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I'm tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ activists, Christian Nationalists, White Supremacist, and violent extremist groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month:

First trailer for "KPop Demon Hunters" movie directed by Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans (Sony Pictures Animation). Feat. the talented Ami Thompson (art director) & Mingjue Helen Chen (production designer). Coming to Netflix on June 20. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzCA...

Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

Anyway just poping in to note that the budget bill that will kick millions off of their health care and food assistance programs managed to pass the House today by a margin of 215-214. A margin that would have been impossible if three Democrats had chosen to retire instead of dying at their desks.

Sure everything sucks and is shit and bad and stupid and pointless and terrible but can you even *imagine* how happy you'll feel the day it happens to him. How crisp the sensation of joy will be, illuminating every detail in the glow of childlike glee.

Visual development art by Paul Felix for Lilo & Stitch (2002), dir. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

falin and marcille are best friends

you can leave a public comment about how you think we should be allowed to defend ourselves against covid www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...

Fascism has always relied on international cooperation to function, but since WWII most of those fascist networks have largely been clandestine (or looked at as something less-than-fascism). It's frightening to watch them be brought to the surface in a global effort to bring colonial terror home.

i was not familiar with your game ken jennings

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

For the better part of a week now, severe weather in parts of the South has led to major damage and deaths. As residents begin to dig out, there are questions about the immediate federal response and what states can expect this summer as the Trump administration makes big changes to FEMA.

this is what happens when you fire and lock out every comms staffer without any notice!

Ten-year chart, Target (blue) vs. Costco (yellow) $TGT $COST

Ecco the Dolphin for Sega CD Source: Diehard GameFan 12 (November 1993) Scan Source: Sketch the Cow/Jason Scott (Internet Archive) #retrogaming #sega

“Despair, in its own strange way, is a form of false confidence. It’s a sense that the future has already been decided and there’s nothing we can do about it. In fact, the future is something we make in the present.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Imagine being Thomas Keller and thinking this was a normal way to behave!!!!!! www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

I confirmed this is real. The same content ran in at least one other paper, so I'm trying to determine the actual source of the insert, since CST isn't part of a newspaper group like Gannett. I'm sure everyone at CST is absolutely pissed at whatever company is the ultimate source of this material.

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Playing Cities Skylines. Here’s my police headquarters surrounded by 2 nuclear power plants, a coal power plant, 4 landfills, and a moat of sewage. I built a little neighborhood for the cops (also surrounded by sewage) where everyone is always sick and dying. They have a poop ferry to get around.

Multiple protesters were arrested, including our co-director Alon-Lee Green. This is an emergency , a catastrophic moment that demands we drop everything. In the last days, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, families wiped out, neighborhoods turned to dust, people starving. (1/2)

Just try to process this.

Since the term AI has been poisoned by generative world-burning stuff, we're going to have to go back to calling video game AI routines "the computer." I couldn't beat the final boss because the computer was being cheap, etc.

#Laezel, how did you get so cool... #bg3 #cameramode #baldursgate3

A weird Star Wars discourse thing is that people decided Mon Mothma was lib coded when she’s the equivalent of a member of the House of Lords using her family fortune to bankroll the IRA

To all those celebratinge graduaciouns and commencements, you have achieved so much duringe very challenginge tymes. Your commitment to the goal of educacioun, learninge, and discoverye ys important and powirful. Whethir the daye itself doth feel lovelye or bittersweete, knowe that you rocke.

This is always the logical step for digital autocracy and far right state capture. No one is ready for the full weight of a truly authoritarian digital and social infrastructure.

Good thing there’s pressure from engineering departments to cut out humanities/writing courses from core curricula because students definitely won’t need to have multiple skill sets

T-minus 30 minutes until RPG Limit Break 2025 officially kicks off!!! We can't wait to see you all in the chat!

MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines

Just wanted to recap some shit that happened over the past few days and where it led to because it’s outrageous behavior. So essentially some big brained liberal accounts on here were debating the legitimacy of a few gazan accounts.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

the only time I enjoy LLMs “creatively” is when they are bug fuck insane, a lunatic, machine spirit chanting a series of words inconceivable to the human mind, or spitting out an image of a shadowy figure standing in a hallway holding a child’s shoe

An underrated dudes rock thing is the thriving community of guys playing bass on YouTube, because they’re very wholesome and excited and the video will be them going do do doo do doo do in a way that impresses absolutely no one but people who also love playing the bass

Leo moment #dog #dogsofbsky #boxsky #gsd