I think I found a new answer to "if you could talk to anyone from history, who would it be?" Martin Luther. I sit down across from him, say a brief prayer to the Virgin Mary to start. Then I begin explaining Prosperity Theology to him in detail. He runs to the door, weeping. It's locked.

sometimes if you're lucky you can actually see this switch happen in real time as the American starts getting really angry at a foreigner who points out all the flaws with the American system, and they begin sputtering about the American dream being failed and that the real America is an ideal

quick bit of advice people do not get weirdly sad and look up your ex on Bluesky because very little will come with it except remembering all the reasons it was doomed

whats it mean when your girlfriend likes this post asking for a friend

Honestly this is something I've always thought of as a distinctly...dumb? Americanism Like it's kind of hard to explain to Americans just how much the average Canadian defines themselves as "anything but American" and that's stronger than any commonality you might think is shared.

I just saw a reddit comment on a post despairing about bad grades in Uni that started with "Don't worry bro, this doesn't determine the rest of your life. It took Hong Xiuquan three tries before he decided to become a cult leader and start the deadliest civil war in China."

I think it's okay, theoretically, for cisgender people to write transgender characters. But I think that if you're going to do it, we should assign a Transgender Commissar to you to watch every word you write, juuuuust in case.

I think it's okay, theoretically, for cisgender people to write transgender characters. But I think that if you're going to do it, we should assign a Transgender Commissar to you to watch every word you write, juuuuust in case.

Larian CEO says Divinity could have gen AI assets in it but only if the tools are trained on the studio's own data. "If we use a GenAI model to create in-game assets, then it'll be trained on data we own." https://kotaku.com/divinity-gen-ai-larian-bg3-reddit-ama-2000658429

This has extreme "we have magica riot at home" vibes, I think

People were able to force this change not by voting with their wallet but by being really annoying. Being annoying actually works.

Like I joke that Dave Filoni's Star Wars shows are "written like fanfics" in that their plots appear to be largely excuses to cram in random bits of lore and have characters he likes meet each other and maybe fight

On the last point, a lot of fanfics really are just "fanservice" - entirely self-referential and serving little purpose beyond offering an opportunity to keep playing with the dolls created by a story This is usually what someone means when they say something was "written like a fanfic"

Most of the disdain towards fanfiction falls into a few categories: - Hating it because it's what girls do (which is just misogyny) - Disapproving of people wedding themselves to established brands instead of creating their own works - Disapproval of self-referential works

I don't have anything against fanfiction, necessarily, but playing around with the dolls handed to you by some other piece of fiction isn't really comparable to a new take on a canon, especially because of the deferential attitude towards the work in question demanded by copyright

I think equating modern fanfiction with historical works that draw from an established canon is pretty fundamentally dishonest, particularly in the way that no one *owns* the concepts that works like Dante's Inferno are drawing from

Some trans people get way too into Greek mythology with the same energy that some white people get way too into Norse mythology.

thank god for porn artists who put the top's body almost entirely out of frame now i can imagine it as a gal being dicked down by her trans gf

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

the right wing is activated and happy to jump on any indication of support for lgbt rights from people, politicians, and organizations, so journalists and politicians have become reluctant to mention lgbt people and our rights unless necessary there are words for this: cowardly. craven. spineless.

Boar's Head, again. Listeria, again. Pecorino cheese

it doesnt happen to me often but "aggressively unnecessary 'uhm actually' on a very obvious joke post" sure is a Bluesky special huh

why is it always my catholic posting which goes big im a fucking transgender atheist you cant do this to me

Excommunicate him Leo, please excommunicate him it'd be SO funny I need this Leo I'll even start going back to church if you publicly excommunicate him.

Oh ya don't sweat it boss

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like it happens every time. idk it's always funny to me.

I can't access my DMs on this milky mayonnaise-too-spicy website without verifying my age but because this government is so inconsistent with it's authoritarianism I can merrily head over to Twitter The Website Formerly Known As Twitter and look at child abuse images all day unfettered.

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The way that people have memory-holed that Abolish the Police was the actual radical demand in 2020 and Defund the Police was incrementalist reformism to help get there is extremely depressing Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

What needs to be added to this is that ICE blocked a physician from having access to the dead or dying body of Renee Good for FIFTEEN MINUTES after she was shot. That, in and of itself may well have constituted murder. The media will gloss over this. Do not let them.

man even cops are saying that ICE fucked up bad lol how obviously evil do you have to be for that to happen

how long do we give it until it starts encouraging people to prevent hangovers from hard drinking by taking 2,000 mg of Tylenol before they pass out

Hey. Everyone. Read Mask for the Sun. It's successfully tricking me into feeling all warm and fuzzy about the life and love and community that has formed around me and all the effort I've put into it. Sometimes it has taken years for the boomerang to come back around. What you do matters.

The Advocate has the story - "they killed my wife," Good's spouse says. "We have a six year old in school," Good's spouse says. Let us avoid building a head of steam behind a narrative to allow a grandparent to come and seize the child of a queer couple.

I’m seeing a lot of people predict that “the right wing media is going to turn this story for Trump” and “they’re going to work overtime to make America forget this” and you should tell that to all these people out there in Minnesota in fucking January. This can matter. This will matter.

the worst part of Google AI is that instead of "did you mean?" being a tiny little bit of text, if you misspell something you get a big text box going "YOU RUBE, YOU FOOL, YOU UTTER IDIOT. SAKAILAN ISN'T A WORD. ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON? but you might mean Sakhalin--"

the worst part of Google AI is that instead of "did you mean?" being a tiny little bit of text, if you misspell something you get a big text box going "YOU RUBE, YOU FOOL, YOU UTTER IDIOT. SAKAILAN ISN'T A WORD. ARE YOU A FUCKING MORON? but you might mean Sakhalin--"

OKAY, WHO TAUGHT THE TRAD WIVES HOW TO READ?

The one where he shoots the guy?

As someone whose daily conversations--including those with her long distance partner--is largely on Discord Well, shit

I got excited when I heard that trans women were being demonized, but then I found out that didn't mean getting horns and a tail.

you know as long as its not consecrated, this isn't technically sinful? Potentially blasphemous, yes, but "flatbread with cannabis oil" wouldn't be a sin to just make and enjoy even if you put a lil cross on it. not valid eucharistic wafers though, so boo.

anyone wonder about the Juicero guy? Do you think he's kicking himself wishing he got in on the "smart product" scam in the age of LLMs instead of the mid 2010s?

In the first class for "The History of Modern Christianity" and someone keeps looking back at me like "wait is this allowed can one of them be here" and lol lmao