Everyday media sees this shit and chooses to actively not report it. Or when they do have to report some snippet of it, it's the most gaslighting reframed vision of reality. It's all made to seem like some smart, normal strategic genius to be celebrated instead of brutal colonization and genocide.

Everyday Israel drops more White Phosphorus on people in Occupied Palestine and Lebanon, invades and occupies more territory, bombs and decimates more homes and civilian infrastructure, all the while genociding as many people as it can, as brutally as it can. The sheer normalization is so obscene.

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

Wife: No, I don't want to go to a Star Wars themed sex party. Ew Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

Also wonder if he is at all aware of the trans response to his comments and if that makes him think at all like surely if you think yourself engaging with politics and think youre making a pro trans statement show you care when the community goes what the fuck ia wrong with u

If depression is the black dog than panic disorders are the beige chihuahua Psychosis is, uh. Fuck. The heliotrope lizard. Idk. This got away from me.

I’m having too many absences lately. Zoning right out, zero awareness, loss of words. It’s scary. I must be so fucking stressed and just not absorbing it.

Thinking about a @thwphipps.bsky.social classic

If I see one more person say that if people aren't breaking the law, they won't be arrested at protests, I think I may actually dissolve into a puddle of goo.

Mucinex is one of those medicines that sounds like a mid tier Jack Kirby guy

You can't just self diagnose as a gamer, bro. You need to consult a doctor. Only an expert with credentials is qualified to tell you you're a gamer. You better not be self medicating too. It's not safe to play unprescribed games. Toxic yuri visual novels could irreperably damage the average person.

From 1st to 22nd - in just a decade, the UK has fallen from 1st to 22nd on LGBTQIA+ rights rankings amid a barrage of anti-Trans+ rhetoric from politicians, the media and increasingly, the judiciary

The next time a director says bullshit like this, I want the interviewer to ask: "If AI was around when you made your other films, which artists would you have fired?" I mean it. Name real fucking names. Of all the brilliant people you worked with, who do you think doesn't deserve a job anymore?

It remains very funny that every single celebrity author is either ripping off Roald Dahl or ripping off Agatha Christie That’s it, that’s the whole spectrum

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

This is a good point. Any restrictions here go extra for UK, where not only is adult content (and whatever content the overzealous AI deems adult) labelled and hidden, but do the Online Safety Act BS, UK citizens have no choice to see it without a VPN or uploading their ID to a third-party service.

I’m strongly opposed to whole accounts getting moderation labels. BlueSky is already the most prudish social media network I’ve ever posted on, where I’ve posted comic promo images of a clothed couple kissing on a bed or a bare butt in a non-sexual content that were auto-labelled as “explicit sex.”

Okay what the fuck is going in at the BBC. First the undead Agatha Christie on BBC Maestro and now this? You don't need AI, just get some actors and put makeup on them if you want to play Long Dead Celebrity Squares. Whos mandating this weird shit?

Every person I know that uses it swears by Kagi as the best Search Engine. Shame it's paid.

i'm gonna talk shit about a friend here for a minute but if i was running a top surgery crowdfunder with no goal, barely any description, and no clue i wouldn't simultaneously host a blowout 'ten year manniversary' party with a hired band and DJ

give baz lurhmann a james bond

no perfect darkseid exists in the moving image because it's very hard to sustain the necessary rumble while enunciating and projecting like hitler

This is very good and, as your friendly neighborhood SEO guy, i can add some context The modern internet is basically built on an agreement that sites will give google access in exchange for driving traffic That arrangement has been unilaterally ended by google

The paradox of Doctor Who right now is that it is so egregiously apparent that Doctor Who needs to stop, for a solid span, and all the poison in the system - every member of the Old Boys Club that has helmed or been involved in it - needs to be flushed out. But the press are baying for blood.

Bizarrely, Jorge's comparison here actually describes the original plot of the movie Cool World - wherein the artist has sex and the cartoon he's fucked immediately gives birth to a horrifying human/animation hybrid that spends the movie hunting him down because he's an absent father.

Welcome to another round of Name That Sound Effect: what would you say the SFX should be for somebody catching somebody else who was falling through the air? You might think "that does not require a sound effect," but when you're attempting to convey motion via still images, SFX help a lot.

I think people forget the “you can’t change your sex” slogan is a newer line of GC rhetoric with only recent purchase. For nearly a century “sex change” was an accepted term, and while deployed clumsily and poorly, it was also understood as a reality the nuances of which were largely irrelevant.

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I can’t believe the guy who cast a trans actress specifically because he was working backwards to make a woeful pun on a character having said “binary” that one time is a terrible ally

Look, is it a good thing that he dropped out? Absolutely, yes. But this man destroyed an entire career's worth of goodwill and trust and an apology ain't gonna undo that. He knew how awful AI is, it's documented, and sold out to pursue it. You don't forget that shit, even if you forgive it

Russel, my man, a trans woman and a gender critical can categorically not end up “on the same side” except for the gender fascism to come for the bigot as it comes for us, in the process overtly confirming the gender crit was in fact Wrong

I used to have the making of book for JURASSIC PARK and loved looking at all the human artwork, design, and craft that went into that movie from 1993, which looks and feels infinitely better than any 21st century JP flick could dream of.

Another "Fuck you got mine" news story Remember when Gareth Edwards made the VFX for his directorial indie breakout "Monsters" on his own on a laptop? I wonder how he would have progressed if we shifted his career forward 16 years to now when his skills would have been regarded as disposable

What’s incredible to me besides how stupid it is and clearly advertising is that it both places the regular guests among the ranks of Ghandi and Churchill while simultaneously suggesting an automated bullshit machine can replace them cause they fulfil no more role than soundbite machines lmao

we're trying a new branch of feminism called "diabolical feminism" where- ok so bad news: diabolical feminism has already turned out to be disproportionately white and middle class. it happened SO fast this time. what the fuck

They don't want to make superstars out of black writers. Not at the comic level. Not at any level. Black writers are on "clean up" duty. Coming in to fix characters at the film and TV and video game stage. Making them authentic at later stages while the creator credit goes to someone else. White.

It’s so weird to just endlessly find out how many more people and systems there are to completely lack respect for

Klaatu really DO sound exactly like what the Beatles would've been dropping in the 1970s and I don't know how to handle it

you ever notice how from shaving to clothes all "gender conformity vs nonconformity" discourse is basically about commodity consumption and lifestyle. consumer rights politics

i love when people are like "gender nonconformity is basically just about clothes. if you are a little gay or fuck with your sex a little that's a bit too lgbt so you're reinforcing gender norms" people's idea of being gnc has been sold back to them as a selection of poshmark purchases i'm afraid

Realistic "draw with me" YouTube video where the artist spends a good 15 minutes browsing their WIP folder, then reorganizes their layers, then real quick checks social media for 35 minutes before drawing a single circle with the eyeline cross on it, then afk for 45 minutes

I saw Maya Rudolph's Prince cover band and it was the greatest night of my life. Fred Armisen came out to play guitar on "When U Were Mine"

The stark contrast between Jorge Gutierrez saying he'll be "as cautious as possible" working with AI, while in the same exact announcement we learn that the Good Advice Cupcake creator Loryn Brantz got her whole concept taken without approval. "Cautious as possible" here would be saying no.

BDS is the load-destroying thing, not just for video games but for every major arts and entertainment racket. You smash the first pillar and suddenly you realise how crooked it all is, how it manufactures consent / builds soft power for empire. Baleful, searing realisation. You must envision the new

I can’t tell anyone what to do about this, but thanks in no small part to games media, we know the industry to be an evil and inhumane one that still allows for interesting work in spite of that. Sometimes it is best to focus on the latter. Sometimes it is a disservice to not focus on the rot.