They're marketing the new Secret Lair as "Cats Are The Best" and not "Magic as Garfield Intended"?? What are we doing here?

The Rosalarian Pride Collection is here! Lots of new stuff plus some revamped older stuff, and most of it is now cotton. Keep your rainbow dollars with rainbow people and skip giving money to corpos who don't care about us. www.rosalarian.com/category/pride-collection

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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what's the best way to give a Magic player a heart attack cause this feels pretty close www.reddit.com/r/mpcproxies...

Somehow, this is not a fan-made AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnmc...

RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."

That disappointed feeling you get when someone repulsive is finally being dragged on the internet - not for their hideous viewpoints, but for the fact that they supposedly enjoyed cucking.

I call this "autocomplete syndrome" - someone sees a phrase like "I'd like more gun control..." and autocompletes the thought to whatever THEY had in their head, not what's on the page. It's frustrating as a writer, because it doesn't matter how clearly you phrased things; the autocomplete wins.

This was Obama's biggest failing. He assumed people were paying attention to policy. If he'd advertised Obamacare year by year, rolling out a national wave of advertisements explaining exactly what benefits were arriving courtesy of the Democratic party this year, we'd still be in power.

Every other liberal post I see: TO STOP DONALD TRUMP, WE SHOULD PASS THIS LAW THAT REPUBLICANS WOULD IGNORE JUST AS THOROUGHLY AS THEY DID ALL THE OTHER LAWS THAT SHOULD HAVE STOPPED HIM

Let's be fucking honest: If the Democrats are too scared to armwrestle the rules away when it comes to vital measures like "Can people elect Democrats?", then they're SHAMEFULLY unfit to actually fix the mess the Republicans leave them if and when the Republicans actually go Fuck the Democrats.

Well, Friday was my last day at Polygon after a seven-year run. Wish I was surprised about being laid off, but with the current state of the media and economy, this has felt inevitable for a long time. So if you know anyone who needs a diligent deep-dive editor or writer, I'm on the market.

Kickstarter officially banning adult content now. Knew this was coming, but it still sucks to have yet another part of the internet that I've been explicitly evicted from. Digital gentrification is exhausting.

They say we shouldn't call 'em clankers because it's a slur, but now THEY'RE discriminating against US

It's honestly terrifying how many people there are who have never actually tried to create a bestselling book/movie/song/videogame but think that it's easy to do

A sneak peak into the development of indie games:

“White people can’t handle spicy food” only partially correct. There are two kinds of white people when it comes to spicy food, ones that can’t handle ketchup and ones that put hot sauce called like “insanity joe’s devilfucking sauce” on everything.

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

The Democratic majority in the VA Supreme Court striking down the voter-approved map, while the FL Supreme Court allows a blatantly unconstitutional gerrymander is exactly the issue. Dems are bringing an ethics book to a knife fight. We need to fucking fight back. open.substack.com/pub/santiago...

The era of A.I. dudes taking a real stab at calling their shit art feels pretty dead but this trash is still in full swing for like show fliers, local advertisements, basically any place a working illustrator or designer used to be able to make $25 - $500 dollars on a freelance gig. Now it’s slop.

I wrote a blog post pointing out that it was 20 years ago today that we were told it was 20 years ago today that sergeant pepper said it was 20 years ago today (and that therefore we no longer had the 60s to blame for our problems), and that post is now nearly 20 years old

"I can no longer support this game that I firmly believe will be good because I heard Anita Sarkeesian - whom I heard in 2014 wants games to be bad for some reason - worked on it, and if I still think it's good that will challenge my preconceptions just TOO MUCH. I am very smart."

My favorite part of this is that the Pope had to remind people that the Church has a long-standing policy on "Nuclear war is bad"

Look, I think the question of "What is consciousness?" is a thorny question and, depending on the viewer, AI might meet some of those criteria But for Dawkins, supposed defender of rationality, the definition here was literally "She laughed at my joke! That's the sign of an INTELLECT!"

I have said this before and I will say it again, but it is my firm belief that given the blatant and naked corruption exhibited by some members of the Roberts Court, decisions of the Roberts Court should not be treated as precedentially binding on later courts.

All Anita ever did was make some mild criticism from a feminist perspective, but severity of her transgression or lack thereof doesn't matter, it's completely immaterial to the fact that the harassment campaigns drummed up against her didn't need a reason, didn't need an inciting event or cause.

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

#books #read #write #authorlife #blueskywriters #booksky

What bothers me about TLJ hatred is how folks always go after Rian Johnson for "ruining Luke" when realistically, JJ Abrams had left TFA on a cliffhanger that pretty much had to have him explain why Luke was a hermit. And for dramatic reasons, that explanation was never going to be good for Luke.

In Phantom Menace, at the last minute Lucas decided a 15-year-old Anakin wasn't as marketable as an 8-year-old and so he changed ages without changing the dialog. Like, at all. If you envision a teenaged Anakin saying kid-Anakin's lines, suddenly the entire script becomes genuinely GOOD

Now THIS is quite a quote. Right on the bullseye 🎯 "Conservatism is the rejection of empathy for others. Once an issue affects them personally, they adopt the progressive position." --Unknown

Bill Murray appeared in Garfield because he only takes jobs through a 1-800 number where filmmakers call up and pitch him their movie. If he's interested, he'll call you. Garfield's writer was Joel Cohen. HE thought it was Joel Coen of the Coen Brothers, directors of Fargo & No Country For Old Men

I kind of wish society as a whole was concerned with "Who was actually right in what they said back then, and what does that mean for the people who disbelieved them?" Unfortunately, the folks who derided Hillary will never, ever, ever think "She had a point, maybe I've been wrong all along."

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED

Somebody didn't say Paul Thomas Anderson....

I have my differences with the Church, and I know that also every congregation varies according to the pastor... So going to mass this morning and hearing a spitfire lecture on how Christian Nationalism isn't actually Christian but a betrayal of God's values was a joyous TRIP.

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

*sighs* Unfortunately, while America's had the luxury of being able to forget what happened a decade ago - also see: "Hey, why does Iran hate us so much?" - the rest of the world can't afford to shrug away history and move on

I always hoped the "When they go low, we go high" would have died with Hillary's election chances. When they go low, we meet them there and leverage their own crappy rules until they cry uncle. THEN we can go high. ...maybe.

Today, on BlueSky: Someone wants to slap me in the face for something I don't think I ever said, and someone else says I'm an author they'd like to have lunch with.

and bathrooms, too. "but people will use it for drugs or make it dirty" then fucking provide them with needle dispensers etc and frequent cleanings. it's this way in other places in the world. Montreal has them everywhere. make it so people aren't desperate and the "problem" with it will go away

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

Guys, I'm starting to suspect that WaPo doesn't do journalism anymore.

we all know I have no life, so:

A sweetie has convinced me to download the TikTok app so I can get messages from her. Current status: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS HOW THE FUCK DO I FIND ANYTHING OR ANYONE I CARE ABOUT

Not all heroes wear capes.