"Why wasn't this piece of art more explicit with its messaging" cause it would have sucked ass Bob. Telling people the truth isn't as effective as making them experience it. That's why it's art and not an essay.

Dem strategiests, seeing this post: "hmm sounds interesting but we are busy sending the message that the DSA, which turns out high voter numbers & wins offices, is Bad, Actually"

Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2w ago

What Democrats need to stress is that people used to be able to enjoy things before the Republicans made Taco Tuesdays some sort of crime against western civilization. They have become the harpies they complained about. The vibes are bad and it's all because they are repressed and weird.

if he goes in the bunker next year and says that Congress isn't Congress, we can go in there and take him out of it, and at that point he is just a man

every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸

I was trying to figure out why cavemen sometimes do and sometimes don't drop prepositions. Anyone have a theory? COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/me PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Somebody asked me on Reddit why people who use AI to generate Recomp projects are currently being rejected from the communities and what they can do to fix this. I might tweak parts of this to be a more general blog post at some point, but this should be of help to anyone in a similar situation.

George and Kramer both join an anime fighter discord community filled with transgender women, and George is upset when Kramer is the only one they call a grungler. Jerry's new girlfriend beats him in his main game when she's never played it before. Elaine dates a low tier main.

Tell me, Amuro: why is it that if you make a meal for your daughter, it's a life sim, but if you shoot another man for your daughter, it's a game of the year contender? It seems that there is a societal pressure to elevate the act of violence as a showcase of empathy more powerful than motherhood.

right. the Democratic party of midcentury was the result of electoral fusion between a moderate social democratic party and the ruling party of a one party competitive authoritarian state which was controlled by genocidal militias and far to the right of AfD

The Girl of Lemongrab@mc-hesher.bsky.social · last mo.

A load bearing mythos of pop leftism is that the Dems used to be good and for the working man and then embraced neoliberalism so the working man got sold out, instead of "white America as a whole turned on the Dems after the Civil Rights Act and began tearing down their own commons and prosperity"

is there any way to stop them from making a Zelda movie. as a favor to me, maybe. a treat for JD. no Zelda movie, congratulations JD you get your wish this time

I would like to see more companies admit this - being a public company no longer means running a successful, thriving business. It strictly means delivering growth to investors, every single quarter, who do not care at all about the product the company sells or the people who produce it.

Hannah 'Pichy' Stockmann@hpichystockmann.bsky.social · last mo.

Savage.

Hey remember when Nanowrimo said "sure why not" to allowing AI slop in their process and then immediately died after 20 years of operation oh, no reason, was just thinkin' about it

Raffi you’re so right

i guess it's an election year so now I have to block everyone who screams "all criticism of democrats or the electoral system means you want the republicans to win." I that's you, just let me know so I can block you? Or you could just block me. We're not going to have productive conversations.

the Suno hack "reveals"/reminds that these companies do not give a shit about artists, people, culture, their customers, or one God damned thing besides making money off other people's work they are as festering rot on a wet board, and of equivalent value

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Customer emails/phone numbers & Stripe payment details were also hacked; no one was ever notified because the company deemed it wasn't important to

this is why "and you're surprised?" is one of the top 5 most infuriating online responses to sharing upsetting news. surprise is not the only emotion, and it's not the only factor that makes something worth drawing attention to. it's weird to pretend being blasé about horror equals moral superiority

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 2mo ago

You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you.

thank god we have kelly. this is such a perfectly phrased reminder of something i’ve been ruminating on a lot lately. this hit me like a lightning bolt. stop inviting people to surrender.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Generally speaking, I think it takes a special kind of gall to assume that what a desperate world needs is your particular spin on giving up." organizingmythoughts.org/declining-in...

Again, the field of extremism studies will never advance unless we start openly talking and writing about violence inflicted by the state. Specifically how state violence is the direct result of the government’s official foreign and domestic policy being based on a racist conspiracy theory.

unraveled@unraveledpress.com · 2mo ago

With two people dead in Memphis in four days and one the same week in Houston, that's four people federal agents have shot and killed over just nine days. July 5: Tyrin Johnson July 7: Lorenzo Salgado Araujo July 8: Alfonso Ivy July 13: name not released yet

I would like the screaming in my head to stop.

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The big literary discourse on twitter right now is whether The Hobbit—a children’s book that won children’s lit awards and was literally written for the author’s children—is appropriate reading for children or in fact such a difficult book most adults can’t “get their head around” it.

This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke.

Psychotically chanting "God will reward my suffering with fat naturals" with such conviction that eventually the rest of the people in the Greyhound bus join in

Stop Killing Games is a thing that sounds positive in theory, but the lack of an actual hierarchy beyond a few talking head YouTubers and a Discord full of scene drama, paired with a hazy manifesto influenced by petty grievances, has basically doomed it to be co-opted by bad actors ad nauseam.

Moses coming down from the mountain:

The Baldfather@solochills.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

Y'all get outta pocket very quickly

Everyone this man has hired has a name that you would make up in a panic at an improv show.

Springtime for Hegseth@schroedinger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Trump's longtime head of security Matthew Calamari

ICE broke the finger of a Reuters photojournalist today. After two days of drenching people in pepper spray, people have been adding more and more layers of protection, rendering the spray useless and leading to ICE using their short metal batons that they swing with full force.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

If you feel like being married is gonna be your biggest accomplishment, get a decent human being for a husband.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The unfortunate woman who married Stephen Miller, the second worst man in the United States to be married to, thinks it’s a flex to mock other women for not being married. Oh, honey . . .

when a bunch of people feel this way, even those who appear to be doing well on paper, you probably do in fact have a problem.

Adam Compton@comptona.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I've become partial to the observation that there is no non-corrupt career you can pursue which will let you buy a house