I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

when trump won nobody was like "he needs to extend an olive branch" and "he needs to move slow to not alienate people who didn't vote for him" but you're already seeing it with zohran

マルシルちゃん

so before we got better ways to chemically synthesize estradiol, we used estrogen extracted from the urine of pregnant horses. everyone knows this. famous drug "premarin" stood for PREgnant MARe urINe. this isn't news. my question is, how did this go down in the umamusume universe

Altman: ok so the machine's primary use will be to make deepfake porn of all your actresses, sometimes with child faces. I told people they will be able to fuck these deepfakes. Also, as I said, it encourages them to commit suicide and family annihila- Disney: say no more. Here's a billion dollars

and yes the crackdown on 18+ artists and sex workers operating online so to underground both of these into much more precarious situations is connected to the situation where ai models pumped with capital investments proliferate generating weaponized pornographic deepfakes of women and children

The thing about AI generated CSAM is that it had to be trained on something. They’re not looking at an approximation or an idea of ‘it’. It’s just ‘it’

Haunting Soviet animation set in the faraway future of 2026 From: There Will Come Soft Rains (1984), dir. Nazim Tulyakhodjaev, Uzbekfilm

Holy shit it's real

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃

It's January 1st, have some of my old Silmarillion chapter illustrations! Valaquenta: "Account of the Valar and Maiar in according to the lore of the Eldar” (1/6)

This is how you get 60 Million Mitläufer btw., & how you create the Good German. The earnest belief that if you operate the gas chambers not because you hate Jews but because IT'S A JOB LIKE ANY OTHER, then all is good. That is what morality is. That is the epitome of goodness. That is liberalism.

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

Remember the time a Palestinian fan of One Piece went into the subreddit to talk about how he loves watching the anime as an escape from genocide, and that he also likes to think that if Monkey D. Luffy were real, he'd come and save Palestinians, and then all the westerners there attacked him.

"It [the NYT's directive on covering the 2024 election] treated both sides as having equal weight in terms of factual basis, in terms of their viewpoints." Treating both sides as being equal ON THE FACTS isn't journalism, that's fascist propaganda. That's an attack on democracy itself.

Trans communities warned for years about the NYT's transphobia, but the specifics of how this was ordered were often shrouded behind corporate hierarchy. No more. Sweeney lays out specifically how the highest ranks of the NYT rigged coverage in favor of anti-trans bigots.

I spent my New Year's Eve making a very weird Enterprise

Fuckass goth gremlin that I luv @astronacht.bsky.social #art #vtuber

You just can't be anti-city in general elsewhere because there isn't the myth around "rural Americana", so instead the sentiment is against *specific* cities. Berlin, Munich, they get the hate. But you don't see people bash on Dortmund as "not real Germany" because HEY guess where the Nazis are? 😬

any discussion of city transit improvement online ever

orcas have the chance to do the funniest thing

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

It's not getting better. Build your own media server. Buy physical media. They had their chance and they blew it.

augh hi happy new year heres something i did for krys @slimeboys.bsky.social wow

Canada's very own would-be fascist (still working toward that world-wide goal via his IDU) did the same thing a decade ago. www.nationalobserver.com/2015/09/29/n... thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

They're going to *throw out* one-of-a-kind NASA archives?! Not even a year since the Inauguration & we're already at the 2nd-time-as-farce version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Happy New Year!

Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...

“Part-owner Umi Hassan said she lived here right after 9/11 and didn’t feel as marginalized and fearful as she does today. She’s unable to sleep at night and carries her passport everywhere. Tears running down her face, she asked, “What else can I do to be an American?””

The methodology for this chart was deeply broken. He just multiplied all self-reported values by 1.97! www.forbes.com/sites/trevor...

NOI

men love saying shit like "i would destroy a thousand civilizations for my family" and then never do dishes or take out the trash or like, vacuum

nudibranch (is banned in 3 states)

there's such a growing thing where people act like it's everyone's collective responsibility to maintain everything. You need to always be buying and supporting everything because you owe it continued existence

Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/

reposting this classic for yeeaster

I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list

Always been a big fan of the grottier fantasy's approach to classes. You're either a weirdo or a scumbag, have fun.

Working on the Druid class, nearly ready to show off the 2.0 Player Guide. Some of the Class Hype Pages still make me fucking chuckle.

I feel like I have the right energy to handle a Dirty Pair revival. Put me in, coach!

2025 has been an incredibly hard year for trans people. And yet... the political project to erase us is failing. In spite of them having so many levers of power, many of us have continued to thrive, and new pathways open up every day to get around the attacks. My case for hope for 2026.

Israel is trying to ban DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS, probably the most universally excellent organization on this planet, from working in Gaza.

[cherrypicking scenes to define genre the way people do with Ghibli movies] The Godfather is "cozy."