It's crazy to live in a city with overlapping housing, infrastructure and education crises all largely or entirely tied to budget and then read a sentence like "Madison Square Garden has been exempt from paying property taxes for 44 years."

So close, can we get to 100% today? ko-fi.com/acvalens/goa...

LOOK WHO CAME CRAWLING BACK LMFAOOO

obviously lolisho isn't pedophilia but i find it wild how these people say "you're a pedo, get help" like it's just something that can be easily cured by a doctor. don't they realize this is what homophobes think about gay people? that they should just go be "cured" for something they can't help

queer characters and narratives can and SHOULD exist outside of romance genres, actually.

After waiting years for a new Star Fox, I got impatient and started making my own game. Years later, there's another Star Fox 64 remake and I'm still working on my game

When it comes to innovation in the games industry, one of the most positive things we can do is to make it so that gamedevs can work on side projects in their own time and own their work. This should become a standard freedom across all companies.

According to @bsky.app , transphobes are "protected groups"

Any other parents out there whose kids are being bussed to "outings" (read: local restaurants) on a weekly basis? The teachers keep insisting it's "life skills" but from where I'm sitting it's a phone call & a "Daaaad, they brought us to McDonalds again, can you send money?"

This might genuinely be a controversial take, but even if it were possible to “objectively” prove that you “can’t change your sex”—which it’s not, because that doesn’t actually mean anything—that would have no bearing on trans rights, because nobody has an obligation to uphold “objective” reality.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

every time i hear or read someone say their parents were "fine" or "not that bad" in one breath and then comment on their inexplicable life-long anxiety and depression the next i get a little sad and quietly hope they can sort it out someday

Annoys me how many times this exact conversation happens "The people who are lolicons are literally fascists cheering for trans people to be killed" Then someone says that they are only seeing the loud chuds and not the other people like trans lolicons "Why are you coming out as a pedophile wtf"

Crunchyroll revoked their Library Outreach Program which allowed public libraries to access their streaming library for free, destroying anime clubs across the country.

What depresses me most about the "AI" bubble is that people now assume that any video, photo, etc. of something interesting or unusual is phony by default. They find it easier to believe someone will lie for money than to believe cool things can happen. Don't let capitalists kill your imagination.

Lost a friend over the weekend and there's still no words to describe the shock it's left across his friends and family. In lieu of flowers, they're raising funds for the daughters left behind. 😭 gofund.me/033ba2230

Just about halfway there... so close!! ko-fi.com/acvalens/goa...

It's also that time of the month... >w> throne.com/acvalens/ite...

Friends, I could use some help with bills this month. Phone, Internet, electricity, etc. I have a steady job but I don't get paid nearly enough to actually cover my expenses every month, unfortunately. Any contributions would be appreciated. paypal.me/AliceIncarnate

"huh, this source's goal is explicitly to lie and harass women into suicide. surely they can be trusted though!"

This is one of the funniest comic panels I have seen in a hot minute. For context, the Spider-Man villain who killed Paul was named Torment. So it makes sense that this storyline ends with this but it really looks like it's saying that the torment that was Paul existing is dead

spider-man without the core idea that being spider-man isn't about the powers, the web slinging, the wall climbing, that *anybody* could put on the mask and be him because spider-man embodies local, communal heroism, and peter was just the guy who happened to get bit, is no spider-man at all.

kind of wild that making such an absurd decision has lead to the spider-man only really starting to feel like spider-man in his upcoming SEVENTH theatrical appearance in the MCU

*rent lowering gunshot* copyright infringement is good actually

I would not wish being a Spider-man fan on my worst enemy

As someone who LOOOOVES data, give this a look. Easy way to get hype for your favorite TTRPG. Also it's a good chance to abide by a rule my sociology professor taught me in grad school; if you want good data/survey results, make sure to respond to surveys in kind. It helps everyone.

people really want it to be the case that longevity is a result of choices they control when the reality for better or worse is that genetics and luck play a much greater factor than lifestyle (outside of a couple factors like extreme obesity or smoking) for most people

one of the most dangerous truths of the modern era is this: all evidence-backed "wellness" and "life-extension" tactics are just basic diet and exercise. most people have very little they can do to impact their longevity besides regularly go to the doctor and get vaccinated, etc

The kinds of people I'd like to get to know are also the kinds of people who make it clear they'd want me dead if they knew me. I can't hide parts of myself forever, but it's so lonely.

I miss when it really truly felt like my mom could fix everything. I miss feeling like someone could make everything in my life better again. It wasn't true but it was nice to believe. I wish it had been true. I wish it was now. I wish I could have a second chance to enjoy things before losing them.

I'm the kind of girl that a lot of people think is evil and unforgivable, but my friends know I'm actually kinder than most.

If someone drew me as an adorable 10 year old I would probably cry and cherish it forever and thank them every time we saw each other.

I'm small.

People will tell you a type of person is evil and unforgivable and irredeemable and then you go meet those kinds of people and they're all the sweetest and most sincere and caring people you've ever met. Wonder what's up with that.

Girls are so awesome. Play tuoys with your girls.

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

PSA:

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

I genuinely believe that it is political to live at all, as by living you affirm that you and people like you have good reason to live.

To Live At All is political, as it makes the Political claim that both you and those similar to you Should live.

Living's political, because by continuing to live you make the political statement that you and those similar to you have both right and reason to live. At that point how can any art not be political just by virtue of existing?

Friendly reminder that it is Political to live because because by living you are implicitly making the Political Statement that you and anybody similar to you should be Allowed To Live.

Is the bargain still Faustian if "become a non-person" is the actual goal of the A. I. user?

Disabled people shouldn’t have to beg for healthcare, housing and food. They shouldn’t have to “prove they matter” to access services needed to survive. They shouldn’t have to explain their disability to every single person who asks. Disability is a minority group you can join any time.

mspaint fan art

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

This isn't about anything in particular but I just want to say: if you're hiring a visual person, to make visuals for you, please trust that they know what they're doing when it comes to artistic choices. That is part of why you hired them.

The AI-driven hard drive shortage is making it more expensive for the Internet Archive to operate, causing problems for Wikimedia, causing delays in academic and hobby archiving projects. Normal people and non AI companies simply can't find reasonably priced drives: www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...