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Also worth pointing that despite the surface posturing the far right movement is intensely modernist. I mean those nostalgiabait slops are literally AI. Big tech rode a wave of Obama era techno-optimism to have unrestrained control of our lives and are clamping down with trump era Tantrum Politics

Like the thing is a lot of things do suck now. Everything is enshittified and we're maximizing human misery to make line go up. Right now every last one of those people responsible are throwing their weight behind maga and it feels like a given we should point that out

The issue with blanket demonizing Nostalgia as the source of all modern reactionary thought is that it's very easy to just turn it back around to "everything sucks now because of capitalism and billionaires and Ronald Reagan instead of women" and our advantage there is that we're actually right

unpopular opinion apparently but american exceptionialism is not when an american doesn't know the names of every politician from other countries. terms mean things.

Giving Setsuna random outfits in Animal Crossing and doodling them because why not

ディアナ様とお月見🌙

the problem with "bring back bullying" is that the people who want it back are the reason bullying sucks.

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

AN AURORA BOREALIS!? IN THIS TIME OF YEAR, AT THIS TIME OF DAY, IN THIS PART OF THE WORLD, LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN ONE JAPANESE MOUNTAIN RANGE!?

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Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

Is anyone besides me heavily disinterested in hero shooters and other character based service games BECAUSE the teams can't keep the aesthetic of the world cohesive for a whole year. The time to beachwear skins feels like it gets shorter & shorter & all these games become grey goo with no cohesion.

Link has always been a positive plus for Bluesky. Let's be crystal clear the reason for his ban is goalpost moving because the CEO didn't like being called out for racism and bigotry. That's it. That's literally it.

commit exactly one heinous crime that haunts you for the rest of your days. never tell a soul. this will allow you to look brooding and mysterious when you sit alone at a bar table in the wee hours of the morning.

I think nothing is more telling of the kind of person & general age demographic of this social media more than the fact how through just casual browsing I see many people actually appraising TV Tropes. Guys the Old Internet is Not that cool.

oh fuck yes now we are cooking

This show was so good in its first half and then it completely loses the plot and every shortcoming it had piles up more and more and its choking so bad only to have a finale that somehow clinches back some of its dignity. C+. Wright Immelmann is the worst thing this franchise has done to me.

Calling Wright Immelmann "Keith" and "War Crimes Johnson" is causing no end of problems when the show has important characters named Keith and Johnson and that's funny as fuck can't lie

he fact that actual modern warfare is an intensely technical bureaucratic endeavor always chafes a certain kind of person, and it’s been so long that the United States has been even threatened by the prospect of fighting a near peer professional military we have the luxury of pretending otherwise

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

Imo one issue with moderation is that there’s one group who think about it through a lens of consistent rational-legal rules and there’s one grou who think about it in a more informal norm based sense of “is this person ruining the vibe or not” and these groups mainly talk past each other

While this is a very understandable position you're not actually constructing the solution to Mecha animes dilemmas and as such I can't really agree (the issue is that the closest thing to kids toy robots shows is Shinkalion and thats barely holding the standard)

Hex Maniac repost for spook month

i think one of the biggest problems in fandom is that a lot of people just...don't get into other things in this era where you have a wide array of old and new stuff at your hands to see, indie or otherwise, getting away from something you hate is much easier! searching is part of the fun!

But you do realize that in itself is a criticism that can be broadly thrown at mecha, as well as any action genre, and has been broadly thrown at the mecha genre since its inception. It's a smug stance that reduces the genre that both the mainstream and other otakus enforce, even in mecha, enforce

Obariism feels like a vague umbrella term to express and unspecified and broad ick that can be molded to respond to any broad dislike in the genre and limits discussion about the core topic of how do we get children to watch mecha and where does corporate interest lie in the landscape of the genre

whenever i see a "multifandom" person i always have to do the ishowspeed laugh because how are earth has online culture made that anything except normal unnoteworthy behaviour

1.Deploy ICE. 2.Deploy National Guard to “protect” ICE. 3.Deploy military to “protect” NG.

The year is 2025. There are three social networks remaining. They are run by Dweeb Lowtax, Tweaker Lowtax, and Girlboss Lowtax. You have to pick at least one.

We’re on a speedrun to bluesky banning anti ai hate speech but leaving anti trans hate speech awesome

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

You cannot meaningfully address made up grievances. Any concessions to them will cause people to demand more.

this is like half of r/ups now

this is straightforward to reconcile imo - we dont have slurs for oil rigs or factory farms. i think treating LLMs as things to *de*humanize anthropomorphizes them too much already, which is tech marketing's desire - that's the thing the "friend" ads were looking for people to react with

Thinking about how a friend calls Death Note "Code Geass if it sucked" and I'm sorry but the actual answer for "what would Code Geass look like if it was abysmal dogshit" is actually

Goro Taniguchi, why did I ever doubt you?

elly xenogears (kinda

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*Massive* protests in European Georgia. Demonstrators have attempted to storm the Presidential Palace. The pro-Putin Georgian Dream party which stole the election and has sent out a new wave of riot police.

he’s dead as hell

after all is said and done, you'll end up a skeleton 🎻🏴‍☠️

If you're doing overzealous things like putting an adult content label on Kate Bush or banning people for ill-wishing JK Rowling it's going to be very difficult to get people to accept there's nothing to be done about a user who announced his intent to use the platform to harass people.

The sad thing about the owners' contempt towards the userbase is that Bluesky is genuinely a far better Twitter alternative, from a user experience the lack of an algorithm that only seemed to push conflict and suppress people I was following is a staggering difference. You got a good thing here!