Good to know from a (former) Nintendo lawyer that fan-art is reason to mobilze the troops at a moment's notice, but a fascist regeime using directly stolen Pokemon assets to recruit for the nu-Gestapo is something the company would (likely) let slide. My decision to not buy Nintendo, validated.

I’m going to successfully unlock the 8th gate of death like Guy Sensei in Naruto and destroy my body through Taijutsu. Write it up because that’s way more plausible than this dogshit

Reminded of the discussion in one of the Discworld books about the difference between art and dirty pictures; with the eventual conclusion reached that it's art if a vase is involved somehow. Or at least a nice plinth.

Yes… ha ha ha… YES

(guy driving a bulldozer thru rush hour traffic) - i'm a mad king. you thought you had civic infrastructure and the separation of powers, but i'm tearing this whole thing down. if you have cut rate car insurance, all this could end up on your dime. so let allstate protect you from mayhem, like me.

smokey is kinda the same color as my couch (grey) and that makes me happy because i can pretend she's being sneaky when she visits me on the couch

Conservatives are angry and ready to unleash The Storm, as long as it doesn't involve a 10-minute walk

You can't just tell your dog he's handsome all the time, you also have to compliment his job performance

top 200 baby woohoo (kill me)

I'm not trying to be a jerk when I say this but loving the character is what got us the Apprentice and by proxy what got us Trump.

I fear it's impossible to convey to someone who doesn't intuit it how catastrophic this philosophy is. I think the closest thing you can get is "death cult"

Ross's "conservatives must be above informal judgment, or else" goes hand in hand with Trump's "conservatives must be above the law, or else". If society will not accommodate them in all their unpleasantness, will not "say thank you", they would choose a state of nature & the war of all against all.

The implied social contract between you and a cat is they get to live in your house and be gross, and you get to bother them a little

I'm pissed that they're blaming women for a nonexistent "autism crisis." I'm pissed that they're lying about what autism is and that mainstream people are normalizing what they're saying about autistic people. I'm pissed that this murderous grift is continuing. I'm just pissed.

was basically asked "wouldn't your actions be weird considering your beliefs?" and then assured him he had none of those

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.

Its going to cyber sex *more* children.

One solace is that theres no way this guy is going to do jack shit anything reaembling actual work and theres a gigh likelyhood that it fails and they dont "dewoke" it or whatever

It gives me no pleasure to report that he does indeed have that shit on

instead of renewing your disney+ subscription maybe you should tell disney you're keeping your subscription closed as long as their affiliates are playing ball with trump.

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

"the fascist international must be defeated. what do you mean this also includes my favorite apartheid state?"

"liberal internationalism" (pro israel) and "leftist internationalism" (russia apologetics) are the only things on offer? lol

I'm gonna be real US liberals have not demonstrated any capacity whatsoever to organize itself against what I often see referred to as the fascist international. I don't think US leftists are either, to be frank.

fuck i'd forgotten all about his piss wizard outfit

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

man, same

my stance on Abundance is simple: if it's not the Rebecca Guay one i'm not interested

I was told foreign aid is bad

Manchin on his hero celebrity centrist tour pisses me the fuck off. He could have been a monumental historical figure in heading off the worst symptoms of the disease, leading a narrow dem majority thru a paradigm shift. Instead, his old tick ass protected the status quo in which his family rakes.

Joe Manchin singlehandedly blew up Biden's welfare agenda and caused child poverty to ~double. Andrew Cuomo literally conspired with Republicans to give them control of the state Senate

for all the flapping about Uncommitted during the primary it has always been the Blue Dog centrist types who are most disloyal to the party

A cool thing about this post is that if you didn’t have the article attached it could be about more than one person

Very surprising to hear that the guy who impregnated his own step daughter is maybe a pedophile

the reason regular people care if senior dems endorse mamdani is that they are not quietly sitting this one out because it's a local race, they are constantly crying about his existence to the press, and making incredibly stupid bad-faith demands while they do it hope this helps!

Suddenly it's incumbent upon Mamdani to reassure "Jewish voters" (which ones?) that he's not a raving lunatic and bigot despite him never having said anything bigoted whatsoever and merely believing that an apartheid state objectively practices apartheid. Suddenly it's about "concerns!".

It is very funny that Arabs and Muslims were told for a year that they had to swallow every single conceivable bitter pill and support a candidacy and a party that was sponsoring the murder of their families but suddenly a Muslim wins a primary and the two leaders of the DP can skirt around it.

Even down to how they exploit the changes in diagnostic criteria to suggest there's some "contagion" or "epidemic." What those changes actually point to is a move away from a model of suppression to a model of acceptance, and that's what actually terrifies them

and social / emotional manipulation doesn't even register. speaking as a family law attorney i think half the time the parents don't even always realize they're DOING it, they've just never had a model for what it looks like to interact with a child as an immature and impulsive but still human being

to be honest it's not even just slightly unusual kids. it's legal to hit your kids in most of the United States. it's so normalized that when you describe that to Americans half the time it doesn't even occur to them that you're describing child abuse.

as always I feel obliged to add a disclaimer that the game will not actually have a pronoun selection feature. Or character creation, for that matter. You play as a girl called Naraa. The kind of people outraged about the tweet never quite seemed to catch up to that fact.

Anyway Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori will release in Early Access on November 4th, check it out if you haven't😇 store.steampowered.com/app/2697000/...

Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day

It’s so perfect

lmao what

Fundamentalist Christianity is so performative and hypocritical I do really wonder how many people today are actually upset they aren't raptured.

this would make me want to buy tylenol more