Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

Ubisoft are fucking cowards

hands up if you are a true bug and suck sap from plants

The thing is that even if there weren't queer Palestinians in Gaza who are being killed by the IDF, even if every single individual Palestinian were a raging homophobe or transphobe (they aren't), it still wouldn't be okay to murder them with explosives.

Every smartphone in the world contains a CPU descended from one designed by a trans woman in the 1980s. The Matrix is one of the most influential movie franchises of all time. Electronic music was pioneered and popularized by a trans woman. I could go on

It's fun to point and be like "they voted for this", but it's worth remembering that many are gerrymandered and have voter suppression laws that help keep them Red. Every state has Dems and Independents living there too. Not everyone can just move out of state. Not everyone there voted MAGA.

I had been wondering where these extralegal taxes went...

Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.

Everything I'm learning about bsky moderation explains so succinctly why Gazans looking for aid kept getting banned. You need more than a bit of context to figure out if they're real or scammers, and the bsky mods have neither the time nor the tools to figure it out. So they just ban and move on.

we don't talk about this enough but ozone (the primary moderation tool) being as bad as it is likely is a significant contributing factor to how inconsistent moderation is on here because the whole design strips context. no account context, no thread context, no post context, etc. it's appalling.

Bluesky T&S is just out here openly admitting that they're overworking their moderators and not fixing them enough time to actually properly review their reports, lol it's not like they don't have the money! Bluesky is currently offering 200-300k+equity for SWE positions on their jobs website.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

So… Łink’s account is permabanned from Bluesky’s appview, but also gets banned from: WhiteWind Skylight Bluescreen Flashes Basically all ATproto apps/projects? WHAT THE HELL IS THE POINT OF THIS PROJECT THEN?

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

what if I told you that taking accountability for your actions was traditionally considered a load-bearing feature of masculinity?

Mask up 😷 Without herd immunity, MMR vaccines alone are not guaranteed protection.

It's too long a story to explain how I know this, but I once found out that the FBI made challenge coins about how they tried to force Apple to break iPhone encryption. Challenge coins celebrating shitty behavior is deeply a part of FBI culture.

What’s lost in this conversation is that language must always escape containment, so your playful little “clanker” slur is now being directed at people with bionic limbs. Harmless fun, right? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AjSabH/

I would like to thank Microsoft for their tireless effort in bringing us ever closer to the year of Linux on the desktop

Many are saying COVID is back But the truth is, COVID never left

If a federal judge, appointed by Trump, can call him “simply untethered to facts,” our White House press corps can as well. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

if i were Q i'd just appear one day, hand picard this, and disappear without a word. if he tosses it i set every replicator on the ship to keep making copies

so my ex (we're cool) needs to get treatment for my cat, who lives with him... the cost of this thing is way more than he was expecting, and this is something that could potentially keep our cat alive. if there is anything anyone can do, his cashapp is $shufflesu thank you in advance.

There's a term for this: pillaging

There are lots of more glaring and physically brutal basic violations of rights going on but it’s weird how ICE just seems to be freely stealing and wrecking people’s possessions too

Banned from reddit for using a VPN It's starting...

here's a reminder that discord has adopted a new arbitration policy, which means you have under 30 days to opt out of it

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

It's time to bring back the term glasshole, it seems

Just updated iOS last night. What's everyone complaining about? Idgi

Reminder that Duolingo laid off most of their staff, including their localization teams, so that they could invest heavily into AI. Don't support Duolingo. Disable drops for a few days.

I'm mad about a lot of things (ha! ha!) but the sheer number of journalists who wrote "There are no plans to implement Project 2025" under the grounds of "well, Trump says there aren't, so..." and still have jobs is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there

is this good?

It's undeniable that ICE is worse under the second Trump term than it was under Biden or Trump 1 or Obama or Bush but that ICE would be used in this way for these ends is as foreseeable a disaster as leaving a loaded gun on a table next to a case of whiteclaw. It's as much a failure of prevention.

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

american oomfs check your fridge. you don't fw listeria

There are way too many games out at once now that I want to play. As though my backlog weren't large enough already! I'm rapidly approaching 600 games owned on Steam, and maybe at most a third of them finished

Our local ER had a massive wait when we went the other night because of a private equity owned conglomerate going bankrupt and causing closures of other regional hospitals and overloading ones like ours but go on couchfucker

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

There's a lot of speculation about what Trump can & can't do against the left with his new executive orders. To cut thru it, I spoke with FBI counterterrorism veteran turned whistleblower Terry Albury about how he & his old colleagues use the powers they have – and what the average citizen should do

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I just got a VERY interesting email that allies in congress were upset that so many of my readers were calling about the anti-trans provisions. I'm here to say: good. I won't let them throw our rights under the bus by cover of night. All's that to say, keep up the calls. They're hearing you.

Ok. So there's A LOT of misinformation about the government shutdown, the continuing resolution and gender-affirming care. There was one article in PinkNews that was VERY shoddy about what Trump said. So let's breakdown what's true and what's BS. 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/t...

Why can't we keep using our Driver's Licenses as ID when they're expired - we can't drive but we're still us

Tell your favorite artists you love their work

do ALL of this, and IN ADDITION, make sure the people of ICE and CBP and the military, or the police, or WHOEVER is sent to commit atrocities in the name of our false democracy doesn't get a MOMENT of rest. make them WANT to leave. make them WANT to give up. take your home back.