So one of the great artistic platforms of human history is being taken down, because what, it doesn't "make money"? Sickening. Shout-out to all the storytellers, painters, poets, and rebels who did great art in the M-verse. A shame that like the libraries of Alexandria, it will all be lost.

"I was told I could find my identity when I was 'old enough.' Not when I was a child. Not when I was a teen. But I was transgender through every minute of my childhood and I am still transgender at twenty five." www.welcometohellworld.com/receiving-ge...

Update: Dolores Huerta has released a statement. In it, she confirms the Times's reporting, and supports the other women who have come forward. "I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here."

The Cesar Chavez story discussed yesterday is out, in the New York Times. Two women say that he sexually assaulted them as children, beginning when they were 12 and 13. And Dolores Huerta says he raped her in 1966.

Thinking of getting into the "game lore theory youtuber" business

This piece from Megan is so powerful. Detailing her story like this is a public service, one she recognizes may negatively impact her life and yet chose to do anyways.

"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."

this is nazi shit.

"The corporations have no legal obligations with respect to these contractors,...You are a bug — barely even human — smashed flat between the palms of a 400-year old handshake agreement with no living survivors, one that everyone involved interprets differently and nobody intends to honor."

don't care + didn't ask +

It's awesome that people still like to say that this is some liberal democracy with an independent justice system that holds people accountable

this came to me in a dream #art #eldenring

working on a theory that the pokemon company timed their release of pokopia to a moment of crisis. from which we can infer that the pokemon company is complicit in an illegal war in the middle east

Read our analysis of the video showing a US Tomahawk missile strike next to Girls’ School in Iran on February 28 here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced. They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon. The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

one thing I've never understood about US/Israel relationship discourse is the the fact that yes, holistically Israel is a US client state serving US interests doesn't mean that in the specific Israel can't influence the US to do things against US interests, especially when US leaders are very stupid

the AI-based windows 12 article people are sharing turns out to probably be AI slop

the “windows 12” thing people are freaking out about seems to be false www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

my new politics adjacent thing is getting really pissed off when people give a human name to a Rat

Every trans person is like "I knew something was up before I had the words to describe it and had to fight for this for years" and every transphobe is like "one conversation with a doctor could have convinced me to get the walrus surgery from the movie 'The Walrus'"

We all know this, of course, but it bears repeating that the Israeli military, and especially those elements of it necessary to carry out a war against Iran, cannot function without US support. If we wanted to, we could pull all support and prevent any further Israeli offensive actions.

To echo everyone else's thoughts, I too wish Marathon was a singleplayer video game aftermath.site/bungie-maratho...

85 little girls, massacred.

for all it matters from a bluesky gamer account like me: no war in iran. this attack is horrific and all decent people of the world must oppose it with no hesitation or equivocation about iran's government or nuclear programs. that's irrelevant to the pointless depravity of this bloodshed

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

"While there was an order to raze villages, in some cases that was not enough. For example, when it came to Arab a-Zabah, a Bedouin community in the Lower Galilee, not a soul or a trace was to remain. "Every Arab among the Zabahim is to be killed," the order stated."

To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.

One cool thing about unequivocally hating AI is that you will be proven right over and over again every single day

genuinely delighted to see the games press taking on areas like prediction markets + gambling + gamification, which are tumorous outgrowths of game design & should be subject to rigorous, knowledgeable critique and *derision* within the games community

For The New York Times to choose to publish Jesse Singal today, of all times, is a choice to attack trans people, to make them even more vulnerable while they are already under attack. It is an appalling abdication of the Times’s journalistic duties.

I interviewed Roblox's head of parental advocacy for Vulture about safety on the platform 👀

oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

My first light novel is available now! CRINGE WIZARD is an isekai tale about a guy who gets reborn as a quest NPC in the terrible TTRPG campaign he ran as a teenager. Get it here: itch: ettin.itch.io/cringe-wizard DriveThruFiction (print soon!): www.drivethrufiction.com/en/product/5...

“This first independent population survey of mortality in the Gaza Strip shows that violent deaths have substantially exceeded official figures... women, children, and older people together comprised 56·2% of violent deaths” - Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

For my @xtramagazine.com column this month, I explained why Gavin Newsom's flirtation with anti-trans policy won't win a single conservative or centrist vote for him and also makes him a non-starter for trans lefties. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The list of Epstein skeptics has grown beyond Michael Tracey. It now includes media gadflies such as Subway Jared and Martin Shrkeli. They are joined by libertarians like R. Kelly and Elizabeth Holmes; moderates including Andrew Tate and Vladimir Putin; and new right rising star Lord Frieza

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

every high profile anti trans critic has an origin story that goes "years ago someone asked me to respect trans people and instead I chose to go insane"

Like, everyone basically acknowledges the Iraq war as the foundational American crime of the 21st century and the primary inflection point for the decline of all aspects of American power and quality of life And we're about to do it again but worse, everyone acknowledges that, and nobody cares

The Poll Realists only want to sacrifice trans people and immigrants, never Israel or foreign military entanglements, both of which are world historically unpopular across the entire voting public