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I will never understand the mentality of wanting to enjoy queer media but feeling the need to revise it to take all the queerness out of it and twist it to support a bigoted view. Seriously, don't buy Snoot Game. Just go play Goodbye Volcano High and stop supporting the transphobic bootleg.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

“Fewer books are going to be published. Some literary organizations won’t survive this.” For the LARB, I spoke with book publishers and lit mags impacted by Trump and DOGE's coup at the NEA. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-d...

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for the observer, wrote about catching up with Fury Road's dystopia, and why fighting, rather than running, is often the only option. observer.com/2025/05/the-...

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Excellent visualizations in this article illustrating how rich tech dudes have tentacles in all the places that would otherwise be holding them accountable. Here are main figures of you do not have subscription

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THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 115 comments

how much of the DOGE-driven destruction of the nation’s research and development capacity is because these people are AI cultists who believe that we’re on the verge of creating a sentient general intelligence?

submitted 3 days ago • 316 comments

Joe Biden relitigation is catnip for the press because it gives them a chance to avoid saying difficult things about the present situation we are all in while also getting to talk about themselves

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

SUPERHOT VR had its whole story patched out. I thought about it slightly too long and fell into rabbit hole. It doesn't make sense, it's bad that it happened, and it prompts a whole bunch of naval-gazing about Art.

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

cyberpunk subverted the optimistic "cool future/cool tech" sci-fi of the 60's with its "shit future/cool tech" trappings, and then reality showed up with "guess what the tech is shit too"

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

if you are american and enjoy: - porn - any art, really - living in a place where queer people AREN'T being arrested en masse after being legally redefined as "obscene" and "pornographic" just for existing please for the love of god call your reps and ask them to vote 'no' on S.5260

submitted 9 days ago • 31 comments

A reminder: if you are queer, you are porn to these people. There is no non-pornographic way for you to live that will keep you safe.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

they killed Aaron Swartz over less than what DOGE is trying to do with the Library of Congress

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you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen” the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety” who are people going to take seriously?

submitted 6 days ago • 132 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 6 days ago • 489 comments

This is my new favorite image because it perfectly encapsulates the concern trolling and crybullying from the right when you give them even a fraction of what they spew out on a consistent basis.

submitted 6 days ago • 257 comments

Some people have criticisms of the administration torturing children but under a 5-4 Supreme Court decision written by Justice Alito it is technically not a federal crime, so to preserve accuracy and neutrality, we will not be calling it a crime against humanity. Tomorrow in the New York Times.

submitted 6 days ago • 70 comments

AI is a tool to delude truth, therefore really valuable to power hungry fascists. Every AI ad might as well be a nazi flag as far as im concerned.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Awful stuff from the Post. Combination of factors: All the editorial board members with anything resembling principles have left Of those who remain, Megan McArdle is a big transphobe; don’t know about the others Will Lewis is ex-Telegraph and thinks transphobia is good business

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Well, we all know what's most important now. That's right: enshrining in law that the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party must always be allowed on the ballot, lest we abandon freedom in pursuit of some faux-democratic world bereft of mutilation

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www.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu... I can't stress this enough, for all its flaws, the IA is extremely important and must be protected. I even started donating on the regular monthly and even if its just 5 bucks a month, y'all should too.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The answer is: everyone's horrified by Trump but no one actually wants to counter the disease (austerity) The only thing most countries with serious money are concerned about is not the death of, idk, subsidies for antiretrovirals in the Global South but "trump cut off our guns :("

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Unfortunately, austerity cultists in this country have been slowly starving our universities, leaving us unable to take advantage of the US' brain drain.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

My spouse and I were talking about this again yesterday: when people scream at democrats to “do something” and you press them about what, it falls into four categories. 1. Things they are doing. 2. Things they can’t do. 3. Performative nonsense that would achieve nothing. 4. Literal crimes.

submitted 18 days ago • 71 comments

By the way, same goes for child trans healthcare “critics”. There’s zero science behind them. The dead children is the point.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

NPR did a 30-minute interview with Steve Bannon in his podcast studio that aired just yesterday. PBS had on Chris Rufo tonight. Cozying up to these fucks won’t save you.

submitted 17 days ago • 170 comments

If you need evidence of the Governor being complicit with the administration screwing over Virginians, here it is — cutting so much from the amended budget that he’s targeting Medicaid reimbursement rates for nursing homes as a “buffer” against the WH’s recklessness. richmond.com/news/state-r...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

An unremarked part of this jaw dropping story is the degree to which Hill staffers lie and conspire to hide their principals’ deteriorating health, which may have been the case for Senators for decades but which feels especially unjustifiable now.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

The point of going after supposed gang members first is they're unpopular, & it's easier to defend deporting them without due process. Flinch at defending the rights of 'bad people' & you fall into the trap. Having principle on this lets them accuse you of defending bad guys, but it has to be done.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

NPR Morning Edition had Steve Bannon on yesterday, and PBS News Hour has Chris Rufo on right now. What the fuck is wrong with you??? What possible reason is there to platform these lying assholes???

submitted 17 days ago • 166 comments

Every once in a while I think man, we were so close to never having to think about that motherfucker again, and then people said nah, let’s just ruin our lives instead

submitted 18 days ago • 277 comments

NEW—In late Feb, Chris Rufo published leaked chats between queer/trans employees at US intel agencies. Then Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said she’d fire all involved. I spoke to chat members who were fired, are on admin leave, and who kept their jobs about the new lavender scare:

submitted 20 days ago • 54 comments

Vaguely amused that my grumblings about the new "features" and direction that Plex is going to @duskdargent.bsky.social was met with "yeah, that's what I WANT out of Plex." It really has diverged from its' roots, from local media manager to being a streaming hub. I guess that's what people want.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The retaliatory firing came directly from the White House, eliminating even the appearance of DOJ independence from the President, a norm that has eroded entirely during Trump II. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ex-fed-...

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'Absolutely outraged': Former cyber official targeted by Trump speaks out after cuts to U.S. digital defense www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat... via @nbcnews.com & @kevincollier.bsky.social; includes comments from Luta Security CEO @k8em0.bsky.social. @lutasecurity.bsky.social

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Hi, it's the criminologist in your pocket here to tell you that this is stupid and bad. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Sign your names or you're a toaster, American cyber pros. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads-prominent-security-experts-urging-trump-administration-leave-chris-krebs

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Yearly reminder to check and update your emergency kit. Whether you're worried about natural disasters or the outbreak of violence, having medical supplies, water, food, backup documents, and other necessities is helpful and good, but only if you make sure whatever you have still works.

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THE BIGGEST NEWS! Rob and I are offering up a hand-signed hardback, first edition/first printing copy of Monstrous Regiment straight from the Pratchett archives. Those who know the story will know why it’s a pertinent one for this cause. (More pics to come.) www.32auctions.com/organization...

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