what an astoundingly stupid time to be alive

Opening up comms again. Length of the story will be roughly 3k. It easier to just go by vibes rather than try to force a word limit. I'm pretty open minded to gender/theme, but if something goes outside my comfort zone I reserve the right to refuse. more info: www.furaffinity.net/view/65147969/

Just to make things extremely explicit this is one of my biggest motivations for fighting for FREE and UNIVERSAL electricity service delivered by a state owned utility company. The future is not for everybody until we change most of the rules of infrastructure we use today.

SURE, healthcare is totally unaffordable, your carefully built up savings can disappear and the greedy oligarchs won't face a single consequence, everything costs more, you can't afford a vacation, but AKSHUALLY my charts say the economy is good, have you considered _you are just an idiot_

Republicans are rich and it's still taboo to say that, despite that the thing they hate more than anything on earth is taking away their ability to lord their power and money over lessers.

But it’s to protect women, you see

Since this has taken off, I'm gonna boost my friend's mutual aid post! Please throw some money Ally's way if you can!! bsky.app/profile/jaye...

Eternally relevant:

Trump [addressing a crowd of 84 people]: The RED Tower [uncertain cheers]. They say no one has seen it. I’ve seen it. It’s not very big. We have big towers. You remember Markie Post, beautiful woman, gorgeous

Trump assured the media that upcoming Gas Station Carnival at the White House would be "simply wonderful. The Showman will be there. A very good friend of mine, and we never see his face. But maybe we will. We'll see. We're very strongly considering showing his face."

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

I don't think about the day I get to stop working and travel or enjoy my projects and garden. I think about the day I can no longer work and lose my health insurance and stable income.

That's part of the broken social contract that I don't think the no-take-only-throw-ass economics overlords don't get. I now see any funds I have as my only defense against indiscriminate predation. I have figured out you will kill me and drain my corpse.

also like, my measure of "wealth" now is how much of things going wrong you can bounce back from and maintain a basic standard of living. It is not about improving said standard of living. I want a house so I can't be priced out of my apartment. I want retirement money so I'm not homeless at 70.

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

They will lay me off, they will end my health insurance, they will raise my rent until I can't afford it anymore, they will destroy the tools I use by making them shittier or subscription-based or both; everything I depend on or enjoy will be Disrupted for some boy-king dipshit's funding round

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

I just introduced the Anti-Insurrectionist Act in NY. It's simple: If you're a New Yorker who takes from Trump's illegal January 6th slush fund, NY will tax 100% of it.

being trans is not a negative outcome and neither is being autistic

For no particular reason I was thinking about horror adventure Lily's Well today, which you should really play if you haven't already. It's free, and ~2-ish hours long. Content warning: Incredible amounts of graphic child suffering. I promise the ending's worth it though. It sticks the landing.

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this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

I do think that when it comes to mechanical elegance none of the current crop of indie horror games have come close to Flesh Made Fear. its iterations on the RE formula are minor but impactful. i wish it would get talked about more so its mechanics would have a wider influence.

I think Crow Country's biggest strength is its a dark comedy puzzle game wearing the skin of an RE clone. It's closer to Sanitarium than Resident Evil.

… burning out after months of sustained psychic anguish at the hands of their fans? It’s heartbreaking. I’ve said it before, but it’s no wonder Toby Fox set up an anti-fandom bunker for himself.

Man. Nothing… quite bums me out like the way social media magnifies a creepy, hostile, possessiveness towards an artist’s work while simultaneously fostering an active antipathy towards the artist themselves. Seeing artists make something innocuous for the expressed purpose of spreading joy…

There was this turn in the early 2010s from "oh shit we can directly communicate and support our favorite artists?" to "we are now entitled to the mental real estate of the people whose stuff we like" and it's part of how civilization died

Well, in an ideal society, there'd be a barrier between an artist's public face, an artist's private face, and their fans, but once we hit the 2010s, we ensured artists couldn't have that as much if at all, and what barriers they did get were dependent on privilege and opsec.

I don't know if it's a hot take or not, but Abiotic Factor is definitely capital W Weird Fiction.

TRUTH. You cannot understate how little most people (myself included) cared about Hasan Piker but, apparently, giving Cuba some tourist money and saying genocide is bad make him the Most Controversial Man in America.

On this day in Horror History, THE BROOD was released in 1979.

This part.

Don’t leave them alone in Gaza. Hammam is a volunteer nurse caring for the wounded daily.His family is homeless, hungry & lost everything. His brother is ill with epilepsy & needs urgent treatment Any donation can help get food & medical care. Please don’t ignore them 🙏❤️ chuffed.org/project/1580...

Real resistance led by workers.

so do liberals think trump starving cuba is a good thing or like what like please try to explain to me why you are gloating here because it looks like you are allied with trump when it comes to cuba

The Forty Year Old Twink was a sequel to Forty Year Old Virgin that died in pre-production

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Meth-head, fine; dried-up, I see your point; call me a twink and I’ll see you in court

I will remain annoying about this until each and every one of you read my latest personal essay 😌🫶

If sex and gender were so fucking innate it wouldn't take a whole cultural apparatus to maintain them, would it

One thing that keeps me going is remembering how deeply anti-human our opponents are on a fundamental level. Maybe what you make won't "make it" but at least it'll be made with a joy these people can't understand.

It's so hot here, I could do with some rain. Most of TURNCOAT takes place in spring and summer, but even summer gets rain on occasion. And Jamys is meant to be out in it, not trapped in a small room. #WIPSnips

Serious, consistent attention for Palestinian life. Food, medicine, disability & baby needs, shelter. Pretty amazing. But then take action for their lives. Enough talk on this app. Something real. chuffed.org/project/hope...

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

The thing about the US is that we can’t even build a single high-speed rail line and the department of transportation of the largest, wealthiest state wants to waste people’s time by studying a fake mode of transportation. These two facts are related.

Oh man I loved her song Baba O'Reilly