@arcin
She/her Disability self advocate Primary GM for the Yeldplay! Podcast Gay as all hell. AuDHD Creative writer for the Magical Land of Yeld Creator of "Time and Again" the tabletop role-playing game (Playtesting started!) Tribal member (woo)
And I swear to you the Venn diagram of people who don't want gay characters in kids' shows and people who demand that antiblack cartoons from the past remain uncensored and free of warning labels is a single circle.
Indeed we are
Me: Democracy means everyone gets a say.
Multiple teachers, a shitty manager, one badass History Professor: No that would be Mob Rule.
Me: You just said Democracy means everyone gets a vote.
Multiple teachers, a shitty manager: Yeah, but you can't -
History Professor: Yeah, that comes up a lot;)
I’d personally like to speak to him about the astounding level of fatphobia in Wall-E (for which he wrote the screenplay) and the harms that caused, if he’s worried about messaging to children that’s *actually* harmful
I love everyone responding to this with jokes and not acknowledging that this is a thing one of the programmers at Bluesky did
"I think the LLM is conscious" makes a lot more sense when you realize a lot of people don't grasp the interiority of other people.
If you view other people as a series of inputs and utilities, it makes a lot of sense that you would see inert code awaiting your prompt as conscious.
Not the point but that's the poutiest face I've ever seen on a judge
"The data labelers in Kenya described seeing footage of people naked, watching porn, and talking about crimes and protests. Faces are often blurred, the story said, but sometimes are visible, depending on the lighting."
The Grim Reaper could do the funniest shit right now
if you want to know how important it is for you to do this math: the fees patreon took from me in 2025 add up to roughly 3 months of income. that's 3 months of income i would have paid taxes on if i didn't deduct the fees from the 1099. 3 months of income i never actually had!
My first dog almost never got caught doing things (like, say, a 4 feet vertical leap to roll a watermelon oast 1.5 ft of junk mail onto the ground to be consumed without disturbing the nail). Thing is, he ALWAYS looked guilty. Also that waternelon was not utterly consumed.
The BIG DUMB WAR CYCLE HAWKS ITCH FOR BATTLE IT WILL BE A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR! 9/11 FALSELY INVOKED I'M SURE THEY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE HIJACKERS. BOOSTERS OF PREVIOUS WAR ALL OVER TV BOMBS AWAY! MILLIONS PROTEST AROUND THE WORLD AND ARE IGNORED THIS WAR IS BUNK TOO PATRIOTISM OF OPPOSITION QUESTIONED SUPPORT OUR TROOPS YOU TRAITOR WAR A BLOODY DISASTER WITHOUT END WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN? CONVENTIONAL WISDOM FORMS THAT WAR WAS A MISTAKE, BUT NO ONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE HOW'D WE GET INTO THAT MESS? BEATS ME!
This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
This is how it was— it's a return.
Despite all they sacrificed, Fannie Lou Hammer's Freedom Party, the first integrated Dem delegation, was denied seats at the DNC.
When they were offered two seats, which they refused on principle, the entire all white Mississippi delegation walked out anyway.
One of the most powerful things I've read in years, and a real dropping of the scales moment for something vile that has been insidiously poisoning everything for decades
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GMs shouldn't just say Yes to everything and some things do need a flat No. Yes, And/But & No, And/But is where all the is had.
@hackintimseeley.bsky.social
hey look a fun history lesson!
Big news, and not good news, but luckily for us we have time. It needs to get to the committee of rules FIRST before heading to the main house chamber.
This means our fight is not over.
We will need to fight HARDER
#savespeech #notodigitalid
So it seems like #Icarus is 66% off, if anyone that's been dropping by my streams wants to explore that far-flung moon for themselves. It coincides with a double XP event, so your characters will level a lot quicker.
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Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.
"Feminism" [Times]
Gavin Newsom's pivot from denying Israel is committing genocide (less than two months ago) to now calling them an apartheid state isn't proof that he can be pushed in the right direction. It's proof that he "believes" whatever is advantageous for him at the time. He has no values.
If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Hey Seattle between home and school i saw six god damned cybersucks. Three on the same corner.
Whats wrong with yall???
Hey yall, we need to raise about $4000 to save some old tapes.
Jason's an expert archivist from @archive.org and these tapes are of great value.
If you can boost, please do. If you can donate, please do.
Hey fam, I checked and it turns out that capitalism isn't actually an ethical way to run a society of our present scale, and there need to be large amounts of regulations in place to prevent evils such as the ones we are experiencing in our modern age.
Give me 20-50 dollars please.
these craven fucks are lower than dirt. dogshit opposition party
Clocky…
*squints* ok yeah i can tell the time while looking at you. Though that might just be my phone screen