Born in America, you are an American. It’s that simple. The Constitution backs this up. Thankfully, the extremist Supreme Court supermajority did not trash this. In a sane world, the ruling would have been 9-0, not 6-3.

I don’t blame the actors themselves. They’re not in charge of the audio direction. English localization in particular has an insistent love of squealing fairy voices despite how reviled they are, and that’s not the performer’s fault.

Important point: the proposed UK law to ban Conversion Practices has a massive, fatal loophole for anyone claiming to be doing it as a "healthcare" practitioner. The existing law in France:

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>becomes prime minister >wins largest majority seen in labour history >pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights >completely destroys the labour party >resigns what was bro doing any of this for

President Trump unveiled a refurbished jet given to him by Qatar to use as Air Force One, in violation of the foreign emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution. Editors at @apnews.com, numbed by a decade of emolumental corruption, failed to identify it as public corruption to Americans & the world.

"Help, I rigged my industry to alienate all but the most passionate, committed, and/or spiteful workers, and now they refuse to chill out with me replacing their friends with my apathy machine."

I mean if you go with that narrative of she was “killed twice“ because she came out as trans, then once she was killed by her murderers, and once by you, her mother

All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.

really worth listening to/reading this excerpt

In the attention economy, the loudest asshole wins, because noone dares to tell him to shut the fuck up. Free speech weaponised by those who only have hate to share.

Remember how you used to just know everyone’s phone number? Then cell phones came out and you could barely recite your own number? That’s what AI’s endgame is but for every aspect of your life.

“This type of traditionalism and pining for the past that is married to a kind of thick anti-intellectualism and a worship of action and violence for its own sake is hardly new. [It is] a core component of fascist ideology.” www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-...

"Why are they forcing this queer stuff on us?!?" "Because you still feel like it's important to criticize it existing."

Oslo Pride video 🥹 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #LoveIsLove

I'm pretty sure The Offspring's current drummer Brandon Pertzborn needs to be studied. That kind of stamina can not be natural 😂 Their whole Sweden Rock set was hella impressive 🤘

Man there’s something especially soul draining about living through an era where every development runs contrary to your values and beliefs about what is good for the world.

This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”

in another life I was a landscape painter

The Sunday morning coffee just tastes that little bit better when you drink it from a @birdietam.art creation. ☕️✨️

The 'panic' around Lia Thomas was about creating a target people could point at while demanding exclusion. So much of what people “know” about Lia comes from manufactured outrage and years of misinformation repeated without context. We commissioned this comic to break down the actual story. 1/2

Trans. Woman. Two words. "trans woman" shows that this is just a kind of woman, like tall, blonde or green-eyed. "Transwoman" has and will be used to say that we are a separate thing from women. Trans women are a kind of woman, pass it on.

on this note, when people get mad at me for saying "we made up science!" I say "that's a good thing!? we can change what sucks if we made it"

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

The great irony here is that miHoYo is one of the most litigious gaming companies on the planet right now, having filed hundreds of legal cases (some precedent setting) against companies and individuals that have infringed on its IP or even leaked game assets.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invested €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

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Economic benefits to immigration are linear for any realistic number of immigrants. The "right number" line is a dog whistle for the "right kind" of immigrant.

I can't believe how many politicians are saying "let's ban trans people from public life, but in a way that is respectful". Are you fucking thick? Who is this for?

An interesting thing about NASA is that they’ve never had to worry whether scrubbing a launch for safety reasons would impact their IPO

I can't believe we turned "Laptop Worker" into a term of derision. We now have the tech and business models to allow millions of people to make a living in ways unthered to a farm plot, assembly line,, or cubicle. That's very cool! Do not project your weird yearning for the mines on to me.

multiple things can be true at once: 1) there shouldn't be billionaires 2) since there ARE, it's interesting to see one spending money on being an ocean nerd in the name of science, instead of feeding us to machines and destroying democracy 3) valve's 30% cut of steam sales is too high

Shake it, baby! 🐢

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

'Aqua Chroma' A meditative slow gaze at Earth's atmosphere, revealing the hidden depths of activity in the water-filled skies of planet Earth. 4K HDR 36m20s youtu.be/F2jsuJPU0Lo

NHS: we need tech upgrades Gov: cool here plug in this bit of kit, its called MechaHitler, dont worry about it The silly purity testing left: Uhhhh maybe dont plug robot hitler into the health service

Not exactly a novel take, but I cannot stress how little we need video games to be films that last 300 hours and take a decade to make.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

No yeah it’s totally awesome that we make 190,000 garments a minute and people in 2026 are still working 40, 60, 100 hour weeks for no reason other than to overproduce trash and emails set the planet on fire so 12 dudes can have the same wealth as half the planet. It’s fine you’re not enraged

the word "aura" is derived from "auron", a character from popular playstation two game "final fantasy x", and means "embodying a state where you are cool like auron"