if you want me to be a fucking get out the vote account for people who don't give enough of a shit about my vote to try to keep me alive to cast it you should probably make me an offer in cash and not guilt

the idea that i owe the democrats doing their messaging for them when they apparently owe me absolutely nothing is monstrous

Keep going. Be meaner. Aim whatever lizard-brain impulse you have towards cruelty and violence in this direction.

again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast

berating myself for not being productive enough while my rights are being nuked bc the computer made everyone insane >>>>

Most of us did not choose to write or draw or design so that we could put products on the shelf. We chose to do it because it’s a set of skills we enjoy exercising, that give us fulfillment. It’s like asking a pro pitcher to just let a machine pitch for them. Fuck off and give me the ball.

"Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared."

This is such a misunderstanding of why writers, artists, and designers do research to begin with, which is to find something unexpected, not capture the average or find reference for the default. And, as always, the biggest misapprehension: We don’t want to NOT do this part. It’s fun to learn shit

New from 404 Media: ICE just paid hundreds of thousands to company making bounty hunter AI agents. The company says its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.” Comes as ICE spends millions on skip tracers www.404media.co/ice-contract...

Bring this energy with you int 2026 (yes this is a threat)

where my 1990s mac gamers at

smoking a joint with Wario on this porch in the winter would fix me

As of this morning 4,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. Don’t cross their picket line. No Starbucks. NO Starbucks gift cards!

I honestly don’t know if this is 1:1 applicable, but I think it’s relevant that the Luddites didn’t “smash the machines” because they were being replaced, or they feared the machines. They did it because the machines let the companies make WAY more money, yet the Luddites’ wages weren’t increasing.

it is funny when someone admonishingly says "You gotta pick your battles" in response to people picking their battles

Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.

Shockingly, this bill would have failed were it not for the 3 Democrat defections.

This is vile Lots of DC reporters pretend Collins is reasonable and not like the MAGA extremists. Maine media fawns over her She's ruthless and despicable as are allies

We got all the hits: - purchased by private equity firm - hid a bunch of layoffs - invested a bunch of money in AI - tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned

my wife: dabbing the sweat off my feverish brow with a damp cloth, looking anxiously over at the doctor me: when the bubble bursts microsoft should sell xbox to sega, who can then release the next xbox as a rebadged dreamcast 2

an entire generation losing their minds that their children and grandchildren would DARE to do anything they don't understand and turning the full might of the world's imperial powers against the people they profess to love most

i get paid tomorrow but i am hungry today. whatever you can. thank you ko-fi.com/ahcoffeebeans

Very important point that it’s not just ICE

This is Gargamel and Purple Pie Man level of absurdity. We are running a country and our healthcare on cartoon villain level schemes.

97% OF PEOPLE: 'No Torment Nexus please.' 3% OF PEOPLE WHO ALSO HAPPEN TO BE PART OF TORMENT NEXUS PLC: 'Torment Nexus is good.' POLITICIAN: 'It's so difficult to know what people really want.'

Also on "well isn't *spell checking* AI???" smug arguments: Every spell checker on every software I use to write has gotten worse and stupid as more and more ML features have been added. It literally cannot do better than a simple strict check for words not in a dictionary.

I will NEVER vote for a politician who votes for anti-trans legislation. Never. I don't care who it is, it's a dead issue. Move on. If my vote is so important to the future of democracy they should have thought of that before they voted to exterminate my child.

congressional republicans are disappointed that the monster they elevated is behaving like a monster

AI doomerism is marketing and pure grift. AI doomerists talk about non-specific harms in a non-specific future, and never address today's harms because doing so would cut off their ability to make more money. They don't give a shit about you. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

“If £1b were to suddenly appear in their bank account, would euthanasia still be necessary? “If the answer is no, that's not euthanasia; it's social murder.”

oh dear our cute lil shelter baby that looked like a pitbull/lab mix is actually a cane Corso/pitbull/husky mix we have done four weeks of training with an in-home trainer and has made so much obedience progress. She still really struggles with separation anxiety and agoraphobia, though :(

my iPhone updated last night and now my phone UI looks like a shitty Winamp skin

You can't make me care about AI news. "Oh this happened. Oh now this happened" It's a financial scam that is teetering and you cannot make me care about the little details before it collapses and takes the economy with it

Fuck Disney. Fuck ai. apnews.com/article/disn...

Eugenics on the Q train

if nothing changes by next summer, this is the last chance for our community to push back. The big ask is not spending $2000 to go to Vegas to play video games once. I'm not expecting much but it at least feels possible because the requirement for protest is simply not doing jack shit

this is them trying to juice the stock one last time to make sure February isn't a complete bloodbath, but a stopgap measure at best

extremely sharp thoughts on horses and the discourse around it, from harper

"conducting soft power" sure is a cool way to frame providing welcome and needed aid in a time of crisis

shout out to the following AGs on this:

i dont want to live in a world that values gambling apps and ai i want to live in a world that celebrates mustard and puppets

you should believe people when they tell you they're disabled. that's pretty much the long and short of it

Hooboy, the pushback and nastiness I got from being a disabled 25 year old when MS hit me *hard*--like a person can't be young and disabled.

Me when I gotta login somewhere

why the fuck do I need to log in to the Epic Launcher inside of a game that I just launched from the Epic Launcher??? And it made me do fucking two factor and everything!

The real Turing test is that AI will stop using em dashes if you ask; humans will make you pry their favorite punctuation out of their cold, dead hands.

Played like an hour of the new Marvel beat em up today and all it did was make me want to go back and play more Absolum. Absolum is not just the roguelike beat em up that plays like butter. It is queer, it is seemingly pro sex work, it has so many things to talk to you about re:Y Body and What Do?

Remember when he called the Lakota a "dead end society" and implied they just didn't fight hard enough and that was a driving motive behind Avatar? Just no reason. Just bringing it up again.