Emphasizing this excellent point: speaking only positively of any health condition isolates people who are really suffering. Even if it isn’t a policy, discouraging people from talking honestly about conditions, treatment, etc endangers people at the highest risk to protect people from discomfort.

Restricting the expression of sexuality through fiction and art made by adults, for adults – including those you find personally disturbing or offputting – is conservative censorship, full stop. When that censorship disproportionately affects subgroups, that's also discrimination. For shame.

"Just tell them" is such an underrated piece of advice for telegraphing dangers in RPGs. "How can I hint that the hallway is trapped? How can I hint that if they defeat the dungeon lord, they become the next dungeon lord?" Just tell them. Tell them out loud. With your words.

FYI everyone this is taking place at the 1155 Dahlia Street location!! See you all sooooon 😈😈😈

Exactly. This is the time to bitch and moan about the issue. Don’t tell me you don’t know how to complain about crappy policies because we know that’s not true

So first of all, good afternoon to all of you who have canceled your Disney affiliated subscriptions, there are millions of you and your hair looks nice today I am wondering, can we keep this going? who is advertising on Sinclair and Nexstar? do they have subscriptions, loyalty points, newsletters?

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

get the fucking vaccine

If you can vaccinate your kids against these preventable, lethal diseases, please do. ASAP.

Stone Soup Digest this week features information about my upcoming book tour, a couple of calls to action, and strong recommendations for books by @markdoesstuff.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social & @alixeharrow.bsky.social

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

"Take responsibility for your fear," is a goddamned word. To paraphrase Audre Lorde, I have no constructive use for your fear unless your fear is used as a clarifying agent, a tool to help you understand how we got here and where we can go.

"smoker" is on the CDC list and basically impossible to disprove

When I die please leave me alone or I will return as something you have to hunt

For some reason I'm reminded of the Chinese immigrants who happened to be overseas when the Geary Act passed and were suddenly stranded from their US homes, families, and friends. That ban held for a decade before it was made permanent.

An update on The Dinner

is anyone surprised by this

how? why?

But also the minute I start asking for flowers, what I do becomes performative. Do what is right because it is right, not because you want recognition. The movement doesn't need millions of leaders. It needs MEMBERS.

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Disco Elysium is so leftist that the 4 founders split up into 5 rival studios. How they physically managed this I still do not understand. It's like something out of a failed algebra answer "invalid solution", but they pulled it off.

Fascism - rule by dictator Oligarchy - gvt by wealthy few Theocracy - ruled by religion Kakistocracy - gvt by least qualified America has produced a most unique system of government A theofascoligkakracy

“Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore” sorry, i follow Descartsian philosophy and i only date people who exist

Also worth remembering, as we talk about Free Speech, that the first speakers the current administration targeted were those demanding the freedom and safety of the Palestinian people.

Also - I can't believe we let the worst comedians on the planet spend *years* defining Freedom of Speech as a moral obligation to laugh at their bad jokes, and not as a protection against government censorship. You've been crying wolf for a while now gang, and a real wolf just got here! SPEAK UP!

Cancel Disney plus, get Dropout

This is the way.

I believe SPREAD ME is eligible for the Long Fiction category here 👀

This is is flying around without much context so to be clear about exactly what happened. They voted to de-couple the "V" (varicella, aka chicken pox) from the MMRV so they are two different vaccines, not to say that kids shouldn't get the shots generally. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

Just stop internalizing that the Right is in any way engaging on good faith arguments. They are lying and will say what they need to spread their philosophy, their agenda, and satisfy whatever weird resentment kink animates them. There is no hypocrisy.

everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr

The three types of game dev job listings

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

I don't know, man. Maybe should stop being pathetic, spineless cowards and do something about it? If people with no safety net can get out in the streets, no one should have an ounce of sympathy for these losers who have all the safety money can provide.

And by avoiding that point, he concedes that to them while claiming to be 'fair.'

Firing everyone who calls a loser a loser does not make the loser less of a loser and that's what these losers don't get. They will NEVER NOT BE LOSERS

I can't get over "I think the wifi might be messed up" 🤣🤣🤣

Which part of this is more surprising to you: 1) That the AI demo failed this badly doing a task they'd clearly planned and rehearsed prior? 2) That they chose to risk using it in the demo rather than faking, like *every other tech demo in history does with anything unstable*? For me it's #2.

oh okay that makes more sense

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We all need to scream that the emperor has no clothes right now. And we need to do it loudly and cussedly and in strategic relationship with each other. Because they are TELLING US what scares them most, right now. And it is unapologetic truth-telling.

These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.' Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.

There are a lot of people whose commentary on protests (“why is it a problem? Simply do not do illegal shit”) sounds a lot like people saying it’s okay to talk to cops—as long as you did nothing wrong, it will all turn out just fine.

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

This

I don't know why the smart advice of "stay anonymous when you protest against authoritarians" is so hard for them to grasp.

I can‘t believe people are getting so mad about @angryblacklady.bsky.social saying that you shouldn’t register for a protest. Just show up. Don‘t register.

So long as people are materially operating on the assumption that the position is correct, you are describing a situation where the material harm that vulnerable groups already suffer because of the debate is an acceptable sacrifice to protect the right of their opponents to argue they deserve it.

Behold! The downline

This is what I want from my reps or I don't want them at all, tbh