I don't think tropes are a good way to help you decide what to read, actually. I'd even argue they are not that informative.

Gonna take some hours offline. Have to vacuum, take a shower, and there's a new Magica Riot project that's entering revisions. Your support of my writing is my income, so I appreciate you all. If you've ever wanted a trans-centric extremely gay leftist magical girl universe, I have it for you.

Please share this piece with your followers. Us Iranian adoptees have a community too. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

On days like today, with so much uncertainty in the world, I’m reminded why community matters so much. Grateful we had our mutual aid knitting circle this morning to slow down, be together, and hold space for each other.

If you want to browse what's left of the old web, Wiby.org is a place to start.

In a related inquiry, I'm trying to track down the source on a 90s era website called Women on the Net. There's a lesbian dating site with that name founded a few years ago. But apparently Roberta Angela Dee founded an earlier site that was an early TWOC resource, according to TransGriot.

anyway, I've become radicalized onto a maximum proliferation stance, every state on the planet should have at least one nuclear bomb to ensure world peace because apparently that's the only way to cause it

During the pandemic, when I was deep into Dirt Rally 2.0, I dreamed about going here. Near Seattle! drive.dirtfish.com

Sounds like it's time to bring this post back, or update it if anything about it changed bsky.app/profile/acva... On another note, I'm glad they're in talks with adult-friendly payment processors, and I hope they'll be able to figure something out

I hate how unsurprised I am. After finding out that VRC's age verification is run through Persona, it felt like a matter of time until they started cracking down.

A reminder that payment processors have contact numbers, email address, and physical locations to which letters can be sent. yellat.money

Even if some of it may be illegal, it's the US government's duty to step in and not that of private corporations.

There has to be a way we can collectively bring these payment processors to court. Gumming up their systems clearly wasn't enough. What they're doing is obstructing legal industries and extra-judicially banning legal goods and services.

VRChat and VTuber marketplace Jinxxy has been hit by payment processors. VRChat creators and users, this should be read as more than just targeting a storefront. It means paypros are aware of what’s going on with VRChat’s NSFW space

Yup! Like...there was a time in real human history where "ram your ship into the other ship" wasn't just *a* way to do fighting, it was THE PRIMARY WAY TO DO IT.

"It became necessary to destroy the country in order to save it" - Israel and U.S. governments context: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...

Must we degrade cornered raccoons by comparing them to fascists? Cornered racoons are infinitely smarter, kinder, more rational, and— dare I say it?— better hunan beings, than fascists.

Opening up new fronts when things are going badly is a sign of desperation for sure. But it's sort of like seeing a cornered raccoon scratching and biting and saying, "oh that scratching and biting is a distraction." And, like. It's just what they do, dude.

What "it's a distraction" people fundamentally need to understand about fascism is that fascism's entire mode of operation is diverting popular anger/anxiety/despair into channels of violence against the Other (both internal and external). It's not flailing, it's the whole strategy.

they’ve wanted to kill iranians for 50 years. if anything, to them, epstein is an unwelcome distraction from that long term goal

I am already seeing "it's a distraction!" takes and please fucking kill me

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one of these days, genitally-obsessed bigots are going to realize how close they are to not passing. 🙄

The same BBC that straight-up referred to trans women as “men” in an article on their website a few days ago?

Another example George w bush loved to play pretend that he's a 'dumb redneck' meanwhile he graduated from a ivy league school Harvard Business School. Meanwhil his father George H.W. Bush was a oil baron and a former president and the former head of the cia under Ronald Reagan.

"The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked, and unjustifiable."

Kill the independent, impartial BBC News in your head.

if DF didn't have a decades-long history of being an absolute shit excuse for a human being, I would be inclined to agree.

Why do these sound like the junk the Pravda published years ago? ...If it turns out these opeds are all just "ai generated" from a database handed to them by the TASS, I'll be not surprised...

Shorter: "Suffering is pleasing to god" "It should not, however, do so by ... extinguishing the lives of those who suffer or the lives of those whom we believe might suffer in the future." unless they're trans, or not white, or an immigrant, or homeless ...

Of all the drek the @nytimes.com op-ed department pumps out, DF is the worst. "A decent society should do all it reasonably can to reduce human suffering. It should not, however, do so by extinguishing the lives of those who suffer or the lives of those whom we believe might suffer in the future."

Now, this is why we've only seen "small" wars in the latter half of the 20th century rather than another global conflict - where international trade and diplomacy failed (twice!), assured total atomic destruction worked. But the downside is that if any state ever fails their int check, everyone dies

But we aren't a bunch of goobers in the 1940s, we've got decades of exponential development and we all know that a nuclear weapons doesn't win wars they end *worlds* Their only reason to exist is to prevent direct attacks because if you attack, you can be struck back with overwhelming force.

This moment makes it abundantly clear via the logic of nation state game theory: No nation that wants to be externally regime change proof should ever denuclearize. And, y'know what, I think that's a pretty bad precedent to set. I hate these stupid motherfuckers.

The only time anyone has ever made a nuclear weapon with the intent to use it in war has been the first time, because no one at the time knew about the radioactive fallout, nor how destructive the bomb would be - nor how much MORE destructive they'd get.

people are going to bring up the Iranian nuclear weapon program as if this exact thing that is happening right now is not EXACTLY why they wanted it

This movie literally opened with, “Here is a lesson in relative resources and why our heroes can’t simply throw all their ships at the other side and expect success.” I know people have trouble with symbolism but these are basic facts.

I've mentioned it in a thread before but, like...people going, "The holdo maneuver breaks star wars/doesn't make sense" just screams to me that the person in question just...has...not read much sci-fi

Meet the new strategy, same as the old strategy.

This article does a good job of summarizing each country’s response to the US-Israeli aggression, one by one.

EU urges 'maximum restraint'; mediator Oman warns US 'not to get sucked in' further into conflict https://aje.news/vsic3b

The only people the American regime sucks for more than Americans are literally everyone else on the planet Note I said "American regime" not "current regime" - the current one is worse, but that doesn't make the prior ones "good"

Be safe, Iran-jan. Be safe. You all deserve so much better than all of this.

The Iranian government in itself was established, secret police and all, as outcome illegal US interference and support in Iran decades ago. The Iranian people are now suffering evil from the US as punishment for the actions of the US against their grandparents. There is one evil here.

Nothing is surprising about the US starting another war. Nothing is more dangerous to Earth and mankind at large than the United States and its complete and utter failure to curtail the worst excesses of humanity. The US oligarchy and its influence on global politics must end.

How could Donald the Dove do this?

Apart from the overtones, claiming this is a "war for Israel" reverses the direction of causality. Israel has always been a weapon for whichever Western power/s were its major sponsor/s at the time. They are at war — all of their wars — because we want them to be.

They hit this level of vileness, like, one week into the last admin and have only gotten worse