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sure. fuck it. headphones make you trans. whatever i don't even care anymore

every single company that goes bankrupt because of the crisis caused by companies spending fake money on fake products that nobody wants is a company that spends real money on real products that everybody needs and i think that should be taken into account in the eventual criminal trials

i am really trying to love Cairn and Cairn is really, really determined to make me hate it, and what really makes me hate it is that i am pretty sure its capacity to be awful to play is going to turn out to perfectly serve some lofty artistic purpose that i'll like in retrospect

if they're going to keep calling these things Intelligences, then the Intelligences should be considered authorised employees of the companies that market their services, including for liability purposes

okay look keir, things are heated right now, but you can *probably* weather this (unless you lose that one by-election to the greens, but that's out of our hands). just keep your head down and don't do anything openly provoca- keir? keir? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Drafting a poll. Hilary Cass has been spouting a lot of stuff that should get push-back in the media, but doesn't, like policing haircuts and nicknames to prevent trans cooties. Yet bc of the Cass report ppl treat her as an authority. Who wants to see Cass interviewed by @ichotiner.bsky.social ?

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vote labour: because you're probably faking it for attention

This is fucking despicable. They’re copypasting their abuse of trans people onto new targets now (and many of the same targets, given how much overlap there is). I had to fight for a shared care agreement with the ADHD meds that I fucking need to function. Taking them from anyone is beyond cruel.

i still haven't found words equal to what wes streeting deserves

They've already got that sorted, they get schools and GPs to file safeguarding reports on kids which then need to be investigated at great length to establish whether there is a safeguarding problem that needs to be addressed & puts a red flag on the kids file so they face extra scrutiny needlessly.

among other things, we should never stop demanding that transphobes resolve their ridiculous proposals down to ground-level detail. how are you going to police haircuts and names? and changes to such? will you institute a name court? who do i report a transy haircut change to? spit it out!

this whole affair is honestly very boring and the most remarkable part of it seems to be that nigel farage has managed to turn a tedious procedural provision into a circus, drag keir starmer into it, and make him blink. now it's a u-turn talking point. labour snatch defeat from the jaws of nothing

Welp, in what is a fucking horrifying additional twist, that's @arstechnica.com out of my rotation permanently. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

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OK Tracer Bullet was good but I assume we're all in agreement that this is the all-time BEST Calvin & Hobbes strip, correct

#CursedZillow The tub.... The stones............. time is a flat circle...........

if this has to be a news story it should be that a qualified and competent doctor has been run out of a struggling NHS simply because she is transgender

This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage. I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong. Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole. Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you... (Photos AP)

i dunno. i think this is perfectly workable? we just need coverage from the thriving and well-resourced games journalism industry to drive interest and discussion, then- [finger to earpiece] oh. uh. hmm. well okay

if you asked me to diagnose the western game industry's current problem it would start with "landlords have absorbed basically all disposable income"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

i'm often guilty of taking transphobes too credulously. i take so much pleasure in pointing out the absurdity of their arguments - they are so fucking stupid - that i forget to consider whether literally a single one of their foundational premises is not just made up. and now look.

it's not FOR us

"Shock Doctrine"/disaster capitalism is a wacky leftist conspiracy theory UNLESS you are a disaster capitalist, in which case it is just the normal thing you do at work

I'm assembling an elite team...

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I share this only to help those contemplating whether to tweet "I support Palestine Action".

the bullshit is still fully in effect but this ought to be a huge embarassment for the government, which, given the other things currently being a huge embarassment for the government, is fucking saying something

May Labour's Yvette Cooper, the former Home Secretary, be remembered always as the politician who imposed the ban at the behest of Britain's powerful weapons industry, so it could continue to profit from the deliberate massacre of the people of Gaza

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

You all saw the guidance that went out yesterday for trans kids in schools. Absolutely horrific stuff. This is how the right wing papers are covering that news. Times, Mail and Telegraph all have it on their front page, the first two as their main story of the day. Guardian's coverage included

whoever is the first to bring to market a TV with a great 55/65" panel, full suite of inputs and absolutely no Smart Features besides enough of an OS to have a settings menu is going to make *so much money*

Oh you mean the company funded by PETER THIEL?

give us Revengeance you god damn cowards

look we know that we've done literally nothing but cut spending for going on 60 years and it's accomplished nothing except making things worse but can you *imagine* reversing course now? when we're so close to eliminating spending entirely? our entire reporting team has lead poisoning

“Steph, would you like to record a cat noise for an Edmund McMillen game?” “Sure, what’s the worst that could happen?”

if you've ever in your life changed a single setting in OBS you are probably more qualified to work with any kind of archive of recorded footage than any one of these chucklefucks

The distinction being made between "migrant" and "taxpayer" is unsurprising, but extremely revealing.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

When a company immediately lays off the devs of a live service game, it's not because it wasn't an immediate hit, it's because the plan is to maximize any profit by running the game with a skeleton crew. Post-ship layoffs are the plan, not a reaction.

Its incredibly ironic the games industry is obsessed with the functions, semiotics and stylistic language of gambling but unwilling to actually take a gamble on anything