Update (boooo!):

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.

This guy here is dead 👇

neither pro-Stancil nor anti-Stancil, but a secret pro-third thing (going outside)

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

working on setting up therapy stuff for the five year old and my god is it expensive to get the help you need in this country we are extraordinarily lucky that we have the resources to do it, but so many people out there do not

We are all in a state of constant panic and terror. It’s important to take a second when you see something online that triggers you to ask yourself “am it really triggered or am I just experiencing nonstop psychic damage from the world and my brain sees this as an outlet for my fear and rage.”

I haven’t really posted anything in a few days because I don’t really have anything to say that’s not overwhelmingly obvious. this is all bad. it’s getting worse. we have to find a way to stop it. fascism is bad. not sure what new insights I’m going to have at this point.

i don't know what to do about a system where people in power believe the antisemitic CSAM generator is too important of a platform to leave because the worst pundits on earth think the platform signals something about free speech

It's Their Time

Congress: ‘If You Wanted An Expensive Foreign War, All You Had To Do Was Ask’

I really shouldn't try to play concurrent survival horrors. I'm mistaking items I need in Crow Country for items I need in Tormented Souls 2.

The vaccine autism thing is bullshit but even if you believed it, it seems incredibly fucked up to then believe that raising child death rates is some sort of worthwhile trade-off to reduce autism rates

Bluesky: what if people who can't afford houses formed an HOA?

“we are going to viciously Main Character people over innocuous shit” is maybe not the best way to get people to migrate away from the Generates CSAM At Will app

That whole “Minnesota fraud” scandal is a completely made up racist lie and the media is eating it up and presenting it as if it’s a genuine scandal. I’m going to lose my mind

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Saw someone talking about Mario and referring to Goombas and Galoombas as being “different races”. I guess that’s right but it also seems nefarious

Almost nobody I know likes Klobuchar but she always wins and it's never particularly close. But you know who does like Klobuchar? My mom. So I guess that's the answer. Politics isn't for people like me, it's for people like her. And I guess I'll take Amy over the Pillow Nazi.

Thinking back to simpler times, when everyone was happy that the Animal Crossing dog and the guy from Doom were dating

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I swear to god if he gets off on a technicality, all of this, all of the past decade, with all of its horrors, will have been worth it.

Anyway, thank you, ridiculous internet discourse, for distracting me for that last 15 minutes of the Steam sale, thus protecting my financial interests. Me and Crow Country will get along just fine.

i think the lesson here is not really about threads, which remains irrelevant, and more about the wildly overstated importance of twitter. there's a very small number of people on twitter who make it still unfortunately "relevant" and then 150M phonies bots grifters goobers and perverts

What I don't understand is how a fandom that makes roughly 8 billion posts a week to the tune of "Haha, I'm weird! Be weird around me, embrace weird <3" can get so bent out of shape over someone being like "Huh, that's...weird." Are we celebrating weird or are we totally normal? Which is it?

Yeah, it has long been the case that adult-oriented businesses have to be careful or risk the wrath of everyone from prosecutors to payment-processing companies, but "prominent social media company owned by world's richest person swiftly became world's largest CSAM producer" produces no reaction.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, could you please establish an official NYC Mayor account on Bluesky and post everything your office is currently posting on X over here? And please remove all city accounts from X, which has become a CSAM creation and distribution site? No money for Musk, ever, please.

Another brilliant maneuver by our completely unstoppable overlords

Anyway, it seems worth pointing out that Tina Smith is retiring. That might be nothing. Or maybe it's something.

Walz basically confirming that he's bouncing in time for somebody fresh to take a stab at it who the media can't as easily collaborate with the GOP on sinking. It's so stupid that it always works this way but while some are mad at that he's conceding, I get the logic. They've done it to him before.

Minnesota has to come first - always. Today, I’m proud of the work we’ve done to make Minnesota the best place to live and raise kids. I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work.

The first western nation to permanently ban the X platform will be a hero of democracy.

God damn it. And this fraud story is just racist bullshit but white people will believe any god damn thing you tell them as long as it's a brown person's fault.

-Person who cares about me praises my work Me: You're an unreliable witness or a fool. -Stranger lightly criticizes work Me: You are a genius, and I, nothing. -Adversary actively trashes my work Me: Haha, who the fuck are you? I break MOUNTAINS with my cool rats & cute lops, sit down, dorkass.

Update: Drawing the rat.

Glancing at the store page for Signalis and re-registering this complaint. I just want to know how the game plays, that's what the review is for, cover the rest of it with your therapist or trusted associate. "This game made me feel alone yet - " OH MY GOD ARE THE PUZZLES GOOD OR NOT?!?!?!

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Me watching Simon's Cat: British backyards do be like that tho

It's about time we start taking on that asshole's stupid name.

my strongest social media belief is that threads isn’t real

I give this website a lot of shit but one thing I genuinely like is that there seems to be this growing attitude of "Alright, now that we're all together in one place, we need to talk about some of this silly shit we do." Makes me feel less crazy.

Top notch cartoon dragon, I admit. Although the wing situation gets more bizarre the more you stare at it.

A good dragon from the cover of a 1983 issue of Electronics & Computing.

The aiming system is still clunky as hell but Crow Country's been pretty solid so far. A good Steam Deck game, especially when Tormented Souls 2 is too much effort for me. Not really scary, graphics look too silly to be scary, but as a love letter to classic Survivor Horror gameplay, not bad at all.

I have Strawberries and Cream Chex. Suddenly life doesn't seem so hard, anymore.

Two Aliens Looking At Bluesky

i want to stress again that every time i try to explain this shit to normal people i sound like i have to be institutionalized

So like, did Hans Moleman ask/pay somebody to throw a football at him for his film, or did a neighbor just happen to catch it on video? Why have I been fated to agonize with this mystery for 30 years?