Heeey! So the Australian government decided to be very cool and raised the cost of a visa without warning by 2000 dollars. Which means that now I literally cannot afford my partner visa. Help a girl out, if you can 💙

The mother was allegedly stealing diapers, so the cops thought it would be better if the baby never needed diapers again. ACAB. There needs to be fires over this. Firings, maybe. But fires, yes.

The relatively new-ish strain of anti Israel politics in the US which is predicated on the idea that Israel is bad because it victimizes America is objectively the dumbest shit of all time and it's the main reason why most right wing criticism of Israel is meaningless

Dear Media. Vatican II wasn’t just about praying or not in Latin. *Vatican II decided to be less antisemitic. By a lot. * And now Pope Leo (like Francis) is reading the Bible HARD, all that “love immigrants” & “care for others” “🖕 Empire” stuff?! This story is not complicated.

TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE, WITH A BUNCH OF SCRAPS

"If scientists align with campaigns that pitch their opponents as anti-science, they should not be surprised if greater polarization is the result." I have some real strong thoughts on this piece. Let's talk about it... 1/? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

It's just hard not to see some attitudes towards service jobs as stuck in a mindset where a waitress was a woman who had failed to find a breadwinner husband and thus inferior to the wives of such men and doubly inferior to any man. And that person is going to find the service economy terrifying.

I think the key divide here a vision of the service economy as "I do services for you and you do services for me" vs. "service workers are low-class servants I can boss around." For the latter, the expanding service economy represents a gendered threat as the jobs are often female-coded.

Despite a report this morning, I can confirm that Obsidian is *not* in negotiations to avoid shutting down. Plenty of details are still up in the air surrounding the layoffs (picture will be clear on Monday) but Xbox is keeping Obsidian, according to people familiar with the situation.

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

Krugman on point “It’s important to understand what the current uproar over socialism is really about..it’s an attempt to distract from danger posed by the important radical movement - right-wing radicals who want to dismantle both social democracy & democracy itself” substack.com/@paulkrugman...

ITSA ME in pixel-perfect form!! CTRL: Essays on Video Games @lilliputpress.bsky.social is out now and available in all good bookshops. Don't miss out on this wonderful anthology and get your copy today (esp so they can turn more of the writers into pixels!) Art by @bluewit.bsky.social

Every day is like “this company is trying to build a gateway to hell” yet we are all supposed to pretend like everything is fine.

Wild that Obsidian was told over and over that they didn't need to make money, they just needed to make good games, and now they're being punished for it.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

i kinda love this answer, it’s very illuminating. it’s not about female athletes at all, it’s about the fragile egos of delusional psychopathic parents who want returns on their perceived investments

Tony Abbott has an absolutely batshit reading of 1984

“One can track the ideas and thinking of Trumpist conservatives through this genealogy: something that was once at the fringes slowly percolates up and into the mainstream through a network of newsletters, satellite TV, and Washington think tanks” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-ever-shi...

YEAH BUDDY

literally one day apart. goldfish would scoff at this lack of object permanence

LOUDER

If you're cis and mad about the anti-trans Supreme Court ruling today, consider helping a trans person get the equipment they need to take their meds: www.omprakash.org/global/distr...

To use the analogy in this way insinuates that you know in advance that the mine is full of poison gas, but until the canary literally drops dead (which it must, inevitably) there’s no reason to be concerned. Just get out of the gas you fuckers!

Paul Hogan: “there’s no point in doing comedy in which most people are laughing but someone’s sobbing in the corner” www.afr.com/politics/fed...

No, really: please watch this video.

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theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

Hey folks, who'd like another Steam sale recommendation thread? Let's go! 1. Nine Sols Simply one of the best Metroidvanias ever. Takes inspiration from Hollow Knight with gorgeous hand drawn artstyle, mixes in the parry heavy combat of Sekiro, and Red Candle's exceptional narrative writing.

I see this kind of comment, "but still the right will deny and delay..." Yeah they will. They will happily kill you and your relatives to suit their ambitions for a more brutal world built on wealth. It's not because they're stupid or ignorant it's because the waves of death do not matter to them.

I also feel obligated to remind you that I am delisted on itch in several countries. It is not possible to find my work organically or even look at my profile for people in the UK, for example. Saying this, reposts, quotes, recommendations and all word of mouth is greatly appreciated/necessary

The work of Ainu poet Iboshi Hokuto and others was integral to a movement keen on eliminating the "dying race" rhetoric perpetuated by the Japanese. Through his poetry and activism, Iboshi sought to dismantle Ainu stereotypes and rekindle pride in Ainu culture and identity.

Hmm, getting visibility on my GOTY25 video has been a bit of a struggle, but there's a steam sale on now and everyone always likes when I do a big thread of sale recommendations, and all of the games in my video are on sale, so what if... Hmm, delightfully devilish Casey! GOTY25 Steam Sale Recs! 🤠

genuinely crazy to watch these people freak out over what is essentially 21st century new dealism

The study was her big gesture to indicate that she wasn't an anti-trans crank, so now that the study *she recommended* is under attack by the people she sold out to, she's realising just how deep in the sauce they are and admitting what we already knew. Actually Wakefield 2.0

Everybody wants to talk about how “addictive” porn is while Kalshi, Polymarket and Draftkings are sponsoring & advertising at every major media event, targeting primarily men, and bankruptcy rates have risen 30% since online betting was legalized

Another is that token costs are high because no one knows how to use these tools, and they're learning. And most companies have senior leadership that's enraged at the idea that AI adoption might require them to invest in people's education as well as tooling.

There are many, many angles here. What I think is pretty interesting here is that employees have actually identified real time saving things they can do, and then their higher leadership is like, "Actually um that seems like a poor use of capital, we'd rather you find ways to replace yourself."

"When you combine how annoying these tours are with how insufferable Karl is, it will be unbearable." chaser.com.au/general-news...

America be like:

guys are we 100% sure turning the reflecting pool into a swampy mess in the heart of a faltering empire struggling under the strain of self-inflicted malaise isn't an elaborate marketing campaign for the next From Software game?

Hajnal's "Western European marriage pattern" thesis (which has been critiqued but still remains the go-to for this period) argues that for self-sufficiency, later marriage for peasants was all but mandatory. It was an economic imperative for medieval families, because otherwise they would starve.

Yes, the nobility sometimes married as minors. The nobility also made up at maximum 3% of the entire society, and their lifestyles as leisure-class elites are utterly impossible to generalize to peasant society (where we know family formation required a stable income from both spouses).

Your now-monthly reminder that "normal" people in both the Early Modern Period and Middle Ages married at roughly the same age as we do, and that to the best of our knowledge *no* Western European society has *ever had* an average age at first marriage below 20 years old:

We were occasionally assigned PragerU videos about (relatively mundane) historical topics in high school. This is really spectacular stuff.

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

In case you didn't think Polymarket was sketchy enough. It paid influencers to use a fake site (poiymarket) to make fake bets that would then look like they won, and then to post viral videos to social media pretending they had won money. www.wsj.com/business/med...

The part that isn't stated on the page is it's used as a puberty blocker. This is a direct attack on trans kids. It is a well-established fact that trans kids forced to go through puberty against their will harm and kill themselves in far greater numbers than cis or supported trans kids. Sign.