Available to read via Crunchyroll Manga app!

Some news from me! I quit GameSpot to launch something new. Introducing @lookingfor.game, an independent weekly newsletter where I highlight upcoming PC games and deliver demo codes straight to your inbox. Sign up at lookingfor.game 🥳

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Second night of Jersey cops attacking protesters who are there supporting hunger strikers inside a sadistic immigrant jail

Anime has so many romance stories every quarter! You and I Are Polar Opposites is coming back for S2 and I cannot wait. Also My Dress-Up Darling S2 is peak. A Sign of Affection. The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity. Gals Can't Be Kind to Okaku?! MARRIAGETOXIN. So many to choose from!

1. Sausage Breakfast Crunchwrap (Taco Bell) 2. DIPPED Italian Beef w/ giardiniera, sweet peppers, and mozz (Portillo's) 3. Fresh Orange Chicken on White Rice (Panda Express) 4. Dave's Double (Wendy's) 5. Jumbo Dog w/ Everything (Portillo's)

More data to confirm what pop culture mavens can see with their own eyes: #anime and #manga are taking over the world, with huge jumps in active viewership in most major markets. Today on @forbes.com www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

my first-ever DIY for Crunchyroll shows you how to use Witch Hat Atelier for decorating inspiration ✨✒️📜

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

"Please go buy it, not because we make any money off of it. We just want to make sure the show stays in existence for as long as DVD players exist.” www.avclub.com/hacks-creato...

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

I'm watching Loot, and you mean to tell me that with all those billions of dollars at her disposal in that giant mansion of hers, Maya Rudolph's character wouldn't have a bidet, but a standard toilet? Tax the rich, they don't deserve their money!

Have you signed up for @salon.com's Culture newsletter #TheSwell yet? If not, you're missing out on @mctelevision.bsky.social's excellent observations such as this tribute to Wu-Tang Clan's love of kung fu movies/philosophy salon-theswell.beehiiv.com/p/if-what-we...

Rapidly Growing California Wildfire Threatens Contaminated Nuclear Reactor Site https://gizmodo.com/rapidly-growing-california-wildfire-nears-contaminated-nuclear-reactor-site-2000761295

When I ask for recs, this is the kind of response I'm expecting, people!

new conspiracy theory: Trump started the war to get out of going to his son's wedding

::sad trombone::

Apparently there's an official Witch Hat Atelier magic test and I'm just that witch. It has it in English too - tongari-mahoujin.esbrain.io I hope I make @shirahamakamome.bsky.social sensei proud

Dance magic dance #WitchHatAtelier Test - www.idrlabs.com/witch-hat-at...

COVID-19 death toll far higher than official numbers, says WHO "The World Health Organisation estimates that the COVID-19 pandemic caused 22.1 million excess deaths globally between 2020 and 2023. The figure is more than 3 times higher than the officially reported 7 million COVID deaths worldwide"

The Crunchyroll Manga app is adding 23 Kodansha titles, including Attack on Titan, Fire Force, Tokyo Revengers, and more.

Love that for us

The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

Just watched last week's ep of The Ramparts of Ice and found it really funny when one tall character literally gave a shorter character uppies

Definitely would have enjoyed HOKUM more if the couple next to me would have stopped talking through out it…

Hacks said AI is bad and dumb!

The fact that anyone enables or doesn't care that their Venmo transactions have been public since they joined the app is absolutely wild behavior to me

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Finished volume 5 of the Witch Hat Atelier manga and Kamome Shirahama is the absolute GOAT

"Reinfection Raises Long COVID Risk in Children and Adolescents" "Children and adolescents who are reinfected with SARS-CoV-2 face a significantly higher risk of developing long COVID, according to a large, multi-institutional study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases."

While the fantasy series shares the wizard school setting, it has much more heart (and a non-transphobic creator).

Happy Goku Day to those who celebrate

Had the silliest dream that Anna Kendrick joined the WWE roster having started out as a receptionist at the HQ before being integrated into the main show as a wrestler

If you need AI to organize your thoughts you’re not a writer. Writing is not just fingers on the keyboard—organizing your thoughts IS the work.

Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino to fall for end-to-end encryption tech worldwide. www.wired.com/story/the-da...

The average American has three friends

Sony’s latest earnings report shows just how important anime has become to the company’s entertainment business. Crunchyroll and 'Demon Slayer' helped offset losses tied to the Pixomondo shutdown and Bungie-related gaming troubles. www.cartoonbrew.com/business/son...

Crunchyroll, the Sony-owned anime streaming and global fandom business, on Friday unveiled plans for a first-of-its-kind invite-only industry summit to convene Japan’s anime sector leaders alongside their Hollywood, tech, gaming and music counterparts.

Most big streaming services are plateauing. Sony's Crunchyroll grew nearly 25%(!!!) in the past year. Latest sign of how once-niche anime has become a white-hot business, appealing to young people bored by what Hollywood has to offer. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Not only did Virginia’s right-wing Supreme Court throw out the people’s vote to redistrict, but the feds raided the office of the Black woman who led the effort. This is horrifying.

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

⚡️ WATCH — JUST NOW — 99% white Tennessee House Republicans pass a racist 9-0 map stripping majority Black Memphis of congressional representation

LOS ANGELES: Excited that we are partnering w LA Public Library to throw an event about how AI & slop is threatening the future of the internet, media, Hollywood Please RSVP - May 31 with @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social @dexdigi.bsky.social @samleecole.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/la-made-x-...

I really hate to do this but my corgi has been sick for the past two months and it's reached the point where we've depleted all of our emergency savings. Please don't feel the need to donate if you can't, but it would mean the absolute world if you could share. Thank you 😭 gofund.me/c02000a66

COVID’s Long-Tail Effects on Kidney Health A study of 3+ million patients shows COVID-19 significantly increases kidney risks compared to influenza: Acute kidney injury (⬆️2.3x), chronic kidney disease (⬆️1.4x), and progression to kidney failure (⬆️4.7x), potentially provoking a kidney disease crisis.