"you're gonna get in trouble for that" *stone-faced* "okay" goddamn son

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Note: people whose job is to scour data, know how to do so *without* committing a felony in the process. You, the average person reading this, don't. There is zero reason to catch a felony CSAM charge while giving yourself PTSD, trying to play a reddit sleuth.

I was already very likely to pick this up but this has genuinely pushed me over the edge

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

The No ICE in Minnesota bundle has launched, raising funds for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Over 1400 items for $10.00! itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

one thing I find ridiculous is that people claim to find AI so useful for "idea generation", when I and every other remotely creative person I know has more incredible ideas than they can complete in a few lifetimes. If you need AI for ideas, no you don't -- you need to be more creative.

Partner has lost his job and I am still not getting any work currently, so things are looking even worse now. I am actively seeking working in the ttrpg community, whether it be as a writer, editor, or sensitivity reader. Please contact me via my email: [email protected]

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

I love you fucked up indie TTRPGs

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Learning about an apparent Neopets 5e conversion exclusively through the incredulous comments people are leaving on it is way better than actually finding the doc and reading it

in some ways, everyone's work has not been paid for by John Taylor of Geekify.

We have a word for art devoid of ideas and point of view: slop.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Starbucks Workers United baristas are escalating their fight for a fair contract. I urge you to keep boycotting Starbucks — and delete its app from your phone. Workers are fed up with low pay, chaotic scheduling, understaffing, and illegal union busting. Let's keep fighting corporate greed.

The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

Every RPG is a one-page RPG if you only read one page of it

For a v long time, I conflated "person who can make good art" with "person who has a functioning moral compass." I think that transference (based on appreciation, love, enthusiasm) is something a lot of us do. It hurts a lot when we find that our appreciation was hijacked so someone can do bad shit.

all art is flawed, bc all people are flawed. we can't discern an author's character from their art in any reliable way. we just can't! it would be nice if we could clearly determine from a text that the person who made it is a rapist, but unfortunately we do not have that technology.

For >10 years I’ve been on an admissions committee for a prominent science journalism fellowship. We always have around 150 applications from around the world to review for 6 spots. This year we only had 32 applications. And several we can’t review because they’re visa restricted now.

*taps the sign chinesely*

We are also putting our money where our mouth is. Today we have taken 10% of all the purchases made on our webstore in the last quarter and donated it to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund. Stand strong. Stay united. Serve in whatever way you are called to. 💪

Georgia Fort has been released

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.

We are a hair's breadth from a world where, if you are caught near a protest, you get put on a no-fly list indefinitely.

ICE has killed 9 folks in the first 26 days of ‘26: • Alex Pretti • Renee Good • Keith Porter • Heber Sanchaz Domínguez • Victor Manuel Diaz • Parady La • Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz • Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres • Geraldo Lunas Campos They all deserve justice. And for us to remember their names.

This five year old is still in jail

Imagine a paramilitary gang kills 2 observers over 2 weeks, then shows up at your home to say, "You, observer, we know where you live." That's a death threat. If it happened to me or a colleague when I was a human rights observer in N. Ireland, we would've lodged complaints with three govts.

Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: chuffed.org/project/1671...

Free Liam.

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

we don't actually have to separate ice from cops. i promise you. they both need to go.

im sorry but we just spent the last decade being told the biggest issues were pronouns in emails and a trans kid playing jv lacrosse if you said these things and got paid for it then you need to go away. literally if “woke mind virus” is something youve ever said unironically you need to go away

it is impossible to miss the difference between the names you see in newspaper headlines and the names you don't see in newspaper headlines

Two weeks ago this guy announced he was providing legal help to the agent who shot Renee Good. That's how quickly the winds are shifting.

No Kings is hosting what is shaping up to be the largest ICE Watch training in history tonight. Join here: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

look, the right wing's fever dream of the left is simply not true. no elected official no matter what their political persuasion is gong to go on TV and urge their constituents to read some hot man-on-man smut [aide whispers in my ear] wait what

minneapolis was my home for years. sending endless solidarity and support to my neighbors, colleagues, and loved ones there right now. we protect each other. abolish ice until nothing is left. support any way you can at standwithminnesota.org and join me in donating to pow wow grounds & mim today!

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

It's really distressing the extent to which in all of this Silverio Villegas González, the first man to be murdered by ICE in the streets, has been almost completely forgotten Moreover, ICE must be destroyed