By the way; this is not only an example of banks and paypros targeting specific individuals who spread the truth- it's also an example of the end goal of Digital Identity. They want your ID online to access so they have an easier time of doing this to you.

and now i can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggJ8...

Zeiram! Inspired by the Iria series. Always loved the design from Keita Amemiya :) #digitalart

Here is my hot 007/James Bond take: Abandon continuity completely. Every movie, new Bond, new director, and it can be a period piece, it can be contemporary, it can be in the future, Bond could be a xenomorph, who gives a fuck? Make it a showcase for auteur directors and young up-and-coming stars.

There were mid 2010s meetings of consultants and think tanks in which the right wing of the US & UK openly made the case that attacking trans people should be their next propaganda opening after the door was shut on gay marriage. We have receipts! Liberals and centrists are falling for a called shot

'Oh but people have to do this because places like TikTok will censor you if you don't' Well then maybe there should be more pushback against it! Maybe TikTokers should use their platforms to raise some shit against TikTok!

See, I could see being blindsided by Musk's descent if we were talking about one of the earlier tesla models, but by the time anyone could actually buy a cybertruck he was fully mask-off.

in addition to "discomfort does not equal harm" I wish people also realized that sometimes (actually, most of the time) if there's something uncomfortable in a narrative, it's supposed to be uncomfortable. yes, even if its "romanticized", the author usually trusts you understand it's uncanny.

One of the most interesting things about modern fandom culture to me is the permission gap between canon and fan work, where it's all but explicitly stated that fans aren't responsible enough to be trusted with themes present in the mainstream, commercial source material.

We are very disappointed in Char Aznable’s decision to drop an asteroid on Earth. It is unclear how freeing souls weighed down by gravity will help fix the current economy and the cost of living. We are hoping Neo Zeon is willing to work on a bipartisan agreement to settle things going forward

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Bluesky engineers when their website is successful

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

"Transphobic" like "racist" was coined to describe a reality and a moral valence came along with that description and it turns out a lot of people love the reality - the behavior, the attitude, the structural harm- but will violently resist the idea that their lessers may morally evaluate them.

seein a lot of banjo hate and frankly its sad cuz you're basically saying you hate a whole genre, banjo is a pillar of it and like yea the genre is mostly dead nowadays but theres still indies out there making it work and people play the classics, like banjo and bluegrass are very important to music

And this is the line people ran with on when bathroom bills were first introduced post-obergefell and it was massively successful in squashing them, even in red states!

For @truthout.org yesterday I wrote about how the government's lies about tylenol and autism reminds me a lot of the government's lies about trans people. truthout.org/articles/ant...

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

What gets me the most is that we know that many/most grievance parents are also Autistic which means if they're pushing a cure, we will continue to be born AND continue to suffer. No one gets what they want here. Radical acceptance of neurodiversity w/ universal accommodation is the ONLY solution.

Hey folks. Here's one of the animations I did showing an O'Neill Colony - basically a hollowed out cylinder in space. This one is 35km long and 9km across and spins once per minute (if I remember) to provide 1g gravity. Please repost! Spread the love! Made in #blender. #sciart #scifi

Okay, there's not just the violence, but also power? Lets use trans people as an example. Which matters more: Some trans people whose tweets you saw that annoyed you or the billion dollar media enterprise pushing 100 stories about how trans people are evil a day?

No, people aren’t whining about the kids not being horny enough. That’s a malicious misrepresentation and you know it. People are whining about the kids echoing socially conservative and toxic views on depictions of sexuality in media, because the ability to publicly discuss sexuality is crucial.

Overheard at the office: The Torchship universe's FTL travel and detection technology has apparently just given rise to a Special Theory of Objectivity. - Janet

If you're deciding to make the moment where christian fascists are trying to seize control of the internet and pry open all your private messages into your chance to have Nuanced Opinions about smut I at best think you're worthlessly stupid and at worst think you have a tiny hitler in your soul

all that really leaves is "take the cops' money away", or, in some cases, "dissolve the police department itself". in some cases it's significantly easier for a local government to do ether the entire department than it is to fire a single cop or tweak the contract to reduce police immunity.

"That shit must've been laced with Tylenol, because I'm struggling to understand the social cue of giving a single fuck."

Calling all Landsknecht: The final 1.2 patch for Chariots of Steel is now live! opensketch.itch.io/chariots-of-...

i keep saying it but imagine obama '08 running on "fuck you, i don't owe you shit, the war is good, guantanamo bay is fine, hillary's corporate ties were great actually, you gotta vote for me cuz you have no choice". do you think things would have turned out the same

Being cringe is better than being cruel.

evangelicals don't want to "ban sex," they want to rule by rape. (which entails total control over sex and over the bodies of subordinate gender classes & children thry patriarchal sexual authority.) critical difference

Around 2013 or thereabouts, the shitt in priority from liberation to safety, the shift from "freedom to" to "freedom from" pushed a quality shift so intense and sudden people were bewildered for years that "the call was coming from inside the house."

homophobia and transphobia are a reaction against bodily autonomy and happiness itself. they want to torture us as an extension of the way they torture themselves.

The ultimate irony is that the "cancel culture ultra sensitive snowflake left" approached Kimmel's man show era stuff as 'a product of its time that was better left in the past' and even the blackface shit wasn't enough to cancel him, but the most milquetoast comment about Kirk was

I increasingly think that breaking the back of cops as a janissary class should be the number one political goal going forward for any serious liberal/leftist movement, everything else is secondary.

every time i hear any griping about 'defund the police' being a terrible slogan i think about what happened to the completely innocuous sounding 'bail reform' in illinois a couple years back. they made a fake newspaper and stuffed it in everyone's mailbox, for chrissakes.

the unique strain of charismatic evangelical protestant christianity will be looked back on as one of the worst heretical movements of all time due not only to its reintroduction of many previously resolved heresies but also how much sin idolatry and death it gleefully introduced into the world

i need everyone to understand and internalize this shit deeply. The antithesis to "weird fanfic with problematic elements" is "Women can't open their own bank accounts because they are property."

This is pretty much exactly the outcome predicted by Hannah Arendt in 1948:

As always, obscenity laws need to go. porn has always been one step from illegal in the US because there was an unspoken, untouched middle ground where everyone agreed being nasty is against the law but almost nothing counted as "nasty." The agreement is broken and everything is about to count.

And what gets me is that men believe this because they live lives completely devoid of historical context. If it was 1725, they'd be the hired farm hand (and still single) It if was 1890, they'd be the factory workers sleeping in coffins at night (and still single) Just detached from reality

They're people and liberals, leftists, queers, PoC etc aren't people, and non-people are expected to genuflect to people without reciprocation. Someone somewhere else said they're less hypocrites and more deeply consistent about their values; the double standard is the point.

A lot of these examples illustrate the manner in which Kirk promoted violence, aside from explicit endorsement of especially state-led violence. He gives you the two premises of a syllogism, say: Muslims attacked our country. The next NYC mayor will be Muslim. Then you infer the violent conclusion.

Pssh, they're way behind the times en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AaAaAA!...

The "discourse" around problematic fiction and fantasy is beyond infuriating. The way people act about it is infantile at best. It is not about protecting victims. It is not about protecting children or women. It's about cheap popularity contests and bloating their own ego. It is truly disgusting.

Most of the worst aspects of Archie Sonic, especially done by Ken Penders, usually come from them ripping off already bad comics

Reactionary conservatism is not policy-driven, it is identity-driven, and there is no reason to pretend that people who align with fellow-travelers on a fresh target for hatred will flock to Dem candidates if they “triangulate” on that hate. Dems are already The Enemy; the policy is irrelevant.

The thing is, this simply isn’t true. GOP influencers and politicians didn’t suddenly respond to a grassroots uprising of “trans concern.” They *made it a signature issue* in the same way that they made other culture war issues central pillars of their campaigns.

easiest way to nerd snipe me, apparently, is to go "hey what if vimes was in this situation" at which point i just start writing discworld fanfiction off the cuff On today's docket: what if lord of the rings but discworld?

Once you understand that a driving principle of American politics is there is no such thing as a compassionate solution that's cheap enough or a cruel solution that's too expensive, a lot of things click into place.