Okay, putting it out there now. If you message me asking me to absolve your guilt for playing the sequel wizard game, this time around the fee will be £1,500 directly to me. If I'm going to be asked to absolve your guilt, I'm setting the rates high enough to make that an expensive absolvement.

There's rumours we might be seeing a trailer for the sequel to "THAT" wizard game this week. To all of you who bought the last one, and said "I don't support her transphobia, but the story means so much to me", you've got a second chance to take a stand and not give her money this time.

This assumes accuracy matters to those employing columnists. Guest contributors might need it for credibility, but staff writers can coast on the org's imprimatur. Their job is to "start a conversation" (i.e. get attention). Any complaints over accuracy are dismissed with "but it's their OPINION".

This political and cultural moment is crying out for people to plainly tell our ruling class of liars, thieves, and charlatans to eat shit. It's the fastest track to superstardom

TONIGHT: Our Misery run in #TheLongDark will end, one way or another. We're still alive despite an aurora wolf taking us down to 16% condition last night. If TLD is going to resort to shenanigans, I'm going to shenanigan right back. Live NOW at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/.

Happy Pride Month - continue voting Labour out of office until the party fixes its heart or dies.

one of the infinite ways in which the existence of trans people makes the whole world better is the way my transmasc friends have totally reframed for me what masculinity can look like when it busts out of that prison and it’s beautiful actually

I don't need to be "protected" from seeing porn, I need porn artists to be protected from being debanked, having their work stolen by AI, being abused for the content of their work, and going broke.

so birth control makes women smarter, got it

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

Every headline about Trump’s flailing foreign policy is “What if pigs could fly?” And the then subheading continues “if pigs could fly everything would change!” And then the lead is “everything we know about pigs is that they cannot fly and will never fly… but can they fly just once?”

TONIGHT: Our Misery run in #TheLongDark continues. We have the full suite of RNG afflictions now and 12 days to survive until we get the achievement. Can our rheumatic-jointed, icky-tummyed, mind-haunted, frigid-boned girl hold out and defy the doubters? We're live NOW at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/!

PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

We can't sue them all one at a time. This needs to be a matter of law that you can't just steal someone's image and content without ... oh, wait it is. We just aren't bothering to punish companies for mass plagiarism.

I've spent 16 years engaging the public about medical history. I am genuinely passionate about what I do. But now, all my hard work is being stolen and repackaged into a soulless app. The internet has turned all of us into products. I am genuinely scared for the future. /End

I'm releasing a book in October, and all I can think about is how this will be another thing that I put out into the world that will get scraped and stolen. Or maybe no one will read it because apparently no one reads anymore. Both scenarios are terrifying to an author. /2

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

Hi. Librarian here. Let me settle this once and for all: audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. It's all fucking reading. Stop gatekeeping and stfu. Thank you an have a good night.

Lord, deliver me from think tanks and geopolitics "thought leaders" invoking the Thucydides trap in the year of our lord two thousand twenty-six.

SAY TRANS RIGHTS WITH YOUR WHOLE CHEST, DEMOCRATS.

seeing big active fan groups show this support and solidarity is one thing, but having these messages amplified by the clubs themselves is so important. attacks on trans women are attacks on all women, and the more women’s sport pushes back against anti-trans rhetoric, the safer we will all be 🏳️‍⚧️

Those films sold millions of us "anti-colonialism is nihilism", "good people get to do the surveillance state as a treat", and "environmentalism is the French Revolution (which was bad)", but they've rejected him because he thinks Lupita Nyong'o is good looking

The funniest thing about this is that Chris Nolan arguably made the most commercially successful right wing art of recent years with the Dark Knight films, and they're currently melting down at him for mildly unracist casting

Anti-porn, anti-sex worker, and anti-sex censorship directly corresponds to a tilt downward into a more ideologically conservative and oppressive society. Regardless of your personal comfort with nsfw content on the internet, it's absolutely critical to support it right now.

TONIGHT: Our Misery run in #TheLongDark continues. We have 72 hours until the game hits us with all the afflictions we've dodged so far. Can we craft a bow and arrow and then race to Coastal Highway before our stomach and joints turn against us? Find out NOW at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/!

Re: my previous quoteskeet -- apparently streamers will be able to turn off or limit GIF use in chat, but something tells me this is going to be foisted upon us regardless of what we want. Twitch has to show its paymasters how hip and forward-thinking it is by publicly guzzling the AI juice.

Definitely can't see any way this gets abused and/or turned to nefarious purposes.

See, if you're working all the time, there's no time left for organizing to demand reforms

Honestly it was undersold what a catastrophe this was. To most sports fans in a ~20 year age range they'll be losers until they win the World Cup, people still aren't gonna be that interested this year unless they make the quarters.

required reading. there were trans people who have known this the entire time and i've never faced such hostility from cis people when trying to tell them the facts. most of them didn't want to hear any of it. your concerns were not reasonable or fact based. it was a witch hunt.

This is very cool. This type of support for trans people should be the bare minimum. It's really a shame that Steyer is the only one in the California governor's race willing to stand up for trans people like this.

let trans kids play sports let trans kids do things with their friends let trans kids participate normally in society

these bans, however, aren't even based on athletes like lia they are mostly aimed at a tiny handful of trans girls who aren't even serious athletes at all and mostly want to do shit like "play field hockey with their friends" they're performative cruelty aimed at the most vulnerable among us

important context for the one (and literally only one) example that the "trans girls in sports" panic was built off of lia was a good swimmer who, post-HRT, was not remotely exceptional by the general standards of female athletes these bans are based on flimflam and bullshit

TONIGHT: We're halfway to the Misery achievement in #TheLongDark, but the worst is yet to come. Tech backpack check, forging done, now we have about a week to get hides cured, craft, and stock up on food before the next afflictions hit. This is gonna be tight. Live NOW at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/!

It's like the people in charge of Japanese outlets haven't even tried utter capitulation and unflinching support for the government in exchange for temporarily staying off the central government's radar. Y'know, like a proper independent journalism outlet should.

Blue Origin needs to be a profitable enterprise that stands on its own two feet. Let me tell you why. Because it’s a measure of its relevance When we were planning that spaceship explosion, I didn’t pick what was going to be blown up, or which departments. I said, follow the data. Follow the data

If it is, it seems ill-conceived. “Do the emotional labor or be oppressed by the state” is the sort of line that makes more feminists.

Further, there is nothing AI can do for me. Nothing I *want* it to do for me. Even if it wasn't an inept plagiarism machine, I like writing, editing, rewriting, planning, researching, all of it. I want to do all of it. I want humans to handle the stuff beyond my capacity.

Doesn't speak for me, either. I don't touch the stuff. Storytelling is a human endeavor. Publishing is a human endeavor. Writing and reading and being-read is all about humans reaching out to humans. No AI. Fuck AI.

It brings me immense joy that billions of dollars have been spent on trying to convince people to use GenAI and most people are like lmao no.

I cannot stress enough how much this is a blatant lie meant to make you feel like you're missing out. No writer worth their salt is touching this shit because we all know what a farce it is. AI is only seductive if you're a hack.

There's gonna be an event for games by nonbinary people and they're looking for streamers and press who want to cover it! 💖

We're complaining to the Charity Commission about Sex Matters describing women who are trans using women's spaces as "deviants". The language is unacceptable (and the statement is wrong in law). We're looking for other examples of it (staff or Trustees) using inflammatory language. Share below?

This sounds super cool and looks fantastic. As I post this, there's 14 hours left to support their Kickstarter. Go give it a look and kick them a few bucks if you like what you see. I'm definitely backing this one. www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...

losing my shit because the dev of Butterfly Soup is making a new game that's like if Pentiment was set in Chinese folklore and had a Disco Elysium skill tree, and the music is being composed by the same person who's doing Delphinium kotaku.com/butterfly-so...

The largest emitters wanted to deflect their role in making the world uninhabitable, hence they meticulously crafted a PR campaign to reframe it into an issue of personal responsibility to blame the victim (the working class, people of color, and the Global South)

Very happy to hear this. I played the Nighthawks demo during Next Fest last year and really dug it. I've been thirsting for a quality vampire RPG since finishing Cabernet, and Nighthawks looks tailor-made to slake that thirst. An easy Day 1 buy for me.