Minimizing the window where I read about how our world is a joke and we're at the mercy of megalomaniacal evil perverts. Logging on to the work zoom. "Heyyyy I'm good! How are you?"

ALERT: My office has received reports of heavy ICE presence near 12th & Maple in DTLA in the Fashion District. Agents are actively walking the area. If you have info report to: LA Rapid Response Network: (888) 624-4752

I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

People overseas will be like "America this your problem & it's impacting us all so get your shit together!" and Elon Musk will be South African and Rupert Murdoch will be Australian and Peter Thiel will be German and the President will be an obvious Russian Asset funded by Israel & Saudi Arabia.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

One of my main regrets in leaving NYC was losing the ability to vote against this guy.

Addendum for the most important Final Fantasy game

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Joining everyone rightfully dunking on this nonsense to add that the most powerful cognitive amplifier tools are books. Which were stolen by the tens of thousands in order to make these slop-generating tools.

X starting the year off strong with this entry in the Least Surprising Headline category.

NEW: How many books did you read this year? If it was more than 2, congrats: you read more than the median American. Read on for way more @today.yougov.com polling from me on America's book-reading habits in 2025. 1/

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

Merry Christmas fam!

The political and weeb sides of my Bluesky have collapsed into this singularity.

Breaking my social media time-out to pledge my continuing allegiance to M-W.

Well well well

here's how you remove the AI from the latest Firefox update

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

perhaps the less people take sci-fi as political lessons the better madeinchinajournal.com/2023/12/11/t...

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform: - no more spam texts and calls - smaller cars with weaker headlights - imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

In 2024, ALA tracked 821 attempts to censor library materials, targeting nearly 2,500 unique books. That’s 10× more than five years ago. Join the fight for the freedom to read: UniteAgainstBookBans.org Donate to ALA: ilovelibraries.org/1984 #BannedBooksWeek

Dunno man, seems a little misleading to write an article about Trump describing activity in Portland and Chicago as “insurrection” with a 33 year old photo of a burning donut shop taken in the 1992 LA Riots (sans caption explaining that) as the header on all your posts about it.

give greta thunberg a gundam

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Never believe what ICE says. Never believe what this administration says.

the words every girl wants to hear

Whenever I see lists like this I'm always a little curious whether folks know how many creators of these shonen and seinen blockbusters are women.

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Just reminiscing here but my god was x/1999 by clamp such a gorgeous series, and the sfx work was done so well to match.

Online manga platform Manga Planet announced today they are shutting down their website in Match 2026 due to recent restrictions from payment processors and the changing online landscape They announced their focus will now shift to physical print releases #Manga #MangaNews

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Wait was EA’s big GenAI push a bid to convince potential buyers that it could lower operating costs after a purchase to help pay for debts?? They have like four whole game studios making the Battlefield series, you can’t run a CoD-competing juggernaut with automation. www.ft.com/content/be98...

It requires previously unseeen levels of suspension of disbelief but this anime is basically ‘What If A Boy Gamer Didn’t Gatekeep The Culture & Was Fundamentally Decent Instead Of Scaring The Hoes’.

The purpose of these laws is to censor LGBTQ speech and make children less safe and easier for predators to abuse. Extremely disappointed in Bluesky for this.

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

I have this great book of paintings and sketches Hayao Miyazaki did for “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,” mostly as covers for the English-language reprints of the series VIZ did, and they’re all accompanied by what appear to be excerpts from an interview he did under extreme duress

In case AI art didn't made you mad already.

Someone wrote this week, maybe on here, that this administration is best explained through a framework of domestic abuse. Watching agents of the state lash out like this makes that insight seem spot the f–– on.

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

Just spent an hour trying to free book shipments from Asia being held for tariffs even though books are exempt from tariffs. No luck so far. This is all so incredibly stupid.

Menswear guy subtweeting a nation.

Time to break out the chart

As a colleague mentioned yesterday, Gamergate is one of the five most significant developments in US politics since the Cold War

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Happy National Video Game Day! 🎮 We asked AEW’s stars to share their all-time favorite games – what’s yours?

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Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...