

Something I wish got challenged more often in this “men in crisis” discourse is the blithe assumption (or sometimes outright assertion!) that everyone’s boss is a woman now. “Women now dominate white collar work and corporate management roles.” No they don’t. That just isn’t true.

The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon. 77 million people voted for this.

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

I've read thirty or so pages of this book and I think it's essential reading for anyone trying to understand current trends in Japanese politics.

it's not even *just* evil. it's also promising a kind of technological immortality that is actually impossible with the technology they're using. even if this kid somehow has not gotten bored with talking to a shitty chatbot made from a 3 minute video call with his grandmother in multiple decades...

it's always weird to me to see someone use the phrase "comply in advance" to describe regular compliance. do they not know what the word means? do they not know what the idea means? is this more three-cueing shit? "comply in advance" means anticipate something and react before being required to

The fuckin bears did it. They built the toilet paper MOAB

This is something that pretty much ALL platforms need to improve on. Mystery bans, suspensions, and other mod actions help nobody and likely make compliance *worse* by building resentment in fanbases

It cannot be remembered enough that these were the same people who got worked up about drag brunches

legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle

Not to put too fine a point on it, but they way they *get* annoyed at people, and how they *decide* who to be annoyed at, is through social media. This future is Thomas Chatterton Williams arguing in the Atlantic with ten Twitter leftists who called him 'Whomas Thateterton Cilliams' forever.

The top story on NYT right now is "Trump re-opens government"

You can still get a copy of the limited special edition of THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS from Inkstone btw! Signed, numbered, sprayed edges and other fancy touches. Excellent gift for the bookish people in your life (if I do say so so myself) inkstonebooks.com/product/sain...

I am deliriously laughing at the image of Boebert facing dawning revelation that she's actually found the pedophile elite conspiracy ring and that she's standing right in the middle of it

valve: this is the steam machi- the collective internet: gabecube

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fantastic piece by Alison Pennington and Michael Wright about the need to tax wealth more than we tax work. 💯 www.afr.com/policy/econo...

My last word on the matter

Joyce Carol Oates absolutely reading Elon Musk for filth is pretty incredible, but something I'd point out is his feigned interest in games, and how fake that was, paying people to boost his accounts and play for him, and the rare time we actually got to see him play, he was absolutely miserable.

"truly it was out of curiosity"

she's poasting that she didn't even mean to wreck his psyche, she was just musing out loud and his psyche was just collateral damage. absolutely savage 😂

is the first one joyce carol oates obliterating elon musk? or is it useless, like everything elon touches

Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security

The government they overthrew was the one which introduced everything that comes up when foreigners talk about how Australia is better. Since the coup, those things have been progressively disassembled. No government which will meaningfully preserve them is permitted to be elected

Wikipedia's featured article today, "1975 Australian constitutional crisis", concerns the Dismissal, the infamous Anglo-American coup d'état of the Australian government. Go read it!

They’re still figuring out how to permanently seal ICE abductees into the robot costumes to make the slaves

WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE This has consumed around 4 months of my life. We've rebuilt the business from the ground-up. New site, new backend, new customer experience, new platform, new everything. we spent two years flailing, having no idea how to run a business. now...we have more of an idea.

Hahahahah they were just playing a trick on us where they’d pretend to fight back until we voted for them, and then immediately cave www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Another case of headline sabotage

YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT! I HAVE WRITTEN A NEW ARTICLE! this one's a bit weird; rather than doing my usual "trying to organize my thoughts and building a winding case that builds on itself," I decided to show you what my EARLY article creation process looks like: docseuss.medium.com/some-loosely...

“Complete Strangers” capsule toy creator Terai Hiroki conceived of the project during COVID as a feel-good way to see people’s faces when everyone was wearing masks. Early user tests convinced him he was on to something special.