This is a beautiful story about online communities and a great antidote to all the "kids these days" old people who whine endlessly about all things online being bad.

transmisogyny is just misogyny with extra steps. it was always about controlling how we define women so that they fit a profile consistent with cishetero men's desires and "gender critical" feminists played right into it. now any woman who doesn't look "feminine enough" is in the crosshairs.

Unfortunately am in CapNY or else would love to help. One of the other students in my cohort focuses on games and media preservation in his research, it is important work!

the thing about video game criticism is that all of this is fake and none of this matters, we’re all just making it up as we go, just write whatever you want and have fun doing it

I really can’t watch any of these ice flip videos without thinking about how a white man is being rewarded for accomplishing what a Black woman was punished for doing 30 years ago

Surya Bonaly was an incredible athlete and she was treated like shit for it

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

I have 2 professors this semester who are hammering in hand-writing and hard copies over typing and digital. Please don't tell them but... they're right. For me at least, I am able to engage with the material so much better if I have a printed copy.

And that includes conversion therapists wanting to prey on trans and queer youth for immense profit. Blocking access to gender affirming care is part of that.

For me, better than a phone or tablet but still nowhere near as good as a physical book.

As we start to dismantle ICE, they will do everything in their power to coverup their crimes. Including incinerating and executing thousands of people in their concentration camps.

I need yall to wrap your minds around this. The war is already here. It’s already at your doorstep.

I had made an account before the hype and really only used it to vibe code, but I officially deleted my ChatGPT account today.

I got my final paper back for one of my classes and it's more red than black, I'm not cut out for this academia stuff. Lol

One more pass on this paper and I am DONE with this semester.

Tl;dr I regret doing a PhD. Lol

Every time I see my generation complaining about the kids's new slang, I remind them that we used to have dozens of Chuck Norris jokes ready to go at a moment's notice.

no idea

Bananas are berries! Whereas strawberries aren't true berries.

I just finished my final paper for a social media class and chose to write it on dogpiling and *almost* used myself as a case study, but ended up going with a far more bigger profile dogpile in 2021.

Whew this topic is not good for my mentals.

I'm so bad, I barely am on social media anymore so I miss all the news. :(

Wait are you moving to Seattle?

I would rather use the gnarliest, barely functioning Linux distro than Microsoft products ever again.

I think it’s super weird that Americans normalized spotlighting individual social media posts as “news” and then responding by harassing and doxxing people because of them

Gamergate should have been a show stopper, not a starter

“A screenshot of a webpage from fns.usda.gov showing a warning message in a brown box. The message claims Senate Democrats voted 12 times not to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), states there will be no benefits issued November 1, and accuses them of holding out for healthcare for illegal immigrants and gender-related procedures. The USDA Food and Nutrition Service logo appears at the bottom, along with a blue ‘Menu’ button.”

The official USDA site is blaming trans people for SNAP benefits expiring.

Was staying at school studying until midnight, but I'm getting too old for late-night/early AM shit and decided my sanity isn't worth reading every single article 100% anymore, so have started enforcing a "go home" rule by 9pm. Now I wake up at 4:30am instead.

Thanks body, really doing me a solid.

Welp! Remember what I said the other day?

"If white people have to accept some racism in order to get another thing they want, they will do it."