Croix's real good but right now I'm just missing Kim Little with the killer deliveries for the Reign v_v

if, indeed, the purpose of a system is what it does, then the purpose of the state is to identify or create a subaltern, and do violence to them.

I get the feeling a lot of folx would be surprised by just how many states *are* actually de facto ethnostates, even if on paper they aren't, and how many of those got that way through explicit ethnic cleansing / genocide, and how many of *those* happened in whole or in part within living memory

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

You have the right as a human being to make art. That includes art that is not perfect. That includes art that is not good.

Big let down, to be honest

Folks is it ‘Israel First’ to be against Nazi tattoos?

initial rewatch observations: ~ Danger Maddie is just cool as heck on that finish ~ Madison Curry is a difference-maker at fullback in a way Shae Holmes just isn't ~ PRO actually deigning to call an obvious penalty as a penalty is sure a refreshing change!

Policing femininity for cis women is part of the goal of TERFs. In "The Transsexual Empire" (1979), Janice Raymond argues that any cis women who fall victim to the rules and standards GCs set for womanhood are "acceptable casualties" in the goal of eradicating trans women. This is what they want.

Poke @sickosfc.bsky.social French play-off just sayin

“Please have 2+ years of experience with an engine we announced on Friday” really sums up the state of the games industry.

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

“swallowing the whistle” makes for unwatchable garbage-tier hockey and actively rewards dangerous play, I said what I fucking said

watch an NHL playoff game wonder if they’re going to be remotely watchable this year lol nope the referees will NOT do their jobs and we WILL watch dudes trying to injure each other rather than good hockey

😩😩😩😩

oh my god

happy memorial day

saw this guy on a walk the other day.

increasingly realizing how much political theory relies on the implicit idea that the outcomes of genocide / ethnic cleansing / dispossession become acceptable status quo after a certain amount of time has passed and the biggest disagreements just seem to be about how many years are required

Madison Curry. I like how she's unafraid to straight up knife-fight you for the ball and think she'd do very well with the extra protection goalkeepers receive.

sadly, sometimes all it takes for ontological evil to triumph is for Kalani Kossa-Rienzi to fall asleep at the back post

well, that was a frustrating loss but at least I'm fairly confident we'll never be the "free chick-fil-a on pride night" team jesus CHRIST what a decision

"Bouanga lost his footing, lost the ball, just seems lost in general" okay lmao that was great commentary, credit where due

Some of us know that a key lesson from The Neverending Story is you do not in fact want to linger in the Swamp of Sadness.

"Generally speaking, I think it takes a special kind of gall to assume that what a desperate world needs is your particular spin on giving up." organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

I’m not really sure how/why this isn’t a DOGSO red???

*record scratch* yep, that's me right there. I bet you're wondering how I ended up in this predicament!

storm?!

This is why AGI isnt happening. Sense perception, movement, and memory are chemistries coupled to each other and all coupled to direct matter exchange with the environment, like a centrifugal governor. Nothing is representation, interpretation, “info processing”, or math.

I am incredibly saddened to share that a member of our Spirit fam, @fooddatanerd.com, passed away last week from a brain tumor. If you are able, please donate to the gofundme for his family: www.gofundme.com/f/randy-his-...

you absolutely love to see it 🥹

(yes, I'm always going to be petty about Michele Kang, but forreal what America did over the last week and a half is WILD)

1. It's almost as if Club America is a good team, and Liga MX Femenil is a good league. 2. It's better for Concacaf as a whole that the championship switched leagues in year 2 of the tournament. It'll cause NWSL and Liga MX Femenil to take the tournament more seriously. #CWCC

Objectively, this might be the best Liga MX Femenil team of all time.

hope you all had a better day than michele kang

I have no investment in America, but I think it's both ontologically good and objectively hilarious when Michele Kang loses

Russia claiming to have never done forced assimilations or population transfers is one of the most audaciously false claims I have ever read from a state actor. The raw mendacity of the historical denial and revisionism is… something.

Investing in the most watched women’s soccer league in the world would be a great thing

honestly you could probably accurately describe both my median sexuality and my average mental health status as “Jenny Lewis half-singing / half-despair screaming the line ‘it’s so FUCKING beautiful’ from the song Spectacular Views”

coffee shop rotation for the day is my “do I have a crush on her or do I want to be just like her” ca. 2003— Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins / Rabbit Fur Coat Rilo Kiley / rkives Jenny Lewis / Acid Tongue The Postal Service / Everything Will Change Rilo Kiley / Takeoffs and Landings

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I have no investment in Barca, but I think it’s both ontologically good and objectively hilarious when Michele Kang loses

ok but if fandom has taught me one thing it's that it's not a war crime if you're really hot

The Artsakh Tourism and Cultural Development Agency shared the news of the church’s destruction on social media on Tuesday, April 21, only three days before the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. hyperallergic.com/azerbaijan-d...

agree. also, people read him very... superficially. he is best understood through contrasting him with Inaros and Drummer. all three are *extremely* similar people, in their ethics and drive, whose differing experiences provide different windows into both the setting and their close connections.

hatching

rare Needling L, ngl 😔

~75% of Boston's xG came in the final twenty minutes (something something game state something something goals change games)

OUR G’LS DID IT WE ARE SO FUCKIN BACK

can we compile all the fouls Aissata Traoré is winning and compile all the identical noncalls for Coco and anonymously send them to PRO asking for several thousand friends