Undue Effluence

“Listen, I’ve got something very obvious to tell you. You’re not allowed to give up. If they decide to kill me, it means that we are incredibly strong…” ⁃Alexey Navalny

I regret to inform y'all that Richard Ayoade sucks....

there’s a ton of important detail in this first interview of Ilhan Omar since the homeland security raid on her house, including something she says almost in passing—she and her family have to move now, because her address was made public, and they receive too many death threats to stay there now

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

i'll take this as confirmation of my argument that had Epstein lived he'd now be a major MAGA influencer

i judge for a few festivals, and i can safely say that the games that always stand out the most are ones with personal creative care taken in every aspect of the game. people say AI should replace this but you can’t automate intentionality or love. if you bank on that then you don’t understand art.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

We will forever confuse the forceful convictions of certain personalities uncomplicated by empathy as being rooted in greater comprehension.

I picked chestnuts from my neighbors’ trees and then tried to sell them to my neighbors, including the neighbors from whom I stole. I was six years old. Realizing now this is the same business model as AI.

A US lawmaker has announced plans to introduce a new bill that would give gamers ownership of the games they buy 🎮 The Power To The Players Act would require publishers to make games playable offline before shutting down their servers

Disability can happen to anyone at any time. It’s not due to deconditioning or a moral failing. Many chronic illnesses are the result of a viral infection from which the body never recovers. We need more awareness, treatments & clean air to reduce viral spread. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...

Or we could be more like this

As I was listening to coverage of today’s school shooting, a CyberTruck completely wrapped in shadowy American flags rolled by. It also had a nettled death metal style scrawl across the back saying CyberTruck.

I’m an astronaut in my heart

Katie Zacharia didn't pass the California bar exam because she squandered 90% of her prep time preparing for the nonexistent swimsuit competition.

This is illegal and (a) it’s not even close to defensible and (b) shouldn’t be tolerated.

Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one. Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.

On my twelfth Dark Souls character, I finally heard the words of The Fair Lady. If you know, you know. Another quiet altruist placing unearned trust in you despite unimaginable trauma. Another monster reducing the hero to errand boy.

Dark Souls asks you to persevere through a world that may be too unbearable to save, with your task bringing the possibility of prolonging it. It’s Sisyphus. The meaning is in the perseverance. The only reason left to get up is because you can.

My understanding is that the US doesn't need diesel. It's other countries' needs that are driving up global prices. US refiners make billions of excess profits charging US customers global prices. In fact we are a major exporter of diesel. So WTF? And what did he give Putin in return?

This is so sick. So a Russian blood diesel vessel is on its way to NC set to arrive tomorrow. It left St Petersburg on Sept 22nd. This Trump-Putin plan has been in the works for weeks can’t picture what allies America will have left after this

I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...

My mother was a local Republican politician. That put me in contact with more highly placed Republicans. I can attest that the bloodthirsty rhetoric of today’s party was simply better hidden in the 90s. Even before that, the discussions over my childhood breakfasts could swing eliminationist.

A cop warns on the price of witnessing death.

Streaming executions is Isis behavior

Yes, Medicare for All will increase your taxes...but not as much as you pay in insurance Yes, Medicare for All will likely mean you jettison your private insurance...but your private insurance sucks...and you KNOW IT DOES 👇

It’s about time the Democrats started calling Republicans what they are: Nazis. 

I predicted public executions if Trump won reelection. Knowing this country, there will be watch parties and reaction videos. Whether or not it happens, I am heartbroken.

The death penalty on its own is morally indefensible; Turning it into a public spectacle is an abomination

This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens

Through this livestreamed execution, the Trump regime will declare that it has departed from the civilized world and has plunged headlong into its own Dark Ages.

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.

Does Amazon know about my flat buttocks? Does it now?

gregor samsa awoke one morning to discover he had been transformed into a sickass beetle. fuck yeah he said scuttling all over the walls and ceiling like no dumbfuck traveling salesman could ever do. this is the best day of my life he said

The MAGA regime recently killed the largest ancient 250 year old “Grandmother” Cottonwood tree in Arizona’s indigenous territory just to expand the orange felon’s fucking wall. I’ll never forgive anyone who chose this evil.

Here I thought giving everyone the right to marry who they want turned us toward religious liberty. Apparently other people's relationships infringe on Sam's religious liberty, and that is just as disingenuous as all his other terrible opinions.

“Most people are taken aback by the details of this case. Here’s what I see.” Summarizes this take perfectly.

Viral Steam game Dressmaker was created after the developer’s wife lost her ability to sew due to a medical condition He helped turn her hobby into Dressmaker so she could reconnect with it virtually

One of these was literally a Trump 2024 campaign ad. The only difference is that it now says "paid for by the US government"

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

A studio promising “art so epic it will raise the birthrate” gifted a huge bronze Prometheus to Musk’s Starbase.

Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens.

Being evil is overrated

This is insane.

Remember when we were bent about those we felt were misusing “literally”? I want to have room for triviality again.

If you’re okay with capital punishment, I am not okay with you