it sucks

just cause modern body shaming is like often under the guise of being about health or working against beauty standards (anti makeup, weight loss drugs, cosmetic surgery) does not make it not body shaming and the answer is to just not care or comment on things that aren't your life

"Fortnite has a new rat!" That's great, they also just fired 1000 people, had a Harry Potter crossover, and had a horrible Darth Vader thing. I'll pay a furry artist to draw a much hotter rat who is actually gay and continue to show support to the community I am a part of instead of a corporation.

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

In a civil case brought by 34 states and Washington, DC, a federal jury found that Live Nation/Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly

tbh i'm just annoyed at the hostility directed at younger people in general. i genuinely don't like TikTok/most video-based cultural commentary and don't like how increasingly insular a lot of online spaces are. but there's an opportunity to fill the void there that a lot of people have given up on

GOOD NEWS: North Carolina clears all medical debt for their state. And they had to change their policy entirely that requires hospitals to give free care to lower income patients. AND! They aren't the only state hearing the outcry for medical help and doing something about it.

when you enter the transfem drama content zone you are existing in a space where you won't be called on transmisogyny, it's like giving up your sense of pain. you won't know when you've bit through your tongue.

new tune out now on NG ~~ www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen...

this is just one example of an actual wild tail vs a farmed tail, similar to farmed chickens and beef, they breed animals to make better products of their bodies. im gonna let you fill in the gaps on how that can be harmful to the lives of these animals genetically as well

i’m not saying every band has to be some technical marvel but it feels like the anti-intellectual streak that has permeated most of culture has also led to an incuriosity when it comes to explorations of what physical musical instruments can do. it’s all been done. bull shit

and all of this is routinely masturbated upon by spotify playlist interns trying to market disparate music to a targeted demographic in the hopes that it might congeal into a genre that they can monetize the idea of, which in turn leads to more of a landfill o stuff for the lowest common denominator

people who do drama content about problematic trans women sometimes say they're aware of the optics, but like, they THINK the risk is that they'll contribute to the idea that trans women are predatory and not that they themselves will spread transmisogyny out of ignorance and convenience

like maybe you will slip up and point to the fact that a trans woman had her post flagged as mature as if it's a smoking gun that evidences her perversion or imply that no one would be calling her a predator if she just stopped doing predatiry things, not naming names

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores. The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act. Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

Sorted my thoughts about censorship, so I can stop thinking about it.

it is 2026 the President of the United States has openly sexually abused & killed children you cannot draw a cartoon cat smoking a blunt & wanting to bone, because think of the children

it's interesting to think about the emotional crosscurrents here, the way eg internalized homophobia or transphobia can create a pressure on people which allows them to be weaponized against their own.

foundational philosophy for the American establishment that anyone who is in a position of wealth and power deserves to be there simply by the fact that they are there by default and is also almost certainly a better and more interesting human being than you by default.

i am really disturbed how much trans issues have basically gone to the background in ostensibly progressive politics and no one seems to be aware or give a fuck about stuff like this. it's trans genocide. if the people representing The Left don't take an active stand on this then we're all fucked.

Donald Trump is not Voldemort. Idiocracy is not a documentary. You are not a passive observer. Get back in your body.

The UK banned Tyler the Creator for saying disgusting things instead of doing them

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

Hungary was the playbook for anti LGBTQ policy in the west. Don't say gay in Florida was modeled on policies adopted there, which they modeled off of Russia. Same with ending legal recognition of trans people. They restricted access to transition care in 2020. www.hrw.org/news/2023/02...

Imagine having the money to rent a villa with your friends and still decorating your house with generic geometric displate landscapes. All Paycheck No Taste is not an impressive flex, the world is being destroyed by people that do that better than you.

why do some spriters resource absolutely beg you to credit them for ripping a sprite, but then proceed not to acknowledge the people who made the sprite in the first place. i can understand wanting credit for something you did, which is why I'm confused as to why you're omitting The Original Artist

yaoi poni

"spiritually israeli" is the lefty equivalent of when americans see lines at the food bank and say that it looks like the USSR

it's stiff competition in the race for worst losing strategy in the world's most winnable election, but i have complete confidence in the democrats' ability to outdo their own flawless record

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

>Will Stancil had a network of honeypot informants who’d get ice to dump operational information to them >if cover blown, would forward the chats to the guys wives to ruin their marriages

absolute best case scenario is we're going to have to have a long reckoning about how successfully a lot of people got propagandized to by billionaires and the right wing content ecosystem and their own culpability in that.

i'm happy these fuckers are eating each other and this supposed mandate of Trump 2.0 is floundering and on its way out the door. gonna need to circle back on all the people out there who became suddenly rabid about immigrants and trans people from 2021-early 2025 though - never going to forget that

getting a little sick of people silencing transmasc voices because "theyre men" and ignoring the fact that they still exist and have grown up in the same violent patriarchal society we all have to exist within listen to trans men. we are all fighting the same fight here this infighting is ridiculous

it's actually crazymaking seeing bots post shit like "if this makes it hard for autistic people to access their favorite toilet paper i'll be really upset"

does anyone in the denver-aurora area have a room they can rent out to me and a partner? we're currently in Florida which is going to become way more dangerous for us. we have money to rent, and we just need a place to live.

so like what do we do when this site's staff gets real angry and starts banning us en masse. do we jump ship or what

honk

It's why they hate anyone who brings up white privilege, or the patriarchy, or America's history of slavery, genocide, and colonization; not because they think those things aren't real, but because they make them feel bad. And the thing they hate most is people who make them feel bad.

it's really bumming me out watching age verification play out as the #1 trick to kill queer people in the modern era, and so many queer projects just... opting into it, for the hell of it.

Replaying Mother 3 but not sure I can connect with the setting. A bunch of fascist pig thugs ruled by a narcissistic manchild take over a society which is too spiritually poisoned by love of money to offer any meaningful resistance. I mean nothing like that could ever happen in real life

This is what radicalized me as a native of color Seeing them send fire hoses attack dogs and sound cannons on water and land defenders during Standing rock

damn gonna quote dunk on that transgender american who makes 25k a year and call them a coward who deserves to die for not taking up arms against the government

Happy 17776 / “What football will look like in the future” day to all who celebrate! One of my favorite sci-fi stories of all time. If you haven’t read / watched it, it’s worth your time👇

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability