Okay sure, that pesky Mamdani might be on the street everyday-- filming "Tick Tocks", appealing himself to the living, breathing people of New York-- but does he have a fake video of fake people agreeing with his fake opponent's fake policies? I think NOT.

The Gamer was pretty much the *only* outlet willing to stick their neck out for us adult game makers. Their coverage was invaluable in getting the word out about payment processor censorship 😥

remote work is like birth control or UBI atp where there’s overwhelming research consensus they improve quality of life for people they apply to, yet access is impeded or blocked by the ruling class because the thought of marginalized ppl having rich full lives makes steam come out their ears

Paypal is now playing harder ball on artists, going after anyone even mentioning commissions. Artists, send invoices. That way, no one has to say what the money is for on Paypal's paper trail. Customers, SAY NOTHING about commissions. Just say "thanks" on donos. Everyone: INCREASE THE CALLS.

Several months ago, actors made it clear that they were withholding work from Genshin Impact because of a lack of basic AI protections Hoyo fans told them it would/could never be an issue Last night, Hoyo posted several official videos promoting Genshin's new mode Here's what the VO sounds like.

You can vote with your wallet, just saying.

Fuck it we ball 🖊️🦑

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Obama is the lynchpin of neoliberal failure: - no bankers went to jail for the financial crisis - no punishment for Bush era crimes including torture - no reigning in open market manipulation and illegal activity of tech disruptors like Uber - refused to reform the filibuster - drone wars expanded

Noah Smith seems to now believe that accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, something which is now the consensus of all major human rights organizations on the planet as well as the International Association of Genocide Scholars, is comparable to the 2020 election denialism of the GOP.

there are really finding good things happening despite the bad and the fear. don't give up on hope. this is fucking huge

The thing about these grindset lifestyle posts is that they're all fake. None of it is real.

I can't help but notice that the most common dismissal of the #NoKings march is, "Is we really had a king, you wouldn't be able to protest." Which is not only deeply ahistorical and completely misses the point, but also feeds into the myth of authoritarian dictators being all powerful.

The Guardian is reporting that since Israel and Hamas signed the ceasefire and full hostage exchange agreement, Israel has violated the ceasefire 47 times, killed 38 Palestinians, and wounded another 143 more. Meanwhile Hamas has released all remaining hostages. It Was Never About The Hostages.

When you finally understand what the trade deficit is

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

I wasn’t exaggerating it rules so hard

I genuinely mean this - incredibly happy I’m from the generation that got to grow up on Bill Nye. What a guy.

cops tackling and marching off with a giant penis, Kristi Noem menacing a chicken she swears is antifa, feds pepper-spraying a frog ridicule is an extremely effective protest tactic and foil for authoritarianism

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.

This is the No Kings Protest clip of the day! HAPPENING NOW: Aerial coverage of a MASSIVE CROWD peacefully protesting and marching down the streets of NYC to protest Donald Trump and his administration’s actions and policies. Just look at that turnout!!! 📍New York City, NY

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

The Bluesky government accounts want unhinged engagement with their accounts to screenshot and provide to Fox News to justify their authoritarianism and I’m not going to do their work for them it’s my day off.

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

Disabled folks feeling guilty for not protesting today: *it is not your fault* that organizers don’t make an effort to make protests accessible and don’t encourage masking And despite what folks on Bluesky would have you believe, there are MANY ways to resist and protests don’t have to be your way

Also, they want to make content. And that means they are going to take the worst stuff people say in response to them (this being the internet, some of which might be quite bad) and splash it across the official comms organs of every major federal law enforcement agency. So take that into mind.

You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.

There seems to be a concerted, coordinated effort from the White House and various governmental agencies to join Bluesky en masse prior to the "No Kings" protest and flood the zone. A reminder that the Trump admin is monitoring social media platforms to find excuses to revoke visas:

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

i hope in future chicago mayor elections they’ll ask eachother if they denounce goblin mode

Nazis doing what they always do (putting in writing that they’re doing evil shit and saying to not put it in writing)

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced we are definitely not having any luck with “norms” what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”

Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors. We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

israel

🐺 ⋆｡‧˚ 𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐯𝐬 𝐌𝐎𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐁! ˚‧｡⋆ 🐦 Let's have some 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗕 𝗦𝗡𝗔𝗖𝗞𝗦 𝗕𝗘𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗨𝗘𝗗 𝗢𝗡 𝗕𝗨𝗡 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝟮 (𝟭𝟮.𝟭𝟮.𝟮𝟱)! What could possibly go wrong, eh, Hank?! 🐦

COVID is still here.

Wikipedia is worth $10/month because if it dies so does reliable knowledge. Cough up if you can -- it's cheaper, more interesting and morally superior to Netflix.

Now's the time to call up Visa/MC to ask 'hey, how come you guys will pay for ChatGPT and Twitter subs but I can't buy certain games off of Steam?' Because I frankly would LOVE an answer to that...

Welcome to bluesky, the team running the place hates you, please enjoy these oldheads during your brief stay

People will wanna justify it, but we have to at least acknowledge that if any other game pulled just half the shit they pull with Pokémon, it’d be eviscerated. Somehow it’s fine for one of the most lucrative franchises in the world to have significantly lower standards.

"[O]ver 9,100 Palestinians continue to be held in Israeli prisons." "Some 3,544 of them are held under the Israeli system of 'administrative detention,' which allows Israel to imprison Palestinians for up to six months without charge or trial." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Incarceration #Genocide

we have got to start killing billionaires. is the first line that the villain speaks in the novel im writing. really though, in the real world, we have to kill these people. he continues

Same in DC. It’s been two months. Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

"Decolonize Everything" “When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish caught… then you will realize money cannot be eaten.” Anti-colonial graffiti seen in Pensacola, Florida