Apropos of something deeply silly: there is nothing on this Earth more obnoxious than deliberately using a word in a way no other human being has ever done and then doing a smug little dance when people judge your words by their plain English meaning.

It really is unfair for Christianity to keep promising a day where God kidnaps all the worst people you know and then not delivering.

Philosophers really are the tech bros of the humanities. Once you decide your job is thinking about thinking, it becomes really easy to convince yourself you don't need to learn a single actual fact.

Launching a new business? Thinking it might be neat to make a lowercase name part of your brand identity? Please spare a thought for the people who will have to wrestle with grammar correction while writing about your company. Then shove your marketing team out the nearest available window.

will never understand how Canadians became known for saying “eh” when we should be known for our ability to make the phase “okay buddy” mean everything from “of course I will give my life for yours” to “I am the drunkest man alive and I am going to fight you in this parking lot”

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The heading on this old column of mine reads “This article was published more than 16 years ago. Some information may no longer be current.” If only. It’s zucchini season again. Stay strong, people.

The idea social media wrecked dialogue is ahistorical. There was no innocent time when people held more nuanced views. There was just a time when you didn’t have to hear from the people your conservative buddies were hurting. Show me this supposed golden age of conservatism. Give me actual dates.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

I also fucking hate that it is being framed as a Porn Ban when it effectively banning trans people from digital existence is so much more monstrous. They're both terrible, to be clear, but one is THE ERASURE OF AN ENTIRE MARGINALIZED POPULATION FROM THE INTERNET and it's being treated as a side

This would make it illegal for any site that has trans content--not just porn, but everything from trans people posting selfies to essays to comics and stories featuring trans characters--illegal in the state. You've seen how fast the Age Restriction shit spread. Don't pretend this isn't possible

If you've ever looked at Stationeers and thought "looks interesting, but seems like it needs a major update or two," I'm happy to say the that's finally happened. Replacing the generic terrain with handcrafted maps has really breathed new life into the game. store.steampowered.com/app/544550/S...

The unspoken argument behind "he was taken out of context re: killing gay people," is ultimately not that he *didn't* endorse killing gay people, but that Christians have an absolute right to call the brutal killing of gay people perfectly, divinely just without even the mildest social consequences.

I usually consider myself pretty desensitized to transphobia, but that Matt Walsh post he quotes genuinely makes me feel nauseous.

What I'm taking from the last few days is that a lot of journalists are like babies. They don't know words, but pick up on tone. So "Aww, does God's perfect law say to stone gay people to death? Yes it does, yes it does, my little baby journalist" sounds totally civil to them and they coo and clap.

Good, time to twist the knife and ask the commentariat why they provided hagiography for this man now acknowledged to be vile

So as it turns out, there is such a thing as a perfect victim, but it's exclusively when the guy is so tremendously horrible that it's "inappropriate" to quote his actual beliefs in the context of his death, making him entirely above criticism forever

The replies to this are really something. The one truly unifying feature of American culture across the political spectrum is toxic, brain pickling gun fetishism.

Every day the United States gets closer to “It was just locker room child rape.”

Michelle Obama: Sometimes it's nice to eat carrots. RFK Jr.: I want to bring back smallpox. The Atlantic:

Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

James Dobson won't hear how you hope his spirit is tormented by demons for all eternity, but other evil people who've contributed nothing but misery to this world might and hopefully they'll know people will celebrate when they pass away too. Ask not for whom the crab raves, they rave for thee.

you shall rule immortally over a devastated and depopulated earth. everyone you love will long be dust and ash. for now, you will spend every waking hour with your time-tossed future daughter who is a living testament of the horrors to come. sailor moon:

"Epic Bacon, $12" feels like something out of a particularly low effort SNL sketch about Elon Musk opening a restaurant. The man really is committed to being beyond parody.

What you all fail to understand is that liberalism is when a trans person isn't a perfect clone of me.

Shout out to The Necromancer's Tale for being really great in its own right, but also for being great in a very specific way that makes you feel like you're playing the coolest Neverwinter Nights module imaginable. store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/...

Gadget specifically is probably the first game I remember playing, certainly the first game I was obsessed with, and layed the groundwork for Riven permanently breaking my brain shortly afterward.

jordan peterson: it seems today that… that all you see is violence in movies… and sex on tv? [crying now] where are those good… old fashioned values on which w-we used to rely? [voice cracking] we need some sort of family guy… a man who [sniffles] positively can do anything t

Happy to admit I was extremely wrong about Signalis. Dropped it for being too heavy handed with its references, came back to find it actually pulls of the improbable feat of repeatedly shoving a copy of The King In Yellow in the player's face in a way that's actually cool and emotionally affecting.

It’s not just that the President of the United States has announced on social media that the US has bombed Iran, it’s that the President of the United States bombed Iran so that he could announce it on social media.

9 years ago the NBA pulled the All-Star Game out of North Carolina because of their anti-trans Bathroom Law. The choice had massive public support and was applauded Less than a decade later and half the country has those laws, including Congress itself, and barely anyone blinks LESS THAN A DECADE

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.

Jesse Singal should never get another night's sleep

seven years on the dot.

Incredibly bleak. So many people—children—are going to suffer terribly for no reason beyond the personal animus of a few lawmakers and judges.

Apocalypse World 2e remains one of the absolute best RPGs out there. Incredibly excited to see what they do with a third edition.

Watching the Netflix Rob Ford documentary. I shouldn't be surprised that nobody who worked to elect and protect Rob Ford has the slightest shame for having helped put an absolute piece of shit in charge of Canada's largest city, but I'll admit I was expecting at least a hint of introspection.

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers. This thread will dive into its activity. 🧵 1/x.

When I heard the mom of a trans girl say the night her daughter came out to her was the first time she'd ever seen her child happy, I knew it was a story I needed to share. These are the stories the public isn't hearing. An honor to get to report on 3 family's journeys for @teenvogue.com.

remember when the New York Times ditched its public editor on the grounds that editors and reporters would listen and respond to criticism and feedback on social media so the role was no longer necessary

Journalists when Kekmaster88 is mad at them: Where did we go wrong as an industry? Me must engage in deep soul searching and also immediately give thirty seven weird monarchists regular opinion columns. Journalists when trans people are mad at them: Yet more proof that we are bold truth tellers.

Transphobes like NYT "investigations editor" @virginiahughes.bsky.social love to do the thing where they defend transphobia and then sit around reassuring themselves that the angry reaction from trans people proves their point. Absolute ghouls.

Tell that to the families her reporting helped terrorize. She's a transphobic piece of shit. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

It's truly bizzare how specifically obsessive many journalists have become about displaying this kind of outrage when some colleague is critized by trans people. @virginiahughes.bsky.social hasn't felt inspired to post here in five months, but suddenly it's all hands on deck.

That certainly was an episode of Doctor Who.

If you’re a PBTA fan who hasn’t played Apocalypse World yet, you are doing yourself a massive disservice. It is one of the best games and one of the best game books ever written. 10/10 as close to perfect as perfect gets. All rpg fans of every genre need to read this game.

happy birthday to Deirdre Skye, leader of Gaia's Stepdaughters, canonically born today, May 28, 2025.

I remain endlessly frustrated at these gormless corporations desperately trying to make VR into the more heinously uncool product available. It's VR! And you can get it fully self-contained as a console in the headset itself! And there's tons of great games and social stuff! That's ALREADY COOL!