It's so cool how a bunch of kids realized there was a genocide in the middle east in 2023 and now suddenly every major company and government is tripping over their own dicks to turn the world into an Orwllian surveillance state so that never happens again.

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsible—directly or indirectly—for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year.

The US has been trying to turn Cuba into their unofficial colony again, ever since the Cuban Revolution put a stop to that. With all their crippling embargos over the decades, it's a miracle that island perseveres. But this latest attempt at regime change is really pulling out all the stop gaps.

I'm so glad I bought the Remaster collection a while back, before it got delisted. I love the Yakuza series, but outside of the main titles, RGG have really phoned it in lately. And from this review, it seems that Kiwami 3 is the peak of this lack of care. Also: They axed the revelations, WTF!?!

Bad Bunny at 31 vs Charlie Kirk at 31

small crab eating a grape (important)

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

The nazis put on their own halftime show with blackjack and hookers. And still all they do is whine about Bad Bunny. So even they couldn't be asked to watch that shit. 😂

Der ÖRR ist überhaupt nicht in der Lage mit AfDlern umzugehen. Jeder Hans Wurst AfDler wickelt ÖRR Interviewer um den Finger weil man in erster Linie um Civility und Höflichkeit bedacht ist und nicht Konfrontation*. *es sei denn es werden Leute interviewt die gegen einen Völkermord demonstrieren.

States should have no business in participating in memory culture, other than commemorating their own crimes and pay reparations. This is the perfect example why. The moment states engage in memory culture it becomes subservient to statecraft objectives and will inevitably be misused and abused!

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

I'm convinced if they re-released the iPod now, it would sell like crazy. Un-enshittified tech that just works and doesn't force feed a plethora of ads, AI slop and gimmick functions down your throat, is an untapped market.

If someone wrote a character like Jeffrey Epstein for a movie, everyone would tell them to tone it down a little. He can't be pedophilic celebrity Blofeld AND evil Forrest Gump at the same time!

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

The vicious war between Boomers and teleprompters has demanded another victim. Congrats to Luther Gandross though!

Both parties and the media are getting their instructions from the same informal conspiracy walled garden party of rich elites playing monopoly with our lives for their profit and pleasure. The billionaires are the true enemy, and the media will be their foot soldiers here.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

cool economic system we’ve got here, where the people who have all of the money and none of the brains generally get to determine everything about the rest of our lives

Not only did they enjoy having the fawning hype, the industry enjoyed having the reactionary crowd as an attack dog who'd go after reviewers and publications for not giving high enough scores, and this is what that crowd metastasised into. An audience that actively despises the medium itself.

Ilhan Omar has been thrown under the bus by both parties over and over, since she took office. She clearly has more of a spine than any of them and today shows it.

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

I’m sorry, I don’t care who this pisses off: yes, obviously this murder is on Trump and his ICE goons, but it is also on the feckless, cowardly authorities in the Minnesota government who didn’t do anything to arrest ICE agents the first time they murdered someone. This is the cost of inaction.

cowboy bebop is so interesting cause certain episodes are basically Japanese animators doing a pastiche of Italians doing a pastiche of Americans doing a pastiche of Japanese samurai movies

genuinely stunning image

Not just in the US, I think the governments & mainstream media throughout the global north have gotten so used to power that they have completely detached from all of the population that isn't the billionaire and celebrity class who's validation they seek.

As someone who believes the break with the US could result in a boon for European alternatives I will need them to not suck this fucking much

Can it be? Are the legends true? Has someone in Europe finally grown a spine and not just let the world's schoolyard bully have their lunch anymore?

It's wild how every politician constantly fantasizes about evil TikTok turning the kids into Hamas. Meanwhile the social media site with the fascism- and child porn-AI? Perfectly fine!

I often wonder if these people ever pause for a moment and just think about the shit they are saying.

But don't you say anything too harsh or make actionable demands on that podcast. That's not helpful to the cause (of sweeping any discontent under the rug).

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

historically accurate☑️

"One Battle After Another" is going to utterly sweep the Oscars, isn't it? I don't remember a time when there was such an inevitable front runner.

Liberals love nothing more than to not engage with a subject matter and just assume that both sides are wrong - which then in turn justifies them not doing anything themselves.

When Vichy liberal fucks say ICE just needs more training, *this guy* is literally the person that would be doing that training. Along with Israeli soldiers with the latest new tips and tricks for enforcing genocidal apartheid.

Another image that sums up the protest.

The scale of the protests in Iran are absolutely unbelievable. Hard to quantify, but I've seen some speculation that this uprising is more significant than the 2023 protests (themselves the largest challenge to the regime since it came into power in '79.) (Video from @AmirMiresmaeili on Twitter)

stfu, walz. the ICE murderer didn't do what he did out of fear. it's the opposite. he did it because he wasn't afraid. he knew there would be no consequences. that's why law enforcement always feels comfortable doing this. cops should be afraid of us. make them afraid. bsky.app/profile/gove...

Pure. Fucking. Evil.

The US Gestapo is now murdering people in the streets unprovoked. I have a hunch that this is not going to go well for them (and it shouldn't).

ICE agents stopped by protesters after the shooting an observer in Minneapolis, according to witnesse. ICE deployed pepper spray and tear gas.

My backlog of Blu-Rays and games is getting irresponsibly huge at this point. So I think this year I will give up preemptively trying to keep up with new releases and get to work on my pile of shame.

Corporate media is doing their usual thing of whitewashing imperialism. Meanwhile Donald Trump just outright says that they kidnapped Maduro to steal the oil.

President Putin, My country yearns for freedom...

It doesn't matter if your country is ruled by a despotic dictator or a purring kitten that farts rainbows: If you don't let the US have all your resources, they will try to overthrow your government - for decades if they have to.

Remember: The complexity of human rights and international law increases proportionally with how much we agree with them being violated. That's why Russia's invasion of Ukraine is an unacceptable & unprovoked act of war, while Gaza or Venezuela are complex issues with layered history.