maybe a controversial take but telling someone they should die or kill themself is nowhere near as harmful as taking part in a harassment campaign against them

an ad for "the purple nurple: catering to gay lesbian and bisexual furries, open to all" "sable street, downtown furry muck. from WCOP: n,n,n,e" the ad depicts a masc fox and a fem cat

this is the first piece of graphic design i ever did in furry. an ad for the first expressly queer gathering spot on furrymuck. opened in the summer of 1994. artwork by Slinky Treecat, who built the place originally.

in my defense everyone did bold helvetica extended back then

I've seen the early version and it's really really good

when i’ve tried to explain what the sabres crowd atmosphere *used* to be like to out of town friends i used to have to pull some 20 year old clips in grainy standard definition. but it’s just *here* again

Rick Astley - Giving Up On Love (Official Video) [4K Remaster] YouTube video by Rick Astley

i love that he called a single on his next album this. on par with EMF following up Unbelievable with a song called I Believe

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b5V...

things that mean a post is likely to be a satire/larp of "sjws" and not real

the word "bigot"
author self-describes as an "[x] supporter"
"trans" as a prefix that isn't "transgender"
taboo belief paired with a pride flag youve never seen before, or only seen on a warning infographic

I get indescribably angry when I prove that hello-im-dog is lying about you only to get hit with "That seems very unlikely because she also said X, Y, and Z", all of which are also claims from hello-im-dog

it's moon child, oooh oh oh

there's still quite a bit of work left before i can release it, but it shouldnt take too much time. the moon child pc port is REAL

i never made that connection. holy shit she is the 2010s emilie autumn

basically, Patty started a discord when she was 18 and almost immediately started being groomed by older members of the server, mainly an adult in her late 20s. This older woman encouraged Patty to go on voice chat and masturbate for her, also inviting other people. At one point, the older woman invited someone who was 15, but Patty stopped and told the 15 year old to leave, and they did; the 15 year old only remembers being yelled at to get out. Someone else saw the 15 year old join, assumed that Patty did it because it was supposed to be her server, and accused her of being the one to invite them

im also seeing the "jerked off with minors on discord" claim go around again. for people who don't know what happened:

the BBC made a home computer in the 80s because they thought that computers would be a world-changing invention that British kids needed to learn to use as soon as possible

AOL gave away over 1 billion demo CDs to entice people to use the internet

realized i was misreading your post, sorry

Softer and bigger

Soon after the Garden began to relax its Covid restrictions in the spring of 2021, Nina Richards was regularly going to Knicks games there. According to one former MSG security staffer, she became a fixation for Eversole. Eversole, a former senior director of global investigations at Oracle, instructed his deputies to compile “work-ups”—open source intelligence dossiers—on her. He made sure she was in the Garden's face-recognition system and ordered the Garden's security apparatus to focus on her, former MSG security staffer Donnie Ingrasselino later alleged in a lawsuit. Not because she posed any kind of danger at that moment. Because Richards was a transgender woman, and Eversole allegedly wanted to keep her “away from the players.” Eversole targeted Richards “because of her gender identity,” Ingrasselino added in his suit. Employees who were forced to conduct the surveillance were often uncomfortable, since they believed it to be a clear act of profiling, according to the first former staffer. "She posed no threat," added a second former employee.

employee. "She wasn't taking pictures in restricted areas. She wasn't trying to go places she shouldn't be,” the source continued. “This is just a very large transgender woman, being a fan, walking around.” But Eversole's orders were explicit: keep watching. According to the lawsuit, he showed Richards' picture in several weekly meetings, misgendering her, and telling employees to watch out for “him or it or whatever it is.” Ingrasselino further contends in his court filing that “Eversole did not similarly limit access to others who socialized with athletes, including individuals who had extensive criminal histories and had the potential of posing a legitimate threat to MSG.” On January 10, 2022, the Knicks played the San Antonio Spurs at the Garden. It was pride night. Richards was there, attending with a friend. An 18-page report prepared by Eversole's Threat Management Group and reviewed by WIRED shows just how closely she was being monitored. 07:10:20 // CAM 0241 // scans her ticket to section 102, Row 8, Seat 5 07:11:14 // CAM 1434 // goes up terrace escalators on level 3 to level 6 concourse 07:12:52 // CAM AC10 // hugs usher Appendix A of the report has a screenshot of the embrace, with Richards circled in red.

08:08:58 // CAM 1093 // talking with F&B worker at the Draft Kings Bar 08:10:49 // CAM 0512 // pays for the drinks 08:31:19 // CAM 0485 // eating at a table It goes on and on. At 8:48 pm, camera 0489 spots another quick hug with an MSG “membership experience executive” (there's a grainy photo in the report's Appendix N). Two minutes and two seconds later, the same camera captures her heading into the women's bathroom. Her exit is noted after precisely two minutes and five seconds. Every MSG security source who was knowledgeable about this surveillance campaign used the word “excessive” or some synonym for this level of scrutiny. The report listed no reason for including these details on her movements. But when Richards and her guest on that January night began to move to some of the best seats in the house, the document's background turns red. It catalogs Richards talking to a security guard at 9:06 pm; that same guard walking over to section 1, row 1—right next to the Garden's famed “celebrity row” and Richards taking one of those seats 34 seconds after.

People who make it courtside often take such pictures, or are caught on camera during TV broadcasts. According to Ingrasselino's lawsuit, Eversole claimed that if an “openly” trans woman were noticed, it could “damage MSG's reputation.” The first former employee adds that they were told the very sight of Richards made the Garden brass uncomfortable. Richards used to have an active, vibrant presence online. Today, Richards has functionally erased herself from the internet. Her 44,000-follower Instagram account has been nuked. Richards didn’t respond to requests for comment about her treatment by the Garden’s staff, other than to ask that WIRED not use her real name. (An MSG spokesperson didn't respond to detailed questions about the treatment of Richards. But in a court filing, Garden lawyers said the allegation that “Eversole directed the use of facial recognition software to monitor the activities of a transgender woman” was “a clear attempt to cast Eversole in a negative light”—one carried out in “excessive, needless detail.”) Richards was banned from the Garden, right when the Knicks have been fielding their best teams in decades. “Mr. Eversole [f]abricated a stalking allegation to justify banning” her from the Garden, according to Ingrasselino's suit. Every knowledgeable MSG security source we spoke to about this felt the charge was a smear. But it worked.

She was also falsely accused of stalking as a pretext to ban her from the stadium

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

The New York Knicks security team surveilled a fat trans woman over 2 years, not because she was doing anything wrong, but because they were scared she'd show up on the TV broadcast www.wired.com/story/madiso...

non-paywalled: archive.ph/gV0rp

It's not either-or. Attractive people (specifically skinny, young, attractive white people) are seen as nicer and more sociable just for being attractive. The halo effect is just that strong. If that halo wears off, it won't be before the first date, or the job interview, or the click on your video

social skills and personableness require sustained interaction, ideally in-person, whereas the snap first impression other people have of you is your appearance. it is the foot in the door

i'm starting to appreciate them latching onto your post about the specter of "the pedophile" because even people who aren't inclined to defend you can tell that they're obviously, badly misreading the post

most social media users will blindly like a post because it has the shape of a true-sounding thing

i don't know enough context to judge this but also i side with the blocked user

always make me happy when my favorite chatterbox drops a new video :D

axios tweet: "Virginia Sen. @MarkWarner told #AxiosAISummit that he believes AI's economic disruption "is going to be exponentially bigger" than he thought just a few months ago. "The recent college graduate unemployment is 9%. I'll bet anybody in the room it goes to 30 or 35% before 2028.""

what if i just killed myself

another way bluesky is like tumblr is that you make up the most obviously fake caricature of a 2010s sjw and people will believe it as long as you attribute it to either site

all of you were making fun of british amiga games and then suddenly moon child is the greatest thing ever. i see how it is

My HEV suit: Warning. Goomba fallacy detected. Morphine administered

as someone who switched to engineering to escape CS oversaturation it's the second chart that's alarming to me

clownfacts !

search result page for Wordle, marked red because of Shinigami Eyes

for a split second i thought wordle was transphobic and i was willing to believe it

It's "edgy" and involves a kid but those in combination do not necessarily mean it's sexualized. i could see a 90s nu-metal band releasing this

I wish more fat stinky autistic losers were attracted to other fat stinky autistic losers