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This is fake because it doesn't mention emo/scene/mallgoth, which are loadbearing.

Bluesky exclusive preview of baby’s first RPG Maker game

Ok this Zappa cover really works

types of indie tabletop roleplaying games: -D&D (80s version) -structured journaling activity -excuse for socially awkward but horny 23 year olds to form a polycule -D&D (anti-woke) -two player exercise in intense discomfort -apocalypse world

"There live the poorest of Hell’s huddled masses, a teeming horde of seven billion – roughly half of pandemonium."

in a paralytic relationship with my sleep parasociality demon

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

december 14, 2023:

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

8 year old me loudly attempting to play videogame music by ear on our grand piano while my parents patiently hold their tongues in the other room trying not to stifle my creative endeavors:

I think toxic publications with massive national circulation and profiles are often pushing toxic narratives not as clickbait but because it suits them to seed toxic narratives using not our rage but their massive national circulation, and maybe those narratives need not ignore-ance but pushback.

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters

Okay like. Everyone says “you can just be a girl if you want to.” Which is true. But nobody tells you you become the girl a second time along the way

gold medal skippity paps

Tonight's beautiful murder of thousands of crows. ❤️

Texas has: 1 species of armadillo 1 species of possum 1 species of raccoon but: 5 species of skunk! (more than any other state) And, friend, they are glorious little Fart-Squirrels 🦨.

Of US animals I get questions about from Aussies, skunks are in the top 3. They just have no reference point for what the smell is like, and no native animals with similar defense mechanisms. They're -fascinated- by them.

This is what it is like to try to vote by mail in Alabama, which you can only do with a valid excuse. You also have to fill out a ballot application to get a ballot. bsky.app/profile/most...

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Ted Cruz, podcast. Gavin Newsom, podcast. Josh Shapiro, podcast. Andy Beshear, podcast. Half of Congress, regular podcast guests now. Maybe stop.

It is kinda strange that so many politicians have podcasts now. The impulsive thought in my brain says this should be banned.

Excuse me, it is the worst person you know made a great point guy from Clickhole, not the Onion, to make amends here’s a Clickhole article

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Vague cat things rise up 🤘 /sincere

anthropomorphic gender autobio

leviathan ghosts you after 10 dates so you grind on jörmungandr at the club to make it jealous.

just trust me... the kind of woman you DO want is the kind that will go to medieval times!

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One third of women in America no longer have access to abortion because of Susan Collins’ vote for Justice Kavanaugh. It was not “the right vote.” Susan, you don’t have the judgment to represent Maine in the U.S. Senate.

Florida stands on porous limestone that's basically a giant sponge. There is no way this thing is actually being built.

feelin silly might fuck around and provoke ppl into being mean to me in order to reinforce my threatened self image of "reasonable level-headed type of sensible adult"

Also, this is the calm discussion. It only gets more agitated from here.

So no, this shit is making society significantly worse NOW, so I actually do not give a shit about how it might be useful/be an angry basilisk bent on my destruction in the future. Don't like my attitude? Shoulda thought of that before stealing my shit and then taunting me about it.

...and its value is being inflated to such an extent that when this bubble pops, 2008 is gonna look like a hiccup, and the people who are driving this bus are divided between those who are trying to create the basilisk so it doesn't eat THEM, and those who are trying to cause human extinction.

"Why can't we have a calm discussion about AI?" Cuz the data centers are being built carelessly and at speed, polluting poor neighborhoods, cuz it's drinking my fucking aquifer, and cuz all my art and writing have been plagisrized while the worst assholes crow about my impending obsolescense...

we got a request today for help from some international students that kind of fall through the gaps of any available assistance programs want to help pay their rent? it’s only $1200 and I’d love to get it handled instead of leaving them hanging venmo: @ziibiing paypal: @StandWithMinnesota

If the government can take away your voting rights for a felony conviction, and they also decide what constitutes a felony, and they also decide who’s charged with the felony, and they also decide who’s prosecuted for the felony, you don’t have a right to vote.

To check your party affiliation (if any) online: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov To change your party affiliation online (to Dem so that you can vote in the primary): e-register.vote.nyc To change your party affiliation by mail or at a BOE office: vote.nyc/page/register-vote Deadline: Sat, Feb 14

Finally my slide rule collection will once again become relevant! In all seriousness, though, the Epstein class is so disconnected from reality that they really have no idea how thin the line is between keeping their heads and not. And they're dead set on crossing it.

I find AI makes work isolating. Instead of asking "Jeff" about something, I ask chat GPT. I miss out on the team cohesion aspect and opportunities for cross pollination of info. Chat GPT will tell me how to use (service) to accomplish (goal), Jeff might have a different approach entirely.

This article that was going around the other day wasn't claiming that AI tools don't make workers more "productive" in some sense (they do self-report that they are getting more done!) but does suggest people end up working more while being less engaged & more stressed. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

I just put something in my drafts folder about collective moral trauma, then scrolled by this and muttered to my cat, “it would have been great if we just had footage of him dying.” Multitudes.

One time in college a bunch of us were staying at somebody’s dad’s cabin and we came back from a hike to find the door standing open, and one guy insisted on charging in ahead of us and pried a decorative spear (idk) off the wall and then went through every room shouting “CLEAR” like he was in COD

When I say I couldn’t convince someone to disenfranchise themselves through philosophical argument, I mean that. I could however given enough time convince you of that by lying to you about what you’re voting for.

The thing is a bunch of people getting together and voting to remove the rights of convicted felons is still democratic and aligns with the constitutional provisions. The fact that it was voted on means it was transparent, and is at anytime open to being repealed by voting.

“The contract was brought to our attention about two weeks ago through a constituent submission on our city website,” Corza-Godinez told Sludge. “Once we learned of the contract, we immediately moved to cancel it.” 🔥 Don’t let people tell you contacting your reps doesn’t matter.