This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

trying to channel this energy every time someone is mean and wrong at me online

Facts.

Y’all, I just blocked a bot that is responding Depp v. Heard style to higher profile progressive accounts that post negatively about Platner. There’s plenty of real misogyny on here too. But this is a reminder that it’s intentionally amplified in these moments.

It’s Pride 🏳️‍🌈 Spare one repost for a small creator? 🥺 My science and sci fi pins raise money for homeless LGBTQ+ people. Just sent another £800 to @aktcharity.bsky.social bringing total to £47,521 New for Pride 2026: 🌈Scientist🌈 🏳️‍🌈🐥🦜🦅🏳️‍🌈 🌈pronouns🌈 www.jamiebgall.co.uk/shop

‼️ Amnesty's new research exposes the anti-trans movement. They have a plan - first they're coming for trans rights and then for women's rights. We'll only defeat them by coming together.

Just a reminder, this is a very urgent request for someone who is really a wonderful person. Please help or spread the word if you can!

In November I broke this story about Andrew Paul Johnson, a pardoned J6er who molested children and used the promise of reparations to bribe his victims silence.

Wake up babe, a new Volksbegehren just dropped und zwar eines, das ihr unterschreiben solltet: "Österreich braucht einen offensiven Umgang mit sexuellen Übergriffen im Netz: kein Wegschauen, keine Ausreden."

Maybe that's something EU legislators could look into as well 👀 @europarl.europa.eu

Solid reporting on why "age verification and age assurance" are just fancy ways of saying "online identity checks" and why lawmakers have much better ways to address online harm if they'd just listen to experts and impacted communities www.governing.com/policy/state...

The top page at BISH for over 10 years has been my How To Have Sex article. However Google has been messing around with the algorithm (enshittification) and so it's not being ranked like it used to. Can you please share it and post about it for me? www.bishuk.com/sex/how-to-h...

Heute am 5.5. ist der Europäische Protesttag zur Gleichstellung für Menschen mit Behinderung Wusstet ihr das in 12 EU-Ländern immer noch Frauen mit Behinderung ohne ihre Zustimmung sterilisiert werden können? www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

CN: rape, child sexual abuse Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Ran into some people on Reddit who are angry at games for making these statements. Please repost this to make them angrier

You can wishlist the game here, if you want to help the devs out: store.steampowered.com/app/2288520/...

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

Statistically one of the boys ain't joking... Powerful and necessary open mic poetry by Sam Browne

ACHTUNG! Ab 1. April gibt es in Österreich reduzierte Netznutzungsentgelte #SNAP. Dafür muss man aber die Viertelstundenmessung aktiviert haben. Im Smart-Meter-Portal der Wiener Netze geht das unter Anlagendaten und "Viertelstunden-Intervall". Bei Netz OÖ zB kann man auch nachschauen, ob aktiv.

Weil ich auch darüber mit Männern spreche, was ich mir von Männern eigentlich erwarte, sollen sie was sagen oder lieber nicht und weil ich gerne je nach Uhrzeit entweder das eine oder das andere gerne hätte oder beides gleichzeitig (meistens), empfehle ich diese Folge von hä lol sehr.

CN: Rechtsextremismus, Incel, Misogynie, Gewalt "Männer werden als Menschen geboren, und wenn sie älter werden, prügeln wir das aus ihnen heraus" Langer Text, sehr gut, möchte ich vor allen den cis Männern ans Herz legen, den zu lesen. www.republik.ch/2025/01/18/w...

weil die männers angeblich gerade zuhören. gewalt meint nicht nur brachiale physische. gewalt gegen frauen ist immer auch die unsichtbare, psychische, strukturelle. #believewomen #smashpatriarchy

A short film about endometriosis has won a BAFTA, bringing much needed visibility to the disabling condition. Endometriosis and adenomyosis robbed me of years of my life. Countless surgeries, blood transfusions and hospital stays. Doctors saying it was “no big deal”. It’s a very big deal:

"He wasn't actually arrested for--" WE KNOW. THEY ARE NEVER ARRESTED FOR SEX CRIMES. Society dngaf about protecting women, and women know that. We're just happy he was arrested at all

Artists and photographers of Blacksky, Bluesky, and all of the fediverse: I implore you to use alt text! Here's how, courtesy of @manningkrull.bsky.social: manningkrull.com/digital-phil... I want to share your art and photography! Let's accommodate our friends and comrades who use screen readers!

We owe it to these kids to keep fighting for truth to prevail.

A few days ago my friend lost his young daughter to a rare genetic condition. Because it’s uncommon capitalist research institutions don’t dedicate money or time to studying it even though a cure is possible Please help honor her memory by voting for Batten Disease research to receive grant funding

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

*sigh* here we go again. Your phone is not listening to everything around you 24/7 for advertising purposes. *If* you have voice activation on for the assistant, the mic is listening for the activation phrase: the processing power for listening for a single specific phrase is much lower.

wait, so Visa, Mastercard et. al can go after video game storefronts for six fucking months for having porn games but the moment X/Grok starts generating ACTUAL CHILD PORN they CHANGE THEIR POLICIES? dawg,

There are many reasons to help people. One that I think gets overlooked sometimes is: helping others often helps you. So if you feel like shit, don’t flagellate yourself in the dark. Leave your head a little. Extend some kindness. You can’t do everything, but you can do some things.

This investigation is fascinating and enraging, and exactly why I pay for a subscription to London Centric.

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

This is very good from @charalanahzard.bsky.social on X and how media have been reluctant to cover it. Mind boggling to me that the British government, MPs, councils,etc, still use the platform. Putting out policy announcements sandwiched between non-consensual porn imagery and racist abuse.

Menschen mit Depressionen können sich nicht „zusammenreißen“. Wenn sie Dinge nicht erledigen, hat das nichts mit Faulheit zu tun. „Melde dich, wenn du etwas brauchst!“ hilft ihnen nicht weiter. Sie werden sich nämlich nicht melden. Achtet aufeinander und bietet Hilfe an!

IN VALEN'S NAME, USE ALT TEXT FOR YOUR IMAGES. You want to prove you're down for progressive causes? Do the most basic fucking thing ever and use alt-text. Also, use it to describe the image and provide context so that the people who rely on alt-text can experience your image as intended.

I really want everyone who insisted nothing on the internet is real and just ignore the trolls because they would never act that way offline to reasses some things The gop is essentially run by white supremacist 4chan trolls at this point

"Geht es hier um Unwissen oder fehlende Aufklärung von Redakteur:innen? Wohl kaum. Diese Berichterstattung ist so schäbig, dass es naiv wäre anzunehmen, es gehe bloß um fehlendes Wissen" This. Es ist Absicht. Und das macht es so unfassbar ekelhaft.

If there are any Ukrainian fans or fellow artists that can help us out (eg. call local authorities/hospitals), please DM. Our options have been limited to just messaging Lucid directly, which obviously won't work if he's not responding, or not online at all.

maybe next time

You're kidnapped. The characters from the last show you watched are coming to rescue you:

Heute ist Tag der Männergesundheit. Gerade in Zeiten multipler Krisen darf die psychische Gesundheit nicht zu kurz kommen. Männer holen sich oft erst spät Hilfe. Sie wollen selbst klar kommen. Aber wusstet ihr, dass sich zB Depressionen bei Männern häufig anders zeigen als bei Frauen? 1/7

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Abtreibungsgegner_innen positionieren sich gezielt vor Einrichtungen, die Schwangerschaftsabbrüche durchführen. Ihr Plan: Schwangere einschüchtern. Die Folgen: Patient_innen und Mitarbeitende fühlen sich nicht mehr sicher. Fordert deshalb jetzt Schutzzonen: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/wi...

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