I thought you got it by playing too much Crusader Kings.

So much American magazine-style journalism is people affecting surprise and perplexity over things they should, if they were doing their job responsibly, be communicating are neither surprising nor perplexing. I first noticed it on Rachel Maddow, now I can't stop noticing it.

honestly I wish outlets like Wired would feature people who AREN'T surprised by this and DIDN'T spend years covering this ecosystem without recognizing the fundamental dynamics of power I can tell you exactly why it was missed:

Technologically advance a band: Taylor Rust

Trying to remember the last superhero movie I actively wanted to watch a second time, and it comes down to whether Winter Soldier or the first Guardians came out more recently?

Found these two scripts from when I was auditioning for bake-off AU. The audition process was write four scripts for openers, two scripts for introducing bakes, improv a bench visit and then deliver star baker/baker going home news. Having written all that out - man that was a weird amount of work

😢Fair, and possible. Most surveys I've seen excluded intersex cases. Most folks don't realize how common steroid use is among high school boys (7% to 10%), or just how common getting gyno from steroid use is (~50% to 60%). 97% of the gender affirming care surgeries surveyed, were gyno reduction.

Again, Most "unfair muscle mass " in sports, is straight cis boys taking steroids. Most "gender affirming care for children," is straight cis boys getting gyno surgery to remove the unwanted boobs that they grew, because they took steroids. 🙂🙃 No one really cares about "fairness in sports." 🤷🏿‍♂️

It is so damn obvious the trans sports issue is a drummed up nonsense moral panic masquerading as “common sense” - but if you look deeper for two seconds you see how the whole point of sex segregated sports is to defund women athletics & to build and propagandize the western idea of women as weak.

I’ve tried for years to educate, handhold & be kind - but I’ve been repeatedly framed a villian. I try so hard to be kind, but I’m at a fucking point where if you arent fucking out here speaking up for trans people as we’re about to be labeled terrorists by the FBI, I’m don’t have time for you.

It took about 5 years, but I finally finished the prologue missions in Genshin Impact and hit level 20.

Ages ago, when I was still a student, I taught myself Ruby on Rails for my senior thesis and fell in love. Fifteen years later, and I’ve used Rails at every job I’ve ever held in the tech industry. Fifteen years, and I still love Rails! But there’s something rotten at its core, and we share a name.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Once again, Jesus Christ, if your own policy would ban, like, The Handmaid's Tale, The Colour Purple, One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Clockwork Orange, Blood Meridian, Measure For Measure, like.... what are we doing here. What is this for

Dutch late night TV has its take

"Internet culture" was a product of a time when barely anyone was on the Internet, and everyone who logged on felt they were creating something new. The current generation had to listen to their mum's Something Awful stories.

“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC. “I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”

Everyone arguing with Imani about this would totally remind you to turn your phone off before going to a demo, but only if they thought of it first.

I’d give odds that there’s a far higher proportion who put their names down and then say “that’s as good as actually showing up, right?”

The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.

if they want to do true fan service they will have a character called VIM in the new Tron, and they just won’t quit

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Trump only cares about things to the extent they benefit him personally, or can be exploited to benefit him personally. A submarine base that won’t open in his lifetime doesn’t even figure.

I am increasingly convinced that AI art is not just for people who can't draw but for people who cannot actually imagine things. If I wanted to see this I could just imagine it. I am imagining it right now because the prompt also works on me.

For years, I've tried to tell y'all what cops know, and what criminal justice reformers know, about how murders really get solved. Look at how massive the manhunt for both Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson were. Then look at how they were actually caught. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Two phone calls.

When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

Worth remembering how 100 years ago, renowned electrical engineer Charles Steinmetz forecasted: within 100 years, industrial use of electricity would enable a four-hour workday. He was 100% right about the impact of electricity. And yet, 100 years later we still work 8+ hrs per day…

Is this one not going to suggest suicide

to recap liberals freaked out at criticism of biden and israel on tiktok. democrats caved and pushed for a tiktok ban. trump won. he sold it off to right-wing interests, meaning that along with twitter it will be a digital version of fox news.

Boy that was a real whipsaw from "looks like the law may be on the side of the sane Murdoch children trying to break Rupert and Lachlan's hold" to "the Ellison family now controls CBS News and TikTok and is reaching for more"

A McSweeney’s list that’s not that funny: How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left. [mcsweeneys.net]

dhh being a tommy robinson supporter sure is something

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

Behold my latest keyboard, the JuggleKeyboard! Just click the letters as they're juggled, it's an easy* way to type. * it's not easy

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Yeah, if you're in the media and someone insists that "they" were celebrating his murder and therefore "they" have to suffer some sort of retribution, you have an obligation to ask who "they" are and what, specifically, they did to celebrate this. You can't just let them throw that gas on the fire.

ronald reagan’s political career began with snitching on fellow actors he deemed to be communists, with the explicit aim of preventing them from ever working again

EVERYONE STOP cheese wheel of cheeses

okay friends, where are we going next from here because, I don't know if you know anyone who works at The Federalist, but I do and this isn't tenable. Jay's capitulation is blood in the water to them, they won't stop now

I wish I had the words to make people see me as human. To break past the dehumanization. The words that would make everyone understand if they just heard them. I keep imagining there’s some magic arrangement of words I know that could do it - even as I know I can’t. I just got to try and hope.

The Black Feminists Who Saw the Alt-Right Threat Coming Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color. If only more people had paid attention. (Context for #EndFathersDay)

A couple times lately I looked at Musk’s Twitter and the whole feed was reposts of incendiary racist propaganda specifically about the UK and it kind of blows my mind this just happened for weeks without any attention being brought to it.

Nothing I saw on Bluesky comes close to the sort-by-recent YouTube comments on Filter’s “Hey man, nice shot”

All right, I wrote about it:

Listening to Sydette whenever she speaks is something I highly recommend because when shit started happening to me a major reason I could see it as part of something larger was because of Sydette and her writing on how black feminists were being targeted on twitter by the same people

I… what. It looks exactly like water and my brain can’t cope.