Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them. The current climate is especially accelerating this. Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves. Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

Anyone who was around gaming message boards c. 2000 deeply recognizes this type of guy.

yeah ok google I'll prove I'm an adult - I remember when you killed Google Reader - I remember when you introduced Chrome (it sucked so I kept using Firefox) - I remember when you used to say "don't be evil" and then you quietly dropped it oops - I remember when I switched to DuckDuckGo (~2011)

I hate that all the legacy media brands I’ve admired for my whole life are collapsing at exactly the same moment I’ve finally built up enough experience to realistically write for them.

Since today's discourse is on how "not everyone grew up with Nintendo", I'll reshare this: medium.com/@felipepepe/... And reinforce that this is systemic - a consequence of US hegemony. It's NOT a personal attack on American journos, youtubers & gamers, but rather a reminder of our differences.

The fact tomorrow is the start of September is messing with me. How are we two thirds through the year already? Pokémon Legends Z-A is only a month and a half away. Pokémon's 30th anniversary is just under 6 months away. That's nuts.

Being scared of everything has always been a part of conservatism—it’s the uniting ideology of all facets of the culture—but when did they just loudly and openly start admitting this unprompted at every opportunity?

A rainbow 🌈 over Lago di Garda 🇮🇹 as the day ends

AI could have been successful if it had been treated as a science and developed with rigorous ethical standards focused on solving problems for humanity instead of being treated as a speed run on an exploitative capitalist growth tool focused on solving problems for trillion dollar corporations.

The dumbest motherfuckers on the planet: “I think this computer wants to blow me.”

忄 is 心 but it's been radicalized by the far left

One of our @funfactorpod.com listeners, flyingspacewhale, posted this on the Discord, and, uh.

There is nothing that gets my red flag meter going quite like men saying things like "it was hard meeting women because I was interested in (insert nerdy thing here)" when I have distinct memories of certain kinds of men in nerdy thing specifically and repeatedly excluding me from nerdy thing.

If everybody who’s able could post this every so often, it’d send a powerful message. Do not let the vtuber community become a nazi bar.

This short turns 89 today and is Tex Avery's oldest classic and a well-loved WB short. You have Owl Johnson singing the title song that easily sticks in your head, along with a sweet ending where his whole family dances along with him. Cartoon: "I Love To Singa" (1936, Tex Avery)

I think for some people, it's hard for them to grasp why video games mean so much to many of us. They gave those of us who never won, a way to win. They gave those of us with no control in our lives, something that we COULD control. And that comfort saved me during a lonely and isolated childhood.

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

SGDQ currently has a black woman speedrunning Wolfenstein II with two black LGBTQ commentators as a chat of 45K people yells about stomping fascism and I just think that's neat. sometimes gaming is good

Oh hey, anime fans, raise your hands if you've heard this IRL from some weirdo trying to justify genuinely creepy shit to you before. 🙋‍♀️

As we go into Pokémon GO's 10th year, I can't help but think back to how wrong I was about it. Before it launched, I & the community was down on it and questioned it. Then, summer 2016 hit and it took off. It heralded in a new renaissance of Pokémon which hasn't calmed since.

Not enough people discuss the icon that is Katarina from My Next Life as a Villainess.

Let's normalize talking to our friends and working our issues out in private before we spur needless infighting and ostracization in our fringe communities.

It can be easy to get caught up in comparing yourself to other people. But remember there are advantages we all have or don't have that are totally invisible from the outside. You are doing your best with the life you have and your story is unique.

Sometimes terrible people are able to make genuinely good pieces of media and progressives need to be able to reconcile with that instead of retroactively claiming something was never good in the first place.

Ah yes, Tomoyo...the cousin who's the ultimate bestie! Source: Simpsons Bortposting

Imagine outsourcing all your thinking to a guy who still only has two Pokémon badges after 80 hours of gameplay.

I've never seen anyone disrespect Nintendo games quite like other Nintendo fans.

WRITER: “I wrote this free essay on my website about blueberries in cereal. A simple pleasure.” RANDOM BLUESKY USER: “This is the fucking problem with society right now, that people write these wrong milquetoast takes when food journalism has fallen to a nadir in its quest for fascist acceptance.”

Boycotting large chains is a privilege. Protesting is a privilege. Moving States or countries is a privilege. Prepping is a privilege. Growing your own food is a privilege. Stockpiling meds is a privilege. Far too many of the “solutions” to fascism are inaccessible to many disabled people.

Every morning Ali gives me a Babybel cheese and as I undress it the kittens each wait to get a small nibble. These are the happy moments that make everything else okay.

Last evening’s storm clouds. Taken with my iPhone. #Clouds #Sky #Nature #Photography

The revelation that Minako spent her toddler years watching & copying idol singer performances, women's volleyball (a big deal in the 60s & 70s, since Japan won the Olympics in 1964), and *Sergio Leone spaghetti Westerns starring Clint Eastwood* conveys everything Sailor Venus is about in 13 seconds

The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference

Using generative AI is a quick way to tell everyone: - You don't want to pay the right skilled people - You lack appreciation for creativity - You think your consumers are stupid

Has there ever been a more succinct five seconds in all of ABSOLUTE CINEMA. A more efficient usage of celluloid. Has anything respected the audience's time more than this. This conveys everything anyone needs to know about these people. Who they are. What they do. How they rank on power level scale.

Oh sorry, you DIDN'T want a backlit baby killdeer scampering across your timeline? Sorry. I'll tell the bird they're unwanted here. They'll be so sad. But it's fine. What really matters is you. No no. I'll tell them they're too smol and "low resolution" They'll understand. #birds 🐣

Sakura-Con now has an Accessibility webpage thanks to our petition! Please share far and wide--today is a day for celebration! 🥳 sakuracon.org/accessibility/

What if left wing politics is actually popular and its “unelectability” is just a right wing propaganda campaign propped up by a media largely owned by right wing billionaires?

A Fantome Bloom is coming to Seattle this spring! 👻🌸 #FantomeBloom #MintFantome Join us on Sunday April 20th for this sakura-inspired cupsleeve event celebrating Mint Fantôme. Get free merch, sign a shikishi board, and participate in activities for more merch. Only a 12 minute walk from Sakura-Con!

Neil banging out the tunes #art

Happy Niel day, to all who celebrate.

Little gentle reminder to all the human creatives out there 💪

There’s a pink moon this evening. Go find it.

Anyone screaming at people for talking about goofy stuff like movies and art online "while the world burns" has not for a single second considered or cared that the person talking about their joys night be doing so TO GET THEMSELVES THROUGH THE BURNING TIMES.

I was just in a Canadian Tire and I cannot convey hard enough how PISSED Canadians are. We broke out the red maple leaf themed hats and t-shirts months before July 1st. We are SO MAD.