in general im sort of over using identity politics to be like oh is this book going to be authentic or whatever that is simply not interesting critique to me anymore

its so fucking cringe when people are like omg why isnt this *insert fantasy novel that has any time of similarly historical setting* accurate to real life. its a fucking fantasy fucking novel mate. it doesnt have to be historically accurate.

i have -3 followers on here, but please check out the game my partner has been working on for a hot minute!!! its a really interesting game!!! my bike was a piano a la vanessa carlton's thousand miles video!!!!

anyways m.l wang does in blood over bright haven what rf k*ang thinks shes doing in babel and i will not be taking any questions at this time

i suppose as a ""wasian"" im being asked to care about this hullaballoo but really i find all the discourse around this deeply annoying. can everyone be normal.

idk if its just the guy in me who's deeply defensive of CA or whatever but the way i hear people disparage SF makes my hackles raise. like we're allowed to do that because we live here dog.

i dont even really care about z*tara our whatever but sometimes i see people describe some ships as z*tara and i think may in fact fundamentally misunderstand both z*ko, k*tara and why people were drawn to them together lmfao lmfao lmfao

shit you say when you're about to be visited by three ghosts

everytime some tech bro makes a embarrassing post and people are like "is SF really like this" its like. of course fucking not its just all the worst people are out here fucking posting

aw hell no i got to this romances book third act breakup this book DUMB AS HELL

I think the thing is i *have* read white romance authors taking on complex issues in their book! and even discuss the misogyny baked into the hatred for romance books! but using a nonwhite protagonist to do the same thing without mentioning the DEARTH there is in POC in romance publishing? whatever

"In 1902, politicians designed a lifetime ban to “eliminate the darkie as a political factor” in Virginia and guarantee “the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.”" "As recently as 2016, 22 percent of Black Virginians were barred from voting for life."

reading a romance book for book club thats constantly like "romance books are deeper than you think" and its like well yeah but honey this is not one of them

Feeling @thecastlebuilder.bsky.social judgement through the screen here

wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

the face i made when seeing the beach read casting lol. like.......... whatever

I love reading. i love when im reading a book that is somehow feels in conversation with a book ive only months apart, and thinking about its parallels, its differences, and how reading both enhances the experience of reading the other

Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.

the rest of the world discovering how aggravating it is to have an RE developer in charge, architects are like YA HELLO

Lots of tech dudes think the "idea" is the important part of creating, not the creative journey you take through work to give that idea actual meaning. Ideas are the easiest, cheapest and least fulfilling part of it. Giving ideas life through work, and sharing that work with others, is the stuff.

This is a verified GoFundMe for librarian Luanne James from the Rutherford County Library Alliance. gofund.me/f7704eb98 Read what happened to this hero: www.newschannel5.com/news/rutherf...

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov

another example of why taxing the rich, especially these two losers, is a necessary alternative to letting them coast on these small scale, ephemeral pet projects of performative philanthropy

NEW: Dozens of robotaxis by Baidu stopped on the road in Wuhan, China, causing crashes on highways and trapping passengers in the cars—some for more than an hour. One passenger told me it took her 30 minutes to even connect to a customer representative. Here’s a dash cam video of one crash.

reading an memoir essay collection from a pretty famous model and ive genuinely never pitied someone more.

Just saw someone call forgotten beasts of eld Romantasy. I need a gun

"why did the guy who plays a chinese astronaut from china in PHM have accented english." like buddy............................. all the non americans had accents.......... because theyre not.............. american.............

incredible work on this one

sometimes i consume problematic media and i simply avoid posting about it asking for strangers on the internet to validate my moral character because i'm an adult

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

im gonna say this here but also on my gr review. but tagging the poet empress as romance on gr is malpractice

this is the very obvious game plan, and if you're reading journalism that doesn't at least hint at the possibility, you're not reading journalism at all:

So this is the kind of move that would normally qualify someone for asylum. This is overt persecution of a minority.

After fighting game community member Ludovic Mbock was arrested by ICE, his family and friends have been working non-stop to bring him home aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-mb...

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. tcpipeline.org

i keep thinking about the rook*e and DO discourse and i read someones saying the rooki*e had one of the most racist scenes they've ever seen and i literally laughed out loud

5 women, one women's team, and one mixed team have won Olympic gold medals for Team USA at these Olympics. Meanwhile, just one individual male athlete and no men's teams have won gold medals for Team USA Makes you wonder: when will America start investing in men's sports

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

The Uno Reverso when their kids point out that she only won gold after telling her dad to go sit in the stands and let her cook.

At least three people were killed and four others were injured on Thursday when a driver lost control of her car and rammed it into a grocery store in Los Angeles, the authorities said.

can’t not hear and see:

Tired: f1 driver enemies to lovers romances Wired: f1 race engineers on same team for different drivers rivals to lovers romance

want to be supportive of people reading more and then see what social media stuff is going on and

Four citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe have been held by ICE since Thursday. The unhoused men were picked up during an ICE raid and despite advocacy from their tribe, three have not been released. The place where the men are being held (the ICE facility in Minneapolis) is

We need honesty about what US policing actually is or there's no possible way to something different.

reading an acclaimed novel from korea and just constantly baffled that it is considered moving because of its brave stance that "moms, are in fact, people too"

finished the first book of the year and it was so good I kind of just sat there for 15 minutes afterwards unmoving

When I see people proudly proclaiming that every book written the past 5 years is bad

more like the uncle of indie gaming who’s no longer invited to Thanksgiving