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Honestly, really smart of that rapist to only upload his apology to Bluesky. Only his biggest supporters are here and the average viewer of him wouldn’t know so we continue to get Patreon and YouTube money with having clean hands

why are there legions and legions of people online who seem to get personally offended when you denounce rapists.... wait don't answer that

The larger conversation about this revelation shouldn't be about fucking 'restorative justice' it should be about the pervasiveness of rapists and rape apologia in literally all corners of society. This has to stop.

seeing conservative men debate how to dress online is very funny. can't dress up or wear interesting casualwear bc you've made any visible interest in dress to be a sign of homosexuality. but you feel the need to dress better bc you've linked dress to respectability. a prison of your own making.

Like their balancing act with family. They absolutely must be perceived as breeders filling the world with the "right" kind of children, but must never be caught doing anything womanly like feeling love or participating in the care of their kids in any way.

I “love” how when I say they shouldn’t return to the spotlight people equate it to me saying I don’t believe in rehabilitative justice, like having a YouTube platform is a god given right or something

If you feel like you need to post something that empathizes with Jacob Gellar, I get it, but close the app and instead practice empathizing with the victim. I do not say this glibly. Just do it and sit with that discomfort.

It’s honestly really triggering for me that once again, in the aftermath of people finding out a man who is a beloved public figure committed sex crimes in his past, the conversation has to immediately shift into how and when the guy can return to the status quo he was in

My reading of the Jacob Geller situation is that a lot of people accept his apology bc they relate to feeling like they crossed a line with a partner in the past (even if not nearly as bad) and they want to feel like there is some sort of redemption from that sin. Shocked this hasn’t been discussed

Imagine if it was Asmongold who did this? Everyone would want to tear him to pieces. But because it's Geller, people defend him only because they liked what he made. That's it. It's parasocial, and they're doing rape apologia the same as the ghouls in the Cornell case

Ready to go. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

Imagine if a gang of retail shoplifters stole $131 million worth of stuff over a few years, it would be the biggest story in news for quite some time. But when a gang of hyper wealthy business owners steal from some of the poorest working class folks we call that "Tuesday".

I would simply like to live my quiet little life as a trans woman and buy fruit and sing and walk my dog and wave to my neighbors and watch movies and use restrooms without being the subject of a culture “war” where both political parties agree I’m a disgusting freak who doesn’t deserve civil rights

The villain in this story is not subtle, but frankly, that seems accurate to our current experience. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Mrs-M... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Google: play.google.com/stor...

oh look, dems can easily leverage messaging to hijack, create, or redirect entire newscycles by exploiting the infotainment media's obsession with scaled ad engagement, who could have possibly imagined such a thing

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

I do hate the corporate tendacy to put a lady in charge ahead of the company actively looking to eat shit. I cant belive she didnt know what was up, or that she wouldnt have taken the job regardless but still feels bad.

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

also sometimes people just don't want to see NSFW content without warning being pro-NSFW is both advocating for it AND properly tagging it for folks who don't want to see it (for any reason) just because I don't want to eat what's on their menu doesn't mean i want their table empty, yknow?

Video games are cool but the actual industry is an absolute cancer, don't forget that

If any video game that is made uses ChatGBT Gemini Grok Banana whatever the fuck, I’m not buying it. “guess you’ll get left behind—“ GOOD. I like video games for the art, you like video games for the capital. We are not the same.

Like basically I think if you're complaining about there being no good singleplayer first person shooters anymore, that's a you problem

A 40% pay increase, the right to walk off the job if federal agents (i.e. CBP/ICE) pose a threat to them *and* the contract expires in April 2028 so they can demand more ahead of the Olympics. Shoutout Local 11, shoutout unions.

One of the things that fuck with me the most in video games is how women are never allowed to age. We've gotten countless sequels and such where classic male video game characters are old and dads and kinda washed but in a way that's cool. Meanwhile Lara Croft is stuck in the time cube.

The next time you’re arguing with someone on the internet just remember it’s probably pointless because a large chunk of the time they’re this ridiculous. Logic isn’t going to do shit. Go for a cute walk or get high instead baby

Financial circumstances mean I am available, possibly even a little desperate, for freelance gigs that can use my abiltiies as a writer (Cryptmaster, Valheim, Ironheart etc) and voice actor (Cryptmaster). Anyone who can pump the visibility on this will have my eternal(ish) gratitude!

Because laws will never be more than words on paper, and it's always power you need. Right now, the people with power are mostly corrupt assholes that refuse to enforce laws on their financial backers. You just can't ever allow power to consolidate so much this is possible.

Try to imagine a Republican Party with a dozen or so staunch abortion advocates. A dozen pro-choice Republicans wrecking every shot at eroding women's autonomy, ruining every anti-choice vote. Can't picture it, can you? Yet we have to accept this kind of Democratic Party, for some reason.

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

Live your life in such a way that you don't have to say "I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody" on national television.

having the opportunity to feign surprise and drop this line would give me a kind of high no drug could reproduce