Vampires investing modestly and then losing it all every couple centuries from some variation on pig butchering scams

NZ First are actually evil. They don't care how many lives they may ruin to get the anti-trans vote.

Puberty blockers save lives. I know this from close proximity. In a term of cruel and un-scientific things this might be the most cruel and un-scientific thing.

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

This is appalling and bigoted. This misrepresents the actual brief from the MoH and aligns with a UK approach which subsequent research in Aus has convincingly rejected. I also note the Minister of Health is one of eight MPs in the last Parliament who voted to against banning conversion practices.

This piece of Facebook slop has bothered me for YEARS specifically because the first two words should OBVIOUSLY be switched. It's not a temptation caused by a sensation! It's a sensation caused by a temptation!! C'mon!

Honestly we are much more sheep than wolves - intensely political, terrified of anything new in the environment, and extremely hostile to outgroup sheep who arrive as newcomers and try to join the flock.

People who say "we're wolves not sheep" have never seen two ewes trying to murder each other over relative status in the flock before they give birth, and then all their friends and family picking sides because being friends with the winner will raise THEIR status, until there is a massive brawl

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

I am going to say this only once but fuck these white racists. Fuck them to hell.

some type of shit you’d make 2 years ago making fun of rightwingers

1) this from @marisakabas.bsky.social is good as always 2) as she lays out, part of the problem is there is an entire class of journalist and of publication that is obsessed…OBSESSED with access. if access can be taken away then you need to pull punches www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

I have "All the President's Men" tattooed on my arm. I have enormous reverence for journalism. at this point the WH press corps does not deserve to be associated with the brave independent reporters out here busting their asses for not nearly enough money in order to keep us informed and prepared

So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run. 🧵 1/

QUESTION: What's your favorite 3+ players tarot-based TTRPG? This can be a game you've already played or simply read through and really want to play!

I’m sure our incredibly ethical and truth-based government will release a very real version of the president’s bestie files that will in no way be doctored and we can all be assured those evil survivors who already came forward about him and his own words were all funny little flights of fantasy.

#DailySkeletor #affirmation

apparently the reason for this is trump refused to back her planned senate bid. it will be, uh, interesting, to see the party split between "trump is perfect" and "trump is letting us down" and "i didn't become a republican for this but am too dumb to understand the consequences of my choices c

Whatever it takes huh? #DAInquisition

Having cats makes meditation a new level of challenge

This is not risk free. I respect the position he is taking.

this is me if you even care

This was an epic moment in television. They decided to make Snuffleupagus real at the advice of child psychologists who said children needed to know their parents would believe them if they told them about someone they knew doing things with them the parents didn’t know

It was so amazing to get to be part of trying all this stuff out the first time. How do we make texture maps? How do we do mocap? How do we make fire that looks real? Physics? Huge worlds? Portals? Figuring this shit out was insanely great.

I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”

Cries in crim adjudication prof

I hope the many disastrous economic crises looming on the horizon all happen at once and this happens

#3157 A helpful tutorial

This kook gave this video to LibsOfTikTok, who presumably thought this was a normal thing to do and not visibly psycho shit. Even on Twitter it landed like a wet fart in an elevator. These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.

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Working in the game industry

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas

leave it up to trans people for preserving game history properly www.videogamer.com/news/fallout...

Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based

i see this shit, the game goes in the bin, doesn't matter how much I'd enjoyed it or what my plans to write about it had been

New comic! Why write hundreds of board game guides when one piece of advice fits all? 😎🎲 You can read this week's blog post at semicoop.com/comic/one-guide-to-rule-them-all/ #boardgames

Starting to think maybe this guy wasn't the sort of person who should have been given a gun and authority, and that if this is the best you can get maybe you should disestablish your whole department.

Are we supposed to feel bad?

When the AI bubble bursts, can we take the blame for it? Like Millennials get blamed for a lot of shit that is definitely capitalism’s fault but I WANT us to take the blame for killing THIS shit

Priorities.

By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically

What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are: - This horrible incredible unmitigated violence is bad, but have more - You too can learn to do the thing - Simulated acid trip - Romance but with monsters and death and stuff - It says comedy, but it's going to teach you about what it means to be human

What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are: - This is depressing and funny at the same time - Existential despair/loneliness but there's magic - Fairytale but spooky - Vampires make bad decisions - Musical that involves several murders

Fighting the war on "the male loneliness epidemic" on the side of the epidemic.

It absolutely is pernicious. Also something I think a LOT of men don’t get; Once you’ve had someone boost you, and you find out it was only because they wanted to have sex with you/thought you were hot? It poisons previous and future successes. “Is it because…” It’s fucking evil.

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

im starting to think my new tablet arm isn't helping my posture as much as i thought it would #sketch