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We've somehow backslid from "I don't know how to explain that you should care about other people" to "I don't know how to explain that you should care about the world you yourself live in"
I'm tired of being told cruelty and bloodlust and greed is just human nature by the like 0.0005 of guys who had to craft whole political empires around enabling their ideologies maybe that's your nature, I want to stay home and do nice things for people and not live in hellworld
Very valuable list! Plenty of places to donate near you.
I just found this. Maybe it can be helpful.
I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports
If you do not fight at the barricade of trans healthcare you will fight at the barricade of the most stigmatized medication you are on and you will do it with fewer experienced allies because you left trans people to die.
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
Trans people are my allies and if my government chooses to see them as an enemy than the government is my enemy as well. Fuck the state. Fuck the creep pedophiles that run shit. We will win and we will make a better world with them not in it, and some day we will laugh and dance on their graves.
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My failson actor, Cavos and the devil he very wisely entered into an infernal pact with! (art by @doodtoon.bsky.social )
For those who can, here are links to donate directly to local efforts on the ground resisting ICE's terrorizing of Minneapolis. Let me know what you donated to where, and I'll match it until I get a panicked call from my bank! linktr.ee/mplsmutualaid
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Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors
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Abolish ICE, prosecute and imprison its leaders, impeach and remove the President from office. This is the only sane reaction to a group of armed men kidnapping and gunning down our neighbors in the street.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers Remembered spending almost every day of a summer break years ago hanging out at a friend's house and playing this, but did not even recall the title of the game until very recently
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers: Tiny Tank (PSX) (and before you ask: yes! the minitank enemy is a reference)
Ersatz is OUT! The indie pilot I've been solo-animating for 1.5 years is now on youtube. Check it out! youtu.be/yf2tBjHvx9s?...
ERSATZ | PILOT
YouTube video by saint greaver
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An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.
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Like I'm fascinating with the Larian thing mostly because I'm sure Vincke genuinely believed he and his team are using AI 'responsibly' - they're not releasing AI slop, everything released is "done by artists", etc. There's simply no interrogation with the philosophy the tool represents.
I am not sure CEOs (who mostly talk to moneymen and hang out on LinkedIn) fully understand how much the AI technology they and everyone in their circle agrees is the Next Big Thing is utterly loathed by the rest of the world. These are people resistant to the idea that tech can have an ideology.
consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI. reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.
the world has changed
I was masking a house out of a photo for an edit and accidentally made an ontologically evil image
CBT stands for Crash Bandicoot Therapy. It's when you imagine Crash Bandicoot spinning all your automatic negative thoughts and cognitive distortions away.
a video game character is spinning in the sand near a red cube with the letter r on it
ALT: a video game character is spinning in the sand near a red cube with the letter r on it
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
SINCERE POST™️: you might be very angry tonight. don't let that anger eat you. that doesn't mean "don't be angry." just don't let it turn you to despair. anger in an energy, and you can use it as fuel for actions. As the saying goes, let this radicalize you
Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory once again
I'll be the fun police. Don't play Arc Raiders. Do better. Play a game with real voice acting.
Not to be the fun police but I do hope people know that Arc Raiders does use generative AI for voice acting, and by supporting the game you're letting higher-ups know that this is an okay practice. They try to downplay this on the Steam store page by describing the AI usage as vaguely as possible.