TGAs feels less like “Video Games Oscars” and more like “Video Games Pro Bowl” - Weird, deliberately murky voting system - Half the people probably don’t want to be there - Dubious financial incentives - When you look at a list of past participants, there will be some real head scratchers

since we're doing USPS discourse again, a reminder of what Dems should be saying

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Fund social assistance programs fully and aggressively so that the only leg these people have to stand on is the one that says “I don’t think those people deserve help” — a position that should have them rightly pariah’d

The kind of data that both makes me question the value of these kinds of breakdowns while also endlessly fascinating me In other words, the PERFECT data

A couple things I’ve been thinking about Zelda games for a while now - Zelda lore can be cool, but Zelda plot is usually a real letdown - If your story is driven by Link, I don’t think I’m interested? He’s always seemed better as the audience surrogate - Impa still rules

Mandatory follow-up reminder that “I’m too smart to get fooled by the propaganda” is the way 80% of people get fooled by propaganda. Take steps to learn and educate others, but make time to ground yourself a bit and make sure you’re not falling in the traps yourself.

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The corollary here is that practically none of those voters have ever considered how *intentionally difficult* it has become to immigrate to the US over the last several generations. “They can come but they should do it legally” is a refrain that shows an ignorance of the state of the system.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Read this thread. This is what @katmabu.bsky.social was protesting, and why she repeatedly says getting beaten up by ICE outside is nothing compared to the torture and crimes being committed inside Broadview. These thugs must be held to account.

While I’m excited to boot out Youngkin and I’ll be riding the high of a Mamdani win for the rest of the week, I’d love it if the DNC could stop being greedy little shits for like A DAY Hey, what are you planning to do with that $25 before the polls close? Is that really gonna get you over the line?

The corollary to this is that we just never get the opportunity to test the inverse - I’ve never had a Mamdani on the gubernatorial ballot in VA so there’s no telling how he’d perform here. Maybe he’d beat Earle-Sears this year too, but whether we’re likely to win or lose, we always run a Centrist.

dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani? great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com

As someone who grew up merely sports-adjacent and is now an invested fan, it sucks that I took for granted the chances I had to watch Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky play. It’s why I never hated watching Tom Brady, why I could never hate watching Shohei Ohtani — I’m happy to see greatness live.

This is how. Every Dem, please, this is how. EVERYONE in the media, please!!

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

This mf destroyed homeless' camps with his own hands.

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

I am simply not fucking okay with yet another liberal plea to sacrifice the lives of trans people on the same day we find the Trump regime caused another one of our sister's death and is blaming us for 42 million people losing SNAP benefits.

The reason “cozy game discourse” can never find purchase in my brain is because it’s got such a nebulous definition and it even changes *within a single game* Sure, some parts of Silksong can be cozy to steep yourself in, but others make me feel like I need to take a shower immediately

Okay, so we’ve gotta talk about SNAP and what it represents to the modern Republican. This is also a story about 2020.

"If something evil is popular, is it still evil?" is basically the defining social question of our time.

This is the good shit The kind of move you can make in your workplace that makes a difference to someone when it feels like the 8-10 hours spent grinding that day most certainly DID NOT The perfect “this cost me nothing extra but made your meal that much tastier” seasoning we need to use liberally

Co-sign, unless “talk to” also includes “yell at” — because I will never not yell at my computer.

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College has always been the turning point for Conservative control fantasists. When the kids leave a Father-led Churchgoing Household™️ to go to college it’s the loosening of that jar — the first whiff of possibilities outside of that control. How do you expand your influence? Control the schools.

Call your reps right now and get REAL LOUD about how you don’t want to be held hostage by a senile pumpkin who thinks breaking the law is fun

I’m genuinely asking, if you read a single review of mine this year, make it this one

The whole, "they're using the same bathroom as little girls!" thing is so weird. Yeah man you use the same bathroom as little boys.

Each time a Democratic candidate or elected official falls for the trap of using the Right’s shorthand for whatever Good Idea™️ they’re trying to make poisonous to the general public, we need to bop them on the nose with a rolled newspaper and tell them “NO”

When I got the first email that she was running, I asked everyone in my circles to watch as *one of the only Democratic members of Congress whose voting record is to the Right of some current Republican members* would be painted as an irredeemable extremist. Hopelessly predictable outcome.

I mean, here's what Republicans are openly saying should happen to people like me. Seems a bit Nazi-like, tbh!

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

that’s it. i’m going to become the jonkler.

@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

The USPS is a *necessary service* for the average American and we need to be loud about fixing it, not simply replacing it with for-profit solutions. Case in point: I’d love to know why my package got within an hour of my home before receiving a short vacation to go 10 hours away to see New England

ive never seen anything like rhetoric coming from the right in the last week, this is absolutely insane and it needs to stop and people in power need to start speaking the fuck up like right the fuck now

Jean Grey leaves the X-Men after realizing that knowing everyone’s unspoken fetishes makes it extremely hard to focus on work in a team setting

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

This has legs. The number of interests I passed on when I was a kid because I didn’t want to ask my parents to shell out the cash we didn’t have is innumerable, and I’m lucky (and grateful) that I landed in other places that didn’t foster Bad Behavior™️

Time for people to learn about Nick Fuentes and Groypers. I apologize in advance. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

What this means, functionally, is that a great many people who are just trying not to think too hard about these sorts of distinctions are willing recipients of “the narrative”

I don’t think it’s particularly hard to hold these two thoughts in your head at the same time: - he’s a net negative on American/global society by an incredible margin - public figures being assassinated is A Bad Thing™️

Silksong community: you have a chance to surprise me here, but I think I’ve got your number

Whenever I think it’s time to put my nose to the grindstone and start pitching essays again, I come across one like this that reminds me that whatever I was cooking up needs more time in the oven. This is smart and succinct, a read well worth your time.

Good lord, 25 years ago I was sitting in a computer lab learning about how I could use Google to find accurate information on the internet, and how to avoid using disreputable sources if they came up in a search. Now, Google is *becoming* the disreputable source, but with a name you can trust. 😬