trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

I have a new life goal if I become rich

I tried the Pilk at Dunkin Doughnuts and had a slight crisis when I realized that it tastes just like every other thing at Dunkin Doughnuts - because it's just milk and corn syrup. Like every other beverage available at the establishment.

my big takeaway as always is there seems to be pernicious online culture and understanding that media has to be made for you and specifically you and if its not its bad somehow, and not only that but if you don't like something you have to be loud and insufferable about it lol

Dicey Dungeons is $3.74 right now, and that is crazy. Impeccable design, music, and art. store.steampowered.com/app/861540/D...

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

i believe that harnessing solar energy is immoral. that energy does not belong to us, it belongs to the sun, and it's going to come back to get it when it consumes the earth in several billion years. don't take what isn't yours. you don't need lights at night if you just remember where everything is

MAY THE FOURTH BE PAT YOU! lol we're putting Later Alligator on sale today the 4th for FOUR dollars! $4.13 US, $4AUD, $4CAD, 4 euros! FOUR! Buy it for 4 friends. Use your last 4 smackers for a fleeting moment of alligator passion. Play it four times. Send me four angry emails. Later Alligator!!!!

it's so fucked up that 'roguelike' now means you get three random upgrades at the end of a level instead of "occasionally the game will generate a gnome with a wand of death and obliterate you (in the event that you havent already died accidentally falling down a set of stairs while overencumbered)"

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

Eliza McLamb had an apt analogy abt modern fandoms: Fans no longer treat creators as creators. Fans treat creators like stock options they’ve invested in; like they’re part owners of a creator’s work just by *being fans*, and therefore get a say in what creators make/how they act. And it sucks.

what if we made the whole country out of ballroom

"surveillance is good if you don't like the people that are being surveilled" is a deeply unhealthy mindset even if you have a good reason not to like them

Had to do AI training which basically concluded with "you can use this for everything EXCEPT where it could impact health/safety/quality/compliance/etc or where you need the information to actually be correct." Cool so I can use it to make a slide deck about how I spent my summer?

Kid me: There is good and evil. Teen me: There's no good or evil everything is shades of gray. Adult me: There is evil and it's revolting.

Diana finds a cartridge #Pragmata

Sorry but I will never submit to the idea that humans are cruel. I’ve had many cruel things happen to me but overall my entire life is a result of persistent & unyielding kindness.

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he drinks an Irn Bru / he drinks a Mountain Dew / he has a Surge or two / his highness dog at Kew / he sings the songs that remind him of the good times / he sings the

never fucking trust adult catholic converts. yes even 20yos. if your catholicism isn't some half assed embarrassing memory that was primarily used for family to throw parties i don't want to know you

today sure feels like one of the all time ‘so i still just gotta go and do my little job during all this?!’ moments

logging on

I'm not sure there's a single trait in rulers that is more universally criticized in the canon of western political thought that susceptibility to flattery. The favorite president of west coast Straussians and various other avowed Western Civilization Defenders *brags* about it.

Counterpoint. We can and should. Every bomb . Every missile is a theft from our future.

I'm convinced that a large swathe of left-of-center cis folks think of trans adults as a group completely separated from trans children, as people who made some kind of quirky life choice once they were old enough. But Every. Single. Trans. Adult. was once a scared and confused trans child

this argument is always such a tell that the speaker conceptualizes the US as an extension of Europe, rather than as part of the Americas

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

I truly believe that Harry Potter was so popular because the concept of being put into little societal castes was very appealing to Westerners, particularly white ones, with no culture or tradition of this- they feel special and chosen, a sense of pride. White people crave this lol

"separating the art from the artist" is an analytical tool. it arrests the impulse to try to read the artist's mind when you're interpreting their work. if you want an adage to keep in your pocket when you're making consumer choices, try "follow the money."

I’m not a business genius or anything but if you shed 1800 jobs in three years, while owning one of the most popular entertainment products in history and the tool used to make it, maybe there are other questions to be asked somewhere.

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

My wife has NEVER played/watched anything Pokemon but is now obsessed with pokopia and goes into gaming fugues with the switch. She only breaks the near silence occasionally when a new pokemon has been introduced, sounding astounded and a little offended by shouting their name: “Tyrogue?!!..????”

Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

thanks to AI our slow and humiliating national suicide will be punctuated by visual media that is so good even a dog could jack off to it

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

As I've said many many times -- and as has become inarguably clear in the last decade -- reactionary politics is not an alternative set of moral & political values. It is a permission structure to disregard values entirely & indulge in atavistic instincts. It's permission to be shitty.

Paddymaxxing since 2019. Play Dicey Dungeons in Irish on St. Patrick’s Day 🎲☘️💃 #stpatricksday #diceydungeons #indiegames

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

It is important I get 8,294,400 pixels (4K) at 120 frames a second. Otherwise it just doesn’t feel real. It is ok if half of those pixels are just kinda guesses based on zettabytes of YouTube and pornhub my graphics card watched

The ability to buy anything on account of having too much money wrecks a person's brain just like a zero-gravity environment destroys muscle mass and bone density. Human bodies are designed for resistance and they liquefy rapidly without it.

pointing up and saying “all glory to God” as i scoop up my magic the gathering cards

a while back a guy I knew was trying to justify having gone to Curtis Yarvin's wedding, and his girlfriend said "Don't you find him thrillingly contrarian' and I said 'That's how boring people excuse being racist'

HORSES won the IGF Nuovo Award. We’re profoundly grateful. To us, this recognition also speaks to a broader idea: that no gatekeeper should decide which games deserve to exist or what counts as art. Thank you to everyone who supported HORSES and helped carry it this far. PS: What a wonderful team!

I *really* don't want to be a downer but to me the precursor to Doing is Saying, and not nearly enough of this Party is saying what needs to be said. About punishing the villains, about abolishing billionaires, about ending elite impunity. Too many want to leave the rot but change the branding

To be honest you could put any jpeg of the current economy in there and the line would be correct.