This explains like 90% of American politics right now

I don't ever want to hear "what if she were your daughter" again. Statistically the person most likely to abuse a daughter is a man known to her. People defending a President, a man they don't know, will be worse with a husband, father, brother, son, or friend. We have their answer. So do daughters.

I’ve been in game dev for 26 years and I can’t remember any other time where a specific tech was being insistently and persistently pushed on devs as a group in the public sphere. Why would it? Cui bono? Why would any given dev have an interest in other devs using tech they don’t have a stake in?

Simply Having A wonderful

“Here’s your meal, full of delicious lead” I don’t want it. No thank you. “Well, what about if we just use lead in the cooking process? You can’t even taste the lead in the final meal” I’m leaving. “You’re being childish. Soon everyone will be cooking with lead” have you fucking listened to yourself

Pandora coming out of her box to scrape mankind

Two photos I like from yesterday.

Guess I'll post this again

the Gender of it all is….yeah.

The @ifbookspod.bsky.social Elon part two just devolving into Peter torturing Michael with secondhand embarrassment via video clips is giving me LIFE

at the risk of starting, or wading into, a Discourse: i just want to say that characterizing that guy as an "alcoholic personality" (he famously does not drink!!) is doing a huge disservice to alcoholics and others who struggle with substance use disorders. He has a *domestic abuser* personality.

There is nothing wrong with trans and queer kids. I was a queer kid. I know what this is. It’s evil.

It’s really quite tiring to be a soft little kitty cat, just ask Lemon

since tumblr is one of the first things i check in the morning there's a 75% chance i'll find out via the destiel meme

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see

the response to AI "content" of "if you couldn't be bothered to make it why should i be bothered to read it?" goes one MILLION-fold when it comes to fanworks. the ONLY reason we are out here is to play toys and be freaks together, why would you offload your fun to the plagiarism machine?

a society in which everything is psychosexual dominance dynamics but you're not allowed to actually fuck

Wordsworth and Coleridge would’ve tried to launch their own app, but it would be an incredibly embarrassing failure as Wordsworth would never learn how to code and Coleridge would become convinced that a Chatbot was the voice of God.

Yeah, it's a numbers game. Even in terms of just generic NPCs who have a couple lines and could easily be any gender, in games I've worked on the ratios are 2:1 male:female, or even worse. There's systemic bias that starts at the very basic first steps of creation and then affects everything after

Incredible levels of coziness going on here this morning

you know what? good advice.

Waking up to find out that @themountaingoats.bsky.social are coming to Japan for the first time EVER literally the day after purchasing a ticket to see them overseas instead is…a feeling lmao

Lap cat is happy cat.

Absolutely incredible episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social today, unpacking the “great feminization” theory in a way that’s morally clarifying, educational, AND made me cackle in delight on the sidewalk several times. Moira & Adrian firing on all cylinders for this one overcast.fm/+ABCcUWneTf4

Re: Epstein’s emails

I think about this a lot too. I am deeply morally wounded by this shitshow.

the president of the united states, for some reason apparently:

lol she got his ass and he knows it

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

Just going to save this to use as a reaction image whenever someone comes out as trans

the cope on fox tonight has been good

There are more of us than there are of them.

JCP sticking up for foreign residents of Japan

I often remark that Lemon is small and round but she truly outdid herself in smallness & roundness this morning

Every time I sit down to write a piece I feel certain that I would rather die than actually write it and yet somehow I would rather die ten times harder before I ever let the word machine write for me.

Weather has cooled down enough to engage in a favorite activity: Baby Time™️

Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...

gender remains the goated lens for everything and it is of course men who are being pressured to hollow out their empathy centers such that it would ever seem cool and fine to get the murder tattoo fascists like

Tran identity is a luxury belief. Nazi tattoos are part of a smol bean oopsiedoodle boys will be boys lads club youthful phase to grow out of and actually it's out of touch to imply men can go their whole lives without wanting to kill minorities

do it. pet him. do not be afraid. he has only good intentions. he is a cat, with fur. why not pet him? this is an easy decision. stop overthinking this

Oh she’s sooo sleepy from mommy’s night shifts it’s sooo hard to be Lemon

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

Listening to the @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social mailbag episode discussion of the movie Tar and I have to make the most incredibly trivial point, which is that Monster Hunter is not the capcom game about zombies, that’s Resident Evil

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

Should've used this photo