"but it's a reimagining" of what. Of what. Of historical England. To me this is like "I do not dream of labor" I do not imagine england

Amazing from a TSA agent on ICE. Let 'em fight. www.curbed.com/article/tsa-...

if your punchline is either "woman" or "queer" you're not telling a joke, it is exhausting to have to keep going over this

for all the media this guy does and considering he's the frontrunner it would be nice if a journalist read this back to him and asked "why is this funny to you"

who the fuck is out here naming beautiful women things like "barrett wilbert weed"

From ISSUE NO. 10: "There was an underground doula network delivering babies at home, another delivering underground child care. The words “mutual aid” don’t cover it — it reminded me of reading about the Polish Home Army resistance during World War II." - Doran Schrantz tinyurl.com/5n87cb9n

Listen I know things may be dire in the games industry but I think it could all be fixed. All we have to do is start making games that match up with my priorities and preferences, and also start funding studios headed by myself and people I like,

I really need to watch Station Eleven, if only so whenever it comes up I stop thinking "damn, people REALLY like that Gray's Anatomy spinoff about the firefighters"

Do what you want but if you'd buy a book by someone who will use the royalties to hurt people, whose goal with writing is to justify and defend their own violence, who SAY they are doing that, people are allowed to think that's fucked up.

There’s only one elegant solution to this problem of increasingly stupid audiences, and that’s to mandate that every film ends with a closing rap song that lays out all the moral lessons of the movie. There will be a government office that reviews the songs for aural and pedagogical value.

The only thing consoling me as I wait for the season finale of Paradise is getting live texts from a mildly stoned friend who is finally starting S2

All of the money ever made by all of the harry potter books and movies and games and all the things ever said about them all rolled up into one and multiplied by a hundred thousand is still not worth the life of a single trans kid.

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

I know my teenager who is currently going to drama school is not cut out for a real job because they were just genuinely surprised that a meeting I had was delayed because the employee was on holiday. “Don’t they have an understudy??”

I'm just going to assume you're magical maga if you're fucking with this show

I saw an autistic comedian talk about her diagnosis in a way that made me feel so seen: “They told me I’m ‘low support needs.’ No!! I’m low support GETS!!”

Pokopia tip: if your PP Up lasts more than 4 hours, consult a doctor

reminder (or fresh info for those who dont know yet) that Chiropracty is a complete bullshit pseudo-science and the guy who created it, no joke, claims he learned it from a ghost

Basically, Trump sees the ayatollah as an unruly pro wrestler who is off script doing a shoot and the ayatollah sees Trump as the guy who killed his family.

I am being very very good at not reading dog-whistle newspaper columns just now, but - in my defence - it did not occur to me that "person who is good at inventing games invents another game and so must be greedy" was an opinion it was possible to have www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

But if you need the degree to get the job then you don’t care about the degree, you just care about having the degree, and if that’s all you care about then you’ll get it however it takes. The work done to make you good at the subject matter of the degree is, to you, just wasted time.

Remove the degree requirement from jobs and you also remove the push for AI use. Obviously there are exceptions; you can’t become a doctor without medical training, but that word “training” shows the issue. What “training” does a philosophy or biology degree give for a job in software sales?

Pulling this from Prof Riley’s excellent thread because it allows a bridge to my own theories of AI use by students. Students use AI because they don’t want their degree. By which I mean: the degree in itself isn’t the goal. The degree is a piece of paper they need for a future job.

Publishers when a live service game is ready to launch

The Scrubs reboot(?) is a singular achievement in television because it’s just exactly, precisely, more Scrubs. There’s nothing else. Is it modern? No. Dated? No. Good? No. Bad? No. It is simply: More Scrubs

If I wanted to live in a country ruled by Trump’s bullshit whims I wouldn’t have moved here!!!

1) This is good 2) Again, why don't I hear more about this guy nationally 3) Fire whoever chose that music bed right now

People forget this but Chuck Norris jokes were originally Mr. T jokes. I don't know why that changed but clearly the world would have been better if it hadn't

At least 15 years ago a coworker invited everyone over to watch his favorite movie. At the end everyone politely explained they didn’t understand it. He then busted out a PowerPoint deck he’d prepared explaining how the movie’s time travel worked. This is why the “autism epidemic” is fake

With Cesar Chavez being outed as a serial abuser of women and girls, we can add to the list that men can imagine a world where there are rights for all workers, but not human rights for women.

that AI is an aged-up version of a younger Val Kilmer character and not Val Kilmer the human man. he has not been brought back. THIS is what Val Kilmer looked like when he died last year. you don’t fucking get to choose how Val Kilmer aged

one of the really gross aspects of the AI zombie resurrection thing we should (carefully!!!!!) discuss more is the fact that this is not what Val Kilmer looked like when he died. they don’t want the human Val Kilmer. they want a simulacrum of the idealized memory of him you have in your mind

Guy who made 800 million dollars selling a website named ToodleCo to Yahoo in 1996 and has done nothing since then but now has $100 billion: the concept of “human kindness” was invented by bolshevik psychologists in 1953, no one heard of that term until then Podcast Host: fascinating, I have worms

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

And as @drdind.bsky.social wisely states, I am absolutely fine condemning this man to hell, whatever else he did. I think it's vital. The left has to stop sort of wishing and hoping that sexual predation isn't a problem within the left; it's just a problem with men, the patriarchy, that needs to be

I love this. I’m all for the normalization of ethically-produced women

i need the “llms are might be conscious” folx to read this

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

i used to do remote coaching with Adam and it was very eds friendly, helpfully tailored to my personal limitations, and absolutely *no* pressure (when my health crashed out and i stopped being able to actually exercise there was literally only encouragement every single week!!) highly recommend

this is still the realest thing ever said about america

I will sometimes get an email, read it, think “I am too autistic for this” and then immediately mark it as unread — as though, optimistically, I believe that I will somehow be less autistic at some later date

I do think there's something smart to be written about how all of our traditional ways of being transgressive have been legalized or normalized, leaving people with shit like this as their outlet. Used to be you could smoke weed to be a little bad, now that's for dads.

I was told that a bombing campaign is needed to free her from a fascist government that controls what women can wear.

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working on a theory that the pokemon company timed their release of pokopia to a moment of crisis. from which we can infer that the pokemon company is complicit in an illegal war in the middle east

ECONOMY: SHAMBLES OIL: $300 PER BARREL COUNTRY: ON FIRE REPUBLICANS: Hey man can i look in your child's pants? Just for a second man is it cool if i inspect your child's genitals. Just a quick little look man it's totally cool i just need to make sure you're not doing crimes. Just a quick touch man-

When retail books price bets that have a 5% chance of hitting as if they have a 10% of hitting, they're ensuring they make a profit even if you're the absolute smartest parlay player on planet earth. It is literally rigged. Please tell everyone you know who plays parlays that it is literally rigged.