Toni Morrison, 2016

“new” “increasing” “unnoticed”

It’s really frightening.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

NullPointerException: Attempt to de-reference variable 'gender' a null value.

R.I.P. JUNIPER BLESSING.

i often think about this review

annual repost of Trashed Bathrooms

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

There is no monstrous grift Jimmy Fallon won't run cover for

Cheap, minimally online if at all, doesn't spy on you, doesn't have subscriptions or micro transactions, won't be enshittified, you own it, reminds them of simpler times or childhood, modern pop culture is adversarial and alienating

Irish Minister for Health calls the UK's descent into transphobia out for what it is.

It's worth reiterating that independent creators are getting debanked for the same content

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

death of the artist is a stupid baby excuse for clowns with no standards to pretend the money they give her doesn't literally go to making trans people's lives worse. fucking get over her her writing isn't even good. ursula k le guin and terry prachett are right there. have some fucking self respect

Puritanism

trying to predict what 2026 will look like

As someone on the spectrum, I can tell you, people don't want unapologetically weird, they want socially acceptable quirky.

this exists it is called thinking

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it. It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

The image that inspired my most popular comic.

reminder that MasterCard and VISA are very okay with processing payments for guns and bullets, just not a video game where two fictional people fuck.

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Honestly a bit shocked to see so many artists swooning over this when all they want is a minimal FFmpeg GUI, something that already exists in droves, for free, & without absurd DRM limitations. Support devs who make the complex libraries for these tools, not those selling pricey hyped-up wrappers.

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

over 20% of the global game dev force was laid of on the last 3 years and absolutely none of it was because of piracy

Next time Democrats say that they want to find someone who excites young voters and gets more people engaged, think about how extraordinarily weird and racist they got when Mamdani won his primary by a landslide.

no i will not "ask chat gpt" i will be scrolling Wikipedia with whimsical abandon like god intended

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

YIKES @soundcloud.dev no thank you

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

I was raised by educators who instilled in me a lifelong love of learning, critical thinking and discovering new things. The thought of offloading that onto a LLM, of being so uncurious and uninterested in not just the world around you but also *your own thoughts,* makes me sick to my stomach.

I would like to thank AI... for the existential dread of realizing a sizable portion of people don't actually want to better themselves, or understand anything... or *do* anything for themselves, they just want someone else's mathematical model to do it for them...

degrowth should probably start with mark zuckerberg’s $300,000,000 yacht and not like your cousin’s adderall

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

Modern journalism's instinct/desire/strategy to lazily accept and pass on, without further interrogation, the nonsense counterfactual framing of whoever is acting in the worst faith, is a huge part of why we are here.

It's understandable with the way Apple has been struggling lately. I think we all need to accept our societal responsibility to tighten our belts and funnel more of our money to people who already have billions.

just wanna remind people that the person who snitched on luigi got none of the promised reward because of random technicalities. you have nothing to gain by being a rat.