the thing that gets people confused about LBOs is that they don't realize that it isn't the person/company organizing the buyout (the "sponsor") that takes out the loan, it's a new company created for the sole purpose of doing the buyout; that new company then *merges* with the target

Been trying to read some isekai lately.

lol CR switched to a worse subtitling pipeline so now they have flashes between lines and unreadable monospace fonts for onscreen text

charlie brown on msnbc saying that he "always believed" lucy would allow him to kick the football. "at some point she's gotta not pull it away"

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

made a thing, yes I know it sucks youtu.be/BU3clkL2xsY

okay so we all know that there are plenty of h-manga artists who will happily draw any anime girl with a massive cock, but there are some characters that it happens to *consistently*, and I think it's a particular archetype? fern, bocchi, miho, yukiho, takina, suletta… all soft-spoken but powerful

made a thing, yes I know it sucks youtu.be/BU3clkL2xsY

taking a stance against simulated "non consent" in porn is idiotic and leads always to having some dipshit appointed to arbitrarily decide what acts between adults "can't be consented to," and therefore can't be depicted. I'll give you a hint: they will be gay.

The second-order effects are large on everyone else—their employers, their landlords, the IRS who were collecting their taxes, etc—but don't lose sight of how particularly cruel and evil it is on the holders themselves and their families

Important to remember that H1B visa holders have their whole life in the US. The home they rent or own is here. Their family. Their kids go to school here. Being locked out of the US is also in many cases rendering them homeless and away from their family, with no obvious path to return

If you are one of the almost 100 Dems who voted to honor the guy who said the Civil Rights Act was a huge mistake, don’t bother asking Black people to vote for you, donate to you or canvass for you next year. Don’t bother. Please. And don’t be shocked if you get a primary opponent.

kisekoi s2: complete expectations completely blown out of the water. I baaaaarely even remembered s1 and then this crashed in like a fucking wrecking ball to claim the throne. every episode was outrageously good. easy pick for favorite of the season

just to make it explicit, this is all extremely illegal. just wanna make sure we're all clear on that.

protip: open applefeedback://inbox?make_visible=1 to add Feedback Assistant to your home screen (and Spotlight, etc), even on non-beta iOS versions

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

tl-san is on fire today

Prediction: it's the iPhone 26

@victoriascott.bsky.social hey! bought your book at the signing earlier! is this normal or did I get a cool misprint

Tapping the sign

"You can't policy your way out of a propaganda problem" is such a good line. Policy matters, but how you communicate stuff matters more right now.

now and then I see these ads and go "oh, is this for signal or matrix? no? whatsapp? that's weird, my understanding is that that app actually works"

it's transphobic that they don't make bigger dilators so trans girls can comfortably get topped by other trans girls of comedic size

"let's encrypt" but they're no longer asking

daily reminder that AI is bullshit and avoiding it is rational

. o O (Mario Kart pace car)

happy labor day

gonna be real, when I listen to kris_piano_sevenfour from deltarune ch4, I hear it in 7/8 and chunk it as "3.5/4" (1&2&3&41&2&3&4)

LMFAO there is now a company selling hot pockets crisper sleeves on amazon because nestle stopped including them [aff. link] amzn.to/46097rE

still don't get why anyone would want an ML model that writes code for them; the hard part of this job isn't writing code, it's *reading* code and understanding how its components all fit together! a robot that spits out a pile of code I don't understand doesn't solve any problem I have ever had

This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.

a week or two ago I saw a character on ruri rocks say 先ぶり and it got TL'd as "short time no see"

this "passion tax" appears all over the place & should be talked about more. you see it in book stores and game stores all the time excitement for particular work is constantly weaponized to depress wages & pit workers against each other

gonna be real I've just been assuming that lix is short for "lesbian nix", nobody tell me if I'm wrong

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

"every single seed they've been turning the glass slider up and down while looking over their shoulder for approval like a contestant on the price is right"

Microsoft copilot for Excel has a warning not to use it for “business critical” calculations because the answer may not be accurate. Would someone explain why I might *ever* want to use a spreadsheet where results are unreliable?

latest spyfam has a callout post for some of y'all istg

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy. This seems kinda significant.

Gotta say, Stripe customer service just straight up saying "we don't support the sale of any LGBT content" was not on my bingo card for this campaign. Hopefully this will be getting lots of attention from all over soon! Tell any journalists and rights orgs you know about it today!