We complain that our capital-driven culture industry produces only boring rehashes of old stuff, but tbh, if producing new stuff as an indie inevitably leads to a hoard of parasocial, consoomer-minded miserables screaming at your face, maybe we do not deserve new stuff at the first place.

THREAD 🧵 A single act of hubris has seemingly undone Israel’s $700M Hasbara and sent it into damage control. A video posted by Itamar Ben Gvir has caused outrage, causing many countries to summon Israeli ambassadors to ensure safety and dignity of the activists. 🔗: aje.news/ros4rk | #Infograph

(no) thoughts, only soft desk bunny 📖: LOGiN, July 1987

two. two trans people interviewed here, one of whom says calm down, and the other who says its reductive to focus on toilets. 4 cis people quoted. in an article specifically about the "trans community response" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

I do not want GenAI in fanart. I do not want GenAI in character design. I do not want GenAI in world design. I do not want GenAI in writing. I do not want GenAI in storyboarding. I do not want GenAI in voice acting. I do not want GenAI, period. If any piece of media uses GenAI, I don't want it.

some people are getting really mad over those procreate timelapses that remove all the undos and hide the sketch/reference layers thinking they're proof that someone's just doing AI art :v

like yeah an edited timelapse doesn't look like how the actual making of looks, but people are just posting these as a cool thing for fans to look at, not as digital forensics

like a 1080/4k video of the whole UI scrunched down into a vertical video would make all the details basically unreadable, of course they're not posting that to bsky/tiktok/etc

honestly I don't think an exported timelapse is any kind of evidence either way, every program does it differently and there's a bunch of built in editing options to makes them look nicer for a general audience that would be used in innocence but "hides things"

It's less of an issue that you can cover up tracing in a timelapse and way more of an issue that legit timelapses will look "fake" if they're prettied up with the default export settings of these programs. So, yknow, making a single data point call out post is just ragebaiting, but we knew that

lmao yeah if anyone thinks Harris lost because of tRaNs pRiSoNeRs and not because of ignoring voters on Gaza and multiple other issues, they actively want us to keep losing

this looks like Boomhauer died

“Providing” me with a separate gender neutral toilet is not respectful or dignified, it is humiliating, degrading, discriminating and denies my very being. I am a woman and forcing me to pretend i’m not for bigotry’s sake is fucking egregious

A very big fuck you to anyone suggesting trans people Should ask for our own segregated spaces

I am proud to play with Arthur as with all my trans teammates. This guidance is horrifically short-sighted and dehumanising. We cannot let this pass without a fight.

In light of todays news Tráthnóna maith. Fóc an Ríocht Aontaithe

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

and people are mad at this

I am actually going to tear my own face off and eat it

I have to believe this is a troll or I else I am going to spend the rest of my life building a time machine to go find Ted Kaczynski's cabin and hand him a list of names

The gamecube pokemon games were licensed by game freak / pokemon company, but made by a separate team called genius sonority. As a kid, obviously I didn't know any of that, and I thought all of their lore and features would now be standard. Playing games made by game freak after that was just sad

All of the interesting used-future details and the decently realistic villainous plot about rich people ruining everything to make money went away immediately in favor of... whatever Diamond and Pearl were even about. Putting legendary pokemon into tubes to suck out their powers or something.

The ultimate goal of the evil team in colosseum is to make buckets of money by holding doped-up pokemon battles in a giant casino for the rich and depraved. I could never go back to "we need Ultradon's power to delete the universe" type plotlines after that.

genuinely what do you say to ppl like this other than "kys"

i often think about this review

I've never played Magic but this article isn't really about Magic, it's about everything. Look at this mess.

I know the Atlantic has less than zero standards and in fact is happy to have a professional racist and liar on its columnist list but I dare to suggest that maybe there should be some consequences for so obviously making up shit and for sectarian and racist reasons?

this is the most millennial dad joke ever conceived

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

My lukewarm take is that the focus on people like Lauren Boebert, Chip Roy and Marjorie Taylor Greene takes away from the fact there are some congresscritters who are even more extreme than them. They just don't talk to the press as much.

Genuinely nothing is funnier than the DNC 2024 autopsy being a bunch of nothing that definitely used AI, while blaming trans people and avoiding pointing the finger at the establishment for having a boring platform and not acknowledging a genocide

why in the absolute fuck can't fandoms ever just be fucking NORMAL and not full of maladjusted parasocial freaks like how do you get so fucking rabid and unhinged about A FUCKING CARTOON to the point where you are actively harmful to the creator's mental health and not realize how fucked up that is

Bad move. Hooters is a beloved institution and the sole retreat of military recruiters and dads trying to turn their gay sons straight.

Billion $ AAA studio after releasing a $180 game: "Sorry, we just can't stay afloat. Our studio will close for good so our CEO can buy another yacht." Indie studio with passion in some foreign country: "Here is our game. It cost $30. It's still in alpha and sold a million copies. I hope you enjoy"

it's pretty clear from the court transcripts that this is an enormous scandal kat and her co-defendents should be able to go after them for vindictive prosecution and there should be sanctions and (in an ideal world) disbarment

Jesus fucking Christ it never stops does it

"This is a kids' game, and it's layering multiple currencies atop one another to obfuscate the cost of things, as well as using pop-ups, timer bars, and "buy" buttons to offer temporary boosts and, generally speaking, remove the game's in-built friction."

Michigan > Ohio

say it back or he will destroy you

it's great being totally vindicated for telling people jasmine crockett was nothing more than a policy-weak, performative centrist. her support of wesley bell, one of the AIPAC handpicked candidates to unseat squad member cori bush in 2024, is your final proof that she doesn't stand with the left.

can't believe how insanely hard this goes

National Dems went out of their way twice to drop Cuellar from being primaried by somebody who doesn't suck shit and isn't corrupt and every time he does this shit I remember that he was deliberately kept in place to vote like this by people who voted the other way

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