Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I think a lot of people willfully ignored the problematic bits of Harry Potter because they were still getting enjoyment out of the series. Now that Rowling has shown herself a monster, those same people are reevaluating the parts they glossed over.

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

I remember the sermon where Jesus said, "Blessed are the prison guards..."

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

What a deal! @larianstudios.com

I'm grossed out by the fact that this looks like a father and daughter shot.

Also, we are not people, just generators of their capital.

Call of Duty doesn't count as armed service kids

Also very Japanese American internment. So many family homes and farms seized for pennies on the dollar by white neighbors

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

Opposition party doing so good that they’re gonna pass a law that exists already and tell us it’s a win 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

NWA said it best. Fuck the police.

This is the bad place. I'm agreeing with Rand Paul.

The administration is an extortion racket.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Buried lede: a cabinet secretary claims to have been taking direction from someone who has never held a Senate-confirmed position

The only reason LLMs use the em dash is that it's a COMMON PIECE OF PUNCTUATION. That's like calling something AI because it capitalizes all is proper nouns.

Answering a direct question is "playing games"? Huh.

Wait, I thought Obama was going to take all our guns.

My sweet puppy, Georgiana, crossed the rainbow bridge, this morning. She was at least 13 years old. We don't know her exact age because we got her through the cat distribution system (people who abandon dogs should be whipped). Now she's chasing cows and squirrels in the great beyond.

She's canceling herself before she can be canceled, again?

Don't call Gruppenfuhrer Kurzmann "Gestapo." Check.

Call of Duty is the worst thing to happen to both gaming and society. CoD convinced a bunch of Couch Commandos that they were elite warriors who now get to live out their rage fantasies as ICE agents.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Fixed it.

I just fucking can't today.

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Newsom, in my mind.

Drop an alien that's not from Star Wars or Star Trek

Every accusation is a confession.

The reality is that 2024 was a fundamental test of the moral character of the nation and we failed spectacularly. We’re living with the consequences now. Maybe we improve. I hope so.

"Otisburg? OTISBURG?"

Except, in German, the moon is a man and bread is non-binary.

Part of the reason we messed up the original Reconstruction is because we were uncomfortable with dealing with the realities of the level of harm America had done To the point we chose those who caused that harm over the safety of others and we have SUFFERED that ever since

Will Stancil is wrong. This is who we are and who we've always been. Becoming a more perfect union requires us to recognize in stark terms where we've fallen woefully short of our ideals and to strive to correct that.

With respect, I understand the need to foster a national identity that resists authoritarianism. But reminders of the Trail of Tears don't undermine this effort; they strengthen it. Excluding these histories makes U.S. authoritarianism harder to recognize because its patterns no longer feel familiar

Cool Rerunnings (Also if you know what a "rerun" is, time to schedule a colonoscopy)

I've actually read Adam Smith. What these guys are practicing is not capitalism. They actually don't want competition and would prefer to be the invisible hand.

Why do I get the feeling that this is an op to conflate whole milk with raw milk?

Slightly diminish a game. Tracksuit Larry: In The Land of the Couch Lizards.

I have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there: As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.

Morally, this is correct. Politically, this could backfire for us and up his cachet with the Christian right. Evangelicals don't actually believe that Catholics are Christian.

Republicans somehow managed to sprint from “we’re trying to protect women in sports” straight to defending a woman being shot in the head three times at point blank range for trying to drive away from a masked thug.

I'm waiting for the center to host a Kid Rock concert.

Carter featured in quite a few films of my childhood. He was always a strong presence. RIP.

Yes, Musk's policy of allowing diarrhetic trolls unfettered access to the pool leaves us with a toxic swamp of brown sludge, but if I get out of the pool and decontaminate myself, the diarrhea wins.