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Whatever version of the tabletop industry survives tariffs will necessarily be cautious, safe, and streamlined. We are going to lose (are actively losing) the independent ventures, the experiements, the weird project, and the niches.

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many of the prominent transphobes (& some MPs) went to bat for this one after she received a police visit in 2022. they wrote articles defending her and sent her supportive messages. they won't bother speaking up now, though

submitted 2 hours ago • 18 comments

We have no alternative but to make our world anew

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Never thought that the game @youngmrduffy.bsky.social created based on a ridiculous idea I had would ever be played, much less published by a legendary company. But life has become increasingly weird since 2016, and so here we are. Our game is the one where you play a group of grandmothers.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The frostiest of takes, I know, but your job having the potential to be fun doesn't mean you don't deserve a respectable wage for doing it. Anyway, creatives are chronically underpaid next to their peers in basically every field and I just think that's garbage. Undervaluing art is loser behavior.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Fuck off into the SUN, you hateful rapist. You used to be my friend- I trusted you and helped you with your work- and as it turns out, you were the real evil lurking all along. I'm sorry I ever knew you.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Scratch a Gender Critical… The brave “women’s rights” movement turns on migrants. Remember, GCism is not Far Right .

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

I fucking love Star Trek but if someone started directly funneling the profits from the Star Trek franchise into destroying a vulnerable minority for the sake of their own bigotry I would chuck Star Trek out the window in a heartbeat. So if you can't let go of Harry Potter, you got a problem.

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

what many folks -- including many liberals & leftists as well as conservatives -- think of as 'red America' is increasingly the product of a nationalized culture industry (e.g., Fox News, pop evangelicalism) and not the cultural issue of a rustic lifeworld that stands in opposition to market & state

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

RE: 'why small-town red America believes what it believes' discourse again, it's worth noting that the political trajectory of white rural America is as much a function of the top-down nationalization of media & political worldview formation as the bottom-up consequences of broad economic changes

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

This is exactly right. She is in no meaningful sense an artist anymore. She is an extremely wealthy, publicly hateful, full time anti-trans campaigner and a horrifically successful one. She’s a cult leader with political pull.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Here's an alternate fantasy author who isn't an absolute cunt: Ursula K Le Guin

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Savage commentary from Andy Marlette... www.creators.com/features/and...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

If you're in the Boston area, here are a few local mutual aid groups you can donate to 🧵: MAMAS (Mutual Aid Medford and Somerville) mutualaidmamas.com/Welcome-to-M...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Ok, this is legitimately impressive.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

submitted 6 days ago • 196 comments

We’re on the air in less than ten minutes at @bff.fm! This week, Third Country Radio showcases the work of DJ and producer Jim Thompson while @kduffy1718.bsky.social and I get into a creative mood. bff.fm

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The entire POINT is to cultivate an obedient press and docile population that accepts accusations without pushback. The fact that the administration’s accusations are increasingly overtly ass-damp is a feature, not bug.

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

i would go further: the main purpose of the new adaptation is to fund jk rowling's legal challenges against trans people. there's no earnest motivation to accomplish or do something the cinematic adaptations failed to do. this is just a boat load of money for rowling to bankroll her bigoted crusade.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 8 days ago • 1333 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 8 days ago • 341 comments

only talentless thieves and copycats who have no love or respect for art think artists shouldn’t get to own their work. and boy howdy is the gen ai movement filled to bursting with lazy, talentless copycats and thieves

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apnews.com/article/tech... porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Men are so goofy. Now there’s a trend of men taking Pilates and calling it “BROlates” to show that men too can do Pilates. Masculinity is so fragile that they’re renaming a form of exercise literally named for its creator, Joseph Pilates, a man.

submitted 10 days ago • 50 comments

Greetings folks! We are The Direct Aid Streaming Project! A project to build a community from which Streamers can directly fundraise for those in need without worry of exposing their communities to scams. More info below 🧵

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

Autogenocide-"..It is the instigation of daily fear, anxiety and it is entertainment that encourages violence, pornography that trains violence against women and children, and a social structure that necessitates interactions of sublation and violation instead of connection." H.M.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 10 days ago • 181 comments

This is, in addition to very obviously denying people benefits and clearly excluding the vast majority of seniors, a violation of federal law on accessibility, especially since X requires users to log in and agree to the terms of service to see published content.

submitted 11 days ago • 106 comments

GET OFF THE NAZI-HUGGING PLATFORM ALREADY Stop. Giving. Them. Money here’s one story of how that can go (beehiv or buttondown are good too I hear— there are plenty of ways

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

More journalists need to talk about this the way Japanese articles do

submitted 12 days ago • 67 comments

People have forgotten how exciting it can be to get mail that isn't bills, ads, or something you paid to receive. Send your friends and family letters and postcards. You don't need to wait for a holiday or birthday. You don't need any reason at all. You can bring people joy just for the sake of it.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Oh cool so there’s now an administrative category for people who are alive in reality but not according to the government? Cool. Cool cool cool. The parallels are just slapping you in the face right now. They may as well use the original German.

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URGENT! The SAVE Act would prevent millions of eligible voters from voting, especially women. It passed the House and goes to the Senate. We MUST stop it there! Call your Senators today 202-224-3121 and tell them VOTE NO then click below. #Voterizer #StopTheSAVEAct social.fieldteam6.org/s/2Uj8K2iy

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Victim complex

submitted 13 days ago • 90 comments

Based on the feasibility of storage and stockpiling, this is food writer Kiki Aranita’s trade war shopping list. (1/3)

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

SUPER COOL NEWS! Saturdays @ 9am PT from 4/19, I'm in HELL WHALERS with @thetipsytiger.bsky.social! My sinful crew sets sail for redemption! “The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” ~ C.S. Lewis

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Fuck yes they are

submitted 13 days ago • 48 comments

I must say that the expert they consulted for this project is top notch.

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"We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us."- Heather Marsh

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

So apparently rebuking is a Southern thing, and I'm trying to figure out the Rust Belt equivalent. "Screw you and the horse you rode in on"? "Shove it directly up your ass"? Or maybe the classic (and more universal) "Go fuck yourself, Johnson"? Something to ponder...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments