the inability of most online to take in new or existing information and realize they had a mystifyingly wrong reaction to something and correct their tack is legitimately a serious problem

If you see this and you are in a position to hire me to write your video game for a living wage you should really do that. Things are dire. I haven't gotten a paycheck for 8 months. I am really good at my job. I know this will apply to approximately zero of the 53,100 of you, but.

This is what every game developer sounds like right now.

i am starting to believe i must have been cursed by the zero success witch who doesn’t want anything permanent and good to happen to me repost if you are also starting to believe you must have been cursed by the zero success witch who doesn’t want anything permanent and good to happen to you

Microsoft provides Cloud and AI services to the IDF while they're committing a genocide

every screen, pop-up or button i have to see after clicking "cancel subscription" and before i see "your subscription has been canceled" should cost the company ten million dollars

One thing I believe has lowered the quality of the political discourse across the board is the Democratic Party essentially promoting Republican values by pushing the idea that misogynist racists are people you need to appeal to and win over rather than fight, and that the left is "too pure".

so weird how all the platner stans keep forgetting he isn’t the nominee yet

The other option is actually @andrealaflamme.bsky.social because the primary hasn’t happened yet

happy pride, here's this Actual Dialogue From Disco Elysium again

Learned (or at least was reminded of) today that the anniversary of Rachel Corrie's death, an American peace activist who was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer, is celebrated in Israel with pancakes. Legitimately sickening stuff.

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The ones demanding ideological purity is liberals. The only thing that matters to them is loyalty to the party. 'VBNMW' is completely emblematic of this. No standards, no expectations. Even genocide was acceptable, as long as the person in the chair wears a blue tie

Ken Jones, a retired San Francisco firefighter, has died from lung cancer after Blue Shield denied his treatment claims Any 2028 candidate who does not champion universal healthcare is a non-starter. I will not vote for someone who kills my neighbors for "shareholder value." You can go burn in hell

The same people who have been telling me to vote for lesser evils (because they incorrectly assume that I don't vote strategically) are the same ones who have been lecturing me for a decade that "enthusiasm doesn't win elections" and then losing elections due to low enthusiasm.

Trump: "26,000 unreported sexual assaults in the military...What did these geniuses expect when they put men & women together?" Platner: "How about women just take some responsibility for themselves and not get so fucked up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to"

Like genuinely every discussion about politicians behaving like Nazis will be clouded by 'what about Platner?'. The ramifications of his career will burden us for generations

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You do not get to invoke queer people in the name of a candidate who refused to stand up for trans rights.

Shut Up And Obey. Shut Up, Shut Up, Shut Up, You're Not The IMPORTANT Demographics, You Have to Shut Up! You Have to Love the Party, Shut Up!

Well I not only voted for the Damage Control candidate yet again (as I've been doing for decades), I spent the entire lead-up to the election begging centrists to stick to messaging that brings voters in instead of alienating them, and I was told to fuck off and that enthusiasm doesn't win elections

this form of "Harm Reduction" argument has almost always been "we should give the hostage taker grenades because he said he'll shoot the hostages if we don't". it's a way of trying to delay reconciling with our losses. the emotional math makes sense to people, consequences be damned.

American politics is not a team sport, you should have all realized that after the past year and a half. Voting for someone because theres a D next to their name does not protect you.

DO NOT GIVE GOVERNING POWER TO PEOPLE YOU WOULDN’T TRUST ALONE WITH YOUR SISTER

This man could have retired 6 years ago and preserved so much of his legacy, but I can only assume his transformation into a democrat is complete and he has no choice but to thoroughly overstay his welcome and die while in office

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

Bernie should be the right flank of a progressive party. The fact he's a 'radical leftist' compared to the rest of the party is an absurd indication of how fascist the US is, and how utterly inadequate the democratic party is.

Bernie's a centrist and the proof is how many people latched onto what he offered while holding onto prejudices against vulnerable populations and anarchism/communism. He had a lot of cis white guys all in on Medicare for All but markedly quiet about equity, rights, and minority legal protections.

I pointed out that all of the Heisei era Godzilla movies easily pass the Bechtel Test and my kid responded, "only if Godzilla isn't the love interest" and I've been thinking about that for *weeks*.

ICE deliberately targeting media and their equipment

the columbine shooters were neonazis and nobody was allowed to tell anyone that for like thirty years, and as a result instead of a public backlash to and government crackdown on neonazi internet groups, we have neonazi interns running the government

Guys I saw a coyote last night, it was really cool

like I think this point gets glossed over a bit too often when we are expected to have unlimited empathy for the veterans that served in Iraq and Afghanistan. there. was. no. fucking. draft.

Liberals continue to be mad that leftists listened to all of what Kamala said, like unwavering support for Israel, being tough on immigration, and desiring 'the most lethal military', things the dem party has a history of delivering on, and not the economic promises they repeatedly don't.

Here is a refresher. I know all Harris stans forgot what happened during the election. 😇 If anyone it is to blame. It is weak centrists voters who don't demand better and Harris/Biden.

will stancil to an unhoused person: "you're not poor! you're not poor! you're only doing this to make the democrats look bad! what you're doing is some kind of mental illness"

You know those laser scouring videos where they clean oxidized metal? That, but to my brain please

I think establishment democrats severely underestimate how many non-voters out there are reachable liberals and progressives who have been convinced that voting never makes a difference because establishment democrats never actually push for what they say they will.

Maybe Democrats shouldn't have bet the farm on Kamala Harris when the highest she ever got in a legitimate presidential primary (In 2020) was 6%. In her home state. She lost to Andrew Yang.

Kilmer Albrego Garcia had no criminal record and was sent to a torture prison in El Salvador. This Republican child rapist got a slap on the hand. That is what Republicans really mean by tough on crime.

My grandparents complained about walking to school Hill issue

Ok this is a truly great tweet