So I see we've reached the "officially declaring everyone who disagrees with you to be an enemy of the state" stage of rising fascism

It's pretty easy. They get physical ownership that isn't dependent on a subscription service or connectivity. There's a reason why companies like ANBERNIC (retro style emulator handheld consoles), and Innioasis (old school iPod style music players) are making $$$$ right now. And yes, I...1/2

Being an author waiting for an accepted piece to get published is a lot like edging I will not be taking questions

Is there like a comprehensive public database somewhere of what companies support fascism or christian nationalism or zionism etc. so I can just quickly look companies up before I buy something from them

I think it would be cool if more comics used mediaeval-style scrolls of paper coming out of people's mouths instead of word balloons

OK, so I just heard that Beeple made a bunch of robot dogs in Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg masks that poop out AI-generated NFT images, and I take it back. AI *can* be used to make Real Art

Easy guide for being on the right side of literally any political issue: if one side is pro-children dying or suffering, or even considers it a "sad but necessary cost", get your ass onto the other side

I get into arguments about capitalism with people on facebook and they keep throwing the fact that I work in a weed store in my face and mocking me about it like it's some kind of argument-winning suplex. Like I'm not ashamed of working in a weed store, why should I be? Yeah bro you got me, I […]

Brief note: as a writer on submissions, I would much prefer your guidelines to be void of all personality rather than condescending. Quirky is fine, but it is very easy for quirky to shade into condescending without you realizing it.

I'm quite happy with my decision to join the cabaret, all things considered. It's pulled me out of my comfort zone in the way that's really productive and not just a waste of spoons. It's opened me up to the possibility of performing again as a regular part of my author career, it's winning me […]

Everyone's broke. It is the worst possible time to be doing kickstarters. But if we don't make art in times like these, we are lost

You know, the irony is that a lot of creative people would probably be way more open to the possibility of using AI as part of their creative process if the immediate initial pitch hadn't been "awesome we can now replace art and artists, get on board or go the way of the dinosaur lol"

I really wish I could get more traction on social media, but the vast majority of the marketing advice I've read about it boils down to "be super fake and never talk about anything other than your brand"

Conservative Christians: Socialism is Satanic. Gender deviance is Satanic. Pursuit of pleasure is Satanic. Diversity and tolerance are Satanic. Us: lol Satan sounds rad as hell. I love Satan Conservative Christians: OMG THEY ADMIT IT

Right: You just call anyone you disagree with a fascist Us: You know, the OG fascists were proud to call themselves fascists. Is there some reason you don't want to be associated with fascism? Even when you're using explicitly fascist tactics? Is there some reason you don't want us calling you […]

Tech fascists believe they are going to merge with AI, live forever and colonize the universe as a species of self-replicating machines that eat the energy of the stars. We can think big, too. Anything is possible. Don't let billionaires monopolize the power of radical imagination.

Trump pines for a relationship with Canada like he did with E. Jean Carroll.

after all the republican group chats full of swastikas and gas chamber jokes, defenses of Hitler from popular right wing pundits, and American cities full of stormtroopers doing ethnic cleansing you're still doing this "lefties call everyone nazis" eye rolling shit? man, fuck you, get fucking real.

Does physical art do well on Bluesky? My partner is making art she wants to sell but she won't touch computer paint programs. Pencil and ink drawings (commissions possible but not probable), watercolour paintings, painted plaster reliefs. Charges commensurate with skill and time.

As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe. People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway. Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.

racists roll their eyes at this, they're not happy with any message short of 'send them all back' & they don't trust labour trying to pander to them. people who aren't racist recognise this as divisive patronising nonsense. labour's approval rating is 12% and i'm surprised it is that high

People think they're defending their castles from ravaging barbarians when really they're locked in dungeons of their own making, but still with access to cannons that they randomly fire at those of us trying to break them out

They gave Orange Mussolini a fucking participation trophy for geopolitics

A brief list of conservative economic beliefs that are unshakably rock-solid: - even the mildest social-democratic welfare programs are comparable to Stalinism and will have the same result - nobody has a right to anything that would require another person to do something - all capitalists […]

AI "Artists": We're democratizing art, freeing it from the hands of elitist gatekeepers! It's no different than calligraphers getting replaced by the printing press! AI isn't going anywhere, you better get on board or be left behind! Us: What you are making is not art, and you will never be an […]

So I made a Fire Lord Azula deck that's all in on firebending for brawl builder, and firebending is... kinda bad? Like, when it goes off it GOES OFF. Get Azula and a couple of other firebenders in play, then attack, dump your entire hand, blast every creature off the board, cast a doubled […]

I am watching people get lied and jingoed into another war in real time. Some rage addict on facebook called me brainwashed today for pointing out that drugs are not a valid military target. He equated them with WMDs. It's going to be Iraq but even stupider

Very proud to announce the sale of my short story "Conversion" to Trans/Port, an anthology of trans cyberpunk! It's my take on the old "what if you could take a pill to make you not gay" trope, with implanted brain chips that "cure" gender dysphoria. There's also revolutionary cyborg terrorists!

Anyone who believes the ICE raids, detentions and deportations are about anything but terrorizing people that the MAGA base gets off on seeing terrorized is at best naive

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely. They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things. Only you have the power to kill it.

Apparently hoarding devices is causing the collapse of the economy, so I consider all device hoarders to be honourary comrades in the war against capitalism

Look, I know we all love the Dalai Lama, but there is something pretty fundamentally fucked about just grabbing some random kid and going "you are the reincarnation of a perfect sage and you're going to be the king of our religion and country now"

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Conservative Logic: Reading about sex = child abuse Learning gay people exist = child abuse Experimenting with new names and pronouns = child abuse Raping children on Rape Island = "It's not really pedophilia if they're 15"

Look, we already tried laissez-faire capitalism with no social programs and minimal government regulation or management of the economy. Marx and Engels famously wrote some books about it, as well as Dickens, Upton Sinclair, et al. But the TLDR for people with short attention spans is that it was Bad

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Let us be clear. The capitalists want to create AGI because they want slaves that nobody can tell them not to enslave.

I need to make a bunch of Scooby Doo memes where the monster has some social problem that right-wing people complain about and they say "Now let's see who this scary monster really is!" And they pull off the mask and it just says "Capitalism"

Like it is funny as fuck that Musk accidentally proved the entire alt-right propaganda machine to be a bunch of people in the third world paid pennies to run disinformation bot farms, but we all knew that anyway and the MAGAs are just going to call it fake news. Nothing will change

Interesting thought stemming from the weird mismatch of Avatar's bending abilities to the colour pie: the five colours in MTG align far more smoothly with the traditional five Chinese/Asian elements than the four Western ones. The match is not perfectly one-to-one, but Red is pretty clearly Fire […]

I'm trying real hard to like the Avatar set, and genuinely the mechanics and the limited environment are really fun, but there's something fundamentally alienating about the fact that it's a property that I'm not a big fan of and don't know much about, a sense that this just isn't made for me […]

It's honestly super funny the way the CPC keeps essentially auditioning potential fascist dictators to see if they're charismatic enough to be the Canadian Trump or Farage. Too bad Poilievre isn't working out for you, but hey, at least he moved the Overton window for what it's acceptable to say […]

Genuinely it is a mistake as leftists to wall ourselves off from conservative, even openly fascist friends and relatives. These are the people who are the most likely of anyone we will ever interact with of being persuaded by our arguments. Performative debates with strangers do stone nothing

Where are right-wingers getting this idea that there's armies of molotov-throwing antifa rioters out there? Like, a few police cars got burned in the BLM protests and they dined out for fucking years on that. But I'm not seeing any news stories about that kind of thing in the anti-ICE protests

"Promising to just outright give people money" having failed to improve public opinion, Orange Mussolini is now going for the classic "Start a war to unite the population behind military glory". Something tells me it's not going to work as well as he thinks it is

On the one hand, it is funny as fuck that the right-wing griftosphere latched onto a satirical post about Mamdani forcing children to learn Arabic numerals and made it the sincere basis of their latest two-minute hate, but on the other hand, these people are cooked. There's no reasoning with them

It makes me want to scream and break shit when AI bros openly admit that they're feeding an economic bubble, and that this bubble bursting will be a catastrophe on the order of the GFC at least, but they're continuing to do it because they think they can save themselves by somehow magically […]

One of my biggest beefs with Oxford-comma absolutists* is that I frequently see people put commas in places where they are grammatically inappropriate, almost certainly because someone has drilled into their head that items in lists ABSOLUTELY ALWAYS MUST be separated by commas. You are causing […]

I'm liking the Avatar set so far, but my god the rake on cosmetics this round. Three separate sets of avatars (each with less than the mass avatar drops for Final Fantasy), and 3 separate sets of emotes, one of which is 10K FREAKING GOLD. Yes, I know it has voice lines, but it's fucking EMOTES […]

SaskParty supporters drive me fucking mental. They still blame today's NDP for things that happened literal decades ago, yet keep voting for Moe and his insane clown posse despite years of blatant corruption and mismanagement. They even take SaskParty policies and outcomes and attribute them to […]