Randomly remembered a time years ago where I out of nowhere decided to Naruto run across a park and some guy approximately my same age pointed and went "NARUTO :D" Sometimes my memories of doing cringe things aren't mortifying.

POV: [video concept] *Third person video* *I close the video*

Even if AI is successful beyond its boosters’ wildest dreams, there is still the inherent contradiction of a machine that kills off the people it needs to steal from

Boosting the KS for a very interesting cyberpunk rpg with some very strong con and heist mechanics snuck in there among the retro future chewiness. I’m stealing a chunk of this.

Iunno, it's just so weird for me, as somebody who was an out queer in the first couple of decades of this century to see this rewriting of history where the "debate" about gay rights then was this genteel, public spirited conversation. They blamed the gays for hurricanes and earthquakes.

Some people will make you feel stupid for "still" reacting to something that happened "so long ago"-- as if the damage CPTSD does only stems from what happened back then, & not the years of trying to cope & continue functioning SINCE then w/ inadequate support & care.

It was revealed to me in a dream

New Machinae Supremacy album is out and Rob is telling people to pirate it if they wanna. Album slaps too

Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

The thing that about child safety online is that it is going in the exact wrong direction. As a kid I had it drilled into me that I was never to disclose my real name, location, age or other identifiable information so that people couldn't groom me. But that's hard on marketers, so.

Yeag, holy shit

I am a crazy ass moment in Gundam history

ally™️: "what can i do to help trans people right now?" us: "give us money." ally™️: "wait,, really?" us: "yes, really. a lot of us are struggling and direct aid is most impactful. i can send you some gofundmes...."

ally™️: "what *else* can i do to help trans people right now?"

Currently the law, following the HC judgment says groups CAN exclude trans people but don’t HAVE to. So any organisation excluding trans people is doing it BECAUSE THEY WANT TO. The leaders of groups doing that (especially when they are harming children) should be held to account on that basis.

They unravel because to take up the anti-trans position is to believe in a conspiracy theory where trans people secretly control all mechanisms of power in the world, have captured every institution and gotten to every friend and family member they ever had who doesn't mirror their bigotry.

“The right don’t purity test!” Four new right-wing parties have sprung up in the UK this year alone because they can’t quite agree on exactly how racist they should be.

"Electability" has always been code for either 1. being an educated straight white protestant Xian man who can hang w white men who didn't finish college &/or get money from white men with lots of it or 2. Being as close to that as possible, preferably closer than your (presumed) primary opponent.

Death Note The Musical seems like it might be alright but based on the soundtrack, the first scene is Light monologuing in class about how the world would be better if we just killed all the criminals. And that realistically would've got him put on a list and then L woulda caught him immediately.

The fundamental issue with settler colonialism isn't the *people move somewhere* part it's the *setting up discrimitory systems of bigotry and control and exclusion" part.

Gonna go watch that really long Scorsese movie. You know the one, uhh, it's got Leonardo DiCaprio in it...

You have to understand that the MOST infuriating thing about liberals is that they'll insist that they've got to tack right on things like immigration because of polling data, but then will blankly refuse to tack left again if polling data changes

I wish people would come to understand transphobia as systemic, structural, and pervasive so we could stop treating transphobia as explicitly limited to people saying "I hate trans people" and accept the way our society conditions us all to dismiss, diminish, and dehumanize trans people.

I read through hundreds of emails and scoured through years of correspondence and background information to write this 4600 word report. It confirms what we all have been saying about the anti-trans movement from the start. Read it from the top down, I can't even begin to summarize it all properly.

"C'mon, guys. *This* time our faith in the state to establish socialism won't be rewarded with wrack and ruin!"

"I do like clean water." Imagine saying this to someone from the UK, where water companies routinely dump shit into the rivers because they only exist to provide profit to private pension and other investment schemes and the government acts powerless to stop it.

Silly anarchist, don't you know that in a stateless society, the state-sponsored infrastructure that does nothing for you wouldn't exist? Then what would you do?

I refuse to even spoof my age on Discord, so when the horny queer people in my phone share porn I get to tell them if Discord decided it's porn or not. It's incredibly bad at flagging chastity porn as porn, which is kinda funny.

"You should fill up your car." "Why?" "Because petrol prices are going up because of the war in the Middle East?" "What, is that today?" "Yes, and for the foreseeable." It's amazing how plugged in some people just are not.

Still not a peep on the things Mamdani can do for trans youth after hospital closures. No activation of H+H to take patients. Trans patients are a rounding error for the $10B program. No movement on human rights complaints. No promise to restore care. Rarely have I been so disappointed.

The idea that the rule of law separates the system of legitimate governments from criminal gangs was an idea that was proliferated to try (and fail) to answer a question at the start of post-enlightenment political theory around why so much violence by particular bodies and not others was legitimate

A weird number of them took it further and have decided it means that *anything* that gets called antisemitic must actually be anti-Zionism

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral. Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

Update on this story: WGA has cancelled the Writers Guild Awards, originally scheduled for March 8, due to the ongoing staff strike. WGA management walked away from the table earlier this week without a deal. Statement from WGSU below:

To give Discord just the tiniest bit of grace and charity: The six month moratorium might not be them trying to "get everybody to forget about the age verification" fiasco, but actually give people time to sink the legislation that would legally require them to enact it. B/c it costs money.

I find it odd that news sites seem to only report current events as liveblogs now. I just tried to find out what's going on with US/Middle East right now & I can't find anything that summarises what happened chronologically, or with the POV of someone who hasn't been immersed in it for days.

Decided to check out the first episode of Black Clover. This... This is Naruto?

This is also an incredibly funny thing to put in the press the day after losing an election to a pro-migrant plumber.

Not to stan too hard for my friends, but this remains a top-of-all-time anarchist banner:

Gonna take some hours offline. Have to vacuum, take a shower, and there's a new Magica Riot project that's entering revisions. Your support of my writing is my income, so I appreciate you all. If you've ever wanted a trans-centric extremely gay leftist magical girl universe, I have it for you.

(Meanwhile in an alternate timeline…) Donald Trump: *abides by Congress’s war powers in order to start bombing Iran* Ezra Klein: “Donald Trump Was Committing War Crimes the Right Way!”

The funny thing is the most conceivable origin of this cat litter myth is kits stored in classrooms for the event of an active shooter lockdown scenario. As in, to hide the smell in case someone needs to piss in a bucket. But Republicans wouldn't wanna admit school shootings were so endemic

I was really hoping I wouldn't have to retweet this a month and a half later about a completely different news event, but time makes fools of us all.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

"Professor Jacob George is recused from *further* involvement on the Pathways clinical trial as a precaution.” Am pleased they admit he was involved. But you can't cure bias after the fact and our lawyers will be writing to the MHRA about its ascientific 'concerns' about the trials.

I like the fire Pomeranian he's adorable and follows in the long like of my favorite Pokemon: dogs that shoot flame

One of my most annoying traits is I refuse to use the silly historiographic term "Byzantine Empire" and I just call it the Roman Empire.

Still not over the fact that to most North Americans, the words Mary, merry, and marry all rhyme.

Labour, failing to meaningfully stand for anything, came third in Gorton & Denton, behind a centre-left party and a fascist party. The lesson they have decided they need to learn from this is that they weren't being centrist *enough*.

The extreme left wants to give people freedom to control their own lives, and an end to war and division. The extreme right wants genocide and oppression. If you equivocate on these, you sound like you're closer to the genocide and oppression side than to the freedom and peace side.