online-silkmoth

@online-silkmoth.bsky.social

they/them - 18 I sometimes do gamedev, draw, and make music

people keep repeating "if buying isn't owning piracy isn't theft" like a shibboleth in these but it's largely irrelevant and unthreatening because you cannot meaningfully pirate ps5 games. this is because there are no ps5 games.

VGC@videogameschronicle.com · 3d ago

Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy. It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-sa...

The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.

her very existence was an indisputable reminder of how many things framed as inevitabilities were actually just someone’s choice. there actually is enough money for everything. the wealthy could fully fund literacy and public health and the arts and child welfare. they just won’t

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social · last wk.

By almost any measure Dolly embodied "the American Dream." Some people will come from nothing and make it big and consider the problem now solved. Others will remember that there are still others with nothing and use what they have to help.

I think the thing the racist prof defenders imply but don't like to admit is there's no benefit to hiring/debating a guy who says mushrooms are created by fae because it's obviously silly but they do think it's worth your time to debate a race science guy because they think he's partially correct

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

If I turn up at the physics department ranting about the ether nobody is obliged to pretend that I must be given a job.

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism