why did he cover up the tattoo 🤔

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

Red majorities in the legislature has them slamming the gas pedal. By no means do I mean to downplay how disgustingly cruel these actions are but the speed of their lawmaking speaks a lot to their present desperation. I don't think they fully understand what the fuck is coming for them after this.

Erin's reporting is, as always, impeccable. What many may not know, however, is that once a license is issued, the holder has a property interest in that license that is protected by the 14th Amendment. This goes back to Bell v Burson (1972). For more, keep reading... 🧵

Feel like I'm going crazy. Holocaust survivors spent decades telling everyone, "The fascists will come back. When they do, first you will see this, then they will do that, then this will happen," and so forth. And it's all proceeding exactly as foretold. After they died, everyone just . . . forgot.

The choice is either A) the Democratic Party should defend transgender people vigorously or B) they should arm themselves. "Turn in your ID" is literal Nazi shit.

Guys, idk, i think electing someone who can absolutely dogwalk establishment dems while calling for the end of billionaires, abolishing ice, and providing for the material needs of all people might have some juice here. go, @katmabu.bsky.social, go! #ChicagoElection #IL9

Don't understand why Ds are so scared of shutting down the government when this fascist regime illegally and selectively cuts off money to blue states anyway.

I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS. The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

@gavinsblog.bsky.social you want to actually do something other than shitpost against the current regime in Washington? Do this.

What's going on in MN is the most important thing right now for folks in the US. The message is "if you dare to resist, we'll crush you". Supporting folks through it isn't just saving lives, it's existential.

it's extremely *interesting* how big the gap is between executive-adjacent people and actual workers when it comes to respect and diligence surrounding a thing that is a composite of millions of hours of effort over years

the problem is bigotry, but the tool they're using to spread it is *the concept of pornography*. as long as we accept the idea that "pornography" is 1. meaningfully distinct from other forms of art, and 2. inherently bad or shameful it will continue to be a weapon conservatives can use against us!

you can and rightly should go into depth about how this is all a stealth attack on queer expression, about how it's a short leap to labeling gay and trans people "pornographic" and how they are not subtle about this being their express intent. But You Can't Get Around Defending Actual Pornography

Had this been done a year ago, I would have been shitting out my abdomen directly onto the floor (colostomy bags are considered durable medical equipment) you don't hate these people enough, and certainly not as much as they hate you gonna get off the internet now before I [tos violation]

it is very honestly and calmly reasonable to put this administration in company with other genocidaires.

she's right

Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.

genuinely delighted to see the games press taking on areas like prediction markets + gambling + gamification, which are tumorous outgrowths of game design & should be subject to rigorous, knowledgeable critique and *derision* within the games community

Starting to think this Jesse Singal guy is not exactly on the up-and-up

These people are already here on BlueSky. They don't behave as outrageously, but they are here. Quietly turning up the heat.

Our next game is Verminsteel! You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

when I was a kid I used to think about "what if I was always right? wouldn't that be cool? I'd be so smart and everyone would love me" I'm so, so, so fucking tired of being right, I'd give almost anything at this point to be wrong about something

if you're hearing voices in your head you are waaaaay past the point of "trying" psychedelics

Genuinely fuckin hilarious that we got guys who couldnt sit through a class out here lecturing on how education should work this is like asking the kid who hates sports to coach your NFL team

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

we need to bring back imposter syndrome bigtime

Stop following and boosting the Tennessee Holler, it's just Blue Resister trash pushing unvetted clickbait. There are plenty of genuine, ethical journalists you can follow to get actual news. You don't have to drink the too-sweet water from the lead pipes!!

I cannot think of a funnier or more appropriate summary of the state of the news industry in 2026 than “the Onion has more subscribers than the Washington Post” please help make it happen

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSON NOW!!!!!! Tell them: — NO to KOSA — NO to Section 230 reform — NO to the SCREEN Act — NO to the App Store Accountability Act —NO age verification laws —NO to digital ID systems

now here's an accurate headline

Had someone call me a luddite because of my AI views and, let me tell you how much I've been an early adopter of all sorts of tech over the years! Had a GPU back before there were more than like 2 games that supported it! ipods! smartphones! The fact that I'm *not* jumping on AI should be telling.

I do love a good political economy study. Very interesting work!

Part of the problem with Gavin Newsom is that he's a stupid asshole who listens to stupid asshole right-wing podcasts and invites those stupid asshole right-wingers on his podcast and all of this stupid asshole influence leads him to believe and say stupid asshole right-wing talking points.

I'm still stuck on "vanilla is not spicy" I can FEEL all the other people aware of the history of "spices" and "spicy" slowly turning their heads around like a hybrid of an owls and an animatronic

Working people are tired of living in an economy that benefits billionaires and giant corporations, while they survive paycheck-to-paycheck. The way to start balancing the scales? Solidarity and a union contract! ✊

this is why one of my favorite fake professions to introduce myself as a representative of is "reverse phrenology"

Scrolling through Next Fest demos, and the amount of AI key art is insane and of course, the store pages make no reference to AI being used cool cool cool

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

It sure is A Look to invite a dude who supported gamer gate to keynote for your huge game dev conference.

I think about this a lot with LLMs and education and also publishing. The hope that by undermining failing or unfair systems, LLMs will destroy the hierarchies and unfairness seems... naive. The result will likely be the opposite. jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...

A rare outtake.

Wow I'm sure glad the gun bans the DFL want exempt the cops who are focused purely on working with ICE and never us, hashtag common sense

jesus CHRIST look, I did not expect to be loudly and horrifyingly vindicated for my decision to stay on Windows 10 EVERY FUCKING DAY I would have accepted one or twice a year!

hi, I worked in indie games for 10 years and sorry, they're also burning down. you just don't hear about it because it doesn't make the news when a studio of 19 lays off 7, even when it's 200 small studios doing that

it seems they might be crawling back to the ttrpg industry, so btw this is who financially, emotionally, and sexually abused me for 2 years, then dropped off preemptively to avoid being ousted. fuck with them or don't, I can't tell you what to do, but know who you're in bed with at least.

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