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I'm the usual kittylyst you'll find in other places, but someone beat me to the name here. So, I guess I'm the OG. Much more likely to be found over at @[email protected] though. Cornishman in Barcelona.
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free advice for game developers: try to make the next smash hit video game, such as grand theft auto. if you do, you'll be making more than just a video game – you'll be making millions of dollars

At this point it's not even reading between the lines, it's just reading the lines. But AI reporting is adrift from time by necessity (otherwise they'd have to admit this). Everything is in the near future, tantalizingly just out of reach but definitely about to happen, honest.

Really not fair that so many artists, comedians etc died young from their eye watering drug overuse & all the RW politicians are still stumbling about like Edgar in MiB, more ketamine & cocaine than human

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

pretty sure EIon's ketamine use example is demonstrating that the War On Drugs was really a a war on the poor and racialized. Rich people can do whatever the fck they want

Fuck this forever. No, you don't get direct access to our brains, you miserable totalitarians.

It's wild to see the UK media pretending to be amazed that a Royal Marine would simply panic, lose his cool, and mow down a crowd of innocent civilians.

this rules "I am old, and I am a legend, and fuck you all I'm going to use my platform to support trans people" good for him

While in the LOTR movies Denethor just randomly went crazy, that's not the whole story. Denethor became a doomer. He spent all night scrolling through bad news on his magic device, because the Dark Lord only let him see bad news and not good, until he lost all hope and it broke him.

This comic is older than I am.

motherfucker isn't even sorry, that is the face of a guy who is totally gonna do it again

Seriously starting to think the Great Filter is just patriarchy

This is a one-night event but is viewable on a livestream (or for two weeks after the performance) and is a fundraiser for a UK trans charity.

Quick calculation for my 25 stolen novels at current exchange rates says I'd get £9,731,000. UK tax at 40% is £3,892,400. Multiply that by however many writers are affected, spend the take on restorating public services and infrastructure, and that's a major boost to the economy right there.

magneto was right.

Would appreciate a share, if possible @goodlawproject.bsky.social @goodlawproject.org

If you're still on Telegram, it's time to leave.

Okay, now that we're thinking about Substack and both its cultural influence and its business model, can I walk you all through the economics? Because they make no sense, and we can use that to predict how things are going to go... (Caution:🧵)

What do you get when you grow up online? Your self-image is the opposite of fine. Where are they now? ...with a bad pic of you That depends on your point of view. Revenge: served cold in Lightspeed magazine. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/wher...

May I recommend an article we wrote based on a cut chapter? foreignpolicy.com/2024/01/21/s...

Remembered this and how gender fascism is just another localised, historically and culturally contingent manifestation of fascism—it is gender-first fascism, but not *exclusively* so, and its other manifestations and permutations will inevitably rise up when given sufficient space to grow and feed

"Isn’t it strange that the board would sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of stocks just weeks and months ahead of launching an autonomous ride-hailing service, which is supposed to usher in a new era of growth for Tesla?" electrek.co/2025/05/28/t...

Ten years ago nobody in their right mind gave a single crap where trans people went to the toilet and the only reason anyone does now is because they were radicalised by Facebook and a handful of insane newspaper columnists and that’s just embarrassing all round

Europe Freezes US Travel as Lufthansa, British , Air France, KLM and more slash routes to major cities including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Chicago to tap soaring demand across Canada, Mexico, Brazil and Caribbean www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

The response so far has been fantastic - but I'm still matching donations. 500 EUR of my personal matching is still available - and if we can get the total over 2000 EUR, additional matching will kick in. So 1 EUR now should be worth 3.5 to the project. #Java #programming #charity

So named because after you take one you'll stop caring about the world, lie down and block the footpath.

Only 38% of Palestinians agree with Hamas. Ridiculous that almost half of all Israelis want genocide.

look i'm not saying they're perfect but as a general rule of thumb, if you find yourself asking "am i or the Quakers going to be on the right side of history on this issue", you may have fucked up

Riccardo Lippolis and Alexander Chatzizacharias are live at JNation 2025 with: “Reaching Operational Excellence using OpenTelemetry”. A practical talk on making systems observable — and decisions actionable. #JNation #Java #Coimbra #OpenTelemetry #Kotlin #DevOps

I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."

blue sky should be hostile and unwelcoming to fascists and if you want to change this then you should leave forever and not come back

Ben Evans — author, Java Champion, Red Hat engineer — opens the morning at JNation 2025 with: “Is Java 24 a Functional Programming Language?” A deep dive into modern Java and what functional really means in today’s codebases. #JNation #Java #ProgrammingLanguages #JavaScript #Coimbra

There’s an Irish Queer MEP bleating on about LGBTQ rights. Said MEP’s own party failed to ban conversion therapy, failed to bring in hate speech law & fails to provide trans healthcare. The only reason she talks about Queer issues is so her rich voters think she’s ‘liberal’. I’d like to award her:

#JNation is streaming live - www.youtube.com/live/P-tnd45... - Holly Cummins is live on stage now, and I'll be on at 11h00 UTC / 12h00 CEST #Java #programming #Portugal