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old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 23 hours ago • 254 comments

A reminder for these times.

submitted 2 days ago • 676 comments

However much you hate the New York Times, it isn't enough

submitted 2 days ago • 98 comments

Some people will look at this and only see how foolish it is. But what it also is an attempt to set up a blameless, unaccountable arbiter by inserting automation into a “decision making” process. And tbh I wish more people at more news outlets would call that out.

submitted 7 days ago • 61 comments

i hope more than anything what people learn from this 2nd trump term is that the capitalist class are aligned and they want you to have less rights and only want you to exist to generate profit for them

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

ain't that a mood

submitted 42 days ago • 25 comments

Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States. I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it. It is NOT just for athletes. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” (via @charliejane.bsky.social) [capitalfm.com]

submitted 5 days ago • 109 comments

TIL roku tvs have a cheat code to get a list view to manage all installed software (my moms had a problem where an app wasn't showing on the home screen even tho it was installed, used cheat menu to delete it) anyway it's home home home up up left right left right left if you ever need to know that

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This games industry bloodbath is because of corporate mismanagement and pure, unrestrained avarice. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

You know a really handy cognitive trick for being less wrong? Training yourself to ask not just "can x lead to y" but "how much of the time does x fail to lead to y" Seems simple but will save you a world of grief I truly believe

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

submitted 6 days ago • 103 comments

Skin Deep! Skin Deep! youtu.be/4SvXMG8Ghaw?...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

seen in newark, new jersey 🔥

submitted 8 days ago • 40 comments

Gamer Gate was psychological terrorism just like what is happening now is psychological terrorism, designed to scare people into no longer standing up and saying no. I don't want to be an inspirational story, I just want to live my life, but telling our story helps others, take it.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

so much of the tech industry's right-wing turn has been because they believe that LLMs will free them from their employees, whom they hate.

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

Castlevania Nocturne saying what we're all thinking

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The resistance hero Sophie Scholl was killed by the Nazis on this day in 1943. She was 21. Her story and her immortal wisdom on suffering and the deepest source of strength:

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Look I know it's a cliché, but call your fucking reps. They don't get scared unless they hear from an overwhelming number of us all the time. Call them every damn day. Tell them to fight the hell back and protect us from Musk and Trump. It matters and it makes a difference, right now. reps.fyi

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

If you played TTRPGs between 1970-2004, PhD Candidate Geoffrey Ramirez (Binghamton U) is seeking participants for “Character Creation: The Tabletop Role-Players Oral History Project” as part of his dissertation. Interviews will be archived at the Strong Museum of Play (can be time-locked, etc)

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Some people are struggling now that Pathfinder has removed alignment; We have provided a solution. Subscribe to Pathfinder: https://buff.ly/2kVyf0e

submitted 11 days ago • 91 comments

I cope by reading books 🤷‍♀️

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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 11 days ago • 80 comments

Today, February 19, in 1998, hacker Trinity fends off two units of police officers and faces off with sinister sentient computer programs known as Agents (📽️ The Matrix, 1999)

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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 12 days ago • 90 comments

Just finished Wolfenstein New Order, which was great. I was interested in what else Machinegames had done, it turns out they were founded in 2009 and have made 5 Wolfenstein games and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Literally their entire oeuvre are games about killing Nazis. Fucking based.

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Apparently, OpenAI is already aligning its LLM to the expectations of the new fascist government – racism, lies, and conspiracy theories will now be sold as «multiple perspectives on controversial subjects» techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/o...

submitted 15 days ago • 30 comments

Y'all gotta get comfortable talking about pornography and defending its right to exist and for people to look at it, even if you don't (but especially if you DO).

submitted 17 days ago • 27 comments

In today's newsletter, OUR UNIVERSE: Part One...the story of a coffee table astronomy book that sold 2.5 million copies. This week features my visual speculation on what alien life might look like on other planets. 1/2 theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/national-g...

submitted 15 days ago • 18 comments

The rest of the world sees and knows America is falling to Nazis and are singing the historic song of resistance. Bella ciao is forever and we are going to be forced to carry its message through the darkness all free peoples are now at war with the fascists trying to take over the world.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where everyone cared about their job and serving others.

submitted 17 days ago • 361 comments

i am not kidding when i think about this greentext like monthly. the bicycle is the greatest invention on the planet

submitted 19 days ago • 83 comments

✨💜 happy Valentine's Day lesbians 💜✨

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

I made a board game, if you like super technical tag team combat between mythical middle eastern creatures you might want it sitting unopened on your shelf monumenthobbies.com/pages/age-of...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

yeah I think the original sin of modern social media is showing you things you did not ask for that it guesses you will react to. you join the network for your woodworking hobby, but the for-you page defaults jiggling tits and political rage bait.

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

Been playing Wolfenstein New Order (2014) for obvious reasons and, uh, yeah. This fictional newspaper article hits a little too close.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

For the last month I have had this perpetual conflict about whether to Post Things because I don't want trans people following me to panic but I really, really want cis people following me to know how much we legitimately have to panic about

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

‘Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.’ - Seamus Heaney, Poet & Nobel Laureate.

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

I have accomplished the most difficult feat in game development, linking font sizes of dynamic font size text boxes for localized text. (note: garbage auto translations for testing only.) (also note: technically simple if you want to write your own text layout components. I Do Not.)

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

when you want to do a full screen high res logo but you only have 1 tab of sprite space to draw #pico8 #iykyk

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

alright y'all let's let's just do this SKELETON GELATIN, out now on adamatomic.itch.io/skeleton-gel... !! 🍮 World's FIRST "blobtroidvania" (maybe) (I haven't checked) 📉 No upgrades 💀 No HP 🏃 No jumping 🏆 No items I do not recommend attempting an all-skulls run until you have finished a regular!

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments

It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...

submitted 24 days ago • 168 comments

As hard as the world can be for trans people sometimes its important to remember that all our haters are dumb

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

Denver had a protest yesterday at the capitol, primarily in response to Trump's Gaza rambling but also ICE, trans rights, Elon Musk's plumbers, etc. This was around noon, and then around 8pm they regathered and marched down Broadway back to the capitol. Very little coverage from local media.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Seen in my neighborhood today

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

You ever just chomp your flat iron like an alligator? Try it, it's extremely satisfying and cathartic.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

👋EU people: There's a citizen petition calling on the EU to ban "conversion therapy" to "cure" LGBTQ+ folks, a process people who've experienced it describe as "torture". It needs about 5x its current votes to be considered but is especially in need of voters from: Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, Belgium

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 27 days ago • 587 comments