A broadside assault on truth that must be taken seriously. This administration wants to replace independent scholarship and curation with propaganda and Prager U. drivel. The Kennedy Center was bad enough. This is worse.

btw, article soon. you can pay me on paypal.me/stompsite to help me get all my debt and my glasses taken care of. it contains things like this:

there's a third reason: Netflix is designing shows for second screen viewing, which means that no one's actually trying to make the shows the focal point of the viewers' attention. That means the shows are generally not interesting enough for viewers to want more of.

I mean, there are two major reasons in my estimation: - The seasonal gaps are too long. - Netflix is probably canceling too many shows after one season, eroding trust. Folks wont jump in if they don't expect a follow-up. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Gonna go ahead and pick up where I left off with the mini-summaries of this new anime season. First part is below. A LOT of new stuff dropped over the last couple of days, plus I finally got around to one that I was actually pretty impressed with. Speaking of: "The World is Dancing"

Okay, Chainsmoker Cat, I see what you did there

Vital analysis of how the EHRC have misled global human rights regulators and parliament about the nature of criticisms of the UK and the EHRC from the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

MIT philosopher Alex Byrne, who is personally cited in this passage, has now done irrevocable material damage to millions of trans people, based on discredited, shoddy work, all to accomplish this aim. That specific article is a sham. I think his colleagues should do something about this

The use of the word “eliminate” in this context should really freak out more than just those of us he’s seeking to remove, to be honest. This should be a red flag so big that it’s visible from space.

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

I apparently made a bunch of weirdo ResistLib folks mad by saying…party leaders should speak out against the anti-trans decision And the weird vitriol and defensiveness that I’m getting in response is genuinely bizarre. It’s like they’re not even responding to what I’m actually saying.

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

Everything is terrible, so how about some dumb stuff that doesn’t matter that much? One show that got kind of overlooked from this past season is Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring, a tearjerking melodrama from the writer of Violet Evergarden. It had the best music of any show this season

I just know if the Trump admin tries to force colleges to adopt a trans bathroom ban, I'm going to have a bunch of cis colleagues saying, you can just use the single stall bathroom! No, I'm not going back. I'm not accepting any "compromise" for something I've had no issue with for 10+ years.

Serenity now...

This is less important than the legal consequences, but one galling thing about this court is that they’re so cloistered that they will never face any consequences, social or otherwise, for their actions. No one yelling at them in public. No one forcing them to justify their decisions. Nothing.

Running for president, or really any federal office, without a plan to deal with this out of control institution is pointless. You might as well play pretend

also this is a great example of how clarence thomas's self-satisfaction cannot hide the fact that he is not that bright. "man and woman," "boy and girl" are social terms that categorize gender presentation, not descriptions of "biological" sex. nor are they binary!

thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record

An odious piece by Matthew Vines. As a gay Christian, he has no fellow-feeling for anyone but the G in the LGBTQ community. It's a gospel of selfishness--I've got mine and the rest of you: I want nothing to do with you. We fought for your rights you sad, little man. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

Moving to my mom's place and I would love to avoid being there for long. If you know of anything full time (even if it doesn't fit what I listed below) please reach out. Thank you. I know its difficult right now. I appreciate you all. ❤️ #animation #gamedev

I watched an unhealthy number of the anime series airing last season, so I figured I'd at least give the first episode of (virtually) every new show a look. I might as well post them here, even though there's easily a dozen isekai- and isekai-adjacent (video game-y fantasy) shows in the schedule.

This is also how people talked themselves into supporting ending affirmative action, targeting high profile Black administrators at universities, and banning Black theory and scholars from curricula.

the question on everybody’s minds:

I won't give to Yale any longer. I called the alumni office and told them why. If you're a Yale grad, you can, too! alumni.yale.edu/contact-us

It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp Should strike such terror to his enemies.

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

what if they fought back against republicans instead

the truly enraging thing is that sam alito will never face this question from a member of the public. we have allowed these people to create a wall between themselves and the people they rule over.

“And while the 2024 platform called for bans on any "normalizing curriculum" about transgender people in public schools, the 2026 platform added a call for a ban on transgender people working in schools in any capacity, as well as a ban on using trans people's pronouns.”

[talking to Sabrina Carpenter in the buffet line at the Swift-Kelce wedding] yeah like ideally you’d start with Trails in the Sky but i started with the Crossbell games and that was fine too. it’s really up to you

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

This is a really great way of putting it. (And a really useful lens for examining how people's needs are framed more broadly.)

I can't stress enough how congressional dems need to have Rashida Tlaib's back right fucking now, before this gets out of hand. They are testing the "there's a terrorist inside our government!" card.

There is a pernicious and sustained effort to distort the historical record and do violence to the public’s memory.

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

of course the AI guy posts an AI generated image, and when asked if this is real, says "it's all real."

I would rather lobotomize myself with a wooden kitchen spoon

valve could change the world overnight if these pages included a giant blurb at the top that says "this price increase is because of AI causing component shortages" and their intended price next to that

Liberty Vote -- the company that acquired election company Dominion Voting Systems -- has agreed to drop its lawsuit against pillow magnate Mike Lindell and his pillow company over his false claims that the company rigged the 2020 election. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

No. Go pound sand

Good lord, the Trails series really refuses to let a single peripheral character go unused The first screenshot: Trails through Daybreak 2 (2022) The second screenshot: Trails in the Sky FC (2004)

All 12 episodes of Nippon Sangoku are streaming on Prime Video.

That’s Urban Myth Dissolution Center finished. Very entertaining, excellent aesthetics, surprisingly likable characters, would recommend. Except Man, that ending. I don’t know. I think that is exactly one twist too far.

After about a year and a half of pondering, I decided that the best format for some thoughts on isekai and slavery were best done where my diaspora shines: in the form of a conversation you might sit and listen to at a cookout late in the evening when everything is sunwarm.

kei trucks. getting over my fear of drawing cars with some lil guys

And spare me the "she doesn't owe him anything" bullshit. If she had won and Talarico played coy about supporting her in the general, her supporters would be absolutely furious and rightly so.

This is an incredibly stupid move that will likely mean the end of @crockett.house.gov's climb in Texas Democratic politics.