Didn't you guys write this exact same story about billionaires in NYC about Mamdani only to write a 'nah SIKE' follow up like a week after he won when all the billionaires realized they don't have Zabars in like Rochester

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

One confusing thing about liberal media outlets like the NY Times and CNN is that they're extremely right-wing: open.substack.com/pub/thecolum... by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Maaaan I miss ethics in journalism that shit was hot

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

archive.org/details/ceco... a higher quality version.

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

Looking through my Alien: Isolation screenshots and apparently every time I play the game I take this one.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Listen, it's not like this was a story about wokeness on college campuses. The foreign torture prison where the government is disappearing people is old news.

I got about halfway through Routine and somehow wound up on another Nightmare run of Alien: Isolation.

“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Hang on, what if Bari's just incompetent and helped Trump by accident. What if she's been in the industry for decades but as a grifter, so genuinely doesn't know how it works. What if she had good intentions but just happened to help hide the crimes of the current government, which she supports.

Incredible to destroy decades of credibility in like two weeks.

I’m sorry ezra but I could swear you told me the cruel folks were doing this the right way

I remember the days of journalism when you would be fired for printing lies.

Dems too tbh, if there were consequences for the powerful a lot of things would be different.

If ANY Republican starting with Nixon had met with the business end of consequences for their actions in office, Trump wouldn't have happened.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mitt Romney, Nazi tattoo guy, Gavin Newsom, and the Cheneys walk into a bar… …and the bar is apparently the new Democratic Party and you’re all high fiving and giving a standing ovation while chanting “perfect is the enemy of good!”

Obi-Wan and Yoda lied to Luke a shitload to turn him into a weapon to kill his father, they absolutely would not have told him this, as they were assholes.

absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos

Xenogears had a 2-year production cycle with a team of relatively inexperienced devs. It could've benefitted from more time and resources, yes, but it's also 80 hours long and punches above its weight in terms of art direction and narrative

The thing is, who wants to go and work in a place explicitly built so rich dorks could dodge governments? I know rich people have a *great* track record of treating people who work for them really well and living up to their obligations to them and everything, but still, seeeeeeeems risky.

Primary every Democrat, jesus christ what good are they.

I've been in journalism basically my entire life and it is WILD for People to accuse someone of committing murder without so much as an arrest. The reason the word "alleged" is used so much is because it's straight libelous to do otherwise, to say nothing of the ethics.

if Trump reschedules pot and all of America becomes California Circa 2013 in terms of medical weed i will call this the greatest own goal in the history of Democratic Politics

My only big post-game-award thought is that while Clair Obscur is obviously an excellent game (cmon, don't do the sour grapes thing, please?), it still doesn't come to mind AT ALL when I think of my favourite RPGs of the year That still goes to Look Outside, made by a tiny team in just a few months

Earlier tonight I was like "how many anime gacha RPGs can the market reasonably sustain"

I see a lot of people bemoaning western games for being increasingly homogeneous, ugly and unstable, but I think that does a disservice for the many horrible gacha games on display that are basically indistinguishable from each other too.

Boomers who spent decades complaining that everyone getting a trophy makes kids soft: I think this is great.

Got to check out the new Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora DLC, which tells a new story by setting the whole world on fire. www.gamespot.com/articles/ava...

Something that doesn't get said enough is that Republicans hate America.

HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends

Once again reminded that Blue Prince is my favorite game of the year and it's not close.

It’s fun to say “I saw yoda get hit by a car.” relaxing. the cellar door of sentences

I know I always say this, but Vagrant Story is an absolute masterpiece with a poorly explained crafting and weapons system and a UI that's kind of a nightmare.

Can I please never hear from or about James Carville again

Trick question, all video game knowledge is equally useless

Who is desperate to make these people look like humans?

Hell, I treat most YouTube videos like podcasts.

Lol if you're still on Twitter what are you doing

Musk turned on a feature on X that showed country of origin. He disabled it a couple hours later when it was revealed how many MAGA accounts aren't in the U.S. Foreign bot disinformation machines exposed. Seems like Twitter could have done that feature 15 years ago & we wouldn't be here today.

There's at least one important FF7 game that was made for flip phones or some shit

Trump meeting is even funnier when you picture JD Vance getting redder and redder as he watches