tEM drew you CUTE? #deltarune

British drama school training is the envy of the world and, as more film + TV jobs are moving to the UK, our drama schools are the backbone of a global industry. These cuts are artistic vandalism and economic stupidity.

This has been the right’s favorite rhetorical game for decades: pretending that constitutional principles apply to like ordinary human interactions and not interactions between the individual and the state. “Freedom of speech, man!”

Look, my politics are immaculate; I believe in a diverse, egalitarian, plural society that takes care of the poor, and looks after the less fortunate, but if you annoyme, I have no choice but to abandon all principles, and really, that’s on you

Y'know, that new "Animal Farm" Andy Serkis just did that everyone already forgot about where they rewrote the allegory so that Napoleon is Trump instead of Stalin was ...STILL not a good movie? 🤷‍♂️ But that doesn't mean he wasn't on to something 🤦‍♂️

I hate this headline. I hate it so much. Let me tell you why. It makes it sound like the AI was "cast" in a movie, except the movie is being made by the same people who made Tilly, it's all in house, I might as well announce that Dan Olson has been cast as the host of a Folding Ideas doc.

The compromise I'm willing to make here is calling them Strasserites: but that requires understanding that this is a disease specific *to* the left: hating liberals more than fascists, obsessed with defeating liberalism, while believing an alliance with "working-class" fascist fans is possible.

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

Shoot, that second sentence should read “ not because of his deeds.”

Jesus appeals to cowardly and insecure skidmarks, not there was deeds, but because they identify with persecution. Even though they’re actually sitting pretty in life. In fact, I would say they’re envious of Christ. Because he suffered death and humiliation, and the world labeled him “important.”

"Holding Out For a Hero" is one of those canon needle drops that perfectly encapsulates that very specific mood of the protagonist rallying themselves for the big showdown. If that was her only hit, Bonnie Tyler would still have been a legend, and she several more iconic songs besides. Rest In Peace

Posted this above, but I think it's just mistakenly putting people in the "dirt bag left" box that don't really belong there. Racist misogynists who still love capitalism and the system also want to afford a house and healthcare and can end up supporting a Bernie or a Platner.

Spent a week at Disney on a spur of the moment impulse because I had some time off between jobs starting and some extra savings burning a hole in my pocket. I was anxious to do something so spontaneous but it turned out great. Tuesday was, legitimately, the best day of my whole life so far.

People are debating whether Platner belongs to the dirtbag left or the normie libs, and that's not the axis on which this revolves. He was backed by guys who thought "identity politics" was Mommy trying to make them take their diarrhea medicine, and that's a broad swath with members in both camps.

also, working class is no longer a class, but a cultural signifier. if you work as a nail technician, you're working class, but no one pitches their entire political campaign at you.

Creating cable tv from first principles www.wsj.com/business/med...

we do the ha-ha clueless thing but the truth imo is that it is culturally possible to grow up male-- and this is not intended as self-flagellation, just as descriptive-- without really internalizing that women also have sexual agency, which means you miss when they're exercising it at you

It wasn’t just geeky stuff like movies/comics, 20th century brick-n-mortar stores used to employ all kinds of weirdos who knew everything about something and LOVED to help. Radio Shack had circuitry weirdos! Sears had vacuum cleaner weirdos! Shirt weirdos! Garden weirdos! Hat weirdos!

A thing that made the old Internet good was all the world’s weirdos came together to offer their deep expertise on niche subjects. Now it’s so much harder to find that online, and we’ve destroyed the weirdos’ natural habitats. Netflix homepage could NEVER recommend a film like a video store weirdo.

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

Reminded that a colleague of mine, not that much younger, once confessed to me that he didn't know how to change a flat tire. And I said: "Don't ever admit that to another human being."

Here's an example of a sort of thing that I've been shooting for years. A group of kids playing "Baba O'Riley." And unlike The Who, they actually play the keyboard parts. Meanwhile, some clod with a webcam can pretend they never heard it, and get more views.

I’ll share it, because I think this rampant anti-Muslim and anti-Arab bigotry is not only accepted by a dying wing of our party but being used to win primaries (see Abdul). It’s on us to see it, shun it, and protect our coalition.

an election is a job interview to become one of the most powerful people in the country. he is “innocent until proven guilty” in that no one can throw him in jail without a trial. it doesn’t mean “you are legally obligated to give him the job he wants and he can’t ever face a single consequence”

Dolores Huerta felt like she had to hide her assaults for the sake of the movement. How many people have to swallow their pain and victimization because they'll be treated like wreckers for wanting justice?

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Transmedicalism is and has always been an ideology normalising/validating medical authority over trans bodies against trans selves, nothing more or less. It emerged out of psychiatrists recruiting trans people willing to collude through group therapy scenarios with picking out "bad" trans people.

hey was i right about this

The true voice of the American working man has been what we always know it was: a private school educated class soldier of fortune with a Nazi Tattoo and substantial allegations of being a sexual predator

When DOGE was announced Dems blew the open target of an unelected oligarch ransacking our government by granting the premise that tackling waste was good so they could eventually do shit like this and smirk “well it failed.” No genius it accomplished the looting it was meant for.

Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.

There's a part in the book "Careless People" where the author beats Zuck at Settlers of Catan, and he is absolutely wrecked by it. Someone pulls her aside to explain everyone else has been letting him win for years. I think about this a lot re: why tech bros think everyone will love AI chatbots.

Today marks 10 years since the launch of Pokemon Go, the last full week of optimism in America

The manager of a collective farm is interviewed by a man from the Ministry. "So, how many surplus potatoes were produced this year?" "Oh comrade, five times as many as last year!" "But comrade, there was no surplus last year."

BREAKING: Xbox will cut 3,200 jobs as part of a major reorganization, and divest from five studios: - Compulsion and Double Fine will go indie - Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will be sold - Arkane to enter consultation process Here's the full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Looks like the Sony PR team has begun its consent manufacturing operation among the media in the past 24 hours. I wonder how many other gaming outlets and influencers this week will also happen to put up posts/articles/videos declaring that eliminating physical media from consoles is good, actually?

Hateful content removal on Meta has dropped 79% since ammending LGBTQIA+ policies qnews.com.au/hateful... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Correct. For all their talk of technology and innovation the underlying mental framework that our oligarchs' worldview comes from is so old that it predates the European discovery of the Americas bsky.app/profile/mine...

this is similar to how for primary education they support drill instructor cram school for public school kids and send their own kids to new age feelgoodery type schools. there's no contradiction there, they want ridgid thoughtless discipline for workers and autonomy and creativity for future rulers

right wingers think it's good for the ruling class to get arts and humanities degrees. they understand the value this type of education has for the rulling class. they support vocational education (which is what they consider STEM to be) for other for precisely that reason.

Women my age ask how someone can choose to transition without dysphoria and the answer is simple: because they know they can. A lot of us older trans women were kept in the dark. And that darkness bred our dysphoria and caused us to define gender by someone else's rules.

Once you subtract the fact that my family, my home town, my government had concealed transition and transness from me, the real reason I transitioned in the end is simple: I did it because I wanted to. Because it is what makes me happiest.

When I first transitioned in the 2000s, I remember the trappings of the medical experience. The acceptable behaviors. The pleading. And I realized that, ultimately, whether the impetus to transition is innate or not isn't the point. What matters is that the choice should be available to everyone.

Okay. Let's talk about gender dysphoria. Specifically let's talk about why it's something older trans women especially tend to fixate on and use as to justify the catch-all phrase, "no one chooses to be trans" as though this encompasses the sum entirety all trans experience. It doesn't.

*(what's worrying -some- of the pundit class is that so far NONE of the majors are having a "great" blockbuster cycle EXCEPT Disney and they've got a couple more in the chamber. Nobody wants the story to be "nothing has actually changed, nothing realigned. We just hit pause. Oops." 🤷‍♂️)

"SUPERGIRL and MINIONS are both at or approaching $100M globally" / "SUPERGIRL and MINIONS are both underperforming in the U.S." is some Schroedinger's American-Interest-In-The-World-Cup sh** at this point

people jump to structural explanations, & that's definitely part of it—the democratic party is a very different type of institution to the labour party but it's also a matter of belief, either of core values, but also what elites understand their interest to be, what they think good strategy is