This is also why I've always had a problem with people chastising black people for voting when even if 100% of black people vote we are 13% of the country. While that is enough to sway a majority vote when combined with other demographics, we are in no way capable of voting out discrimination.

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Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

Python Tip #111 (of 365): Don't use the __class__ attribute. 🧵 To get the name of any object's class, you can use: type(my_obj).__name__ You might occasionally see this instead: my_obj.__class__.__name__ I don't recommend that approach. #Python #DailyPythonTip

an underrated game dev skill IMO is being able to realize “this person and I have been discussing (thing) for months, and yet i think we have slightly different versions of (thing) in our heads. let’s get together and talk about that in excruciating detail”

but they don't love wlw romance. it's a very big problem in publishing. straight women hate wlw in fiction in a similar way to straight men hating mlm in fiction.

As I bond with other transfeminine people about similarities in harm from certain life experiences, the poem "A Prayer for Athena" I wrote several years ago keeps coming to mind

Design concept for game that we ended up going in a different direction for but I like this art I made so I'm posting it✨🍄

To everyone out there who defends and encourages reliance on generative AI: I want you to explain to me how software systems that do this is not just defensible but something good and to be encouraged. Go on. Explain it to me, right now. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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I've talked about this here before, but my experience as a journalism instructor is that Grammarly makes students' writing worse. This was true even several years ago, pre-GenAI hype. The mushy, even incoherent sentences it created were what caused me to start warning them off it.

Deus Ex Machina (God from The Machine) is such a cool sounding term until you actually research it a little and learn it's just ancient theatre critic jargon and "The machine" in question is a crane

New sentence I have just spoken aloud to a cat: "Act like you've been here before."

“Please enjoy the museum”: Relooted is OUT NOW! Please share!

They truly do not make games like this anymore. A handheld card game based on the years of the show’s English version releasing in North America by a video game studio in Montreal, Canada. They just do not make games like this anymore.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

The “white” in front of American citizens is really silent but it’s there

hey game designers on itch, if your game includes a lot of stuff, include a zip of all the files to download, signed someone that hates having to download 8-10 different downloads to get your play materials and stuff.

You’ve got to love how actress Kelly Marie Tran, one of the most harassed people ever to be on the internet, still leapt up to defend trans people in a recent interview. No one would blame her for keeping her head down and shutting up forever but she will NOT and I admire her for it ⭐

I have a question.

Cancel. Genuinely. Cancel. A rejection at the border is a permanent mark against entry, forever. If you insist, follow dangerous territory protocols: know your embassy details, make sure someone knows your travel details, and have funds for emergency legal, health, and departure expenditures.

As @alexandraerin.com said, if you're in the crowd it's not gallows humor, it's just part of the execution.

“It is not simple. I do not know what that means.“

Got a friend asking for some accessibility focused reading, and it's been a minute since I started learning the topic. Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026? Please share!

Got a friend asking for some accessibility focused reading, and it's been a minute since I started learning the topic. Do you have a go to text to introduce the topic in 2026? Please share!

PyCon US 2026 call for proposals closes tomorrow (December 19) and if you do something you can apply a computer to, or are into a topic that affects computing, you might be interested in speaking! us.pycon.org/2026/speakin...

This is always the plan — they know the slop is slop so they will hire the original humans back at a cut rate to be slop wranglers, which involves more work and worse outcomes.

Announcing the #GemFellowship, a grant program from Gem Coop and Contributed Systems! If you have an existing Ruby project and could use funding, you should apply! APPLICATIONS CAN ONLY BE SUBMITTED THIS MONTH. Details: gem.coop/fellowship/ Show us your weird niche Ruby projects! 💜

You know, the best part of Cyber Monday is unsubscribing from all of the online vendors you’re unlikely to ever use again.

We gotta find some way to go back to a time when we didn't feel compelled to give our take on everything, because now we have a constitutional lawyer weighing in on the attack on a trans college instructor to say that giving a student a 0 for not following directions violates the First Amendment

Also prompts the question: Would replacing the C Suite and the upper management doing that 57% with LLM driven chat bots actually cause any harm? And would the harm it causes be cheaper than the salaries?

I just read an interview with the narrative lead of a video game claiming that making games is harder than movies because they don't have one person calling all the shots and need to collaborate with a team of 400. My respect for this company drops every day.

OK, new AllPlay version of The Networks gets the official designer thumbs-up. Jeff Fraser made these tweaks while I was down for the count, and he did a masterful job sanding down the game's rougher edges.

Refs watching a replay where a player is shoved with both hands into the boards and needs to leave the gave to have no penalty is certainly a choice. #woho #SeattleTorrent

As an OG Riveters fan, it is legit hard for me to root for Hilary Knight, lol. I do not have this issue with Corinne Shroeder, because goalies are always to be respected, even if they were on a Boston team.

It's been a minute, but the hockey posting may return. Seattle Torrent inaugural game and I'm sporting my Izzie win Thunstrom jersey.

"Framing it just like this makes me want Israel to annex it" uh a) You have ZERO stake in the harms or impacts here, bb b) you'd want an aggressive colonialism done out of spite? c) all those violations of human rights and international law don't bother you? Guess not, lovely d) oh just fuck you

Rabbi here. The West Bank is absolutely occupied, in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, reaffirmed from the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907, Article 42. It would be helpful if people who didn't know what they were talking about didn't open their uninformed mouths.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50. “Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.

Bluesky: we are a serious social network. Also bluesky: sometimes the app just stops accepting touch inputs. Don't worry about it.

Bork v10 has been released! Bork is a build & release tool for Python, which can publish to PyPi & GitHub. Major changes: - `bork download` is deprecated in favor of `homf` - release notes include a changelog based on merged PRs Install: pipx install bork==10.0.3 Details: pup-e.com/blog/bork-v10

Ooooh now this looks like an interesting labeler

I'm not sure how you could NOT come to the conclusion that D&D is basically a great big smothering pillow shoved over the face of "the non-D&D RPG hobby/industry" unless you're being deliberately obtuse or are so fundamentally ignorant nobody should listen to anything you have to say ever

Say it with me.