As well as this, I feel quite strongly that the increased prominence in recent years of social media influencers who engage in nothing but ragebait content and harassment has proverbially sucked all the air out of the room, content mills producing bullshit at speed who dominate gaming conversations.

If your Teams admin has enabled GIPHY support, you can put @effinbirds (with the @) in the search to see the animated versions of these comics I made for GIPHY. Works everywhere that there's a GIPHY-powered GIF chooser!

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Still think Antifa isn't violent? Here's bodycam footage of Antifa founder B.J. Blazkowicz shooting a heroic member of ICE who was just trying to protect this great nation. Thank God we have Blazkowicz's girlfriend in custody.

Getting benefits for known problems let alone "fake" ones is damned near impossible. This is all so ridiculous.

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I have no words

Norfolk (pronounced Nah-fuk)

We stand by everything we said about how people like him and Harris are why Republicans like Trump and McConnell have been allowed to rule with impunity. Democrats are the controlled opposition party explicitly to ensure both of them can crack down on actual opposition. Fuck 'em all.

Well, well, well...if it isn't the endlessly dismissed Left being proven 100% correct about someone for the one billionth time.

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

It's now considered controversial to fight the KKK in a video game.

There is an anime that appears to be about a noble lady in a fantasy setting punching people who richly deserve it this season and it is neat so far.

Of course people like this will not actually die on any hill. Everything and everyone can be jettisoned if it serves some phantom future victory. Any group's right to exist can become a "purity test" if you want it to.

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

It cannot be stressed enough that the majority of right wingers that engage in culture war nonsense are people who have PsyOp'd themselves into seeing "pattern recognition" everywhere in the same way that biblical numerologists have a heart attack every time they see the number 666 somewhere.

putting up a "no graffiti" sign in the bathroom is dumb. you've done nothing but create a canvas that beckons to pissing artists

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Love to have some random guy come into my mentions to say "Ackshually, this thing that everyone says and agrees upon doesn't exist because this Wikipedia article can't find historical sources for its origins." Fucking mansplainers twice in two days now.

These videos aren't any different than Taliban execution videos or public lynchings. They're done specifically to gloat over their assumed superiority and to instill fear in the communities they're targeting, that any one of them could and likely would be next.

During its July 2025 Prime Day event, Amazon shipped an estimated 450 million items. What it fails to report about its Prime Day operations, however, are the guaranteed spikes in carbon emissions that will linger in the atmosphere for centuries.

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

pritzker won't order the state police to protect chicago from the national guard and ice because they would disobey him, and then the game would be up

Have you heard the other bad news that their role now is to curtail any real resistance until they solidify that power?

have you heard the bad news that the national democratic party is controlled opposition who has willingly helped the nazis seize power?

Area Man Has Far Greater Knowledge Of Marvel Universe Than Own Family Tree https://theonion.com/area-man-has-far-greater-knowledge-of-marvel-universe-t-1819571080/

At least 6 unhoused Chicagoans have been abducted by federal agents since September: 2 have been released, while the status of the remaining 4 is unknown. But the Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness is investigating reports of an additional 19 people disappeared. chicagoreader.com/news/make-it...

The govt, at time of writing, yet maintains its felony assault complaints against two other men arrested at the 9/27 ICE facility protest: Dana Briggs, who is 70 years old, and Paul Ivery, who has an intellectual disability and was asked, while in federal custody, to waive his Miranda rights.

FUCK ICE

I have another video today! It's about old-school video projectors and how amazing they were. Seriously, not only is it almost unbelievable that this even works, but it's doing full HD video with incredibly good image quality. It's also a royal PITA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8u...

This image was taken moments before a boat carrying dangerous amounts of Rare Candies from Slateport City was destroyed by American forces

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh Anyway, back to toiling

LRT: Offsite brigading is inherently allowed according to Aaron's excuse thread yesterday. He very explicitly said that Bluesky only limits moderation to what happens on Bluesky, so this kind of organization is perfectly okay in his eyes. Just a reminder.

I’ve been thinking about this a bit more and: If they believed this to be an actual threat - that I was encouraging the genocide of all Jews on earth - why is it only a 24 hour ban? (Aaron confirmed this was “moderator error” so a human decision, which leads me to suspect it was an offsite brigade)

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

And they never did. They tailor the laws to fit what they wanted to do after the fact. America as a state was always just an excuse for slavemasters to commit violence. There is no future where we are free under America's rule.

Hey, you in the LGB but not T crowd Feel good? Feel proud?

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

You could just talk about Jim Crow. I promise you, there's no need to leave America's shores to talk about life in a fascist state

To be clear, ADF cooked up a case with fake facts, distorted medical research and fabricated harms to be able to gain the constitutional right to torture LGBTQ children. That's what they want to do, to torture LGBTQ youth. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“The records show that the police retroactively created a separate document about the Flock search a week after our article was published, in which they justify the search by saying they were concerned for her safety.”

COINTELPRO NEVER ENDED

okay so we've been given a chronic medical condition by corporate polluters, and now it's incumbent on us to stop breathing. you love to see it.

There's really very little reason to stick to Windows anymore. Windows continues to grow worse and more invasive, while Linux continues to improve. Most games run at the same speeds as on Windows. Some run even better. Most apps either have Linux equivalents or work in Wine.