vindictive, vicious cruelty designed to humiliate and criminalize every trans person in kansas horrifying fascist shit reminiscent of the runup to the literal holocaust

this is one of the more fun things about doing 3D games in GameMaker. it's not difficult to kitbash whatever 3D scene you want in Unity at a passable degree of quality, but doing it in GM means you have to be pretty creative to solve a lot of problems that you could take for granted elsewhere

I should post more about The Festival here ...

Personally I like technology but I understand it as something that 1) Reliably 2) Does something useful. That doesn't seem to be true for these chatbots outside of some limited applications but we're supposed to act like it is and saying otherwise is Luddism

We ran out of sweets today, I wish we had some sweets to indulge in

Have fun watching the State of the Union, but I value my mental health.

Here's what I know from prosecuting cases & from living through abuse: secrecy is the predator's best friend. It is not a neutral tool of professional discretion. Every time we treat transparency as the problem, we are choosing the institution over the victim. And I refuse to make that choice. 13/x

The people in these files who abused children deserve shame — publicly, loudly, and permanently. Not because shame replaces justice, but because when justice was available, it was deliberately withheld. The public record is what's left. We should use it. 14/14

Love needs no permission🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 It comes freely—between any hearts, any souls. Why make something so beautiful feel forbidden? Enough. Everyone deserves to love and be loved, just as they are. We still believe in love♡

"The Republicans have a Nazi problem, yes. But this means that the United States also has a Nazi problem. The responsibility for defeating it in the 21st century falls, as it did in the 20th, to everyone—of any party or creed—who still believes in the American idea."

“that’s against school policy, no swearing in school” is maybe the single most pathetic clapback anyone has ever had to anything

In the 80s we had "Greed Is Good," but today it's much subtler--self-interest is simply the only valid decision-making lens. "Let's not go to Chik-Fil-A, I don't like their food" is respected, but "Let's not go to Chik-Fil-A, I don't want to support a homophobic company" makes you a tedious scold.

And put it in your pitch emails too!! It is so awkward having to email every publisher back and say, hey thanks for the key, btw is there AI in there?

the video game industry is a mess

Shout out to the person I saw on my way home driving a Subaru Outback with a "lesbaru" sticker and a bumper sticker that said "my puppygirl can beat up your honor student"

i made some desk job affirmations to get me through the day

2026 basically

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

5:30-6:30 PM dinner is goated. just one more thing old people were right about all along

I don’t think ppl understand the whole “who cares if nobody likes it! make content for yourself” is extremely dismissive Bc we ARE making the content for ourselves but it feels /bad/ when people don’t engage or show interest. You can care about both at the same time

it's hard to see someone else live your dream

As deeply flawed as they are, saying you post mainly on tumblr or bluesky is a surefire guarantee that you're alright, actually.

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

Roses are red Stem held between teeth I ordered us takeout but it's

Crusader Kings 2 Fallout 3 Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Man I was off Blue Sky all day, it was nice to not be reminded of how awful ICE and this administration are

Anybody but Newsom

what this should actually tell countries that want a good relationship with a stable and prosperous US is that they should collude to help democrats

Just beat Venba. It's giving me a lot to chew on, I'm going to have to stew with my thoughts a bit. But it's definitely something complex.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

"why did Zohran quickly endorse Hochul?!" turns out it's better for the political fortunes of both the governor of NY and the mayor of NYC if they're on the same team and work together, who knew

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

really hard to overstate how much AIPAC fucked up here - not only did they push out the more pro-Israel candidate for not toeing their exact line, they started a blood feud with him and are clearly in the process of making themselves completely unwelcome in Dem politics

It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.

"Part of going out and having an active social life includes things that will be a little unhealthy. A little anti-wellness, if you will." www.cartoonshateher.com/p/wellness-t...

For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:

unions, folks: they're real good

it’s a good thing we don’t have socialized healthcare because otherwise we might have to endure untenable wait times for basic care. anyway the annual checkup I scheduled last July to take place in March has just been rescheduled to May

No Kings includes Draft Kings