Reason number #125 why I wish there was an environment for some proper "How to draw erotica/hentai" books.

Thing that's bugging me about the the reported Crunchyroll Subtitling software change. Yes, it's self-evident that *something* changed - the fonts I'm seeing on shows are *clearly* different (and sometimes even with different typefaces or formatting between shows). 🧵

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

I went to get a haircut this morning, and the barbershop had a radio on, and the not-quite shock-jock DJs were talking about AI. Their banter could be summarized as a group of people despiriately trying to one-up each other on the Kent Brockmann "I for one, welcome our new AI overlords" bit.

Anime Review: My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 My Dress-Up Darling was one of the first shows we did for Anime Explorations, and it was a show we generally really enjoyed. Yes, it was a somewhat horny-on-main romantic comedy anime, but it was tonally light, and didn't feel leering in the way that…

another useful explainer bsky.app/profile/bisp...

Oh i remember that movie. I enjoyed it back then but thinking more about it now, it did not age well. I like to think of it as a comical satire version of that Micheal Douglas movie "falling down"

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

You should also contact your Member of Parliment if you're in the UK

I'm serious email your representatives and link this article RIGHT NOW tell them this shit sucks and is going to put everyone's ID/data at risk to hackers online. the proof is right here US- www.congress.gov/members/find... EU- www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home CA- www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 114: Talk Your Ear Off I follow a researcher around.

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

Look, everything about this is embarrassing and horrible, but I’d like to zero in on him proudly and loudly trumpeting PROJECT 2025. Every member of the media who willingly snowed themselves when he said he knew nothing about it should be embarrassed to be seen in public ever again.

"AI" is absolutely and ONLY a marketing term, and at this point if it's being used, the intent behind it is to overpromise to the consumer/end user on the program's actual capabilities. And, of course, none of the "AI" is actually intelligent in any meaningful way.

This is tech/marketing people leveraging decades of science fiction media presenting "AI" as generally encyclopedic and infallible. People think they're getting JARVIS, when what they're getting is the machine version of that annoying dude in your dorm confidently spouting bullshit on every subject

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 113: Less Than Artful Dodger I follow the trail of bandits to their lair.

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Just read a job listing for a Rhet/Comp professor, and the job requirements include incorporating AI. FIT students, your school is sacrificing your education to trends.

Honestly “Republicans are shutting down the government to hide the Epstein files” is pretty good messaging.

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

Multiple states are jointly suing the Department of Health and Human Services and its Secretary, RFK Jr., over new rules restricting what can be taught in sexual education classes, after the administration threatened to cut funding to states that acknowledge trans people in their sex ed classes.

This is what journalism looks like.

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So that's actually not a good solution at all! The solution to over-censorship actually isn't more censorship

Fact: Lewis won more championships with Roscoe than Georgia has won with all their Ugas combined.

Campaign Diary: Dragonlance Shadow of the Dragon Queen – Part 2 I cover chapter 4 of the adventure, including a few of the difficulties of our first dungeon exploration.

Come for the blistering ruling, stay for the lengthy excerpt of an interview Michele Martin of @NPR did with a DHS spokesperson that is invoked as evidence.

EA is an ill omen for the American game industry and AAA in general for a number of reasons but #3 is one I've been thinking about a lot when commentators talk about indies picking up the pieces. Indies fundamentally can't provide enough jobs to sustain a professional game industry of scale.

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 112: Street Rat I enter the market and learn that Goetz has run into a pickpocket.

HOLD. THE. LINE. ✊

John Oliver did a feature on Netanyahu, and again there's the thing that he gave Hamas *suitcases of cash* to ensure they'd win over Palestinian moderates, and somehow he hasn't been charged with treason or even removed from office. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Bw...

The passage of Tina Kotek’s funding package, House Bill 3991, offers a lifeline to hundreds of employees at the Oregon Department of Transportation threatened with layoffs if the agency didn’t get around $300 million more in the current budget.

I sure hope John Oliver and everybody working on his show is well protected after dropping this. Fantastic overview, and under-educated normies need to hear more like this.

do sex workers get to sue too or just autocrats

Portland City Councilor/Army vet urges military members to refuse to comply with deployment orders to Portland. "You have not only the right, but the duty to disobey an unlawful order."

One of the forms of social knowledge that I think has been lost with the past decline in union membership is an understanding of how much work a general strike requires. Same with Wildcat strikes. Same with ordinary strikes. Strikes require lots of planning, and can be months or years in the making.

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 111: Clive’s Mom Is The Worst It turns out Clive's mother's motivation is just classism and eugenics.

Anime Explorations Episode 36: Gankutsuou This month we’re watching the anime adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo.

Why I’m Dropping Sakamoto Diaries The first season of Sakamoto Diaries was a fun season, with some interesting characters and some fun writing and fight scenes. the concept of "What if John Wick's wife didn't die, and he retired to run a combini?" worked for me. However, the second season had a…

Remisse has patched English into the Japan-only Saturn version of Wizardry IV — and not only that, he's fixed a long list of bugs and missing content in the console port, too! Read all about it: www.segasaturnshiro.com/2025/09/26/f... #sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming #videogames #translation

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 110: Funeral For A Friend We pay our respects at Cid's grave.

Where I Play Final Fantasy XVI Part 109: Dominant’s Best Friend Clive finds a new source of bones for Torgal.

Florida sheriff's department used ICE to round up sex workers under pretense of fighting human trafficking and child exploitation. Instead, they arrested 111 sex workers, none of whom was underage and none of which led to a human trafficking arrest.

Let's make sure that we're remembering to do this too. It's been a whirlwind, but Jimmy Kimmel's return is a sign that we can still make a difference with payment processors too.

Meta's policies require "repeated" Community Standards violations before Meta will disable an account. But abortion advocates are getting banned after just one post. This completely cuts accounts off from their followers and silences crucial reproductive health information.

Yellow sees a sign

Censoring, and especially making noncon/underage art illegal also literally endangers victims. When antis report artwork, where no real person is experiencing trauma, it clogs moderation teams. NCMEC and other orgs don’t care about art. It doesn’t identify real kids. It doesn’t stop predators.