In Australia we have this election-time ritual called “Vote Compass” where the national broadcaster releases an online tool where everyone enters their preferred policy positions, finds out the party closest to them is the Greens, then doesn’t vote for them

"The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!" Yes, chefkiss

My advice for dating is simple and foolproof: get a dog. Take the dog out to places. Meet people who like dogs. If you don't end up in a relationship after that, you still have a dog which is the most important part anyway.

I don’t understand what just happened. The team that deleted T1 from existence two games in a row just itself got deleted from existence?? #msi

Horrible new bullshit from the sea every time. It’s never ‘oh we found a new pink fish that is so happy’ it’s always stuff like this, the crush-depth screw-headed dongwongler, and it’s got to have big long creepy bits. Sick of the ocean tbh.

Today in niche micro-drama: the moderators of the 40k Imperial Guard subreddit have made a stickied post denouncing The Art of War youtube channel and calling for a boycott because they released a tierlist with the Imperial Guard at "A tier" instead of something lower

I love that Stonehenge isn't a henge, even though that's where the word "henge" comes from. Like the word "gerrymander" is named after Mr. Gerry, who (a) despised the practice and (b) was pronounced with a hard "G". Nonetheless...

fucked up facts: - almost all classical depictions of The Labyrinth have a single path with no branches or dead ends - Stonehenge doesn't qualify for the technical definition of "henge" - the word "zenith" is from an error and should have been "zemth"

this is how i learned america lost the world cup

Every time I see a video on here like “Dementia Donnie at it again!!” when I check the context (sometimes even in the clip posted) it’s perfectly obvious what he was talking about and it was perfectly coherent. I think truth probably matters more than social media likes

Yoshi is the trans protagonist: arriving in medias res, popping out of a fucking egg, statistically likely to be some kind of a sentient animal, yearning to be ridden—and always in mortal danger, because Mario and Luigi tacitly understand him as expendable and subhuman

This is cool (the first one especially)

Asteroid Threat xkcd.com/3265/

Y’all I know a lot of things are real bad right now, but here’s one of them

I read a couple of posts by Bret Devereaux on the design of warships in comparison to fictional space-warships. I was curious if he'd written anything about NEBULOUS: Fleet Command, since it deals with those issues in a simulational sort of way. acoup.blog/2019/11/29/c... acoup.blog/2019/12/20/c...

Happy 30th anniversary to Quake ᵕ̈

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

The sentences doled out in the Prairieland case today are horrific. Des was sentenced to 30 years in prison for moving a box of zines. There is no pretense of "justice" here. The judge said, “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” crimethinc.com/prairieland

The GPU is not your enemy. The GPU was intended to channel magic smoke into the drawing of triangles, the virtuous shape. Evil men devised wicked shapes that should never have been drawn, and have used their influence to hoard the GPUs and twist the magic smoke toward the shape of their perversions.

So here for the transgender insurgency.

🚨 Your blokes are doing fuck all! 🚨 Activate your blokes to keep them hearty. 🚨 To activate a bloke, right-click and assign them to a pint.

for the record:

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday

Well, that was a fucking ride.

jesus christ NO! NO!!! FUCK

A decent rule or thumb is that when you happen upon really egregious misconduct, it’s unlikely that you just fortunately stumbled upon the first unique instance. More often it escalated to be that bad via a lot of lesser infractions for which there were no consequences.

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

Happy Pride month, from VGAPride and my 60mhz Pentium running MS-DOS.

Games Workshop posted art of a Space Marine with too many fingers even though they have an explicit no-AI policy. The art seems to be based on photos of the actual models, so my bet is on "used an in-editor upscaling tool without realising it was AI."

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NEW ESSAY: Origins of the Anti-Trans “Groomer” Slur. it provides historical context, a timeline of how it spread, & how it shapes anti-trans/LGBTQ legislation. pls share! on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/origins-of-t... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/origins-of...

This has been something I've been meaning to write for quite some time and the Homer contretemps gave it the opportunity. The thing I most wanted to draw out is that it isn't one fool on Twitter with a helmet, but a radicalization pipeline designed to lead antiquity-curious young men into fascism.

Once the new update comes out, you can find me in-game as a transgirl. Was originally pre-transition backer character, but they're updating me post-transition into the game :3 bsky.app/profile/deto...

I don't know why you would get a baby monitor JUST because you have a newborn infant, it makes no sense to me at all. Sure they start small too, but lizards grow very fast, and it will probably eat your child.

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social had a pretty good post about this a while ago: acoup.blog/2020/03/20/c...

Hello. Fire pits that require consumers to pour isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol or other liquid fuel into an open container or bowl and then ignite the pooled liquid in the same location it was poured violate the requirements in voluntary safety standard ASTM F3363-19.

look. is everything more expensive now? yes. but you have to look on the bright side too. now every time you open a computer, it doesn't work

My partner got one of their watches a few weeks ago and was really enjoying its workout feature when it was apparently instantly destroyed by this update. These slop merchants need to be stopped.

People really liked the Fitbit app. Google decided to replace it with a new, worse app filled with AI slop. The new Google Health app is now being review bombed with 1-star reviews complaining about bugs, missing features, and AI.

living in a 24/7 d/s (damsel/snidely) relationship with a girl who keeps a pair of airpods in so she can listen to oncoming train asmr to stay in "trackspace"

when you toxic masculinity so hard you come out on the other side somehow

Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome

Just gonna repost this since I think some sanity checks are needed amorphophalex.neocities.org/write/sex

happy memorial day to the post of all time

I made a frutiger aero soft soap themed xenomorph...