yup. unrestricted internet access is what allowed me to learn who i am, while being stuck in an environment that was extremely hostile to the idea. its also what made me who i am, in a way, and i don’t have a single regret about it either. it’s what saved me from becoming a bigoted idiot, really.

aegisiondure 🫍@equalnotequals.com · yesterday

this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again

WPBL opening weekend is concluded and the baseball has been great, but the production NEEDS to be tightened up. Extremely delayed scorebug, pitch speed not showing, no split screen for game 1 during interviews. Graphic errors. I genuinely hope they get those issues resolved in the next few games.

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

The solution is kinda obvious: Privacy loss and deception are the pain points. Don't pretend to be pervert glasses, and look like a new category of device instead Make a device that's very clearly marketed as not being bifuckle spyglasses

I'm worried smart glasses might ruin wearable displays — and of course it's the cameras

Using my display-first AR glasses now suddenly feels awkward in public

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What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

Honestly, even though my chosen team lost, that game ruled. BASEBALL

Mo'ne Davis scores the first run in WPBL history for the LA Queens (although New York now leads 7-2)

and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!

love that ESPN is treating women's baseball equally (constructing a broadcast that ignores the actual game play)

i got mugged at shotgun point. the cops arrested the wrong guy, hustled me out of court at the hearing when i said ”that’s not the guy,” told me “you didn’t see him,” made me do a lineup at the prison and when i said “that’s the guy i saw in court, still not him” told me “it’s OK, he’s a bad person”

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:

WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Minority Owner For Being Rude To Transphobic Shitheads | Defector

On Tuesday night, a small group of weirdos held an anti-trans rally outside of the Seattle Storm’s home arena. The occasion for their gathering was a game against the Indiana Fever and bench player…

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WPBL opener starts with a rain delay. Truly, this is baseball. Also, go NY Heights!

car brain is the real-life equivalent to the myths about toxoplasmosis. efforts to reduce trash rotting in the street festering with disease and rats being met with "but muh parking!?????" is beyond parody. these people would happily live in a landfill if it had assigned parking.

David Dilbert@candyman718.bsky.social · 5d ago

Stop the War on Cars. Stop taking our parking spots away.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Between this the rugby women's teams standing by trans women and the u.s women's national soccer team being cool women's sports in the u.s are so much cooler than the men's.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com · 7d ago

Anti-trans rally flops as Seattle Storm player wears ‘trans rights are human rights’ shirt www.advocate.com/new... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Ok, here's the real He Would Not Say That.

Well, this way she gets to be right and is still moving copies so

G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · last wk.

Not sure I’d shit on something that helped me sell half a million copies of my book, personally

I sent a motherfucking V4 this morning after only a week of attempts, I'm riding this high for the rest of the month.

Wilson's translation was outselling basically everything else in the space by orders of magnitude before the film ever happened

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

As part of the Duty Support update for Evercold, the team is overhauling chocobo companions. Starting in 8.1, you can bring chocobos into dungeons creating light parties with 2 players + 2 chocobos.

in my personal opinion, the answer is always too much, and I’ll tell you why: because they are not mentally placing THEMSELVES in their image of hell we all know what a Christian who is afraid they’ve sinned and are going to hell looks like, and it ain’t this. it looks like other forms of trauma

I go by Rob@papashot.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do these monks worry too much or too little about Hell, in your estimation

but these motherfuckers loooooove Hell, they are so horny for it, because it’s not going to be where THEY go, it’s where YOU go. they are so serene in their sense of superiority. like most far right extremists, they are constantly fantasizing about terrible things happening to the people they hate

"my son turned out fine" Ma'am, your daughter tears up from the slightest bit of praise and needs constant reassurance that people aren't mad at her

Periodic reminder that if you are being asked by a captcha to type any kind of combinations of keys & especially if they look like shortcut key stroke combinations it is an attack called ClickFix. Basically the prompt is to fool you into downloading & installing malicious software. Stay vigilant!

Nicolai von Ondarza@nvondarza.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is new and completely wierd. To proof that I am not an AI, cloudflare now wants me to enter something in the terminal, of unknown origin. Sorry, no way.

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

T-girl Pokemon Types I’m BIRD/GOTH 🐦‍⬛ What are y’all???

Shocking literally no one, fox/robot type.

𝓒𝓵𝓪𝔀𝓼 💅@katdotexe.bsky.social · 2w ago

T-girl Pokemon Types I’m BIRD/GOTH 🐦‍⬛ What are y’all???

The programmer who was personally responsible for Guilty Gear Strive's rollback was asked to work on Avatar, but decided to pass on it because Mike Z worked at the studio. But hey, at least you got Mike Z!

𝐔𝐧𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐛@johnxuandou.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's interesting that people who try to cape for Mike like to play up his skills as a programmer because he made a game engine, but famously he's not very good at implementing features, and online components have always been something he fucking sucks at. The idea that he's necessary is comical.