Can we get demsocs in Chicago next

Wacom doing planned obsolescence with a "Thank you for your support" on their staggeringly overpriced products wasn't on my bingo card but I am UNSURPRISED. If you too are in this position, allow me to draw your attention to what's probably your best solution: opentabletdriver.net

Your response to “trans surgeries are not accessible for everyone” should be “we must center material demands for them to be accessible for everyone”. If your response instead is “not transitioning is actually sooooo valid and btw surgeries are dangerous and bad” you are the enemy!

Tbh all of Ralsei's dialogue about how Christopher Columbus is actually Turkish is weirdly in character. Like at first I thought it was out of left field but as I pondered I was like damn Toby is making this work.

I don't do commissions so I'm less affected by this but judging by print sales & what other people have been saying, the bottom has fallen out of the market for freelance artists. Easy to reach for genAI as an explainer but genuinely I don't think the people who would commission artists online

would en masse turn to AI (for a lot of them, the artist they choose IS the point of the commission, rather than the end product). I think people just have no fucking money anymore & I don't think this will improve either. The late 2010s/early 2020s feel an anomaly now

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Zines are now a federal crime in the United States. They are setting precedent to go after anyone they want for writing or reading anything they don't like.

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

it can't just arbitrarily make up a crime because it's bored

This is how neocolonialism works btw. The US will stop at nothing to completely destroy Cuba without needing to step foot on the island.

the only papas i’m celebrating this father’s day

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This is horrifying. People getting sentenced to decades in prison for distributing zines, organizing mutual aid efforts, public protest.

Last time I was at the store with my parents, we were looking at novelty socks and my mom picked these up and said quietly, "Undertale?"

If the AAA gaming industry profit model needs to be readjusted for an era of austerity and degrowth, sure, but first I'd like to see how much a big 5 year game costs if we cut off only executive salaries, executive bonuses, useless HR departments, idiot marketers, and a carrion army of managers.

Avery is one of the most brilliant game designers today. Had the pleasure of meeting her at her workshop in Nova Scotia a couple years ago. MonsterHearts, The Quiet Year, and Dream Askew are all great games you should read and play with your friends!

A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

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I see some concerns raised about Godot's policy on contributions using AI. TL;DR: Godot isn't vibe-coded. As a whole, the Godot foundation and maintainers are fairly critical of AI usage, and don't make nor accept vibe-coded contributions. Godot doesn't include AI features nor intends to add any.

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this should be mandatory reading for the entire country

Thinking about that post that's like "climate change is a series of phone videos getting closer and closer to your location until you're the one taking them," and how that applies to things like disability and financial hardship too

I've never found "well if you crackdown on right-wingers doing X, what's to stop a crackdown on left-wingers doing X" argument to be very compelling, because right-wingers do that all the time and liberals do nothing about it.

Liberals will get on my tits about the right of ideas to exist and be heard, but their methods have abjectly failed to provide safety for queer people and other minorities. A thousand liberal thinkpieces about constitutionality and rule of law have done shit all to stop the right wing.

"Expecting me to read books and look up words is discriminatory" is for sure a viewpoint that crops up online, and it's very important to make fun of it every time

this is somehow gayer than sleeping together in a single bed what the fuck

It's really shocking that a young woman who had such a strong career, starring in multiple films, died of poverty while Disney sucked the marrow of one of her movies to the tune of $1 billion. When we say socialism or barbarism: this what barbarism looks like.

This is what they meant by Sensible, Moderate, Practical politics and “ending the culture war”: giving the worst people in Britain what they want at the public’s expense, and not even benefitting from it. They behave like this because they are horrible, self-absorbed people.

re: getting your paypal nuked (or stripe, your bank account, any visa/mastercard access, etc) Please report your experience to the FTC and the OCC. They're already under pressure for debankment and we want to stress how important this is (and once again, the OCC mentioned adult entertainment)

It's been a day.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

It’s important on Juneteenth to remain aware that we live in a country driven by various degrees of unjust human exploitation & our economy that we call American capitalism relies on legal loopholes that permit slavery & the threat of homelessness, which can be punished with enslavement, to function

Sometimes people will play dumb about why Israel gets singled out as a uniquely bad actor. Our government having a uniquely extremist supportive relationship with theirs is part of the reason. The other part is that their officials post “I AM HITLER” on American social media all day long

Nishida on the iconic spinning Triforce, 2017. Source: Nintendo Website #Zelda #ALinktothePastQuote #NishidaQuote web.archive.org/web/20171001...

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

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No Democrat has ever proposed "ending homelessness" except in the phrase "with that money we could end homelessness." In reality, Democrats mostly work to criminalize homelessness. And of course, Dems were happy to rubber stamp the $144B increase in yearly military funding over Biden's term.

this is the best video i've seen today

Ignoring the fact this is not how the money works re: Iran, Democrats love to post "with all the wasted money we could do all of these things that we also do not support."

I was digging around on wikipedia today and happened to come across this very good painting of Fancy Men Bamboozled By Egg

Converting the most precious memories of my children to be 5e compatible

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