you there—boy—what day is this? pardon? no, louder. i said louder! christmas? what the fuck is christmas? look, i'm—do i have to take the trash bins out, that's the fucking question

Lmaooo when your movies bomb and you see the support Sabrina Carpenter got for telling the WH to fuck off

VHS for the contest held by Embassy Suites for travel agencies featuring Garfield! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5Z...

The U.S. State Department is repeating a white nationalist conspiracy theory. On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.” That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.

This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Again, I am urging orgs, and especially activist groups, to move computing services off of these cursed platforms. I'm creating a how-to guide and invite others to contribute ideas and insights. Why leave M365? Voila: monroelab.com/2025/01/22/s...

Every time someone posts to cite a law that the current US administration is breaking, it feels exactly like this:

… and he SERVED ✨

This kind of crap from this era of Nintendo is why I’ve taken a hard stance of not buying games new anymore. Especially after Mario Kart was a mess and I left Donkey Kong flat after that disgusting DLC that was free for Odyssey. If they’re going to nickel and dime us, I’ll nickel and dime them.

It wouldn’t be so bad if there was even default music playing in the desert bits. I think I big reason people feel like that area is “empty” is because it’s the only area in the game with zero mood music, which makes it feel emptier. Changing the music should be optional, not having any at all.

As Israel have been allowed to compete in Eurovision 2026, the UK must follow in the footsteps of Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands and boycott the competition. The world's largest live music event cannot be used to whitewash Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza.

“Emotional feedback On a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price - Almost free” Starting my morning as it always should be, with the Spirit of Radio. #vinyl #classicrock #progrock #vinylmorning #music

Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...

A truly great idea. 10,000 ethical assets freely available. There’s no excuse for resorting to so-called AI with this and the *many* other assets you can use without resorting to laundered plagiarism. Support real artists, not con artists.

Mark Zuckerberg is never right: aftermath.site/mark-zuckerber...

It will be Spain’s first time staying away from the contest since 1961 and its absence will have the biggest effect for Eurovision, as Spain is one of the "Big Five" broadcasters - a group which contributes the most towards staging the contest, which also includes France, Germany, Italy and the UK

TK has officially learned that the #AEW sickos are like Steven Universe. With Statlander, Willow, Hayter, Megasus, Stori Denali, Lena Kross, etc, we are gonna have so many Giant Women to cheer! Keep ‘em coming!

There are so many people living lives of quiet dignity despite horrific medical news or poverty or tragedy where every day they still wake up and try to be good people in the world even as the world pushes against them and it makes me even angrier at the absolute shitheads that rule over things

It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.

it’s so blatant how obvious this setup grift is

The default posture of the Democrats to the GOP is the “fever will break.” That’s been their stance for over 40 years, meanwhile the fucking patient (America) is almost dead.

I was radicalized on the issue of the Supreme Court 25 years ago this month. I’ve spent more than half of my life now waiting for the Democrats and liberalism to get there. They still aren’t. It’s sickening.

Trump Administration sees its chief foreign policy role as the backer of the far right international, all foreign policy bends to that aim. The antidote cannot be pursuing far-right policy in half-measures like Starmer is or Biden did on Israel & the border. Internationalist solidarity or barbarism

A """funny""" thing I've noticed is that if you see a buckwild and totally made up claim on Reddit and then search that claim on Google, trying to source it, the Gemini AI summary will be like "oh, yeah, that totally happened, and my source is that three hour old Reddit thread you were just reading"

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Drew Gooden: "You have  to wonder if we've finally reached a point now where the greed has gone too far ... no amount of gaslighting about how the economy is good will convince people who are dying because they can't afford to go to the doctor."

Hot dang this video essay hits hard, is well researched, and aligns so well with what I think ails this world. I feel that now, more than ever, solidarity of the 99% will truly be one of the few things that can fix this absolute mess of a techno feudal-ish world. Mega worth the watch:

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

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Gavin Newsom spent the early months of Trump 2 having friendly chats with far-right extremists. He praised Steve Bannon shortly after he gave a literal Nazi salute. Google "Newsom vetoes" for a long list of things he has fucked up for California. He's a snake and you shouldn't trust him.

Russia was removed from Eurovision in 2022 over its invasion of Ukraine, but Israel is still allowed to compete despite being an apartheid state committing a genocide in Gaza. Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.

All these studios adding AI chatbots in their games, meanwhile we made a better one two years ago with Cryptmaster without using a speck of AI. Just smart writing and good voice acting 😎

Raise your hand if you also thought it was Midevil Times until shockingly late into your life.

Making capitalists “pay their fair share into society” means all of it. They do not produce. They own. Their fair share is nothing. Labor is entitled to all it creates. It’s important we understand this.

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

Caleb Hearon on AI: "They're in the process right now of manufacturing consent for this technology and when ... they offer you hundreds of thousands of dollars to do an ad deal for them, they are doing that because they need your help to manufacture consent for this."

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead. Idk, just spitballing here.

They are beating people who maybe once had a broken taillight and sending them to foreign slave prisons while freeing the worst fraudsters and every corrupt pol. The juxtaposition is so stark and appalling.

What lengths will a hospital go to in order to become the only game in town — and what does it mean for the patients? Read Sick in a Hospital Town, a new series debuting Dec. 7 on ProPublica. ➡️ Sign up for our newsletter to get this investigation in your inbox: https://propub.li/44B1eZG

NEW: I spoke with the reporters behind Post Games, Aftermath, Game File, People Make Games, Rogue, and Rascal News to learn about the trials and triumphs of going independent in a shifting game media landscape dominated by conglomeration and layoffs.

spoiler: mass media consolidated in the hands of ad-based corporations owned by a handful of right wing billionaires is easily exploited by a wide variety of bad actors and fatal to democracy and informed consensus

guy identified the coming institutional failures across consolidated corporate journalism from the start, has long proposed smart solutions, and broadly informed John Oliver's excellent recent segment on how public media is essential to functioning democracy

if @democrats.org leadership aren't putting Victor into a prominent role in building the party's long-broken media reform strategies, they're doing it wrong

I was incarcerated at 15 years old. Now I’m 34. It has been a challenge to discover who I am behind bars.

Not wrong to say that MAGA is a cult, but it's also not wrong to observe that people fall into cults because they find them seductively attractive—which suggests that those who fell into a white supremacist cult like MAGA did so because they already found white supremacy seductively attractive.

This quote from one House GOP woman, speaking on condition of anonymity, suggests a good old fashioned Feminine Mystique “click” moment: “We aren’t taken seriously. You have women who are very accomplished, very successful, who have earned the merit, who aren’t given the time of the day.”