Sapphire

I think artists and sex workers should have a natural allyship. Both of us are often told we should not be allowed to charge for our work if it is at all pleasurable. Both of us are wanted for what we can do, but our work is considered not worth paying for. We should stick together

Its worth knowing that private enterprise labels anything it can't meddle with politically as authoritarianism and anything it cannot control the culture of as a cult and anyone it cannot politically control the activism of or who reads books elitist. Thankfully this is just comedy.

So, the middle tier of management is always in a bit of a rough position in any company, because if they work well, it usually just means things continue to function. That’s not a super glorious place to be. But that does make for a soft target for AI job replacement. No one minds fewer managers!

And much of Oxford Street is going car-free from tomorrow! I don't even live in London anymore but I'm genuinely excited about this. If it works well, it could be one of Khan's big legacies. People have been talking about doing this for literal decades, and now it's happening.

This post in particular is really telling. It's saying - don't expect Democrats to simply right the wrongs. What Republicans take away in 4 years you must expect to spend 20 years to restore, fighting Democrats the whole way.

This is such a banger perennial point, whether it’s taking about power generation, IT, or social issues.

One of my favourite Shadowrun sourcebook ads and covers: Super Tuesday! I was pretty deep into Shadowrun 2E at this point and remember my group running the Bug City adventure from this most of all. 📺: Dragon Magazine (how appropriate), 1996

A little heavy handed

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Even the stars that fade still leave echoes...

in my experience, people who were exposed to severe Christian homophobia in the 2000s were protected against "Just Asking Questions" transphobia of the 2010s precisely because we realize that it never stops at "these are human beings" and always goes to cruelty

"Powered entirely by batteries, China Zorrilla is the largest electric ship ever built and is capable of carrying up to 2,100 passengers and 225 vehicles across the River Plate, a 30 nautical mile route."

if we're complaining about Mass Effect: it's fucked up that the guy who's in charge of all the Reapers is named Harbinger and the guy who's supposed to open the way for the other Reapers is named Sovereign

"I dont give af how many hormones you've taken" yeah so thats the part that makes you a bigot, because you dont actually know what you're talking about and dont care about the material reality of how hormones change trans people's bodies and alters our athletic performance.

I want everyone to internalize that these fucking "A.i." companies are inflicting this shit on us KNOWINGLY. They're doing this to us. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS. No bailout for these creeps, ever. Let their companies and their wealth and reputation evaporate forever.

So many of my illustrations are just ‘average queer friend group’

maruzensky really gets me in my adult woman fetish #umamusume

yuri first date

Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

I kind of love this as an example of brain rot, the importance of power dynamics in the use of AI and, critically, what happens when you stop remembering that and start believing the unqualified hype.

Traveling Party

details leaked. this vulnerability is a full unauthenticated unconditional remote code execution exploit against any service running on a PHP version from 5.4 until latest yeah if anything deserves CVSS 11, this is it. this is CATACLYSMICALLY bad.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Didn't take long for the NHS transphobic guidance to claim a life

it's not "purity testing" to say you don't fuck with a candidate who doesn't respect your rights, ya big dummies.

If you are looking for a delicious cyberpunk book to read, may I recommend Nameless. It’s somewhere between C.S. Friedman’s This Alien Shore and George Alex Effinger’s When Gravity Fails: there is a mystery with increasing stakes, set in a rich world that balances grittiness and hope for humanity.

It’s depressing to see schools use AI to create flyers, banners, & t-shirts. When I was in high school the faculty would come to the art department to have students create these things. I learned so many skills that have followed me my entire professional life. That’s what I thought school was for.

Conservatives get very upset when you answer their question directly, force them to own the subtext of the question, and expose the bad-faith politics underneath all of it. You cannot separate this from the context of the President calling AES a “jihadist” and “Mohammad” at his rallies. You can’t.

Eat or be Eaten- 2025

excellent and actually fascinating thread examining how we define racist

Bruh