Whenever some corporate figure says "Oh we cut minority content out of respect for our audience because we want to be inclusive of all points of views," what we should take away is that they're closet Nazis. Not cowards, just Nazis.

if you ever want to know what having a cat is like, this is a huge percent of it

🎶 Fire in the Taco Bell 🎶

It's not a curse it's a hex

The phrase "fake it until you make it" is a bad phrase. You know why? Because faking it is a prerequisite of making it. Confidence, even hubris is part of the job. You have to believe in your work wholeheartedly, and treat it with the value you want it to be treated with. People respond to that.

Hugo Girlboss If they aren't Nazis, they're so stupid they might as well be.

Superman being a journalist who cares about the truth is one of those bits of character detail with an importance that only becomes glaringly obvious when society goes to hell, huh

The Artful Corvid #oldknees

So proud I get to help @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social create this incredibly important historical game, despite the powers that be in the games industry insisting that Palestinians can not be allowed to tell their story.

It is perfectly reasonable to be in the mood for comfortable trash.

Every billionaire in the Epstein files could drop dead tomorrow and the world would not only be fine, it would actually improve. The quality of our media would improve. Our environment. Our food. Our health care. Our technology.

Whichever Discord alternative makes a Patreon integration funnel first gets my business.

"The world is chaos! The car is on fire with no driver at the wheel! The horrific truth is that no one is in control!" "Hm?" "...Well, yes, literally everything shitty about your life *does* trace back to a network of monsters who congregated on The Island, but..."

This isn't even politics, it's mental illness.

If I could snap my fingers and achieve one thing it'd be for people to understand that widespread anti-trans hatred was organised and funded by a network of powerful people with ties to Jeffrey Epstein, and that they did this to distract people from the actual abuses they were doing.

Loot box mechanics? You mean Epstein mechanics?

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The WeCreateTogether left creatives group has just released the second episode of our podcast ‘Spotlight’ which aims to highlight music, art and creativity from artists on the left! youtu.be/3zHqK7Hd5Bs spotlightwct.podbean.com/e/spotlight-...

It's been one year since TEWWBAD launched. How has it gone? 609,129 words published, into the fourth volume; On Royal Road: • 3rd Best-Rated Ongoing story, • 7th Best-Rated Overall, • Best in Drama, Psychology, and Tragedy; And a Patreon income of $2,920/month. I think that's a good start.

It's amazing the mental contortions going on here to avoid directly confronting "These people made genocide their red line and refused to vote for my candidate because of it." Because when it's phrased so clearly, it's eminently reasonable.

I swear this is all just guys who listened to too much Boulevard of Broken Dreams without bothering to think about it critically as they dropped out of life in high school.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it

Give me book recs

I'm so done with @microsoft.com pushing AI on me. Their latest move is to rename Office to the "Microsoft 365 Copilot App" so they can pretend more people are actually using their god awful slop machine. I'm out. My next desktop is going to be Linux. Fuck their broken windows — it's penguin time.

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i do find the avatar movies super interesting in how they take their environmental message to heart and conscientiously clean up after themselves in your brain when they're done

Anecdotal evidence also suggests my ass is fantastic, my bank account has hit eight digits, and all the girls are just lining up to throw themselves at me. No, I won't say who told the anecdote.

Getting real cute with it, aren't they?

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Hey, you! Are you a self-publishing fantasy author who publishes to Amazon and has a solid track record of successful launches? I want to talk to you about inside baseball stuff. I'm willing to pay for your time and expertise. Please drop me a DM. If this isn't you, please like and repost.

Really, word? In what world–

Dear Patreon: I do not care about my total earning across the last thirty days ($1.5k), I care about my total earnings from active pledges ($1.34k). There is no fucking world where earnings over a rolling 30 day period is a useful metric. Why show it prominently on the App, without context??

I always describe it as "Does the image on the screen look like you could smell it?" I don't mean in a bad way. Too much modern film is visually sanitised, wiped down, to the point that if it does have a scent, it's blandly inoffensive.

"Why do you write about this so much? It's uncomfortable." Well, you see, therapy failed to convince my brain that all the bad what happened wasn't my fault. But writing others going through it continues to assure me that monsters are real and I was around too many during my formative years.

I don't understand why the secret rulers of America from Metal Gear Solid 2 are going to be popular this Christmas, and at this point, I'm afraid to find out.

I had a very weird dream last night where Obama (yes, that Obama) was making a prestige film in which he acted as himself, wherein he never became President and instead went out to California to participate in a new gold rush. ...It's just his post-presidency media career.

Call me the Titanic the way I'm meant to be unfuckable, and yet...

Uh oh, you scrolled too far, too greedily, too deep: you have encountered a balrog.

Motherfu–

Here we go again. The word I typed: shouldn't The word that Microsoft Word decided I'd meant:

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I am thirty dollars away from paying my monthly rent with Patreon income. And my rent is fucking bullshit!

Having one of those "If only the Chinese government wasn't homophobic and repressive to the LGBT community," moments.

My Halloween costume is Boo Radley.

I believe people who misuse Tolkien to advance fascism should have a brief but life-changing encounter with World War II–era Christopher Lee

Been thinking a lot about this, and I've reached the conclusion that calling Tolkien a principled conservative is a bit unfair on him. I think the correct label is traditionalist and conservationist, with a tendency toward reaction. It might seem like splitting hairs, but his works had empathy.

I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB

I was burned by believing that Obama might just be the real thing before he was elected. But damn, do I really, really want to believe Zohran is...

There is no higher praise, is there?