turns out the discord situation is worse! the company that will be doing the age verifications with IDs is Persona, a peter thiel aligned company we're going to try to wind down the Kill The Computer discord and try to get a subreddit for the podcasts community up and running

Years ago I got a wild hair and cut up a bunch of paper and made these (*bonus points for identifying every movie) Happy Verhoeventine's Day

If you're on your own for Valentine's, don't be afraid or ashamed to treat yourself. And don't let anyone shame you for it, either. You tell them I said they are cordially invited to go fuck themselves with a slap-chop.

In Emergence by Sleep Token, there's this call and response "Go ahead and wrap your arms around me..." near the end of the song. This heavy chugging guitar takes over, answering the call of the vocals. It feels like being embraced by an elder god, dark and beautiful, tender but it might break you.

The ideal of course is just to leave DHS shut down for weeks on end while life continues on as usual with no appreciable difference, because that makes the position that we need them for some reason harder to defend.

Let's be done with the "if there even *IS* an election" gotcha. We know. The thought has occurred to all of us. It's unhelpful. I'm going to continue behaving as if I'm not powerless—as if totalitarianism isn't inevitable. Because it's not, and I'm not.

Cyberpunk #1: "Did ya hear? Jimmy got wasted on a run last night." Cyberpunk #2: "Goddamn. What got him? Corpo shred-pistol?" #1: "Nah. Forgot to re-up his grappler and it went 'ad-supported' mid-jump. Last thing he heard was a spot for Trojan condoms." #2: "Shred-pistol woulda been kinder."

Survival-themed cyberpunk RPG where instead of weapon durability, you need to purchase a subscription for each weapon, which depletes based on how much damage you inflict. Hit points exist in-universe as a value calculated by your weapons' built-in biometric scanners to meter subscription usage.

When I was young, I was ok with lazy rhymes but couldn't stand fudging rhymes. Now I'm fine with fudging rhymes, as long as I don't have to hear the same rhyme for the 1000th time.

I think the thing that enrages me the most about Musk is that he presents himself as some sci-fi nerd hero doing everything possible to save humanity by going to new planets. If your plan for saving humanity doesn’t include the people already on earth, you’re just a racist piece of shit.

Watching Die Hard with a Vengeance and it's still a banger

I’m of the radical opinion that enforcing the Bill of Rights is a minimum requirement to funding the government.

everyone’s saying “people are NIMBYs about concentration camps” and yeah, I don’t want a concentration camp in my neighborhood, or anywhere you know who I don’t mind in my neighborhood? free immigrants, undocumented or otherwise

Most of these people are NOT criminals. Some of these people; entered legally, have committed zero crimes, & have gone through EVERY legal step towards citizenship. And this is how they’re being treated. This is what the world sees us doing.

Did you eat? Take your meds? Drink water? Remind someone you love them?

NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE. Our conversation:

Art matters now more than ever, and so it’s no surprise to me that fascists and capitalists are trying to kill art with AI.

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

When setting fire to concentration camps always remember to wear comfortable shoes.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Choose your fighter

And here's my review for the series finale of the #Riftborn books by @stevemchugh.bsky.social Highly recommended 😉

Another reason to oppose Trump’s attempt to take over elections through the SAVE Act.

This, but it’s every streaming service. How is any of this sustainable?* *It’s not.

Whenever I start watching a new YouTuber or something who's just a straight white guy, I have to feel him out. I'm half expecting some bs. * Then he casually mentions getting a bday gift from his wife's dads, and I go OK, cool, probably. 1/2

I know like 80% of my followers are transmasc, can any of you give advice?

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

THE ANTI-TRUMP HAS BEEN BORN

Munich attendee: Should we re-evaluate military aid to Israel? AOC: “The idea of completely unconditional aid--no matter what one does--does not make sense. I think it enabled a genocide in Gaza”

A word we should all know right now: pelf (n): money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way

Straight up Billy Jack energy from the big kid there

Too many sentences with this structure: “She <actioned>, <descriptor phrase with -ing verb at the beginning>.”

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

I don't use generative AI. I don't use Chat GPT. I don't use Pro Writing Aid. I don't even use Grammarly.

She's very clearly trying to put out the Fite some unknown vandal started. She's a hero, if anything.

If you removed every other single reason AI is terrible, I'd still hate it now simply for the fact that every time I see or read anything that isn't from a trusted source, I have to ask myself if it's AI. It's exhausting. And steals the wonder the internet used to provide.

I'm reasonably certain you need this in your life. “The novel I didn’t know my year was missing!” —Andy Peloquin, author of the Darkblade series. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FR3VNQVN

Over 1,000 Ubisoft workers around the world have walked off the job. In response to a return-to-office mandate, layoffs, and the cancellation of several games, workers launched a three-day strike. The workers walked out in response to five French unions issuing the strike call.

My 15yo is following a software dev education. Together with a group of friends they buy cheezy internet domains and host silly meme sites on them. Responsive and everything, hosted on GitHub Pages. Honing their tech skills and their memes at the same time. :D The kids will be alright. :)

Periodic lamentation that this account has become primarily "political." It was supposed to be for writing. Quotes around "political" because I don't see speaking out for basic human rights as inherently political... unless it occurs within a fascistic society. At which point it is also obligatory

They might be ending the official operation but the only way they're actually going to leave is if ICE is abolished and every one of these fuckers is either imprisoned or fed to a guillotine I prefer the latter option TBH

Sooner or later one of these imbeciles will figure the best way to handle a power struggle in the Trump White House is to try to kill their rivals and boy howdy you better learn how to spell "defenestration"

Give this post a publishing deal immediately

I can't do much about the real-life horrors ICE and the administration has been spawning. Sometimes I feel so impotent. But I do have my voice. This is my voice. I meant this vision to be a warning, but it has become a grim parallel. I'm making it free to read. www.patreon.com/posts/54568343

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

The interesting thing about ICE and CBP blatant lies is that it has normie people questioning what other law enforcement lies like this on the regular. It has shattered a lot of the deference people had.

Another way to phrase this is, “ICE shot someone and got caught lying about it.”