I'm calling it: the great american state fair is worse than the glasgow willy wonka experience

People who accuse Pete Buttigieg of “inauthenticity“ for not being a flamboyantly hypersexualized gay confound me. This man would catch on fire if within twenty feet of a stripper pole. Him pretending otherwise would be the most inauthentic thing he could possibly do.

Starting a new Skyrim save because fuck it I know this is controversial among some, but I'm pro-Imperials from the standpoint that the Stormcloaks are low key kinda racist Confederate types

I'm having an argument right now where my thesis is basically "art consumers are exactly as greedy, selfish, and inconsiderate of the wellbeing of the artist as the corporate counterparties they love to shit all over" and the inability of gamers to understand how good they have it is Exhibit A.

Here's the inflation-adjusted price of each entry in the Diablo franchise in 2026 USD. Just the base game, not collectors' editions: Diablo (1996) - $106.80 Diablo 2 (2000) - $97.31 Diablo 3 (2012) - $87.58 Diablo 4 (2023) - $76.99

unsurprising to find this, sadly

It's very funny that the people who would insist to you that climate change was caused by 100 companies also insisted to you that cheap beef was more or less a human right

my feed is full of people mad at Pete Buttigieg for not being gay enough and also people mad at Scott Wiener who managed to marry being the kind of gay who goes to Folsom in leathers with being a politician, because he failed to be "queer politically" looks like there's no right way to be gay huh

There was a tomboy in my grade growing up whose name was Jacqueline but went by Jack. Not trans, never transitioned, just gender non-conforming.

the thing (white) people call woke 1 was woke 2 and understanding that is pretty vital to seeing why things went down how the did, because woke 1 (educated black folks warning each other; "stay woke") made the predictions, woke 2 was mostly really bad marketing by people who never got it

Time for some upper arm exercises I’m gonna be a bi workin on my bis

Trying to looksmaxx so I can "moogle" people I think is what the kids are saying

Why else would I be posting about a public hearing in the land use committee on this, the day of Seattle's biggest pride celebration?

*looks at Supergirl box office numbers and reviews* Ok cool so which rights are we going to lose as women because of this?

A lot of people think passing as a trans person comes down to luck or genetics, but it's mainly about avoiding Gandalf when you're still in the Mines of Moria

Blue state YIMBYism is a critical pillar of the antifascist project because it helps tilt migration patterns towards blue states, both increasing their political power and increasing the population of people living under relatively sane, non-fascist governance.

YIMBYism in blue states is inherently pro-trans because it makes it more practical for trans people fleeing Draconian laws in red states to move there

Terrifying new AI can "insert USB-A cables the correct way up, first time, every time"

Well, this made my night

Scott Wiener is 56?! I would’ve guessed early-mid 30s.

the correct remedy for the current regulatory environment and frontier model duopoly is to open source a mythos-level model

If you believe this then why on earth are you shitposting about it rather than spending the time you have left trying to enjoy life?

This sucks. They’re nowhere near as good as Six Flags, but they’re inexpensive and have a great coaster :/ www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...

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Claude, invent me a time machine, make no mistakes

One of the most important locations in Xorientation :)

Someone tried to qt dunk this by saying I "swung hard for NFTs." Detaching that & don't want them harassed. But I was always critical of the idea of treating NFTs as serious investments. NFTs are absolutely still around, though (my pfp & banner are NFTs, lol)

I think work is extremely important both for yourself and for others; I just don't think that *jobs* are the only - or even, often, a particularly useful - form of work.

"The fact it's so hot in France is proof that the current 2.7°C projection is wrong" is just an inverted form of "if global warming is real, why is it snowing outside?" Global warming is real, things are far from fine, but we're not doomed either.

I don't say this as someone who has historically had picture perfect mental health. Quite profoundly the opposite. But I realized the only way I can help myself & the world around me is to find productive paths forward rather than give in to the darkness within as the "correct" way to be.

the protestant work ethic is one of the most evil ideologies in history; a straight line runs from the idea that vocation is purpose and drudgery is edifying to arbeit macht frei on the gates of auschwitz

one of the worst mistakes people make is confusing bad mental health with radicalism

being part of the problem: advocating for widespread adoption of solar, nuclear, mass transit, more density in cities not being part of the problem: spreading doomer nonsense online to make people think it's hopeless to even try to solve anything apparently

Yes yes a thousand times yes (Geothermal and to a lesser extent hydro can come to the party where appropriate as well) But overwhelmingly, electricity should come from the big sun above, and the little suns in our power plant cores

someone asked me for the source code to this I have done nothing to try to clean up this code yet or get it ready for a proper release (e.g. an app icon) but here ya go github.com/smolfarm/air...

a) we've averted the worst case scenarios at this point. no, we are not all going to die, sorry if that upsets your nihilism b) the planet is cooking because of fossil fuel use, which can and should be ended

we just need FF8R with Robert Pattinson as the lead VA to settle this debate once and for all (okay, I'm just desperate for Squenix to do more with FF8)

𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚣𝚑𝚘𝚞 𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚂𝚎𝚎𝚔 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑 i love you. save me 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚣𝚑𝚘𝚞 𝙳𝚎𝚎𝚙𝚂𝚎𝚎𝚔 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝙱𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝚃𝚎𝚌𝚑𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚐𝚢 𝚁𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚑

Maybe I'm cringe for using FFX terminology here, but one of the main points of the game is that the Church of Yevon pushed the demonization of machina to maintain authoritarian control over society while using it themselves

It’s very hard to uninvent a technology However, it’s very practical to democratize and decentralize tech in ways that transform it from a tool of control to one of empowerment

Hilarious how often “Marxists” try to defend the legacy of the Luddites. Marx had very low opinions. The point of Marxism is to seize the means of production, not destroy it.

This is projected learned helplessness Fucking organize!

There are a lot of successful left-wing streamers and YouTubers who are more invested in protecting their petite bourgeois status than improving the status quo, and you can’t unsee it once you notice it

The only way focusing on trying to stop AI is beneficial is if you succeed (you won’t, lol) But if you focus on stuff like UBI and your millenarian fantasies of the bubble bursting happen, then we still have UBI — great! And we *need* that if (when, lol) AI makes a lot of people unemployed

Being a huge sapphic by once again listening to Indigo Girls while I do weightlifting

Typical American decadence. If your hair is clean, why does it need to be soft? Think how much plastic waste is created by those bottles!

A lot of people have interpreted "it's not antisemitic to criticize Israel" (true) to mean "antisemitism is fine if it's in service of criticizing Israel" (bad, bad, bad, bad, BAD)