Really loved this, from Kathleen Hurlock in the Cleveland Review of Books, critiquing the abandonment of feminism by the left in the post-Lean In-era and calling for a renewal of a genuinely radical—in her word, "freakish"—politics of women's liberation. clereviewofbooks.com/freak-femini...

I have become more sympathetic to the idea that saying you can’t hold Trump voters morally culpable for Trump regime actions is patronizing. It partakes of an old and to my mind destructive left wing habit: to think of conservative white voters as not quite adults.

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

Nothing but facts.

This man takes better photos on what are arguably the worst days of his life under fluorescent tube lighting than most of us will take literally ever It's borderline faerie glamour, has anyone tried touching him with a horseshoe to see if it burns

It's fascinating how, because the left is coded as feminine, criticism is "scolding," while all the shaming and blaming on the right is masculine and therefore not "scolding."

If you are murdered and a neo-Nazi rally gathered in honor of your life erupts into a race war chant, your critics getting fired for saying that you had a toxic influence on society probably have a point, and the people doing the firing probably aren't actually concerned about political violence.

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

It's worth asking why every elite institution is issuing statements like this rather than pointing out the obvious fact that the institutional right commits and glorifies violence far more than the left. Is there a reason you feel you can't say that out loud? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

Hey dude can you pass me that video of the tall birds simultaneously getting knocked over by a wave thanks

hey im putting something together for my boss for his birthday. yeah can you write a letter or better yet an insane poem or horrifying drawing about the unspeakable crimes you all have committed together

It’s….. VERY GOOD. Is all I will say since I’ve just realized being in the future means I already have it when other people don’t. Oops

I hope everyone will forgive the bluntness of my language, but it seems like bluntness is warranted: it now seems pretty clear that the president raped children or at least knew about and actively facilitated the rape of children. I think it is time we stopped using coded language to say that.

You do have to wonder how much of the ubiquity of QAnon/Epstein/other child trafficking conspiracy theories that have colonized society in the last few years is about people wanting to find an alternative version of MeToo that doesn't involve having to actually do anything real for actual victims.

I like to remember that the united states wouldnt exist if we hadn't imported a man who was too homosexual for the Prussian army to whip our army into shape. We paid him in twinks

I spent 45 minutes with silksong and these are my first impressions: is this real? Events appear to transpire beyond some sort of barrier or screen I cannot influence aside from pressing buttons on my "side" of the dividing medium, but if these bugs are really doing all that it should be on the news

in a bid to avoid doomscrolling on my lunch break i made a menu for my cat

This, by the way, is why folks argue so much about what it means to "act like a man," and "act like a woman." They want to gatekeep who can be each by defining it more narrowly. They understand it intuitively, even as they rail against it.

Australia Game Jam where you need to make a game about or set in Australia but you’re not allowed to feature: -Crocodile Dundee figures -Mad Max wastelands -Poisonous creatures

Did you used to make LiveJournal icons? Do you still have some of the ones that you made? I'm looking to include more icons in the second print run of my LiveJournal Iconic zine and would love to see yours! Share them here: form.jotform.com/252444103676...

This is exactly the same thing that happened when translation companies started hiring people to fix machine translations instead of doing the translating. It took exactly the same amount of work and skill from the human worker, but paid half as much.

Gonna link back to this but just start a Ghost blog or something at this point, its never been easier. aftermath.site/website-musk...

Japanese netizens should be calling this period of time も死トラ

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

thiiiiiiiiiis. you feeling "validated" in your identity is not more important than our community's incredibly precarious rights!! and maybe, just maybe, working to advance all of our rights will even HELP you to feel more "valid" as a member of our community! funny how that works, isn't it.

as a treat

Love to get hit by torrential downpour on the way into work 🙃 blessings, however, to the person who’d abandoned a working umbrella on the street to rust so I could pick it up halfway through the deluge lmao

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

Silksong was developed the way it was because the developer didn't have to worry about money. The only way you get more games developed like Silksong is if Universal Basic Income becomes a thing.

cosign. i met James Dobson in person when i was a kid growing up in evangelical churches. that rat bastard is part of why i was subjected to conversion “therapy” as a child. his soul was as rancid as his rightwing ideology. rot in piss, you fascist fossil. the world is better without you in it.

btw this is my emotionally abusive game. it is 30% off right now, which is a lovebombing tactic i call "being on sale" store.steampowered.com/app/1677310/In_Stars_And_Time/

this just in: im an abusive gamedev for (checks notes) making you feel things

look at my wife's excellent tattooooooooooo

there’s a phenomenon in politics where on certain issues the general public is genuinely deluded about reality, and if you don’t buy into that delusion the political media will accuse *you* of being out of touch

Weirdest ever work-related dream to date: I dreamed that I was creating an LQA guide for...the novel-length fanfic I'm working on

Natural bottom…

Don't forget the gleeful hop they do

For all the conspicuous energy spent condemning the tiny number of women who have ever, throughout history, declared themselves political lesbians, virtually no one seems to notice that many more women are politically straight.

corporations being able to control what kind of art we're allowed to see on the internet is bad

Banished Unfairly to the couch because Mommy is Cleaning

environmental storytelling used purposefully can warn the player this opponent is higher level and more dangerous than the character art suggests

Discussion of homestuck on the TL is reminding me of the time @josiahw.bsky.social said that if they had to pick a probable homestuck fan out of a lineup I was in I would be the choice unless someone else there was wearing grey body paint. Truly an incredible read I’ve never forgotten it.

To Polish readers, I apologize for the constant misuse of the plural form of pierog. Speaking on behalf of Americans, we simply refuse to do it correctly

Hit it big with the coasters at the Metaphor collab cafe!!! + a few pics from the exhibition

August is #WomenInTranslationMonth — and a great opportunity to reaffirm the importance of human talent in creating literary translation. Learn more — and browse a new reading list curated by PEN America’s Translation Committee — at: pen.org/women-in-tra...

One thing that doing creative work teaches you is that ideas are worth nothing. Anybody can have an idea. In a writers room you have to come up with a hundred ideas a day, and most of those don’t make the page. It’s the work of making something that gives it value. The patina of humanity.

The Gameloc Directory 2025 update is live! It now features a marker (★) highlighting entities with strict no MT/AI policies. locdandloaded.net/2020/10/22/g...