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

for the past few years now, i just casually check my phone and see "oh we cured another scary disease that affects millions of people, which for my entire life up to this point has been an incurable death sentence". and a huge number of those have come out of mRNA-related research.

feel the need to underline that: there's an intranasal in pre-clinical trials rn that literally makes you immune to ALMOST ALL RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS OF ANY KIND (viral, bacterial, fuck even allergens) for months. we're abt to Literally Cure the Common Cold, that punchline in most sci-fi stories.

some dumbass meme went around recently like "ARE there any technologies the left is excited about??" and like, yeah dude. there's Literal Fucking Sorcery happening in biotech & pharmacology rn. we're curing cancers left & right. we're curing AIDS. we're making OMNIvalent respiratory vaccines.

mRNA vaccines & the technologies & research paths that've opened up as a result of their study are basically magic, and among the most important & powerful discoveries/inventions in the 30+ years (at least). this man is a villain, trying to murder one of the best things that's ever happened.

The man killed one the most effective, promising new cancer treatments and for the next century should condemned and brought up every single time someone dies from Cancer.

Can I get in on this sweatpants trend?

currently seated to see these guys perform

US army keeps trying to get on Twitch to recruit vulnerable people. Last time it was an esports channel in 2020 that failed so hard it resorted to banning people for talking about war crimes & now they are trying again with a US Navy vtuber It's all attempts at manipulation, always has been

Hi. Non-American here. Can someone explain to me why Democrat leadership is allowed to how their face in public without risking death by angry mob? Thanks.

Just appreciate that two solidly Democratic voters in Minnesota were publicly murdered by the Trump administration. They covered it up, destroyed evidence and Schumer and Jeffries aren't even going to attempt to seek justice for them in any way. They'll ask you for cash, but otherwise fuck off.

it's a fucking tragedy - someone is so caught up in right wing ideology that they're mutilating themselves and others, or they're...like, queer and also a gigantic asshole then some gormless dipshit named Resistance4Justice starts dropping slurs

considering it's 13 years old there's a SHOCKING number of games copying papers please these days from people who seem to have zero thoughts on the stuff about border control being dehumanizing and instead just thought the gameplay was fun

I was kinda going "do I really wanna name them and potentially set off an avalanche" then I saw their vibe-coded app is $99.99 so: lmao fuck NovelMage

but also the gameplay about shooting people in the head if something about their ID seems suspicious because that means they're not human. do i have to spell out the unfortunate subtext there or

channeling your general anxiety about current events you have no control over into shouting on twitter about how the waterslide collapse on the pitt didn't result in enough casualties to be a major arc

i do have to assume that all fandoms are getting more insane because of the general state of the world. it's just an emotional outlet for how everyone is doing bad. the economy is making people post worse about tv shows

Pyro's voice turned out so good...... #TomodachiLife #TF2

20-something millennial feminists got mild traction on tumblr and twitter for like four entire years and now every major media corporation is like "toy story 6 should be about the dangers of race mixing"

Kofi doodles are open yet again! 35usd ko-fi.com/ricketart/co...

It's been frustrating seeing the studio that put out Turning Red just seem utterly embarrassed by it. They sent the film off to due and blamed films like it after the first big return to theatres was Lightyear

political and media establishment for the last 40 years: we need to teach children the liberal values of acceptance, tolerance, and standing up to bullies. everyone raised in the last 40 years: we shouldn't genocide the exact same political and media establishment: WOKE HAS GONE TOO FAR

it's just so funny, an entire generation was like "we must raise our children towards a fairer, kinder world" and as soon as their kids got old enough to actually try to build that fairer kinder world they acted like it was some huge mystery why all the young people weren't bloodthirsty war boosters

THE POWERPUFF GIRLS WAS SUPER POPULAR WITH YOUNG BOYS WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE

Moon Child began life as an Amiga AGA title before shifting to PC, where it finally saw release in 1997. A fascinating glimpse into a project caught between two eras. More here: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/04/moon...

it fucking sucks that this is just going to be trans womens problem now, as if they don't have enough fucking problems with this kind of guy already

Joseph Campbell: "...and so, our protagonist heeds the call to action and here is where they charge into the realm of the unreal" My Protagonists: "FUCK FUCK FUCK SHIT PISS ASS LET ME OUT I WANT TO GO HOME I HATE IT HERE"

Thinking of bring one my oldest OCs back by retooling his backstory to take a bit of a piss on Joseph Campbell.

"Do I hate LLMs? ... what, like Lord Louis Mountbatten, architect of the Dieppe raid? ... well I think the IRA did a fine job, actually,"

I find it funny that this $600,000 3-bedroom condo refers to itself as a "luxury condo" while the nearby $1,600,000 5-bedroom house just self-identifies as a "beautiful family home".

For the record, I don't want to hear ever again how a cartoonishly evil tyrant is unrealistic and shouldn't be used, be it in D&D, books, movies, games, etc...

growing up is a process of going from "Captain Planet is just a cartoon, the world's ills aren't ACTUALLY being caused by a bunch of demented caricatures with seemingly infinite resources and nothing better to do with their time than despoil the world for funsies" to "wait, hold on a second..."

When all is said and done, let it be remembered that the ones that fought against the trans community hardest were a bunch of warmongering, sex trafficking, racist pedophiles.

Literally the only thing I remember from this show and I think of it constantly.

No One, Not a single Soul: The chaos gremlin in my system:

they are freaking out about losing the kids. this is why lately on every major news platform you cannot escape hearing about how a fucking twitch streamer is the devil. carpet bombing the airwaves

Richest country in human history A couple days after a deal with Amazon Capitalism needs to be left in the past www.businessinsider.com/usps-suspend...

If you’re looking at who blocks you using a utility like clearsky, you really need to stop. For your own well-being and peace of mind. You don’t need to know. You’re free. And if you go attacking people who block you, you need to touch some fucking grass. Respect people’s boundaries.

Echidnoid

Doki Doki Literature Club is a widely celebrated piece of videogame art, discusses deeply difficult topics in sincere and meaningful ways, and Google Play needs to revert the removal of the game immediately.

There must be some sort of mistake...I thought the censorship was only going to go after nasty pornographers and people I don't like on the internet????

"we're not paying people on time but it's OK because they're just the contractors" is not the defence you think it is, my web3-cooked guy

look if you use the tool that does nothing but break stuff you don't get to act indignant and smug when people assume every problem that occurs is because of the tool that breaks stuff. if you keep proudly shitting on the carpet I'm gonna start assuming the bad smell is you and not the cat.