This was my first thought as well. The dudebros needed some new distraction to pointlessly gnash their teeth on for another few years.

elmo from sesame street is asking the question why not ? Alt: elmo from sesame street is asking the question why not ?

AI is everywhere, but we don't have the technology to turn down hold music?

Oof, are people still whining about this shit? I just write queer people doing queer things in the queerest possible way. I'm not here for people's weird cis fetishes.

Dear game development community: I will score your game faster, better, and cheaper than you could possibly imagine. You get the benefit of supporting an independent, disabled, trans, artist, AND nobody will drag you for suckling at the empty teat of genAI.

It's a win/win scenario.

Troops are being sent to yet another war no one believes in and when they come home, there will be no services for them. This is going to be very bad for everyone.

Every Nazi dog whistle and bullhorn ever done on television has been dismissed including that rune at CPAC, police with Nazi symbols on their bodies & equipment, the Elon heil was autism, the repurposed slogans used in both Trump administrations & Steven Miller speeches.

Where has that gotten us?

Fun thread I'm mostly reposting so I can find it again later. I've always been fascinated by how many writers (across forms of media) who think they came up with brand new story ideas. Most days I can't come up with a single decent sentence!

So... Remind me, when was the world going to wake up from history again? 🤔

Taxes need a rebrand. Like how Arianna Huffington talks about rebranding sleep at her company so it was cool.

Imagine if wealthy people were talking about how their tax money supports the wellbeing of others, instead of being out there bragging about how they haven't paid taxes in years.

Reading that while the Epstein files are being released is a trip. I bet he *loved* that book. I bet he composed fanfiction about it.

There will always be power hungry monsters. Unfortunately, there will always be many, many more power hungry middle management folks who go along for the ride.

I just finished Matheson's HELL HOUSE. (My review of which is an "ugh straight privileged dudes" eye roll.)

The house in it is haunted by some asshole who invited people (many of them famous) over to fuck and hurt and destroy whoever they wanted.

When can we kill the myth that the US was founded on "religious freedom"? No, bro. The US was founded by a bunch of controlling Christian nut jobs who were pissy that they didn't get to call the shots in England, and saw the "New World" as a chance to make a country in their image. #stillrelevant

And to make constant excuses for their entitlement, assholery, and bad behavior, as if they are children and any critique is too harsh, including simply asking, "Why should I be invested in your narrative?"

a woman says " i guess it 's just me then " in front of a blue background Alt: A Black woman says "I guess it 's just me then" in front of a blue background and I think it says #FamilyFeudCanada in the top corner, which, I didn't know that's a thing, but if any game should be localized, it's def Family Feud.

Who else shipped Jo Marsh and her bestie Laurie because they were both so obviously queer and the only happy ending was if they married each other and pursued their own independent lives?

I love them! And there are episodes for every mood!

The commentators just bonded over not being able to do the box stretch, and failing the "President's Fitness" every year. (See Maintenance Phase on how bullshit the President's Physical Fitness Test is lol.)

Ok, American football is a fucked up, and high school football is so bullshit on many levels...

But my kid is in the band, so I'm listening to the game livestream (so I don't get there too early), and honestly it's delightful. The other coach just got a sideline penalty for shouting at officials!

Starbucks is probably the best corporation I've ever worked for...because when I worked there, it *chose* to be fairly decent.

This is why we need unions: treating employees ethically should not be a *choice*. When your locals baristas strike, get your latte somewhere else.

I feel like that but also last Xmas we had no money and got like a Dollar Tree Barbie knock-off so also in the back of my mind is THIS COULD ALL BE GONE IN A SPLIT SECOND DON'T GET USED TO IT.

Just a second! A moment! Anything at all!

Though for real, the subhead of all this is "Despite conventional Democrats' best efforts to sabotage their own party, enough folks in the US managed still to elect some decent politicians yesterday."

a woman wearing a hat and sunglasses is looking good . Alt: Gif from an old film of a white lady (famous actress, obvious movie, like think Breakfast at Tiffany's or something) pulling down an enormous pair of sunglasses with the text LOOKING GOOD

Y'all. America. What is UP? Damn, girl, you're looking so good! Did you cut your hair? Are those new hot pants you're wearing?

It's so wild. The idea of the exclusive monogamous relationship feeling safe to people is...so totally not borne out by the evidence? Making a monogamous commitment to one person doesn't save you from infidelity or dissatisfaction or just naturally growing apart. I find it all super fascinating.

And when do we talk about how much harder it is to sell folks on non-triad stories like TLR? Even traditional publishing is beginning to slowly buy the idea that three people can be equally (exclusively) in love with each other, but anything else is a challenge.

Okay, I don't know what this is, but I'm in good company! (And I think so much about the representation of polyamory in the romance genre that I feel like I should have a degree in it by now.)

absolutely breathtaking levels of “reframe punching up as punching down” are emerging in AI discourse. fighting back against AI is us against billion dollar tech companies, yet they are pulling out so many wild rhetorical tricks to make it seem like the anti-AI movement are the powerful bullies here

Picture of my adorable puppy lying on his back, white fur, loads of face freckles, Stephen King's It harness, totally passed out... sprawled across my leg.

The thing that most helps get me through this puppy life I'm currently living is the mantra "at least he's not a human baby, at least he's not a human baby". 😂

No shade to human babies or the people who love them! I'm good with babies. I just don't want to cohabitate with one.

Aww, that's a great response!

I think they squeak in a different way for sure. I always remember Hugh Laurie being on a late night talk show talking about how impossible it is to raise girls and bemoaning the lack of manual on how to do so (not in a shitty way, just a flummoxed way). Interesting though.

Oh, good clarification! No, it tends to be about *being* a girl-child, which is why I wonder if it's projection? Like "Oh, the girls are so mean." "All the drama." "They never stop gossiping and backstabbing." But if that's what you experienced as a girl, it makes sense that concerns you!

Screenshot of the results: 79. Mel Gibson

I don't know who needs to know this, but if you look for synonyms for "asshole" on OneLook, the term "Mel Gibson" is number 79. YOU'RE WELCOME.