The insane reaction/demand to respect and mourn a monster last week makes sense given the thin skin and egos of the folks in the conservative movement knocking at death’s door right now. They are aware that we will celebrate when they can no longer harm us.

democrats going "we had to vote for Charlie Kirk because we were scared of violent threats!" is objectively very funny to anyone online, where you regularly receive death threats for things like liking the wrong kind of pizza, or being a woman

They’ll get around to murdering me for saying this, but man do I fucking hate all of these thin-skinned losers.

“Where were you while we were getting high?” Man, I was right there also getting high (though not so high that I forgot who I was with.)

it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible aftermath.site/silksong-hol...

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

Work wife mad at me because I said I need to be polyamorous. Like, I’m sorry babe, but I’ve been assigned multiple projects. I don’t have much of a choice here. (I haven’t even told her about the freelancing I do on nights and weekends. 😬)

Taking a social media detox or being entirely offline for a day or two sounds nice, but imagine coming back into the world having not had the opportunity to microdose whatever batshit thing happened while you were away. You'd just get a several days of horrific news injected into your brain at once.

I know the point of Death Note is that a death note would be bad, but 2025 has made me open to watching a reboot that posits “what if a death note was good, actually?”

Good morning to everyone but the fucking cowards.

You could randomly assign people to political office from the total population and end up with a more competent and less evil government. Like, it’s staggering that anyone chose this.

theres a reason they're going after leftists and its that leftists are the only political group that will disempower the imperial president

Conservatives will murder you if you don’t like them enough, which is distressing because that’s the kind of behavior that makes one completely unlikable.

Fine to joke about killing people again.

We are chuckling and in danger.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Someone should nerf having an incoherent ideology

[Curb theme song plays]

Regarding Silksong difficulty discourse: I think you should “git fud” because you are probably just hangry.

As a middle-aged person, I hear a lot of middle-aged people say things like “when did we get old?” ARE YOU A SENATOR? IF YOU AREN’T, THEN YOU DIDN’T GET OLD YET.

Everyone wants you to “do it for the plot” but I would rather you do it for the theme or even the character.

Our latest Gamers With Jobs features @amoebic.bsky.social and I having a shoegaze-y convo about how our expertise/professions impact what we play and how we think about it. Lots of ground is covered, plus I got to talk about Heroes of the Seven Islands, which is a delightful mspaint aesthetic DRPG.

Work bathroom selfie. I am once again doing a mediocre job of blending in the finance types.

One thing you can say about conservatives is that they are morally bankrupt enough that this skeet will likely be used as justification to literally murder me.

The saddest fucking thing to me is that we could literally do whatever we want. We could absolutely have a fair, egalitarian society that takes care of everybody and instead we do… whatever this is.

reminder: when they come for you it won't matter what you *actually* said or did, they don't care about that

I’m breaking embargo simply by mentioning the 8.5 I gave Bloodborne 2, which shadow drops the same day as Hades 2.

There’s a lot of more relevant/salient/important causes for concern/alarm in this dweeb’s tirade, but, as an actor, watching him not know what to do with his hands is sending me.

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

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If none of them can get off their ass to say "Opposition to the Trump administration isn't incitement to violence" what the fuck do we have Democrats for?

New York friends, the time has come. Tonight, we celebrate the life and legacy of the late, great Rochelle Denton. There will be testimonials, awards, and more than a few laughs and tears. 7pm, Judson Memorial Church. RSVP below. See you all there. ❤️

If I ever say something wrong or evil, no I didn’t. It’s just out of context.

Look, credit where credit is due. If Hochul can get her shit together and endorse Mamdani, Jeffries and the other centrist shitbirds have no excuse.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

The real tragedy wasn’t that he died, but that he lived at all.

Make a band singular 1 Maniac

I’m sorry, but you have to understand that given the vast amounts of available martial traditions and the fact that most people don’t practice one at all, when you claim that “everybody was kung fu fighting,” that stretches the limits of credulity.

If you are in NYC and could use a bit of ridiculousness, I’m in a soap opera for the stage tonight called It’s Getting Tired Mildred. Tix below (please reach out if you want to come but can’t afford the ticket - I might be able to help.)

Recent events and their handling by large social institutions has made clear is that those in power desperately do not want you to be a leftist. Extremism on the right is encouraged. Liberalism is tolerated. Anything left of that is unacceptable. The kayfabe has never been more obvious.

don't get so lost in all the ways things might be you forget to make something that is

The Free Press thinks the act that gave birth to this was country was stoking violence against minorities. Which, I guess, is technically correct.

Good luck to everyone who has to explain Groypers to their grandparents or parents.

Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed. spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...

You know who could have guessed the shooter would end up being a white conservative? Anyone who bothered to look at data regarding who most perpetrators of political violence are.

They sure are

Trying desperately to write a short manifesto about disinformation and the ability to see only what supports your delusional narrative on this bullet casing, but the character count is extremely low the idea I am trying to express is complicated. 😔

It’s easy to fall into despair when we’re constantly hammered with bad shit. The world isn’t all bad. There are so many things worth fighting to preserve, and love, and enjoy. Fascism wants us defeated because then we buy into the lie that it’s inevitable. It is not.