It's amazing he can say something this logically backward and mot immediately become too embarrassed to put his legal name on it

If an indie game that credited Anita Sarkeesian as a consultant was extremely successful, maybe we need more DEI consultant in our games 🤷‍♀️

My column from Monday. I’m sorry to say that this is how the Alabama special session played out, reflecting the worst of our state’s history. But we will see the best of it, too: The resolve and courage of Alabamians against the forces of authoritarianism, and a defiant hope that will not surrender.

Not so friendly reminder that if you're reading a fic for a certain ship DO NOT fucking comment "this would be such a good set up for [other ship]" holy shit

Look, it's very challenging, because I don't want to condone violence, but speaking as someone who has received a few punches to the head in various hostile bar-oriented incidents, it's pretty fucking clarifying. It's a little gift of perspective from the universe. A karmic amouse-bouche.

“We take seriously the concerns of Laurelhurst residents…. So instead of maybe hearing 3-4 Life Flights a week, they’ll just hear a helicopter this one last time before every sound is forever pleasantly muffled by the soothing waves of Lake Washington.”

wrote about bend it like beckham and gazing at who you want and who you want to be www.everythingishorrible.net/p/gaze-like-...

"Looking back now, it’s clear that the desire to undo the Civil Rights Era — and even restore the Confederacy to a place of honor — never disappeared. It was sometimes set to the side and reshaped, but they kept the fire burning with unwavering attention."

Reassuring stuff.

I dream of a day when the legal academy spends as much attention to congressional and other legislative reform, than they spend debating whom among us is properly critical of the Supreme Court. Reforming Congress is equally (or more) important than rethinking Supreme Court practice and authority.

And since it's #caturday, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever

I'm still watching this one but one thing I really appreciated about this channel's other videos on FMV games is the balance struck between poking fun at the cheesiness of the product while still giving a lot of respect to the performers and creatives who made them. Basically this:

Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.

Out of Bluesky jail once more. To comply with Bluesky ToS and the mod team’s wishes, I have to state that I hope Trump lives to be 1000 years old, and that his white supremacist project is fully realized- glory be to our lord and savior DJT!

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Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

saw a video that mentioned “the valley of the shadow of death” and went “omg gansta paradise reference“ as a joke and accidentally pissed off a super christian friend lol

lol there’s a rip off of electric zine maker on the app store that’s vibe coded with in app purchases to unlock templates… i know it shouldn’t bother me but the creator justified it being vibe coded because they are a solo dev and that’s “the only way to ship something solo”… i’m reeling at that…

i made Electric Zine Maker ENTIRELY SOLO. it’s not vibe coded at all or pay to unlock… it’s free for the community… it’s also not ripping anyone off with AI use… AI was never necessary but hey 🤷

this advertisement has become funnier with every single management decision

back when i was working for a lot of startups, the investors would force each company in their portfolio to become customers of one another to help juice the numbers even if the products and services didn't make sense

You have these zombie companies staggering about, emitting a powerful stench of rot, they're unable to solve basic problems or do basic things anymore. They're insensitive to things that hurt living companies

Consider how private equity hollows out companies and turns them into zombies. The company still exists on paper, it's still making stuff and selling stuff and paying employees, but it's dead. It's a zombie company. And then look at twitter and what tiktok is going to become.

stop making literally everything about donald trump you weirdos! sometimes i just want to look at a picture of an astronaut holding up gritty in a spacesuit and i DREAM of a fucking comment section with replies to anything the colour orange without that awful man being all you can mention

like he’s controlling your damn life if you associate this many things with him! it’s a you problem if you cannot compartmentalise this shit at this point!

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Can't help but notice that most of the people freaking out about hantavirus are people who stopped masking the moment Biden said that covid was over and only killing disabled people so nothing to worry about.

Taking the way people talk about feminist movements and applying it to STEM like Physics, originally, was a divination movement seeking to understand the true nature of God. We can't ignore this when discussing so-called "particle physics experiments" conducted today.

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

No, I don’t want to share my location. No, I don’t want to download your app. No, I don’t want to make an account. I just want to look at your menu to see how much your stupid fucking burger costs.

I'm generally non physical violence, I'm also physically weak, but I support all the people who fuck with seals get a slapping.

SQQ photocard I drew a while back :) #svsss

Instagram users, you will no longer be able to send ultra‑private (end to end encrypted) direct messages, as the feature is being switched off globally. Instagram will now be able to access all the content of direct messages, including images, videos and voice notes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I worked on the ballot measure that took down right-to-work in MO. The GOP moved it from November to an off election in a naked attempt to suppress turnout. When we still won by 2/3 a republican lege staffer I knew told me it wasn't the will of the people because it wasn't the general election

Am I being gentle with myself and practicing self-forgiveness during tumultuous times, or am I using the concept of self-care as justification for continuing self-sabotaging habits established long before the current crisis? THERAPIST: Go back. You dress up like a racoon and talk about board games?

my mother's day gift to my mother will be half-assing the fuck out of this quilt so we can turn it in and she can stop worrying it will be late "it doesn't need to even be A-minus work! A B-minus type thing is MORE than fine!!"

I gotta say, even though I'm not going to play it, I actually do kinda love that new Star Fox art style. Wwhat sold me on it was I kept seeing stuff with the clothes and cockpits and stuff. It's kinda got that same quality the OG starwars stuff had. Dirty little animals in dirty little war machines.

Supreme Court justices should not have publishing deals and be doing publicity tours at all, even for a kid's book.

for, uh, world-historical reasons I am putting this back out there

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think the whole "blenderguru guy is now a huge genAI stan" thing makes a lot of sense if you learn a tiny bit about art fundamentals and then look at how his tutorials are structured. His focus has always been on finding the least laborious way to create uninspired slop.

if i ever knew this happened, i forgot it as hard as trump forgot 9/11

The greatest ideological divide in this nation is between those who will Never Forget 7/11, and those who know that Strange Things Are Afoot at the Circle K.

I actually own the things I paid money for

Laurelhurst Generously Agrees to Let Sick Children Live: tinyurl.com/3s5duryr