❤️Another thing we had in the backburner for far too long, and from that time we played emulated Ridge Racer cause our laptop had to be repaired, here is the Tesstarossa/Rivelta Solare from Ridge Racer 5/Rave Racer, stylized with some extra elements of course.

❤️Having played through Limbus Canto IX, and picked up several new system members in the process, here is Putty from that canto, in some poses based on her in-game battle sprites.

Star Wars Episode 1 is quite famously one of the first movies to receive such a negative and immediate backlash on the internet that exploded into offline. This is historical revisionism.

Zaki Hasan@zakiscorner.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is objectively, verifiably untrue.

thing about politics in this country, the "blue no matter who" attitude is...if your Dem candidate is anti-trans, pro-Israel, won't push to abolish ICE & prosecute everyone involved, and/or has never committed to undoing/stopping anything Trump's done? They're just a Republican in a different suit.

had a video game idea feel free to steal it and get filthy rich

huh? what a bizarre and sinister choice Like what? is this a deal to solve reddit closing it's gates to google, since that was what a lot of the AI overview relied still gross and invasive >:p

When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

It's even more angering to me when other trans people will see "cringe" trans art and say that it's "setting the community back" or "making us look bad". Actually transphobes are going to hate us no matter what, you're just miserable and want everyone else to hate themselves like you do

JenWave1995@jenwave1995.bsky.social · 4d ago

When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

❤️Having played through Limbus Canto IX, and picked up several new system members in the process, here is Putty from that canto, in some poses based on her in-game battle sprites.

With alt text. Time to cancel some accounts / business relationships / season tickets or stop shopping at some places and send them a strongly worded letter why you’re doing so, Buckeyes.

Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

❤️Account's back, but what caused the infraction is still being appealed, and what a nonsense saga it is.

if you're worried about trans people happening in sports, you're transphobic and a fucking dipshit

And I say this with my whole chest: The anti-trans movement is not about trans people. It’s certainly not about protecting children It is about legislating conformity It is about restricting bodily autonomy It is about erasing all free expression they find disagreeable —It is about control—

Trans people are just the most successful wedge issue the Christofascist hatemongers have been able to cook up in their think tanks Attacking, eroding, then completely eliminating trans rights is not an end goal but the beginning of a much larger campaign to outlaw ALL who are not THEM

I do not know how to state this with any greater clarity (or urgency): If you enjoy your freedom to exist as you choose, to create as you are inspired, to dress in ways that delight you, to be visible & authentic & real You are in danger. Your freedoms are in danger. They are coming for us all.

There is a direct line one can trace from the way the religious right in the 80s & 90s went after Goths, Pagans, vampires & other non-conformist identity groups - often by framing them as delusional & inherently dangerous to minors - and their successful attacks upon trans people now

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

America Is About to See What Happens When Voters Turn to AI

Chatbots are adding a new layer of chaos ahead of the midterms.

theatlantic.com

I have been saying for a while we cannot disarm in the battle of SEO and this is part of why Fight the enemy in front of you not the one you wish you had

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last wk.

Voters who Googled how to donate to Talarico got an AI answer that led them to give to a different senator. A network of fake news websites seeded messaging about state & local candidates that AI answers picked up on. My story on how the AI midterms are going: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

In one video, a fascist politician was threatening a group of Indigenous people that he would withdraw their funding if they didn't vote for Bolsonaro. One of them replied, so what. We won't vote for you. You don't fund us anyway. Iconic. X

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · last wk.

The organising by Lula's voters in Brazil right now is astonishing. They still might not win but they've put millions on the street and they have shifted the polls back to a tie -despite, in a friend's words, fighting "everyone -Trump, Meta, legacy media, the rich, betting companies, evangelicals".

I'll be ok it's just living in a capitalism and everything else like the government wanting me dead etc

Trump and his wretched circle of cynical little bigots are counting on you to hate Black women as much as they do. Esp Black women like Ilhan Omar, Louise Lucas, and Monica McIver. He's counting on you not to care about this blatant abuse committed in his name by a corrupt DOJ. Prove him wrong.

Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas is charged with drug trafficking and money laundering, DOJ says

Democratic Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas has been charged with drug trafficking and money laundering, months after an FBI search of her district office and a neighboring cannabis shop.

apnews.com

❤️ Our already low faith in @discord.com has just gone negative after getting hit by their slopmods for something we didn’t do. The reasoning was also vague as fuck. Appealed the decision, but Discord support’s lack of response time is only pissing us off further.

It seems for at least some segment of the global right part of the project of imagining their own grievance has gone beyond denying that inequality exists and has rapidly become denying that the lives of people who challenge their frameworks already don’t exist. It’s dangerous.

They tested all this recently by telling you that trans people aren’t real, but before this they told you Black women were unrapable, and that the land they colonized was empty. I promise this is all part of the same story of erasure and domination.

Business Insider confirms it: Amazon has warehouses of GPUs that can’t be installed, and is buying them so far in advance that a supply chain team said they “didn’t have a clear forecasted path” to installing them. www.businessinsider.com/amazon-220-b...

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last mo.

Free newsletter: I estimate that ~50% of AI chip sales - $200bn to $300bn+ - are sitting in warehouses, with NVIDIA selling hundreds of billions of GPUs years in advance. Data centers take way longer to build than hyperscalers are leading us to believe. www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/

Business Insider also reporting that Amazon projects it would take delivery of $3 billion a month in GPUs “every month for the foreseeable future,” all while not having anywhere to put them, as part of an “early rack receipt” program. Extremely strange!

This means that the increased price of RAM and consumer electronics was a result of an artificial "supply chain crisis" created by Jensen Huang pushing NVIDIA's customers to take early delivery of GPUs. Jensen Huang is responsible for making life worse for everyone.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com · last wk.

NVIDIA seems to be channel stuffing, forcing Amazon and other customers to take early delivery. The argument that these things are "scarce" when you don't even have anywhere to plug them into is nonsense...unless NVIDIA is saying you NEED to take them now, or else. GPUs are stacked in warehouses.