In response to some bullshit going around:
Can we please fucking destigmatize men being nice to / caring about / engaging with kids? These are normal adult mammal instincts; what's fucked up is that we beat them out of people based on gender and/or assume they're inherently predatory.
Amazon's price predicting algorithm, "Nessie", was paused
during the holiday shopping season and Prime Day, when it feared customers or journalists might notice the price increases, then turned back on once attention died
down.
The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:
“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”
Things I keep saying that no one likes.
Tapping the sign
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
Congrats!!
Eee, very excited to share this!
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.
There's just gotta be a line somewhere.
Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
An onion will do well for such a shift
Neon pixel art of an amazon in a sleeveless leather top and miniskirt with a Y2K-style visible midriff. She has a huge blond pony updo and a big sword.
Pixel character portrait of a woman with a mess of brown hair, big, upturned blue eyes, and pursed, pouty-looking lips.
ASCII art of a a brown-haired, blue-eyed woman stretched out while a bloody dagger hovers over her midriff. She looks displeased about this.
Pixel screenshot of a woman in tattered brown rags being held between two Centurian-style soldiers while a king on a throne condemns her.
my new zine, Shareware Made Me Trans, is now out!! ~6000 words (and lots of images) on the 90s games that shaped my gender identity, including windows 3.1 amazons, sapphic crpg romances, and my own teenage fetish games.
link in reply with excerpts and free community copies for trans readers
In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.
Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.
Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.
This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.
Oh for sure
It'll be out 2027 so 👀👀
advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it
advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately
Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X
The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.
I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).
So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.
Absolutely blown away by the level of discourse here. To see my work discussed like this is such a fucking joy.
Happy National Library Week! This week you should:
1) Donate $ to your local Friends of the Library
2) Write to your public library director to thank them for standing up for diversity or to condemn them for caving to fascists
3) Plan a similar public comment for the next library board mtg
even I did not fully realize this.... ten years 🥹🥹🥹
♡ did yall know that next month is Summer Son's 10th birthday? if you measure from the very first rough draft chapter.
We proclaim: Buy Gay Books Day ✨🌈
🖤🖤🥹🥹
PS: Dave rules and was, once upon a time, the first person to ever read the first chapter of Summer Sons!! So I really can't wait to hold his first book in my own two hands finally in turn
I am so beyond excited that @tenebrouspress.bsky.social has picked up @davevriser.bsky.social's debut novel "Not Only Will This Kill You But It Will Hurt The Whole Time You Are Dying," I think y'all are gonna love it 🖤👻🦴
-70% is down there with shit like banning ice cream and imprisoning everyone's favorite aunt. In election terms -70% might as well be -100% because if you get on the wrong side of that issue you're toast.
Watching someone who spends $1500/month on ads yelling at authors for not trying hard enough.
As someone who has, at various times in her career, spent a shit load of money on advertising, leave poor authors the fuck alone.
Always a lawyer, doctor, or laid off CSuite marketing (or spouse of one).
“That Rümeysa felt she had to return to Turkey to escape the shadow of state violence says everything you need to know about the state of free speech and academic freedom in this country,” said Ramya Krishnan, an attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/17/m...
BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.
So, they vibe-coded too close to the sun
