I've not really been much of a book-reader most of my life. At least, not for NOVELS. Comics I could do. But this year I suddenly wanted to try, among other reasons to try and improve my concentration... So I figured I'd start with something short and simple :D Just finished the last chapter :D

I went out biking today with a rainbow flag on my bike basket. Some random kid on a bus stop screamed at me about it. Bruh.

Holey sheets. With how awful everything else is, this is actually shockingly nice to hear. I was under the impression that we were still tumbling in freefall off a cliff with no slowing down. ..."It's less awful than it could have been" qualifies as good news now...

GenAI is a tech bubble of hype and absurdity. It runs on nothing but vibes and dollar signs in billionaire's eyes. But that's why we must resist it. We broke NFTs, we broke the Metaverse, we can break this nonsense too.

A woman being the lead in a game is not an agenda. The meltdown over it is. She can carry the sword. She can carry the story. She can carry the grief, the rage, the hope, the whole damn world. Games didn’t stop being for you. They just stopped being only for you.

It only took them a year...

The thing about “Bluesky is a bubble” takes is that they start with the false assumption that social media is our job or some sort of responsibility. This isn’t my job. It’s probably not yours, either. It’s not our responsibility to ruin our days on a Nazi hellsite or to talk to dummies here.

Is GameOverse a show about the Stop Killing Games campaign? (I mean given that it has apparently been a thing the creator has been trying to get made for ten years I guess it realistically can't be but it still does kinda feel like that.)

This needs to be said. Again.

To graduating college students who boo commencement speakers for praising AI: We are very proud of you. Well done.

You're entitled to your own opinion. You're NOT entitled to your own facts. #BelieveTheScience What he said 💯 👇 👇 👇

Does the anti-woke crowd not feel embarrassed? Like.. I’m genuinely curious.. How the fuck does a human being watch videos of grown men complain about pronouns, gay people in video games and Hasan EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. and not think to themselves: “wtf is this loser behaviour”

I know there’s folks out there who think I go on about AI because I’m a SAG shill or a wannabe voice actor or whatever they wanna project onto me. Truth is I just fucking hate AI. I spent a lot of my life loving media and it’s just… stripping the life from it. The love from it.

sometimes social media decides to shoot you in the chest point blank with a rail cannon because it's funny

I am so incredibly done with genAI. I don't care if it gets less prone to errors or lies or hallucinations. I don't care if it gets more eco-friendly. I just want to live to see the day it gets shoved under the rug like NFTs and blockchain. I want the world to not suffer under it anymore.

The series finale that wasn't a series finale for Pokémon 2023 pretty much gave me exactly what I wanted :D Which is to say, it WAS an ending. No last-minute twist to lead into Wonder Voyage. Meaning that IF Wonder Voyage disappoints... it can be safely disregarded.

If you could just mind your fucking business and leave people alone, I wouldn't give any shits about you. But since you can't do that, here we are. Fascists should suffer consequences for oppressing other citizens. The simple choice is to not do a fascism.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

american conservatives when spending 40 years desensitizing americans to violence means americans are also desensitized to violence when it's targeted at them

You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social

“Why don’t you want to have a conversation about AI?” “I broke into your house and stole your shit and now I just want to talk.”

BADGE. OF. HONOR.

And so we are due for another year of Liko, Roy, Dot and Ult, I suppose... Still hoping that the climax to Rising Again will serve as a proper conclusion. This immediately feels very tacked on, so... I would rather it be treated as its own separate sequel series.

Saw the Mario Galaxy movie. It's uh... it's not GOOD, but it did make me smile quite a few times so it's got that going for it I guess. Really could have cut the number of set pieces in half though. And literally any character arcs besides for the villain woulda been nice...

May Victor Orbán simply be the first in a string of countries engaging in overdue housecleaning by kicking their authoritarian leaders to the curb.

What's that? The elections in Hungary fall under another piece of Genuinely Good News In The Year 2026? Is... Is the tide turning? Is there hope that this year could ultimately turn things around and by 2027 things will be a bit less shit? I mean there's still A LOT of shit about, tbf...

After 11 episodes the most popular character in the show has finally appeared.

Going after queer people online for having benign kinks that hurt nobody is especially frustratingly dumb when the world is being ran by pedophilic, rapist sex traffickers who probably won't face real consequences Like, the trans woman with the fictional incest kink is not your enemy.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Whenever I hear someone complain about how "annoying" people are on Bsky, I wish they'd compare it to even a fraction of the absolutely insane, unhinged, and obsessively vile shit that happens 24/7 on Twitter. That place is flooded with some of the worst people in the *world.*

The next president of the US absolutely positively needs to do what Biden failed to do and either implement or reinforce a BUNCH of checks and balances to ensure that this never happens again. "Convicted felons still pending punishment are ineligible to run for office" would be a good start.

BREAKING: Trump announces two week window for Congress to remove him from office

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

Somewhere in the middle?

...That checks out, I mean, I was making similar remarks not too long ago. I do wonder how this series will be looked at in the long term, if it will end up being a huge fan favorite or if its sheer grim-ness will make it more of a love-it-or-hate-it thing. #digimon

Be careful folks, today is April Fool's Day, which means that the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive. Don't worry though, tomorrow we will be back to normal, and the internet will be rife with misinformation and posts designed to deceive.

Since there is no alt text: Franky from One Piece tells you that existing is not a crime!!!

My atheist ass is praying so hard rn...

this made me mad but was relatable so I had to buy it

Fucking Harry Potter fans are throwing out shit about "well what about this dead asshole's art you're still engaging with it" Motherfucker this ain't about the derivative-ass neoliberal status-quo fondling story where wizards shit in hallways, it's about the fucking money she uses to do harm.

can we make this the new #1 most blocked account pls

I think I can call that the third piece of genuinely great news this week :D

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

I don't wanna be reductive here, because it's more often than not a more complicated thing than simply pointing towards one common cause. However. Either by component shortages caused by AI or executives using AI caused component shortages as justification for hiking prices... AI did this.

A second piece of good news in two days?! WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!!!! (Yeah, I know, there's still an overabundance of shit happening, but getting ANY wins at all feels refreshing at this point.)

To celebrate Sora's shutdown. Here's some GOOD Soras.