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Trump is so un-American that he can’t even stage a coup for a right wing dictator in Latin America. Shame.

From the first page of #iHunt The RPG.

Going back in time to watch this stellar play of #iHunt with @goldenlassogames.bsky.social, @aabria.bsky.social, @persephiroth.bsky.social, and others. Before we, um, knew what Critical Role and Dropout were, really. lol.

I endeavor to make art that can't be generated with AI because there's nothing existing like it to plagiarize from. If I can plagiarize someone else to make it, it's not art I want my name on.

"El Sayed dug up the buried implication of Tommy's question, held it up for all to examine, and then, one shovelful after another, question by question, buried Tommy in the hole left behind." www.the-reframe.com/taking-our-c...

Rereading Larry Hama’s G.I. Joe, and I continue to be struck by how Cobra’s recruitment speeches and slogans could easily be Elon Musk tweets.

i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Add another to the rapidly growing list I'm told is "just a couple of outliers."

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

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

Gosh. You're saying it's not about "protecting women?"

I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents" The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family

The report alleges Donald Trump was an “active participant” in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. trib.al/r158uvt

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

And we still have politicians not only allowing this, but even taking our tax dollars away from our communities’ needs and giving it to these billionaire companies in the form of tax cuts. If you’re in Fairbanks, AK come to our data center town hall this Thursday actionnetwork.org/events/nobod...

I would love to live in a world where "President faces new rape allegation" isn't treated like a dog bites man story in the major media.

Trump and Republicans are restarting their voter fraud misinformation machine ahead of the midterms. When I checked, Republican candidates were implicated in voter fraud at up to 38,000x the public’s rate. If they were actually worried about voter fraud, they’d start with their own candidates.

Homer WAS Grok, fool!

“And there’s a kind of right winger who thinks this is all hilarious because they, too, punch down at vulnerable people, sometimes while spouting Bible verses on social media quoting a man who commanded his followers to care for the poor, the outcasts, the marginalized.”

Maybe prediction markets are bullshit?

Older progressives remember what can happen when a mass movement stands down. The grassroots machine that propelled Obama into office was shut down, and his most ardent supporters were let down. The young'uns won't make that mistake.

No you see AI won’t replace jobs it will simply make the jobs easier

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

Seeing this image, I suddenly remembered how when I was in high school, which is a long time ago, well before trans people were much talked about at any level, some cis boys in my area wanted to play field hockey, which was a girls sport. And they were allowed to. They wore the uniform skirts, too.

So much to say about Brazil, not least of which is the role that Erika Hilton, a Black trans leader and most voted woman politician in Brazil, played in mobilizing folks for Lula. She was behind the critical, concrete, economic promise of shorter work-week. theprint.in/feature/erik...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

help someone save their game

cyberpunk thriller where a team is hired to kill an AI CEO decades after his death

I don't think I ever watched an episode of Star Trek (science fiction isn't my thing), but I thought casting a Russian while the Cold War was still raging, to make the point that humans would get along better in the future, was a lovely touch.

Yup: www.avclub.com/john-oliver-...

After several years of calling anyone they dislike a pedophile or a groomer, the GOP has discovered that it can be done to them too, and the chairman of the Ohio Republican party is not happy about it

"After the surgeon removed my tumor, my stomach looked like a horror movie connected by twelve inches of staples and yellowish pink flesh. He instructed me to keep my wound clean, but the correctional officers assigned to me refused to let me shower for 7 days. I was also denied food for 5 days."

The House Judiciary Committee Democrats have released a report containing testimony from 11 women regarding allegations of sexual assault, including a new rape allegation, against President Trump in relation to Jeffrey Epstein that the lawmakers say has been deliberately covered up by the DOJ.

leave the dogs alone

I'm one of those in the group at risk. If anyone is on the lookout for someone with decades of experience in production and release management, please reach out.

Truthfully, one of the biggest challenges is hubris. *Everybody* thinks they're good at comms,everybody thinks they know exactly how to persuade people, virtually everyone has zero experience. Even fewer know how to do it online. And most resources go to the folks with almost no history of success.

Is it possible to put out effective messages on hostile platforms? Sure! Zohran went on Fox and charmed them. But is a fash-apologist moderate gonna go on NewsMax and just... make things better through the pureness of his heart? (Which is apparently the centrist theory of change.) Demonstrably not.

So there's no self-awareness. They can't understand that they were targeted for outreach just as much as Black and trans people were targeted for abuse. Which makes it impossible for them to be part of using such a platform for political pushback, even if they don't think of themselves as fascists.

We're seeing it right now in tech; a number of prominent tech commentators (all coincidentally happen to be wealthy & influential white men? huh!) have all just endorsed returning to Twitter again. But they weren't content to just _be there_ — they also insisted it's not a hostile environment.

There's nuance here about "how do we use platforms owned by the fascists". You *have to understand the political purpose of the platforms* in order to use them to subvert authoritarians. For the most part, Americans simply do not. Centrists (including DNC consultants) do not. Major media does not.

I don't understand why every week its layoffs, layoffs, layoffs. Who's left to make games when everyone is gone?

sad news to start the week: layoffs have hit sucker punch

There is an international, well-connected network of fascists promoting far-right candidates in elections (and coups) across the world. The guy who owns the site Yglesias posted this on is one of their leaders. Be careful of people advocating for their opponents to disarm!