An embarrassing and corrupt mess, not least because trans access to bathrooms has been the law in this city for nearly a quarter-century (since Bloomberg signed new human rights law in 2002) … and this is the first time it’s supposedly been a problem!

Optimistic "we got 'em good this time" misinformation on this site is getting pretty bad (extended version of groyper conspiracy, Disney stock dropping a whole 3%) and when paired with "don't protest don't put your name on anything hide hide hide" panic really smells like an info warfare pattern

This is amazing, I want to live in a world where a whole bunch of college students become obsessed with the problem of how to vandalize the Mandatory Hagiography Statue that triggers immediate expulsion of any student who vandalizes it. I'm sure they will find one melted into a red-hot puddle

Pentiment was such a win for me in the "games you can play with your non-enthusiast partner" category that it's now impossible to follow up. "Wow, that was a genuinely well-written, moving historical-fiction mystery, are there lots of games like that now?" "Uhh... yeahhhhh,,, definitely?" (sweats)

BREAKING: The Congressional Progressive Caucus, representing about 100 lawmakers, has endorsed the Block the Bombs Act to halt U.S. weapons for Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. It would stop transfers of JDAMs, 2,000-lb bombs, tank rounds, and 155mm shells until Israel ends human rights violations.

Too amazing: platform condemned for secret control by one major government with totalitarian leanings now overtly controlled by another such government. On the bright side, no engineer has ever been brilliant enough to do effective propaganda-monkeying with a content algorithm without ruining it.

it’s really damn bleak right now & it’s hard to feel good about anything but some trans folks out there are 100% determined to make sure every trans person is exactly as panicked as they are in a way that’s not additive or informative & i’m not sure that’s helpful or what solidarity looks like.

Wow 15 years ago I was really not buying the Obama administration's spin about how important a minor diversity appointment was (they cut this part of the panel interview before I started laying into Raytheon...) archive.org/details/GRIT...

In the spy-girls show my kid is watching one of the three girlfriends has decided to be a game developer but the HIGHLY REGARDED GAME CRITIC she NEEDS to impress turns out to be their school's Veronica-like mean girl, who thought the first 10 seconds of the game were too boring. too realistic...?

FYI about the "wildly overestimated % of a small sub-population" data you may have seen: a) seems to be from 2022 b) I hear tell that the 2022 ui design for this survey involved a slider defaulting to 50% which respondents had to drag left or right to estimate (visually, in part!) size of groups

I've read Ken Klippenstein blog and the Heritage Foundation paper with the insane proposal to designate trans criminals as terrorists and i've seen the comments made by Trump officials and yes it is all bad. But they are NOT proposing to label all trans people as terrorists.

umurangi to cosmic-herzog-horror pipeline

Amazingly the constant refrain in reply to this is "he IMPLIED that Robinson is a Republican, because why else would they have to distance themselves? Why would it be wrong for them to do that! You KNOW what he meant." As if it's totally obvious. Real "I KNOW you just glared at me" bully energy

Wow the need for a movement-spanning refresher on protest/civil disobedience feels rather critical right now. Like at least in the "protest and civil disobedience involves risk of harassment by authorities, arrest, imprisonment or violence and you need to decide how to manage your risk" 101 level?

Oh good now the NY Post is digging up the Kirk shooter's Steam and FurAffinity accounts, insisting that he's a gay furry, therefore obviously part of a radical gay furry conspiracy, since those things are inherently leftist etc. I can't believe this is the arbitrary fuel for a political purge

Liberals now feeling what it has been like to support Palestine in the US. Every word twisted. Loss of job for a simple opinion. Taken off air for a monologue. Lists to target you. Employers harassed. It feels endless, coming from all directions. It only gets worse from here

These dorks are still pretending that TPUSA events were not (as many observers familiar with the political debate circuit have noted) opportunities to score gotchas on unprepared students in a barrage of talking points and practiced rhetorical deflects, to use in shortform video dunk compilations

Me: Sure you can see if she wants a hug, that's kind! 6-year-old: [ goes to hug crying friend, comes back ] Me: Good job helping. 6-year-old: [ exhausted sigh] I NEED to go on a long bike ride alone now, I can't take care of ALL my friends ALL the time! Me: ...that was one hug, but ok, real mood

“People are always telling you exactly what they're up to.”

Hell yeah demo of Relooted is out???!!!!

Just taking my mind off dark stuff by imagining a democratic think tank consultant sweating over zohran fan channels and trying to figure out how to make Buttigieg or whoever the pookiest in a primary

not to bring up the email signup thing again but this is why you don’t scare people about dumb and meaningless shit and why if you are someone with any meaningfully large personal following, this is much more important, it filters out poorly

IDK who needs to hear this today but if a boy says he's gonna shoot an influencer for you because transphobia that's not an act of love. They'll just blame it on you and us. We're all just scared and vexed, not at you, but turn off your Steam comments it's like 50% anti-trans screed, 50% "good aim!"

If you read these charges, the state's evidence about exactly what radicalized this murderer so far consist of: a) got into relationship with trans friend b) got upset with homophobia & transphobia, incl. from family c) argued with dad's renewed MAGA fervor d) latched onto Kirk as a source of hate

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

The uncontrolled rage here has the same tone as a lot of the other seething "now you're going to get it" collective-guilt anger on display from the right. It's the same as any barely repressed anger that others won't simply go along and obey authority: looking for any excuse to unleash violence.

This.

Finally!!! Some really smart people have slain the dragon formerly known as "ludonarrative dissonance." Or maybe rehabilitated the dragon. Stabled it alongside a friendly riding emu? Wait, I'm struggling for the right metaphor and framing here it's like if you could either earn points by--[gunshot]

Wait am I reading this correctly that Rolling Stone is reporting that Stephen Miller has not physically gotten any taller or larger since the age of 12 (I mean, hard same but still)

Some people on this site in roughly agreeable political lanes really have to let go of the guilt-by-association especially with regards to people who grew up in or mostly exist in milieus where they may not have a lot of zero-bigotry options for association.

Stephen Miller: "I flew right to the hospital and Charlie told me with his dying breath to quash all the libs, and also he said that everyone had to know that I, Stephen Miller, definitely do not play with porcelain dolls, ever and I do NOT look like Nosferatu."

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

but what if terminally online groyper AND ALSO recently-boymoding Destiny2->WEBFISHING gamer girlfriend who posts too much on channer subreddits? sadly, many such cases

Ever go so hard against trans people and diversity that you... (check notes) ...defund kids with vision and hearing loss across eight states because a parent was happy with the staff?

The Steam account of the person that "amateur investigators" have decided is the kirk shooter's partner has 48 pages of harassing comments in the last 15 hours, maybe someone at @valvesoftware.com wants to intervene in an unusual situation? Feel free to DM me for details

Axios now reporting that investigators wanted to keep the gender identity of Tyler Robinson's roommate kept quiet to keep the roommate cooperative with the investigation www.axios.com/2025/09/13/k...

Meanwhile, in Nepal: the government tries to ban social media to suppress youth-led protests, backfires into officials being attacked and houses burned, and to avert a military coup a 73-year-old chief justice is elected Nepal's first female PM... VIA DISCORD www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Went to the other site to see how the "don't mourn Charlie Kirk's legacy" op-ed by Gawker founder / former Kushner-appointed NY Observer EIC Elizabeth Spiers was received. Doesn't disappoint. Antisemitism and libel accusations but also "who is she let's get her fired?" "What is 'The Nation' etc"

I actually think NOW you shouldn't buy ghost of yotei.

↓↓↓ this goes for retweets and likes too, there are bad actors combing through lists on any "disrespectful celebration" post looking for anyone with a game studio in bio who they can call HR departments to try and get fired ↓↓↓

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

Remarkably cogent and on-point thoughts from Hasan Piker especially given that he's in the midst of an even larger barrage of murder threats than usual. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Seven HBCUs are in lockdown over a racist shooting threat; a number of offices and faculty at NYU also received such a threat. Stay safe out there. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

i dunno man maybe having a social landscape where most art and culture is increasingly pushed to the side to prioritize centering people saying and doing outrageous and violent things for attention was a bad idea

can't believe they would do this to a man who clearly loves the turkish people and going to turkey so much, that's at least an extra four-hour flight to get to istanbul

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

wow are these people still trying to ape the edgy-but-overlord-funded "reverse situationism" thing where Milo Y. bathed in pig's blood and claimed it was a deliberately anti-islamic statement? it lasts like two seconds

my ongoing galaxy brain take on this sort of dilemma is still that you absolutely should buy games that you don't like and which are terrible for you and you can't finish. I do this all the time and it's much more horrible and meaningful than "enjoying a game," gross