The infamous Fifth Circuit has stayed an injunction, meaning the Texas App Store Accountability Act now goes into effect. App stores — essentially, Apple, Google and Microsoft — will now be required to age verify all users, through facial scans and other means.

You don't have to overturn Citizens United to beat it. Corporations only exist because states charter them, so a state can decide spending in elections isn't a power they wield. Not regulation, redefinition. Hawaii made it law. Montana's gathering signatures. More states are watching.

When Ludovic Mbock, an expert Street Fighter player, was detained by ICE office in Baltimore, a network of video game players located him and raised money to retain an immigration attorney, who was able to have him released. https://wapo.st/4uHpwfM

yikes :(

We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

My Combo Breaker gallery is here! gallery.rmpaul.com/Esports/Comb...

A quiet kid from Cameroon became one of America's top Chun-Li players, building a community along the way. When ICE detained Ludovic Mbock in February, that community came back for him and refused to let him go. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

NEW REPORT: After Chicago shut down ShotSpotter in Sept. 2024, CPD response times to priority 1 calls improved by an average of 4.2 minutes. Read more here: uchicago-justice-project.github.io/chicago_crim...

So many people that tried to argue with me that "Well if it's opposite Indy then her love interests should also be opposite gender and therefore she'd date dudes" NO 👏 Straight and gay are on opposite sides of the spectrum SO THEREFORE REVERSE INDI IS GAY AS FUCK GO AWAYYYYY🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

some jokes write themselves

if you have any interest at all in the practice of literary history and literary criticism you need to be reading @thetransfemininereview.com.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

If you balance a fighting game, want to make a fighting game, or like talking about balance in fighting games. This one is for you. It's an hour long but worth the time. (Or other games, idk)

everything burns is now a true gay anthem

So unbelievably angry. This is blatant child abus, a shocking escalation in the kind of everyday violence against trans kids that has already cost lives. Everyone involved in enacting this must resign, and every teacher, counselor, and social worker must be vociferous in our condemnation. Get loud.

Ok it's just hitting me now that we did it, the damn thing occurred and raised over $76k for trans lifeline damn people flew across the country and we organized a place and Internet and the whole shebang and it worked well enough to get the dang thing done and y'all watched it!!! crazy!!!

I think I figured out why the "leopards eating faces" analogy rubs me off the wrong way, besides being overused. It's not that people who vote against their own interests think the leopards will preserve their faces: it's that they think they are leopards too.

pinning this. help me be able to afford food & meds & not perish gofund.me/affc42cad

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books. We need more of this from our electeds.

More video from today at Delaney Hall. In the background at the start you can see Andy Kim trying to help a man ICE was beating in the middle of the street.

thinking back to that time target had the tons of stackable discount codes bug and everyone tried to get xboxes but we got like. a bed frame, some sheets and some other house stuff at like 90% off we got our stuff I don't know anyone that got an xbox

I fucking love being a fighting game dev dude #CB2026 #BeastsofMystery

The fact that the #FightingGameAprilJam2026 I organized spawned Pump⭐️Punks, The Gloncher, K3-V1N, and a fighting game where every magical girl is secretly Hakumen might have been my peak contribution to mankind. Humanity, you are welcome.

huh... it's over, isn't it? another year... combo breaker blues hits the hardest every year. as for me... i gotta make changes. i gotta make lots of changes.

Going over the Combo Breaker numbers and this year was explosive, almost every single game saw a giant jump in attendance. Quick breakdown SF6 - 1324 to 1452 T8 - 1108 to 1218 GGS - 619 to 882 UN2 - 380 to 488 3S - 199 to 259 MBAACC - 69 to 218 GGXrd - 178 to 214 VSAV - 91 to 158 MBTL - 96 to 157

Os Campeões do Combo Breaker 2026 Street Fighter 6 - Xiaohai TEKKEN 8 - Farzeen FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves - GO1 KOF XV - Layec 2XKO - SonicFox/INZEM Invincible VS - Zippy Guilty Gear Strive - NitroNY Mortal Kombat 1 - Kanimani (1/7) 👇

the plight of the postmodern succubus

hey i'm poly! and have been for a minute. it's been pretty fucking great ngl, but given how much thinking and processing it took me to come to terms with that, i thought i would ramble on a soap box a little in case you find yourself feeling the same way that i did and are at all curious about it. 🧵

it's cool seeing someone from south florida win MBAACC at CB; i remember bringing MB ReAct way back when to FIU's gameroom in the mid 2000s and trying to get people into it. running it at some anime con gamerooms too, like yasumicon. idk. it feels fucking nice, tbh

Congratulations to OnionLust for winning Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code at COMBO BREAKER 2026! #CB2026 Final Results: 🏆 - 🇺🇸 OnionLust 🥈 - 🇺🇸 Pimbus the Wizard 🥉 - 🇺🇸 Deus 4️⃣ - 🇮🇳 baby roo 5️⃣ - 🇦🇱 Zapoke / 🇺🇸 A Haru In A Dry Land 7️⃣ - 🇨🇦 Phi / LNR-4TE

The night has entered a new phase! Eclipse is the new tournament series by DATA FGC to be stepping into the shoes that Climax of Night as filled. Games Include: - Under Night In-Birth II - Dengeki Bunko Fighting Climax Ignition - Melty Blood Type Lumina - Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code

I almost canceled my trip to Combo Breaker, and the main reason I didn't was because I had signed up for mystery 2v2, and I didn't want to bail on my teammate. And it's a good thing I didn't because WE FUCKING WON!!!!!

Always sobbing on the drive back from Combo Breaker because I know it’s the best weekend of the year, every year for me Thank you Combo Barkers

We worked real hard and did a huge amount of quality of life stuff (mouse control, text logs), added New Game Plus, and a bunch of extra dialog bits for Demonschool. It's also currently the Steam daily deal at 30% off! Good time to grab it if you haven't.

Congratulations to Top 8 of Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage at #CB2026. 🏆 GentlemanThief 🥈 Itabashi Zangief 🥉 Tenguman 🏅 KNR 🏅 Bushido 🏅 valor 🏅 BLACKSTAR 🏅 XTN 📸 Vexanie

combo breaker is so cool i wanna play fighting games and i wanna play all of them

Top 8 for Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code at COMBO BREAKER 2026 has been confirmed! #CB2026 In Winners: 🇺🇸 Deus vs. 🇺🇸 A Haru In A Dry Land 🇺🇸 OnionLust vs. 🇺🇸 Pimbus the Wizard In Losers: 🇨🇦 Phi vs. 🇺🇸 Zapoke 🇺🇸 LNR-4TE vs. 🇵🇱 baby roo

i ate here 3 times during combo breaker. legit as hell.

I pull up a SamShoVSP vod YouTube recommended me, a Shizumaru player unleashes a TAP they've been holding since the dawn of time I pull up the SamSho7 Combo Breaker stream YouTube recommended me, a Shizumaru player unleashes a TAP they've been holding since the dawn of time

Please help claim codes for AIT Matcherinos if you can! #CB2026 matcherino.com/events/206348

Your #CB2026 Vampire Savior champion is: Dr. Doctor!!

HOLY SHIT SCAMP WON MYSTERY????????

WE HAVE A DUO IN GRAND FINALS! SonicFox and INZEM pull out the win in Game 5. #CB2026

i just watched the most insane game of neo turf masters at combo breaker holy moly anyways watch: www.twitch.tv/ifcyipes

if you got eyes on @vickiviperzabel.bsky.social this girl needs to get her ass to vsav or i'm gonna uh be really sad ig (no seriously she's up for her games)