this is leftists. horseshoe theory is complete bullshit.

Looks like I’m totally sold out of my personal stock of LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME— but more are already on their way. If you’ll be at BAMF Saturday here in Bloomington, I’m taking orders & will personally deliver to your door next week if you’re local! Thank you for understanding. 🎁

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

You don't have to kill ALL your darlings, okay?

If you want to explode an art server, mention that girls drawing girls exists and that it celebrates drawing different body types of women and learning how to draw masculine or fat bodies and they'll say "You're taking my pencils from me" when you're telling them there's more for them to draw.

How it started: "You can't name the first leader of Palestine because it never existed." Not true BTW. How it's going: "The Grand Mufti of Palestine in the 1940's was friends with Hitler!" Not true BTW. So I have a tactic I call "Moving the guard." Basically Nazis lie about everything...🧵

Fun fact, in the short story "Tragic Feline Space Program" there's literally an argument about the project being a tower built upwards, where one cat is concerned about tech debt of just piling things without organization, but the other cat is concerned about a deadline. rowayat.org/the-tragic-f...

Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day

I didn’t see this movie but this meme is funny

If you're looking for an avenue for your narcissism, there's better things than writing. Writing has to be tackled by people who either want to sell a product (boring) or people who want to engage with difficult ideas. The idea that themes and meaning are bad is, I think, a weird reaction to...

Genre and suspension of disbelief are not a defense of criticisms of dialogue. Even if a genre lends to different types of dialogue, you have to create a united design. Criticisms of "realism" are criticisms of narrative design. You didn't set up the characters to be this way.

I'm putting together the collection of my poems and short stories from 10 years ago and this is basically the introduction I just wrote. Like, y'all aren't grown anymore. This is why lore is so popular because it's memorization not analysis. One of the 1st things in one of our games is about this.

I REALLY need to stop trying to engage in honest and open media or writing discussion on social media. It's literally never not taken the wrong way. fuck me. lol

I'm old enough to remember when they'd throw the book at people downloading songs on Napster. abcnews.go.com/Business/sto...

It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn

I am certain that Ms. Rachel would take a bullet for any Jewish kid and is being called racist by a society that gives their Jewish kids jail time if they don't put on a combat vest and die in the sand and kill the kids Ms. Rachel is gambling everything to try to save. Ms. Rachel is from God.

my “I Definitely Don’t Pepper Spray Children” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

I have once again forgotten my anniversary of the Sputnik 2 mission because of health reasons. Trauma has a good way of keeping tabs on the calendar. Not to remind you of your defining achievement, but the remind you to feel bad once again for the thing that happened to you because you were good.

helluva boss fans: omg the RAW RUGGED SEXUAL TENSION BETWEEN THESE TWO

"Tools Engineer" is a whole career in computer science.

Okay so can we have a definitive list of what does and does not constitute sandwich assault on ICE agents? Mustard and onions seems to be a sticking point, what fillings are allowed?

Courtroom sketch from sandwich guy trial, as imagined and drawn by me.

somehow this doodle i did at like 2am popped off on the other site

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

The lack of media literacy and the enmeshing of Nazi humor into our mainstream is a problem as younger marginalized people don't understand that the point of Nazi "jokes" is to be indistinguishable from actual advocacy that is otherwise unconscionable. "It's a joke" is a permission structure.

The GOP took such a hit today that JD Vance is going to make a move on its wife.

This person took this when they called the race

Brace yourselves, the $7,000 club is going to start crashing out like it's the end of the world.

Check on your Caucasian friends who worships the boot on your neck. Mamdani wins the same day Dick Cheney dies.

I'm so sorry for thinking about that. And that. That, too.

Laika in Arabic is a name that means "capable, intelligent, deserving." In Russian it means "barker." In English it means "Dog who was betrayed by the people she trusted and sent to die in space for propaganda reasons." I am all these things.

i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days

It's nice to see this conversation has never stopped since I started making art. This is why I hand letter everything. Because honestly, there's never an acceptable font and the second you find one, it becomes the next unacceptable font. Because every artist is being pushed from font to font.

“a move tantamount to the annexation of land Palestinians want for a state” That’s a weird way of saying ‘annexation of Palestine’ or ‘annexation of Palestinian land’

🧵Thread: The Gaza Ministry of Health has released images of Palestinian bodies returned by Israeli authorities — some 150 so far, fewer than the 15-to-1 ratio originally agreed under the ceasefire exchange deal. They arrived without names, tagged only with numbered labels, making identification...

My favorite part about ADHD is how your brain doesn't work and then you miss important deadlines for shit with material consequences 🫠

One of many problems with US media is that Democrat leaning media thinks no normalizing Trump's actions is saying "This is not normal. This is not who we are." Instead of "Who the fuck does this man think he is?" Because Fox News does that every fucking day about literally nothing.

Also, like, Democrats have trouble reaching minorities because their candidates do racist shit. Remember when Hillary Clinton did "Soy tu abuela?" THAT WAS WAAAY MORE RACIST THAN THIS! Remember Joe Biden's genocide of Palestine? WAAAAY MORE RACIST! Trying to make Dems seem pro-minority helps them.

I'm Jewish. I hate that antisemites are using the genocide in Gaza to kill Jewish people wholly unrelated to the evil actions of the Israeli government. And I hate that Zionists are using our deaths to justify genocide. The Israeli government does not represent Judaism, does not represent me.

I miss when Google worked

The part I hate about indie game dev is all the individual IT work that's now my job to deal with.

If you found that Jimmy Kimmel getting pulled due to FCC coercion was a heinous attack on free speech (& it sure as hell is!) wait till you hear about the 10,000 books that have been banned in schools & libraries! If you're an author, join the fight @authorsabb.bsky.social We're stronger together!

Ok but hear me out, what if we taxed the fuck out of really rich people