Hey @rebbford.bsky.social @warframe.com as we pack for a move, my younger brother found an old program from #PAXEast 2015. Warframe was part of the ESL Arena schedule - anyone on the team have recollection of this? Was the prize provided by DE or ESL?

from the moment it was founded activists and human rights watchdogs have warned that DHS was constructed to be an almost unaccountable private paramilitary force at the president's sole disposal.

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

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I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

It’s extremely cursed to watch an HBO show from the brief period when the opening credits just say “MAX Presents.” The “Democratic Kampuchea” of streaming.

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

Can confirm, gas prices in my part of Mass spiked another 20ish cents over what they were on Friday.

No snow in Colorado also means no water in Phoenix and no water share for Mexico. Looks like the FO is starting.

Corpus Christi, Texas, appears to be on track to become the first modern American city to run out of water

so it starts

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

I guess Waymo shouldn't exist then.

NEW: @nathaliemarechal.net and I wrote for the @bostonglobe.com about the new push for "age verification" (aka mandatory online ID checks) in Massachusetts and how it will hurt kids and help Trump. Send this to people you know in MA and tell them to send it to their state senators & the governor!

@clairemax.bsky.social I had to shout out your performance as ARIA in today's upload from Kyle. The increasing exasperation as it went along was delivered perfectly and made me cackle. 🤣

Laughing at the idea that the "first order of business if Dems win House/Senate" should be to re-introduce the right-wing immigration bill Biden/Harris tried to run on in 2024 to take the immigration issue off the table by making a ton of concessions to the anti-immigration right.

With April Fools coming up here’s a reminder that making your community panic thinking they may lose you over a fake graduation post isn’t funny. Those people support you and make you who you are don’t deserve to have their feelings messed with. 🩷

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Also, another thing on endometriosis research: it’s incredibly fucking important to study endometriosis in all genders, because not only has it oddly appeared in a few cis men, but trans men do seem to have higher rates of it. We also REALLY need to study how hormones affect it.

the first time i flew to the US in 2007 I took a bottle of aftershave my wife had bought my for xmas. a border guy at LAX took it out of my bag, looked at it and just straight pocketed it. extrapolating that out into what ICE are gonna do is like a line going straight to hell

@raindrinker.bsky.social started playing the 0.8.1 demo this evening for #ultrapool - having the split balls from Fortune Cookie'd Dice is a nice touch. They're obviously smaller VISUALLY, but do they have different physics for being smaller?

Late game examples of how silly this gets (and yes, I lost on this round, but I don't mind, it got *really* silly) #Ultrapool

Managed to beat Classic All-Nighter on #ultrapool by @raindrinker.bsky.social @icedropgames.bsky.social *on the Android version* before doing so on desktop. I have to rectify this immediately. (also, game is extremely good, and the demo is free. GO PLAY IT!)

@icedropgames.bsky.social the discord link in your bio is expired when I try to join it - anywhere else I should submit feedback on Ultrapool?

You should be calling out Israel when they try to conflate the two, not reinforcing their fucked up narrative.

Like... man, you've got to stop conflating Jewish people with the state of Israel! Israel *absolutely is* responsible for this war. As is the U.S. There's no question about it. If you actually cared about antisemitism (he doesn't), you should be working hard to separate the people and the country.

Few people have done more to increase the amount of antisemitism in the U.S. than Jonathan Greenblatt.

Let’s start by ripping the media out of right wing Klan adjacent hands and give them back to people more like Walter Cronkite and Walt Disney. Media ownership should require a loyalty test for the rule of law and human decency, not to Trump. The current crop would all fail. This is a frightful list.

Just straight up state-sanctioned terrorism.

There’s nothing more obnoxious than when people celebrate being an asshole or “just saying what everyone’s thinking” Yeah, dude, most people have edgy thoughts, and learn to keep them inside. It’s called control. What you’re doing is like being really proud of constantly shitting yourself.

1. Attacks on LGBTQ+ people have always been tied with the erosion of democracy. Now, a bill has just been passed in Florida that lets DeSantis remove elected officials for promoting pride/LGBTQ+ people in their official capacity. No court hearing necessary. Subscribe to support our journalism.

i don’t know how this is supposed to work in terms of intelligence but whatever these guys do is taking stuff that is not theirs to take and then sell it for the highest possible price electricity water clean air knowledge you name it they should be treated like the common thieves they are

Dear members of the Senate: if you vote to confirm Mullin to run DHS, people should absolutely hold you personally responsible for every atrocity ICE and CBP carry out under his leadership.

HOLY SHIT. A dark money group, hidden behind a bunch of shell companies, is paying influencers thousands of dollars PER POST to attack @katmabu.bsky.social on social media a month before her election. Thank you to the people who declined the money and went forward with this. So who's behind this?

Picked up #Ultrapool during Steam Next Fest this past weekend and holy hell does Icedrop have a quiet hit on their hands. Perfectly scratches that roguelike itch. Did run into a weird bug late in a recent run, though, and I have no idea how to reach Icedrop to tell them?

Hard to see this as anything other than Stelter sucking up to his future bosses over at Paramount

It's been wild to watch as some ostensibly liberal people like Debra Messing have just had their brains fried by algorithms since October 7, 2023, and are now indistinguishable from the most hardcore MAGA supporters.

i’m so excited for peace in the Middle East. we’re only one war away.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

average person cheering for war in iran

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

Guys he's not starting a war to distract from the Epstein files. He's starting a war because he wants to start a war. Killing people in other countries makes him horny. If it also distracts from the Epstein files, great, but he doesn't really give a shit either way.

Dusting this one off again:

"Look, it's okay for moderates to say they won't vote for someone because they're too progressive, but progressives aren't allowed to say they won't vote for someone for being too moderate/conservative"... for reasons. Uh huh. Sure.

Even if you fully intend to vote for whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being, there’s a huge difference between doing that quietly in November 2028 and loudly announcing it years in advance with zero conditions attached.

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

You have to be a complete sociopath devoid of a soul to say something like this about fellow human beings. This is a sickness and Brianna is rotten to her core.

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

Translation: I will steal this election, and my lawyers will find a thin excuse to justify it.