Iran is bombing infrastructure used to attack them. The US and Israel are bombing infrastructure meant to keep civilians alive.

Was thinking about finally going in in a PS5 now that they're killing the PC ports but then I saw the dynamic pricing news and lol no thanks.

Pokopia is really great and weird. Several "huh wait" moments as I realized where I was.

Playing Pokopia a day early courtesy of the Eshop region switch shenanigans. It's weird to see 3D Pokemon move this fluidly.

"The total number of reported civilian deaths stands at 742, including 176 children under 18, with 624 reported deaths currently and under review pending verification and classification." #Iran

Games used to have cheat codes you could use if you got stuck or bored, and they were fun. This just sounds incredibly boring and wasteful.

It's really hard to explain this to anyone who didn't grow up in the evangelistic Christian cult that is mainstream American religion, but when I tell you these people won't listen to logic & don't care about saving lives, in part because they want World war 3, I mean that quite literally.

I've said it a few times in my life, but these people see every life in the Middle East as a reagent for a blood ritual to end the world and nothing else. This is the evil nonsense I grew up hearing as a kid.

What a time to be alive

📌It is absolutely insane that two old power-hungry, greedy, lawless men are in the process of killing countless hundreds and thousands of innocent human beings, and destabilizing a world they won't be living in a decade from now, and not EVERYBODY is speaking out loudly against this.

Where is the lie?

The Canadian government heard that the USA killed a bunch of kids at a school and said "oh hey that's an oldie but a goodie." Anyways fuck the States, fuck Canada, and fuck Israel.

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Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

It really is either you support trans rights or you support Hitler 2.0

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

i know someone with three kids, two trans, one she took in after their own parents disowned them. their state banned trans healthcare, so they moved to chicago specifically for "sanctuary." the big healthcare provider they went there for quit treating trans patients last year.

401,000 people moving state to state in fear of having legal documents invalidated (KS), jail time for using restrooms (FL, UT), loss of access to adult care (dozens) or youth care (dozens even in D-led states), & the message from “opposition” is still largely “you’re making too big a deal of this.”

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

The state mandated abuse of trans people in the US & UK is a 5 alarm fire. If you are pro-human rights & have a platform & are not speaking out against the targeted cruelty, oppression & bids for extermination of trans people, you are a coward and I hope our screams haunt you in your sleep forever.

My experience with the UK is that there's a pervasive sense that it's "above" racism in a way America isn't, and there is no more American a sentiment than that.

The decade-long death of Xbox has been defined by self-sabotage and bad ideas, and I can't help but assume that they intentionally elevated someone with bad ideas to finally kill the brand outright.

Ripping 41 Star Trek TNG Blu-Rays to my external drive on a Tuesday because I'm tired of getting out of bed to change discs.

I tried listening to a local station while I was driving two years ago and some Aussie DJ was whining about the font Times New Dumbass, the Elon-shaped font that mocks him for his dumb jumping-into-an-X move. The guy said "Elon Musk, you know, typically regarded as a force for good." lol

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I liked the first season of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms so much that I immediately ordered the ASOIAF series and the KotSK compilation. I don't think there's a higher compliment that can be paid to a piece of non-book media in this day and age than "it made me want to read."

new Evangelion content means new Evangelion memes

Concept album called Love Songs For Tall Women but the singer sounds very distant because he's so short. Otherwise normal.

If almost anyone else was writing for that new Eva series, I'd just ignore it. Yoko Taro was grown in a secret government vat to make upsetting but sentimental stories.

I was watching other language dubs of the Steel Ball Run trailer, and French Johnny saying "Je suis Johnny fucking Joestar!" is actually iconic and so in character

Changed my Nintendo Eshop region to Japan so I could get a digital copy of the FFIX port that lets you play in Japanese and I found out I could also download the Japanese region Switch Online Classics. Completely forgot that the SFC app has SMT 1, 2, and If..., and that the GBA app has Mother 3.

Decided to start going in for a new album each Friday via Bandcamp a little while back. Was mostly rediscovering things until I went in on Boko Yout's GUSTO after months of seeing their stuff on IG. Great stuff.

Me: I love my internal research stats consulting position that I get to slack on pretty hard for like 9 months out of the year. Also me: I am going to be locked in a room to discuss research design with 5 physicians next week and I don't know if any of us will come out of there alive.

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

Always an enjoyable experience to hear something about someone you cut out, think "oh no I was wrong," only to then immediately hear something that makes you feel like an idiot for ever doubting yourself.

Got a silly build in Absolum. Spoiler alert for final bossfight, although really you can't see anything that they do. I could've ended it sooner by just using my second Ultimate charge, but I wanted to get as much out of this build as I could before it went bye-bye forever.

"Circling back around to this now," they said in an e-mail that they fired off at 1 AM on a Saturday. Deadline was today at noon, I looped them in 3 weeks ago.

Amazing MGS4 rerelease countdown page created by @nitroid.bsky.social inspired by the game's install screen. mgs4.site

would you love me even if I said supposably

Calling things "cocksuckers" in my head more. Thank you, Tony Soprano.

YOU - …I don't want to masturbate on the street, okay? ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Whatever, coward.

it's kind of wild being lectured on how to win elections by a group of people who lost to trump TWICE

🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"