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“Bitterness is anger with nowhere to go. Bitterness and resignation are close and tempting cousins. Anger with a target is Rage, and Rage is sister to Hope alone. We rage because we do believe things can be better, by fire if necessary.” - @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social

People abroad don't understand the level of interference Meta & bots had in these elections. 5 days before the election a far-right politician posted a fake news video that got 157 MILLION views on Instagram in 24hs. For reference, GTA 6's reveal trailer got 90 million views on YouTube in 24hs.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

If any of y’all were serious about gay Halloween I would have seen someone in this costume (Chuck Tingle’s Picture of Dorian Gay) already.

Disco Elysium style self portrait ✨

Go see Wildwood. Seriously, don’t wait—go see Wildwood. What a piece of art. The love for the manual craft, for story that doesn’t hold back, for filmmaking that is not here to answer to stockholders, it weaves all through it. Incredible stuff.

These are both great reads if you want something supernatural and very gay. Highly recommend. Grab them are fill your Halloween week with sexy ghost fucking.

The Arts as an Organizing Tool Join Luis J. Rodriguez and Mayda del Valle for a conversation hosted by Maya Marshall Wednesday, October 28th at 6:00 pm CT Streaming online from Haymarket House in Chicago RSVP to attend:

Our knowledge on the importance of indoor air quality has exploded in the past 5 years. You can keep yourself, kids, and coworkers safe from nearly all viruses just by cleaning the air. It also helps significantly with wildfire smoke too. We need regs for air just as we do for clean water.

If you need an algorithm to tell you your kid likes animals have you considered feeling immense shame

Especially if you are American, voting alone won't save you. You don't have a left wing party. The Democrats are making anti trans ads. Erika Hilton, a black trans woman, is the most voted congresswoman in Brazil and this is a video of Lula kissing her on the cheek.

A great day for a bunch of incredibly talented artists I follow here (and a bunch of very attractive men I follow elsewhere). All solidarity and congratulations to the people Brazil.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins fourth term, according to electoral court.

With 80% counted, Folha de São Paulo (Brazil’s WSJ) calls it.

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

If your argument is "we should let people be tortured to death because then people like me have a better chance of winning" I truly hope you, personally lose.

If this is your logic, get fucked. You're not on my side. I want you out of power.

it's that time of year

I still think AI systems should be paying me 150k per copyright violation. People keep asking me 'what laws do we need for AI?' and I keep saying 'enforce the fucking ones we already have!' There are copyright laws that should be being enforced right now that just... aren't. B/c it's billionaires.

i know it's why we use the term "invisible illnesses" but it's so bonkers when people say shit like "you don't look sick" bc like firstly, on the days when my chronic illness makes me acutely unwell, like... i DO sick. people that know me wince when they come over and lay eyes on me

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

Thank you, Bioware. Thank you to all the devs who made Mass Effect and Dragon Age possible. I'm so sorry. 💔

At this point the only sensible conclusion is that the games industry is doing great but the desperate greed of capitalism keeps murdering us

One of the big reasons I was so vocal a critic of Tim Swindle early on is that I saw what he was doing with EGS; massively juicing active user numbers. There was Fortnite users, but they had the habit of buying out popular multiplayer games such as Rocket League and now they have those users too...

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

One of the largest pickets in the country has been placed on Cork University Hospital, where around 5,000 people are employed, the majority of them trade union members.

thank you macaroni and cheese lawyer

FYI people watching from abroad, the Society of Authors statement was also signed by Australian Society of Authors The New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa (PEN NZ) Inc The Writers’ Union of Canada The Association of Illustrators

I'm going to elaborate on this in as calm and reasonable way as possible, but sincerely: fuck off

This is nothing short of spitting in the faces of all the professions that make book publishing what it is. And I think they’ll find that most authors and illustrators will be digusted by it.

me scheduling three back-to-back interviews so i don't lose more writing days to zoom: haha fuck yeah!!!! me doing three back-to-back interviews: well this fucking sucks, what the fuck

time to play CHIBI-ROBO on @prozdplaysgames.bsky.social with special guest @leogarcia.art, we gotta clean up this dang house www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlP0...

My art in the Heated Rivalry Deluxe edition #heatedrivalry

MeUndies has partnered with Harry Potter — another company choosing cash over self-avowed allyship.

Support D&D and MtG workers UNIONIZING!! 💪 Sign the petition by Oct 13 to add your voice to the demands so Wizards can see that the community supports their employees being compensated fairly and protecting against AI: actionnetwork.org/forms/uwotcp...

I love being a corporate worker with no personal desires. I want to make more money for my CEO. I never think about attractive men.

THEN WHY USE IT

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. https://bit.ly/4hMhPzG