New article: animebythenumbers.substack.com/p/worse-crun...

Watching old episodes of Death in Paradise, I'm struck by how much more Caribbean affect Dwayne and Fidel have by the third season, particularly in the use of 'Yes, I '

Hentia Compliation is a Gundam name, but Lebsiam Porm is a Star Wars name

#WeeknightWriters A5: A half-dragon pirate and her magic slime creature companion try to navigate a world in decline while searching for the rest of their old adventuring party, who are trapped in magical tomes.

The Jetvana Temple bells ring the passing of all things. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

yeah this is child abuse sorry

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

Aaron Rodericks now that bookmarks/private likes are a thing:

Kashoggi was murdered on October 2, 2018.

only a true visionary would know that "doing things" is harder than "thinking about doing things"

basically. if u want to be cool with the dolls. u are going to have to make decisions that are political. that might get you in trouble. theres no way to be cool with the dolls and also perpetuate the status quo

your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office

Another one that comes highly recommended on my History of Mecha series!

Let's also not forget the time Quest64official ran a charity for the author, only for the author to backstab him

Since this is BlueSky and we’re cursed: *The Warrior Ethos is Bad*

*quietly*: hey remember back maybe 6 years ago when Crunchyroll fired all its engineers to outsource them to India and it broke their video player upgrade project to HTML5, as well as permanently killed their manga app which they're trying to relaunch again for like the 3rd or 4th time now?

if the bluesky admins are going to make idiotic, hypocritical moderation decisions can they at least have the dignity to not have public meltdowns about how everyone is soooooo mean to them over it and go "well if you don't like it here you can just leave!"

sorry bud but you signed up for people to yell at you about administrative decisions they don't like on all of your posts when you became a person in charge of a major social network with two million daily active users. that's the job

When one of your users gets repeatedly cited by the supreme court as support for the anti-trans legislation they're passing, its time to reconsider everything you thought you knew about ToS violations.

Except you changed the TOS after the fact so he retroactively didn't violate it. That's a conscious decision made by a person, and nobody in charge wants to own it. So he gets special protections carved out for him, meanwhile minority users are disproportionately banned without violating TOS. Hmmmm.

And the ONE time that Jay breaks silence, it's to mock transgender concerns. It's particularly frustrating given how NOT off-topic the reply is - I can offer theories about why there's so much bad-faith discussion on Bluesky, possibly because people like Singal are professional bad-faith engagers.

But when it comes to accounts like this, the site acts like its hands are tied. The trans community has seen firsthand how aggressive Bluesky moderation can be, and what the plans are for it in the future. We hear silence on all of those issues, including from Jay. We don't exist.

But Paul - who writes the TOS? This is so frustrating to hear after 2 months of critters sending thousands of responses of feedback in about upcoming TOS changes. This site, as it turns out, is fully capable and willing to update the TOS to ban new users. We see it in real time.

“we fucking love that the government is shut down! this gives us a great opportunity to hurt people! ha ha! by the way this is all the fault of democrats” I dunno guys I don’t think this is how you win the blame game

This is my favorite gif ever as well as my general disposition upon launching social media

As with Charlie Kirk, Republicans are fiercely loyal to the general idea of Donald Trump but will furiously refuse to grapple with anything specific that he actually says or does.

consider, BDS if you're one of the "I'll wait until it inconveniences me" folks i won't tell nobody but hey heads up it's about to inconvenience you so no better time than now

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First of all we already have an AI actress and have had one for years. Her name is Gal Gadot and the results have not been great

What's this? The Fox Patrol in the BattleTech Gothic universe? And for free? store.catalystgamelabs.com/products/bat...

Real quick just want to remind everyone that Graham Linehan is a deranged bigot

To be clear, saying you're going to "avoid politics" is an INCREDIBLY political statement, especially in an age of fascism.

funniest Ian Miles Cheong post in history

This is neat

So, fun fact Fox was also working to get Slayers for their block. They actually had Lisa Ortiz go in to redub some lines to remove references to killing and blood. It never aired, but I can't help but think there's a "Fox Kids pilot" out there waiting to be discovered a la Toon Makers Sailor Moon.

Recently received a cool donation of some sealed VHS promo copies of some early 2000s Pioneer releases and a Manga Entertainment preview tape too. Thanks to @professorotaku.bsky.social and his friend Brian for these!

I’ll repeat myself again!! I asked Ryukishi07 point-blank if Silent Hill f was meant to be a feminist game a few months back and he said yes lmao. These losers can suck it.

HEGSETH TRADE DEAL YOU RECEIVE: NOTHING I RECEIVE: EVEN LESS CREDIBILITY

The first thing I do when planning a huge illegal operation that I don’t understand is 100% logistically impossible is to appear crazy and stupid in front of everyone I need total and unquestioning loyalty from. Also I insult them. I am the 21st century Machiavelli.

Atomic Robo sketch I did today, love his retro-future design!

"I'd always cherished the beginning of the Gospel According to John: 'In the beginning was the word.' I was afraid the Apocalypse would read, 'In the end, there were only images.' I didn't know the cure for the disease of images. All I knew was how to write." —UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD (1991)

they are destroying US climate science on purpose, and it hurts my heart. but take it from an MIT-trained nerdass: all most of us need to know is that we have to stop burning stuff stop burning stuff for heat stop burning stuff for make car go stop burning stuff for power we have the tools

It's also going to help them that the Republican instinct during the shutdown will be to punish voters. Democrats have gone out of their way to help voters during Republican shutdowns, done whatever they could to keep services open. Republicans *want* the government to fail and will revel in it.

"the Democrats are weak, corrupt losers who transparently believe in nothing" is a horrific perception for the public to have of the opposition party under a noxiously unpopular president, and Democratic leaders have thus far evinced zero interest in rebutting any part of it

Clan Wolf Blood Asp in Beta Galaxy colors. It's been like 2 years to get me to break and paint one of these fanged fuckers. #minipainting #mechwarrior #battletech #clanwolf

Bluesky vibe check