Is it just me or do crypto billionaires only seem interested in “innovating” pedophile islands

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

there a trillion magazines now called like ThoughtThink. Unsaid. CensoredMedia. The Believer. CrossingLines. The New Principles Of Thought Project. and every single one has written the same article a million times over that is just "i had to take a diversity training at work and it was annoying"

If your whole web presence is Instagram I am not bothering. Their design is so drastically hostile I will never interact with them.

It is not my birthday anymore but these are good pictures

If you just assume that most stories about crime waves being pushed by the police are propaganda without much (if any) basis in fact, you'll rarely be proved wrong.

Basically, the Liberals are such corrupt refs that they're ruining the game, even for the teams they're rigging it for.

Dear @theguardian.com: fuck you and fuck your transphobic garbage rag.

it's great how we tag team too. like the admin appoints someone new and this site is like "alright defense bros, you're up, whos got the good posts on this"

It was only a matter of time, but Canada has joined the censorship bandwagon with Bill S-209. Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell. www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...

Thinking about the TNG ep where they thaw out some 20th century knuckle heads and how they were able to use the wondrous new technology without creating an account

what's it gonna take, people? like there are SEVERAL people who i respect who do really good journalism who won't fucking leave substack and it's driving me MENTAL.

If you work for MasterCard or Visa and want to blow the whistle on the situation internally toward Steam / itchio, create a ProtonMail for E2E encrypted conversation and email me at: [email protected]

i guess if i had one regret it'd be so much better than the real number

Turns out the old editions are fine and you don't need to support this garbage

BCers, you have until 2 pm today to tell this electoral reform committee to get rid of first past the post. Or to keep it, if you're some kind of weirdo. Like, the bad kind of weirdo. Submitting is easy, you just have to make an account and then write your comment in a text box. That's it.

Absolutely immaculate take. This 100% will happen.

This is going to be a potentially triggering 35 part thread. If you wish to share it, for the sake of your audience, please do not repost every section of it. Share the start of the thread and allow your readers to decide whether to read the whole thing.

Yesterday, I had to do some very quick thinking on my feet to address a senior leadership directive to embrace LLM tools. I think the best metaphor for what I did was departmental judo because the executive in question agreed with me while also looking mildly concussed.

Just fucking pac-manning their way up the acronym, exactly as I expected they would

Tech companies invented an "AI" that speaks like corporate middlemanagers and came to the conclusion that it meant the AI was sentient instead of the correct conclusion that middlemanagers aren't

"Digital asbestos" *Yoink* into the lexicon with ye

"It is what it is" and I am going to keep making it a problem until it fucking isn't

Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."

@reverendjesus.com you probably already knew this but apparently the Five-fingered Hand of Eris got into Unicode (U+2BF0): ⯰ This has to be one of the most convoluted magical workings of all time. Naming a dwarf planet from Greek myth is unsurprising. Making the symbol of it from a cheeky "fake"...

Happy Summer Solstice! Today is also World Humanist Day and National Indigenous Peoples Day. We'll be celebrating with some of our members at Burnaby Village Museum today but wherever you are, take a moment to reflect on your connections to humanity and the lands you live on.

anyone who's gonna go "it sucks but you gotta win over people first, slowly build the case for rights" for trans people should tell me, without looking it up, when they think interracial marriage reached majority approval in america

Hey Bluesky, let's play a game, shall we? It's called "distributing these photos as widely as possible." This man assaulted community members and threatened journalists yesterday. We sure would love to know more about him. Recognize him? Please contact us!

if the democrats were running on "the other guy is bad" & winning every election in a landslide, even if they did jack shit of any worth while in power you could be like well they suck but at least their electoral tactic is keeping the worse guy out. but they don't! they run on that and lose lol

Today’s small victory: Had an audience member in one of my panels try to justify AI use for writing TTRPGs, but rather than debate them I just pointed and shouted ‘Everyone boo this man!’ Pretty much the whole audience joined in and, honestly, it resorted a little bit of my faith in humanity.

My brain has begun auto-correcting people saying “Chat GPT” to “My Evil Vizier” Them: “I asked [My Evil Vizier] if it would ever lie to me and it said ‘of course not!’” Me: Wow cool.

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Have you seen two terrible people fighting online? You have? I've got a song for you.

💣 BOMBSHELL NEWS 💣 Pope Leo gives Opus Dei SIX MONTHS to pass comprehensive reforms Leader of group is told: if you don't clean up by December, “necessary measures will be taken” 🧵 A THREAD 🧵 www.cronista.com/espana/actua...

Every “it’s the overreach of the left that has led to the right’s embrace of fascism” op-ed is another retread of “the decadence of Weimar Germany (ie, the public presence of queer people) is why we got the Nazis,” which is and always has been victim blaming bullshit

the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

What? I…what? openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

To anyone wondering why I'm canceling my new releases and pulling my books from Itch, I cover it here. The post is free to read

I literally said “oh my god” and covered my mouth reading the quoted phrase. Like I know what scapegoating is. But somehow it’s so horrifying and accurate

The New York Times should not exist

Me, once again asking for an outlet to pay a Black historian to write about zombiefication from a Black perspective. When zombies were scary because it was slaves telling stories about how you could be forced to work FOREVER. And not even death could save you.

Yes, we've had depression, but what about double depression?

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie. 19 Weeks.

Your "dumb little projects" are so important during this harrowing time. Don't forget that. Your creativity has value, for yourself and for the world.

The narrative that anti-vaxxers or QAnon weirdos will come back from the brink if we're nice enough to them isn't tenable morally and doesn't hold up empirically. Ostracizing people whose beliefs harm others is a critical aspect of a functioning marketplace of ideas.

the thing about the tates and trump and musk is that what they offer is the illusion of control and dominance and mastery. in truth, they are absolute slaves to their passions and their worst instincts, and they have paid for it in that they are literal degenerates