every day, a little more justified in my petty, childish, "you cannot make me install another fucking launcher. i already have like 4, epic, use one of those"

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Let's see if we can somehow get good enough squash the subway! Streaming some more Anarchy Online over @ twitch.tv/GlitchyGirl

jesus fucking christ

I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button

It didn’t happen around Christmas but I do see the similarities in being trapped with monsters you distrust.

So cynical how AI music corps are using accessibility in their marketing language, just as streaming platforms use democratization. These corporations are stripping music of value and musicians of our livelihood. Financialization is not punk rock

ピザの日

remember, Salvation Army is a big NOPE use your extra $$$ for mutual aid groups

Bringing out this all-time banger from @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

this is what it's like, yeah.

Woah! Ontario passed a law starting Jan 2026 that it is illegal for companies to ghost you. If you have interviewed for a job they are legally required to inform you if they hire someone else or close the position. The law also requires salary transparency on listings and disclosing use of AI

Great news! If you were thinking of including combat rules in your TTRPG, it turns out you don’t have to include submarine vs submarine combat rules because it’s not something that’s happened more than once. Oh, you weren’t planning on doing that? Ask yourself why not?

So it turns out submarine vs submarine combat is as science fiction as spacecraft vs spacecraft combat.

clockable but they dont know what time it is

Instead of "boots and suits" what history shows is that otg queer and trans folks are perfectly capable of organizing ourselves. That the most gets done, by far, when we also take the fight to the gentry within our own demographics, who would happily ditch us to secure their own positions.

Among its many evils, the "suits" reign over queer and trans communities has proven a disastrous failure on every front besides securing their personal power. Things for vast majority of us got worse, not better. And they will always want to reign.

We see this now at the federal level, where the priority of the first trans House rep (a Gay Inc alum, naturally) is telling more radical working class trans folks to shut up while providing fodder for anti-trans policy documents:

I have seen this happen in my own city, as Campaign for Southern Equality turned to intimidating activists behind the scenes to secure...a toothless ordinance that got headlines but protected no one. It was intended to boost two of their higher-ups' campaigns. Both lost ashevilleblade.com?p=4501

The dynamic solidified after the equal marriage fight, as Gay Inc grabbex power and funding, using the momentum not for further liberation but to establish a hierarchy of a handful of well-off professionals giving orders and shutting down more radical organizing as a path into the status quo...

There were, of course, individual exceptions, but more often they proved the rule, because overall this divide is pretty consistently clear. There were also, of course, people in say, law or policy that still had more radical views and didn't align with the general approach of the "suits."

Myrl Beam's "Gay Inc" is full of case studies of otg orgs during the AIDS genocides getting taken over by "suits" only to promptly get run into the ground. Too often, "boot and suits" meant the suits give orders, get actual salaries and the boots get burned out and exploited...

The trend continued. One of the most notable incidents of more established queers not opposing more radical action came after the 1979 White Night Riots in San Francisco. But once again they only did so after a full-on riot. They didn't have another option.

A lot of clips of Sylvia Rivera's radical speech against trans exclusion at the 1973 NY pride leave out the prelude, where some of the organizers use "unity" as an excuse to try to shut her out... youtu.be/Jb-JIOWUw1o?...

Of course, the "suits" resented this. Core to their view of the world, then and now, was that they tend to come from more elite backgrounds. They believed they should naturally be in charge, and if denied that in the wider society, should definitely control queer and trans communities...

In a pattern that will become familiar any actual action on the "suits" part came only after their attempts to gatekeep and shut down radical organizing failed. These were elites conceding out of fear, not sunny collaboration, because at heart liberation and assimilation are not the same goals...

Were the radicals accused of "infighting," being "unproductive" and all the other terms for "you don't know your place"? Yes. But it worked. Most of the homophile orgs folded. More militant organizing became the order of the day. Even less radical orgs got a lot more confrontational...

This included literal clashes. When Mattachine NY (the ones behind that sign) held meetings to try to co-opt these movements, they were angrily shouted down. A key moment came in 1970 when the suits tried to bar more radical orgs from a major conference. The radicals stormed it and shut it down...

Overwhelmingly, the homophile movement groups in the late '60s (the suits of their day) did not see Stonewall as an opportunity for collaboration. As the sign above showed they tried to shut it down immediately and afterwards. Queer and trans rage, and more radical organizing, countered that...

The myth is circulating again that it was more radical otg activists and assimilationist gays ("boots and suits") teaming up that was responsible for queer communities' gains late '60s on. The history doesn't back this up. What actually happened is more revealing. 🧵 Let's start with Stonewall...

lmaoooooooooo

Much love to all of my trans, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming friends and acquaintances on the transgender day of remembrance. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights. Here's to a brighter and less bigoted future.

A Star Wars show but it's actually the Golden Girls running a smuggling business.

TIL Edmund Fitzgerald, namesake of the ship lost with all hands in a Lake Superior storm in November 1975, had a great uncle Edmond Fitzgerald who also had a ship named after him, the Edmond Fitzgerald, which was lost with all hands in a Lake Erie storm in November 1883

Considering how quickly furries were modding their sonas into bomb rush cyberpunk, these devs have no idea what a dedicated fanbase is capable of. There’s no quicker way to kill any hype than implementing gen AI

happy transgender day of remembrance thank you for sticking around in the hardest of times. if you haven't, you are missed dearly please live 💜

I just learned that John Carmack misgendered and deadnamed Rebecca Heineman in his "tribute" over on Twitter. He probably thinks it's okay when talking pre-transition days, but FYI, most trans people hate that. Worse, he never calls her "she," switching to "they" for recent memories. Fuck that guy.

One of the most brutal things I've ever watched

Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America. The human brain is resilient. While you're watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you're accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.

When I was watching XPlay, this Mountain Dew ad came on where this guy forcefemmes transgenderizes his homie.

I'm happy to take this opportunity to share this awesome pamphlet made by @xerxes.gay If my memory serves these have been distributed since at least well over a decade ago. "Fandom" has always rubbed me the wrong way in relation to furries. The distinction does matter.

Becky said: You're never too old for cute cat ears.

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

If you're ever wondering why every party seems to bend over backwards to appease the right you could do worse than this observation.

every cloudflare outage has a silver lining