I wonder if this is a subtle way to shut down everything, since in reality nobody in the world actually has "an understanding of how gender dysphoria has arisen" for anyone. So 'we can't proceed until we know why', on each paytent, forever.

The thing where conservatives think they should be able to go to college to teach experts instead of to learn from them shows how coddled they have been by society. We need to stop disrespecting them by shielding them with accommodation; let’s respect their beliefs by releasing them to the effects.

This unironically sounds great? Most of the people I know would watch the hell out of this. You're making *me* want to write it. Shit, this might even be the solution to "What would Studio Ghibli mechsploitation look like?"

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

vancouver city council voted in an egregious budget that only benefits millionaires, billionaires, and cops. here's a very simple action we can all take:

Rome's got it coming.

Ah, another beautiful Christmas in Innsmouth! 🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like fish men...

... Pretty sure amongst my friends it's me.

Both the dog’s cool confidence and the cat’s bitchiness are hilarious.

When the great lines of cinema are discussed no one ever brings up Kevin Bacon in Tremors exclaiming, “I found the ass end!” Because in that moment I really BELIEVED he’d located the ass end of a Precambrian life form buried beneath the desert. Like, he and the writer delivered that reality to me.

Fuck off

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE. It’s time to cancel your account.

"gaming is dead" My dude gaming has never been more alive. Ya just gotta stop hoping that big studios are gonna stop shitting on their own dicks out of greed, and go look at smaller dev teams and indie devs

Sure, but that's hardly surprising. Philosophy, out of all the humanities, is the one most easily treated as a study of old European guys and ancient Greeks, the one that teaches formalized argumentation disconnected from actual lived experiences. No wonder it produces solipsists.

“…and the greatest of these is Hop.” youtu.be/6HVClB6wPrA?...

i hope this is helpful, I tried to be thorough

A plague of frogs on their (ICE's) houses!

L’hymne national du Canada, mais on remplace tous les pronoms avec des pronoms interdits par le gouvernement du Québec?

“A motion calling on the Vancouver Park Board to officially apologize for hosting an upcoming Harry Potter attraction passed Tuesday in a unanimous vote.”

We've been burned before for your warmth. Not going to do so willingly.

Amazing to me how hearing the name "Jared Leto" will instantly turn me off from any movie. Casting him in 2025 just speaks to so many problems with the flick beyond just him.

Many, and yet I have seen so many from other eras. I don't resemble my technical generation very much at all.

My hot take: I think both of these are butt-ugly. Though at least the first one was legible as a symbol...

A brave man dies but once. A brave fungus cannot be killed in a way that matters.

Even if the occupier stops occupying Gaza, it wouldn’t bring back to life the 680,000 Palestinians killed in the genocide thus far. Justice necessitates consequences.

This guy has been screaming for hours about how Jesse Singal didn't violate ToS then says this. This is edging toward Louvre of Bluesky levels.

It'll all be polite and friendly when you eliminate all the legitimately angry users. Rabble like that doesn't deserve a voice, after all! Just look at the happy wealthy white people running the site, who NEVER use that kind of language on each other.

What are we bid that the "healthy discourse project" is going to be the same kind of 'detect unhappy words and ban marginalized users' automated nonsense that Youtube is already ruining itself with?

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

What the Horace Fuckington III does that even mean for an AI image? Did they digitally generate a hymen or something?

I am losing track of the number of times I have gone into a “decolonize” space, either been misgendered or called out misgendering, then been told I’m “too white” to have an opinion and been pushed out

My opinion on Emma Watson's statement on J. K. Rowling is can we stop centering the opinions and feelings of famous cis people in conversations about trans eradication for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES?

So exhausting..

It's hard to more succinctly sum up 2025 than a heartfelt, serious lament from a targeted minority about whether she needs to uproot her life for safety that also contains a pop culture quote reference.

No, this is highly disputable. In fact I'll say we're at least 25 years into Dawkins being a powerful advocate for incuriosity and REFUSING to learn things. After all, his entire stance on trans people (among other things) is entirely feels-based and unscientific.

> The investigation into science's public image didn't even ask about the atheist professor, but it got an answer anyway "Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: 'A horrible person.' We weren't even testing for that."

Then... this must also mean Mario's gloves have the same descended-from-racism pedigree. Which is extra weird in that case. Mario and Luigi are just guys, why would they have gloves at all? Their *sprites* didn't even have visible white gloves until Super Mario World!

@alinapete.bsky.social did you see this? I suspect it is your jam.

Oh man, ARE they! We had a Great one a while back, and the one that's coming is going to be even greater!

We are the Old, my child. When the world was nothing more than green letters on a black screen, long before Switches or XBox or even PCs, when 32KB was enough for anyone, there was Zork. And we were there. There was Frobozz and Flathead and when the lights went out, there were grues...

It's so funny when someone creates erotic or pornographic mods on video games like damn dude you got so horny you learned a trade

... and from here, the darkness GROWS...

"You're listening to CPTSD, your local trauma station! Next up, a we have top 40 countdown of your worst hits! But first, these intrusive messages! Don't touch that dial! I SAID DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL, YOU DISGUSTING FREAK!!"

This is not a dunk: Joke's fine. But it contains a trope I've been noticing lately: Why Home Depot? In the last couple of months it seems like every joke I've seen on here that needed to reference 'innocuous, incongruous location' has picked Home Depot specifically.

Behold: Privilege, enshrined clearly in a single post.