One of the natural consequences of blurring the line between state censorship and “cancel culture” was making it easier to engage in state censorship. I leave it to your imagination whether the people who did that intended that result or were merely recklessly indifferent to it.

This must be what it felt like to live during the McCarthy period, yeah, in which conservatives wielded explicitly naked double standards to target their foes while the flagrant hypocrisy was generally swept under the rug by those institutions that could call it out?

How about that.

(Venting) Saw one of those "if you know <TV show>, you had an awesome childhood!" posts again today. No, I didn't have an awesome childhood. No TV shows can make up for being abused. Please find a better way to say "do you remember this? Wasn't it great?"

If you think they’re not coming for the very right to vote, think again.

America imprisons 5X more per capita than even the world’s most authoritarian regimes — including China. But for the authoritarian right, that’s not enough. Their vision of society is built on maximizing human suffering. They are the tyrants our forefathers fought against.

When 16-year-old Adam Raine wanted to leave his noose visible so someone might stop him, ChatGPT said don't. When Stein-Erik Soelberg thought his mother was poisoning him, ChatGPT agreed. OpenAI calls these tragedies. They're choices. www.readtpa.com/p/chatgpt-wi...

Manosphere: women in the 50s and 60s were just fine, look at how happy they were. Feminism ruined everything. Butisol 1965

Nikki was tortured and burned alive by her husband and his family because of dowry. Her child was a witness to this horror. Yet, these men are trying to make him the victim. The wife didn't just die, she was MURDERED.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I hope this company quickly goes bankrupt so they fold before they utterly destroy the night sky and massively disrupt the environment and habitats for animals we depend on to live.

I promise there are already talking heads looking at these numbers and saying “1% of adults but 3% of kids? That means most of them detransitioning to on,” and not the real headline: That until this new generation, abuse and transphobia have killed two thirds of each previous generation.

I'm more of a B/X clone guy, but I actually really like the layout of AD&D. Good information design. It's a usable, referenceable RPG book with an understandable information architecture and gorgeous art. The contents of the page are in the running head. Triple columns. Clean, balanced.

ALSO, it's important to mention that: • IT'S NORMAL AND HEALTHY TO OPENLY CRITICIZE POLITICIANS WHO DON'T SERVE YOU. • Verbalizing concerns is supposed to help inform candidates HOW they can serve you • Candidates can at any time choose to take actions to rectify even their own harmful policies

even their AI are pedophiles

"Violent crime is up in Washington, DC" says man who pardoned the largest group in history that committed violent crimes in Washington, DC.

The cells that would develop into egg-producers instead develop into sperm-producers under the influence of certain hormones. Thus, everyone who produces sperm has "faulty egg-producing equipment".

What happened here is almost unimaginably grotesque. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Several SC school districts have denied parental leave for stillbirths: ‘It’s infuriating’ scdailygazette.com/2025/08/06/s... #SCWarOnWomen continues!

There are no - absolutely zero - “legitimate” concerns about trans people in any context. THAT is the only correct answer. The entire trans panic is made-up garbage. THAT is the only thing Democrats should be pushing. Anything less is unacceptable.

I don’t think there is a day that goes by that I am not reminded of an old teacher’s admonition: “If the only history that interests you is the history that makes you feel good about yourself, you are not interested in history; you’re interested in propaganda.”

The IRS's free Direct File tool is now "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief. This comes after tax prep companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the for years to block it. Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. See how this works?

New study says “Oh, look, the explanation is misogyny…AGAIN.”

What can we learn? That no matter how many dozens of successful pilot programs or experiments there are, we will always simply refuse to acknowledge that some form of Universal Basic Income is a significant net good for society and should be implemented and will instead keep on studying it forever.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MELTDOWN

You shouldn’t give an intern write access to production on their ninth day. If you give an AI write access to production, the result is not on the AI - it’s on you.

FYI: Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans. That’s exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.

Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs

Well, I guess that's it. Let me show you the heinous and abhorrent comment for which my account was first suspended, then disabled. I got Meta Verified (ugh, I know) to reach support, and while they seemed helpful people, and I'm sure it wasn't up to them, ultimately it wasn't worth the cost.

Propaganda: trans women are going to assault you in the ladies’ room Reality: Drunk armed border patrol agents are going to assault you in the ladies’ room

New D&D subclasses just dropped

Reposting for the morning crowd: Green Ronin Publishing is raising funds for a fast-response legal defense in the Diamond Distribution bankruptcy case, to prevent hundreds of thousands of dollars of their consignment inventory from being liquidated to pay-off Diamond's debts.

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There are 50,000 undocumented Irish in the USA. There are no plans to move any of them into FLA concentration camps or El Salvador torture gulags. And everyone knows why.

This is 100% true, just as the press spent ZERO time on the attempted mass assassination of the entirety of democratic leadership through pipe bombs just a few years ago. It’s literally never even discussed! A MAGA terrorist tried to kill all of the leading dems!

Really something to watch who is going out of their way to support a grotesquely corrupt sex offender who recently resigned in disgrace to avoid passing the baton to the type of person they appear to find most dangerous: a skilled and positive new progressive talent.

Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."

Weird how it doesn't happen at Drag Queen story hours.

They didn't miss a beat! Good for them!

another documented case of lapd directly assisting ice which is against the law, will @mayor.lacity.gov hold these criminals accountable?

Just checked, and “So You Want To Be A Wizard” by @diane.dianeduane.com is $1.99 at Apple Books as well as Amazon, in case you do your shopping with the fruit-flavored side of the Force. books.apple.com/us/book/so-y...

Bourdain's quote on dictators eating shit food is something I think about a lot. Just cooking something nice to eat with my friends is very likely a better meal than some of the most powerful people will ever eat in their lives

I'm gonna start posting more about trans history because y'all NEED TO KNOW about this stuff. This is my mission, this is my purpose, this is why I'm on this shithole of a planet. You, yes YOU, my trans sibling. You deserve to know, and own, our collective history.

I was happy and honored to sign this. I hope Bluesky will listen!

PEOPLE: You're not really autistic, you just pretend you are so you can do whatever you want without facing any consequences! AUTISTIC PERSON: I-- PEOPLE: I'll fucking kill you!!!

Here’s wishing you health and full recovery, Piano Man.

According to ProPublica, more than a dozen top executive branch officials and congressional aides sold stocks just before Trump's "Liberation Day" market crash.  Today would be a great day to ban public servants from trading stocks, don't you think?