It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once: — Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing — Against raising the minimum wage — Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

Scammers are getting too sophisticated. This *almost* worked on me

bro what 😭

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Watched the Perfect Blue remaster yesterday and loved it. Timeless messaging. Also picked up some fun things now that I understand conversational Japanese boxd.it/bgyzYF

Gaga’s How Bad Do U Want Me is def still the best Taylor Swift song of 2025 (I say this as someone who has loved that track since first listen)

おれが歩くとねこは転がる

👋🏻 Had a lot of fun with the series art for Lifehacker’s A Guide to Automating Your Entire Home! lifehacker.com/series/a-gui...

Saw a clip of Celine Dion talking about wearing Agent Provocateur upon waking and it made me realize that I’m the way that I am because of her, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. Those women helped raise me!

iPhone 17 Pro 8x test in Sunset Park today, appropriately at sunset

I've seen some reactions from struggling artists along the lines of 'I give up' and I feel your pain—but please do not. Most people don't want to live in a world where artists are automated away, art production is captured by AI firms. Most people hate this idea. Organize. Build solidarity. Fight.

Lately… #katseye

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

They made this game for me and @karriebear.bsky.social

Gotta say Nintendo loses a lot of charm when they localize from Japanese to English! Watching the Japanese stream and the type treatments have so much more personality compared to what the English market gets 🥲

The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.

Bless whoever was in charge of music for Apple’s pre-show stream. Great music to grind graphics to

Ayo Edebiri’s Letterboxd is gone, but I saved her most important review (for Paprika, obviously)

Katseye is so refreshing to me because despite being backed by Big Kpop, the girls themselves are clearly not media trained (non-derogatory). In the year 2025 I think being media trained is overrated (especially wrt Asian media’s rigid ‘rules’)

Just here for the lesbianism since the movie didn’t really go anywhere boxd.it/aWibM9

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

ZDCG demands accountability for continued attacks on media workers in Gaza:

i have been thinking a lot about “overconsumption” discourse and how it only ever targets female-coded stuff (labubus, fast fashion, makeup) but could absolutely be applied to things like guns

Had a cat scan on Monday. The machine makes the contrast dye you get injected with react (I think?), so you can feel the dye coursing through your body. Or at least I did! Still nauseous from it, extremely not recommended, but I also need to make sure I stay in remission so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain. Not this time. Not anymore.

Saving my last cute Japanese stationary sticker for a special occasion, like a marriage proposal or funeral announcement

Took a photo of this booth because I had just realized my lanyard was their merch and in my head I was laughing to myself (“what’s with the Final Fantasy font?!”), but this booth babe absolutely thought I was a pervert 😭

also i hate talking about this because every time i do it gets picked up somewhere, somehow and i get harassed for weeks but whatever, man. i'm really proud of the work we put into this, the research and the care and the nuance, and i will continue to share it. www.ign.com/articles/how...

this is how Tea got its start. it's an incredibly ugly tale top to bottom. a gripping investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social www.404media.co/how-teas-fou...

I don't know if it's being sent at random, but I got an email survey from Patreon. And I never miss an opportunity to yell. It's all about AI. They very much want to use AI. They very much want to use your art to train AI. They could not broadcast more clearly how much they want a piece of that AI

That's a good age range for realizing everything you were ever taught was wrong. Depressing info about the limited capacity to learn and grow as you get older though

Graduated from therapy, AMA

www.pcmag.com/opinions/i-l... I HATE GAME-KEY CARDS

Shout out to the smut paddlers who spoke to me about their lives and livelihoods. I was overwhelmed by all y'alls responses and touched by our conversations. Go buy some porn

Realizing that it’s a rite of passage in girlhood to be a Nana fan around ages 19–26 (and explains why I idealized so many situationships/unrequited loves)

⚠️ Summer in NYC means air conditioning drip is everywhere

At @rollingstone.com, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social lays out the stakes of our election. "It turns out there are some billionaires and Wall Street CEOs who can’t stand the idea of a mayor who wants them to pay their fair share to create a city that everyone can afford."

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition. Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

Tonight’s pop thoughts: We will not tolerate Katseye slander in this household Juno by Sabrina Carpenter is a perfect pop song

can't dress and swagless as well...

And ugly, too, btw

a lot of you guys benefit from DEI for stupid men

and to my grandchildren i leave 86 gigabytes of menswear photos to win any menswear argument online

Today, the multibillion-dollar Ziff Davis is slashing its staff of 23 valuable ZDCG colleagues — just weeks after it finalized even more corporate acquisitions and boasted about profitability being "up." Ziff Davis is putting its spending spree ahead of its own workers. 👇

We should have a larger convo about how companies like American Eagle use beautiful people to add glamor to unglamorous products. In 2023, a young Bangladeshi woman committed suicide at a factory that made American Eagle clothes bc of abuse. This is the cost of cheap, trendy clothes.