If the world goes in the direction it very quickly may right now, I do wonder whether some people will feel very silly for having held such strong opinions about the degree to which a fictional character in a video game should make them aroused and/or have pronouns.

Mars-cels seething while their bones decay and tumors grow as the Venus-Chad enjoys a mojito outdoors (with a breather mask) on the observation deck of the aerostat habitat.

God gave me one life and I have chosen to spend it not arguing about Twitch streamers, ever

The goal is to dismantle legacy media. Papers like WaPo have the resources to fight lawsuits and protect their sources. Independent journalism may be more clear-eyed these days, but independents cannot defend themselves from a federal government eager to chill free speech.

Genuine question: when did y'all decide it was cool to let Andrew Callaghan be popular again? Are we seriously going to brush past the multiple firsthand rape allegations brought by multiple women with no connection to one another?

Hate to admit it but Marathon is wearing off on me. Still love the world and gunplay but honestly, when you only have one or two hours to game, you want to play something with a goal beyond loot grinding. Something meaningful and story-focused.

There is, however, an ethics policy at @theverge.com. A very good one that leads to articles like this, which is why it's among the small handful of publications to which I have a subscription.

We are where we are in large part because of adults who refuse to graduate from a child's understanding of the world. Transphobia (and fascism itself) is a retreat from nuance, and it is no wonder that it rose in popularity alongside the popularity of children's media among adults.

I guess boycotting Harry Potter feels pretty trivial to me, because I'm an adult. if someone told me I shouldn't eat Gerber's baby food, I'd be like, that is no problem. I'm way ahead of you

hi, cis folks in NY state! was today a protest day for you? feel recharged? want to take 5-10 minutes & do another achievable thing? the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care in violation of state & city law as an act of overcompliance to trump. tap into the thread to help. ⬇️

It’s sad that the Olympic Council has learnt nothing from history. Why would they, when hate is so easy, like all the drugs that >no one< is taking!? Ironically, the most honest sportspeople were trans, as they had their medications heavily monitored:

Also too: an incredibly wide range of groups on the left will be participating in No Kings - from normie D politicians to WFP, DSA, and PSL chapters all around the country to orgs representing every cause and community you can imagine. A HUGE chance for people to find their organizing homes.

seeing a post this good on your dash is like a wuxia hero emerging from a crowd and performing Heavenly Serpent Death Blade technique

MASSIVE WIN: no one wants to live in the united states anymore

NEW: Imagine your water runs brown, smells like poop, your yard floods with sewage every time it rains — and the government still says your water “meets standards” That’s life in Cahokia Heights, a Black town where Congress just cut infrastructure funding capitalbnews.org/cahokia-heig...

so sounds like the Dems won technically but also ICE got a shitload of money, so much money, earlier so this won't impact them now at all really

[me yapping at my partner while i play marathon]

Bad news obviously but Orwell's Twilight does have way too many talking animals boning at dusk so it's not a huge loss.

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Here's Pritzker promoting fascist ID verification laws while platforming known hack Jonathan Haidt who has already been shown to have done bad science with his claims (Like showing how suicide rates in Europe, Canada and Australia have been actually going down in 2023).

Jermaine hopping on Aubrey's nuts right now is wild. If that's how you really felt, why'd you slink out of the fight? Why'd you put out a half-assed diss and then apologize?

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

It was alway going to come to this. The Heritage Foundation has released an update to Project 2025. An 86-page "Saving the Family" which mentions porn 109 times, and blames it for undermining the family and, by extension, birth rates and the health of nation.

Fantastic and easy to read piece. I agree fully. The problem isn't that Meta used certain design paradigms but that it pushed certain content through those paradigms. It's like claiming that the slides at a water park are addictively designed when the water has been replaced with heroin.

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HBO Harry Potter is going to crash and burn because it's in the hilarious position of being too woke for fascists and too unwoke for progressives. Decent people don't want to support trans genocide, and the ghouls who do are foaming at the mouth about black Snape.

I'm enjoying the solo grind in Marathon but I definitely need a squad because I'm tired of getting absolutely shredded while doing "in a single run" contracts

The US Attorney's offices are filing doomed misdemeanor cases because it allows them to keep migrants detained for months, which fills up beds, which makes money for GEO Group and CoreCivic, which gets returned in the form of kickbacks to politicians and lobbyists. Simple as.

This is an ICE agent at TSA. Post their unmasked faces everywhere.

I would much rather have a table that's well crafted in a traditional way than a shitty table that's taking a bold swing at a stupid idea.

Unsubtle hint: we've also been talking about police and prison abolition, sex worker rights, and ending the war on drugs... And those are the bare minimum table stakes.

not even a question now; everyone decent should get out

To explain what's happening in Palestine, imagine if a US city was hit by an Iranian attack and some Americans reacted by burning down a Native reservation.

Yes, Israel's policy is to nuke the entire region if leadership feels existentially threatened. In other words, the most likely cause of a second Holocaust is Israel, and it would happen in a single afternoon.

Apropos of nothing you might want to Google the Samson Option

A huge underlying and unspoken tenet of Zionism is that Jews get to mistreat Palestinians because we were historically mistreated. As if oppression is a debt ledger that can be balanced with more oppression.

Trump crash plane

I'd like a word with Orwell and Huxley, who promised me that a fascist regime would involve extremely calculated and effective war propaganda

"We tried looking out the window to see if it's actually raining, but we worried that reporting rain would lower trust in media, so we interviewed a few rain deniers at a random diner in the heartland instead."

Israel does not control the US, but it's very clear that Netanyahu figured out it's not hard to play the demented old narcissistic racist like a banjo.

Oops a skeet escaped containment

we should just take the next logical step and make sure the fake regime doesn't exist outside his immediate range of experience. i am once again calling on our nation's leaders to GOODBYE, LENIN! the president

Deliberate, sure. But thought out? No. People begrudgingly accept the TSA as a fixture of American airports, but they still grumble about taking their shoes off. Replacing the TSA with racist, trigger happy psychopaths is like replacing your kid's dentist with Jigsaw.

A large and under-discussed aspect of this regime is how they're staging a Truman Show version of the presidency for Trump to exist inside of. It's not Mussolini's face on the Palazzo Braschi. It's putting up pictures of the birthday boy at his birthday party.

Fascism is an internally incoherent ideology but I've arrived at a definition better than those proposed by Eco, Griffin, or any of the other scholars. On a personal level, fascism is simply what happens when you can't enjoy yourself without feeling shame and project that shame onto others.

If I’ve learned anything about writing from @tacobellquarterly.org, it’s

Those news announcers who did moral panic reports about raves back in the day really should have predicted they'd be sampled in sick ass drops until the end of time

Runners log, stardate whatever the fuck. I have spent all day playing Rook and jumping into team exfils at the last second while shouting, "Hey guys, want to be friends?" They usually do not want to be friends but cannot kill me before we exfil together.

As is my job, I'm testing Spotify again. Haven't used it much in almost 4 years. It's a weird experience. They finally have lossless but it's not bit perfect for some reason. The algorithm feels somewhat better than Apple's but in a way that also feels overly curated. I'm a crate digger by nature.