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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal] @MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

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This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

Two screenshots from "A Fish Called Wanda," the first of which is edited into a meme. Panel 1: Kevin Kline as Otto says "conservatives don't watch Star Trek" Panel 2: Jamie Lee Curtis responds, "yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it! In the film, Kevin Kline's actual line was "apes don't read philosophy."

Not my OC

Pokemon gym leader Nessa with a disgusted face, saying "oh, you're transphobic? ew"

Bluesky vibe check

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

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But really do not let this moment pass you up, call your reps and beat them over the head with evidence that ID verification will lead to uncontrollable sensitive information leaks and identity theft

Hang in there, struggling artists

Tea ☕️ #writing #author #facts

October 4, 2005

20 years ago today, BioWare revealed their next-gen RPG 'Project SFX', officially titled Mass Effect at Xbox's X05 event in Amsterdam.

It also gave us our first look at Commander Shepard's original model.

#MassEffect

Every New Detail About Dragon Age: The Veilguard's Development Shows Why It's A Defining Game For BioWare - Kotaku BioWare was asked to do the impossible, and in doing so, made a game that feels like the team's final word

Reiterating that Veilguard's hope for the world was a radical thing. I don't know what happens next, but given today's news, the things that game had to say feel even more important as a "final word" from BioWare when all the odds were stacked against them.

A photo of a cat wearing a giant white cowboy hats that says “you can’t always be a strong cowboy. Sometimes being an alive cowboy is just enough”

Hope you’re all having a good day so far 🫶🏻

With EA's buyout- its totally ok to be sad about IPs being in trouble, but also remember that hundreds of good people are now fearing mass layoffs right now. Part of the deal included EA being responsible for BILLIONS in debt and thats not going to be at the cost of Wilson's yacht collection.

Wild that EA managed to find a buyer who cares about video game workers even less than EA.

NATALITY!!!

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

An image of Solas in Dragon Age: The Veilguard with text that reads "she knocked that smug look off my face but luckily I was wearing a second, smaller smug look underneath".

A good day to recall when Ron DeSantis was going around with such massive heel lifts that photos of him appeared to be taken mid-Rapture.

really not sure why it's so desperately important to insert consent (of all things) into an intangible nonreal space. fiction is already the fantasy. it's defined by its border. like actually grow up lol

I'm sure if a Democratic elected official mandated that a left-wing organization had to be given access to all of a state's public schools, they would be completely fine with it and would never ever call it "grooming" or "indoctrination" or anything.

new pop-up monument dropped

“Trans people have kitchen tables. People that love trans people have kitchen tables. Immigrants have kitchen tables,” Abughazaleh said. “Democrats have been messaging on this issue, which is basic human decency, wrong this entire time. It’s a two-pronged thing. When it comes to extremism, if you’re constantly ceding ground that trans people don’t deserve to exist, or that there are carve-outs for that … it never stops with the people that you deem inhuman, it will always come to you.”

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This would make it illegal for any site that has trans content--not just porn, but everything from trans people posting selfies to essays to comics and stories featuring trans characters--illegal in the state.

You've seen how fast the Age Restriction shit spread.

Don't pretend this isn't possible

Stop saying “oh so now you guys love cancel culture?” it’s called McCarthyism and the right has been doing it since The War. Proper, respectable free speech repression, from a simpler time.