nice argument. however i have already portrayed myself as the calm zack polanski and you as the seething ed balls.

Centrists on here will say, "oh you want to firebomb a Walmart? That pales in comparison to my strategy, voting" and then firebomb a Walmart

I honestly think it's really bad that the shit billionaires say to appear cool is lifted exactly and unmistakably from the incredibly misogynistic forums that directly inspired many mass shooters

I love this essay very much!!!!

Why Was I Invited To An Island Off The Coast of Costa Rica By A Genetics Company? (With apologies to Dan Olson)

if you’re not paying attention to minor news cycles in british politics fist of all congratulations second of all you’re missing the entire media and political class defend day drinking on the job right now

Landlordism is to the UK a little like healthcare is to the US - there’s this system that absolutely cripples people and far too little conversation is directed at the fact that many, many similar countries simply don’t DO it this way.

The two original developers have joined forces and have completely re-written the classic emulator ZSNES, which I'm sure you all remember and used all those years ago! This new GPU-powered version is called Super ZSNES! More info and download here: zsnes.com#features #snes #emulation

"autism should only be reserved for those with significant impairment" If, god forbid I fell under the radar and years later masked as an adult well enough to not be noticed, I'd still be autistic, but suffering in silence. That is the flaw in this. "High functioning autism" is still autism

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

Starting a pre-shooting manifesto with "Hello everybody!" has some real big "no worries if not" email energy.

indie game marketing is untenable right now, bro allegedly took a shot at the president and it got him 22 concurrents

They're saying the lone gunman was an indie game developer? Have they considered that maybe he wasn't working alone but actually had the help of several contractors who are going unacknowledged for marketing reasons?

excluding ONLY kash patel as a potential target within the administration is the funniest thing i’ve ever seen. trump is firing him with the next week

⏰ We need to act fast! ⏰ We have less than a month to flood MP's inboxes and get them to rip up the EHRC's transphobic guidance 👇 https://goodlaw.social/lezs

the form needed to even get an appointment at my GP asks; what are my symptoms? what treatment have i tried? and (incredibly) what would i like them to do? you're just outsourcing to your patients, so fucking excuse me for showing up with preconceptions www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

you hear the one about the indie game developer who failed to assassinate the president? they say he had scope issues

So let me get this straight: the Guardian was willing to entertain TERFs who called trans men "predatory sex perverts" for taking "cross sex hormones," but when cis women take "testosterone" for sex, it's fine? Remember when you didn't report that one of the largest TERF campaigners was a pedo?

the observation here is that these people were advised, with nothing but the best intentions, by diligent and conscientious professionals, that it might be in the interests of their beloved child to be assessed for this thing, and their *immediate and vehement* response is "absolutely the fuck not"

The anti-trans playbook is being wheeled out against neurodivergent kids more and more in UK papers [Saturday Times]

Great essay, worth reading. We are "ruled" by sociopaths. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

know how whenever there's a new bit of hogwarts slop there's (a) a big ad push essentially infantilizing anyone still on that bandwagon and (b) a bunch of unprovoked disclosures about how "oh i'm an ally but i'm still playing the harry potter idle game. Because magic"? that's perseveration marketing

by "extinction-challenges" i mean just little jabs to stop. The casinos have gotten really good at this, they make it look like interest in the mental health of their customers where it's actually sort of like if your dealer could send you wellness reminders about if you'd smoked crack yet today

i've been hovering around this for a while but i'm just gonna come out and say it: the future of marketing is finding an antisocial or self-destructive vibe in a common activity & doing snap extinction-challenges until a population of (ideally) whales mentally breaks into endless perseveration

if i was a cis woman with a painful condition that can often only be treated with removal of the uterus i don't think i would want my advocacy in the hands of someone whose political belief is that the uterus alone is what confers womanhood

i like how British politics is a struggle between youngsters who think their Da needs a pension and said Da who votes Reform because he thinks the youth are all scroungers

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

*Mis*ter Donaldson... it appears you've been living *two* lives. in one life, you call yourself Mister Beast, viral youtuber... you game your metrics, you play the algorithm, and you... have your *mother* manage your *employees*. in the *other*... huh? this file is empty? no personal life *at all*?

WAITER: would you care for dessert JEFF: i’ll have the jello GEOFF: i’ll have the geollo JEFF: jesus christ not this again GEOFF: geosus christ

They're doing the detransition thing but with autism now.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

This is genuinely such a huge relief. I was fully expecting this to pass and the mass slaughter of disabled people to begin in earnest We just get to keep at the current, slightly slower, level of murder of disabled people

sorry

me in 2015 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister vs me in 2026 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister

i just experienced a glimpse into a parallel timeline where i developed and produced JRPG Manager (working title), in which you scout, recruit, coach and manage JRPG parties, drill their tactics, develop their teamwork, and mediate divine callings in a world they believe long freed from gods

It consistently amazes me that the dipshits in charge of just about everything right now think they invented EVERYTHING. Like here mr beast condescendingly explains his extremely rudimentary narrative structure. Rising action keeps people engaged??? WOW WHAT A NOVEL IDEA

okay i'm gonna try and do a Politics Prediction. let's see how we do. okay everyone stand back i'm gonna post one

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Admin Lowtax The Dipshit? I thought not. It’s not a story LinkedIn would tell you.

It's almost as if you can actually ask users what they want, test it, and implement it if it seems like your users want it, instead of just making shit up and implementing things, then having to revert when your users flip out. Seriously...who's running product over there?

Who is in the mood for some good news? Not only are most people pro-choice (we knew that, but always nice to hear it repeated), but there is a pro-choice consensus shared by - 94% of Labour voters - 91% of Conservative voters - 95% of Green voters - 86% of Reform voters

i'll never stop being annoyed about this. there is no such thing as AI. there is no definition of AI. Claude, the Spotify recommendation algorithm, Nvidia DLSS, Agent Smith, bots in Counterstrike, HAL-9000, and Inky, Pinky, Blinky and Clyde are all things called AI

USERS: you're alienating the people who actually use your product BLUESKY: likes are now florps USERS: what BLUESKY: images goes sideways

Gonna start using “did Claude tell you” as an adult equivalent of “did your MOMMY pick it out for you”

Papa! Papa!

The Grimms' Brother

This bit is extremely Nintendo

So @why.bsky.team is no longer mass blocking via this list, probably as a kneejerk reaction to realizing he doesn't know how his own (likely vibe-coded) feeds work. He is instead spending his morning manually blocking trans people and furries

Had Miyamoto died in 1998, his achievements would have been immortal. Had he died in 2013, he would still have been a great man but flawed. But he is still alive and complaining about movie critics. Alas, what can one say?

OTACON: Snake! That code is only good for the next four minutes! You'd better use it now or you'll have to start the whole process again! SNAKE: hrm