It's Me, Mike Olson

This weekend, a local minor-league baseball team is hosting a Magic tournament before the game. A few weeks ago, they hosted a Star Wars Unlimited tournament before their annual Star Wars Night. What a world.

Wow. Another sign that tabletop RPGs have MADE IT in the last decade: a major league baseball game giving away dice and an ADVENTURE THEY DESIGNED THEMSELVES!!!

Yeah, I like A24: A 24-hour Monk marathon on TBS!

Beautiful.

We don’t have a president, we have a mad king. Shaking down businesses, demanding ransom money, and presenting himself awards he never earned and doesn’t deserve, while his servile flock of toadies run around going “Yes, sir! Very good, sir!”

American government has collapsed

We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed

We Need To Take Trump’s Rhetoric Seriously, But Not Literally vs. Have That Guy Killed theonion.com/we-need-to-t...

it's hard to explain how much impact a big tough-looking guy acting calm and normal can have on a situation in general. my husband is the same way. this is what "the left" should be pursuing and encouraging, not searching for some sort of Leftist Andrew Tate

Just a reminder, this is why people are so concerned about Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Stripe not allowing the purchase of pornographic games

It's not about the porn and never had been. It's the stepping stone to what *they* deem obscene, which is the rights of LGBTQIA+ people

Happy the kids are going back to school tomorrow, unhappy I have to get up at 6:30 to take them there. But not as unhappy as they're gonna be, I think.

We're not in theoretical "they could come after sfw queer content LATER" territory anymore. It is being used to come after sfw queer content NOW.

Spread this around, send the article to any and every news outlet/content creator you can think of. The alarms need to be sounded

And KEEP CALLING

Kim Davis going from "my religious beliefs demand that I don't facilitate a same-sex marriages" to "my religious beliefs demand that there are NO same-sex marriages anywhere" *should* make Democrats realize there is no "sincere" compromise with bigots on trans issues.

Every purported benefit of AI is consistently proven wrong. Case in point: medical AI hinders doctors' abilities.

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.

This seems kinda significant.

Whenever power is reclaimed from these fascists, vandals, and thieves, the punishment for their many crimes against our society, culture, and history must be equally or more severe than if done by a foreign enemy. Nothing less is justice, nothing less will deter them from doing it again.

I think you'd have to be an idiot to join ICE. Like I don't think they're taking anyone else.

The propagandists running the @DHSgov account are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers where they're going.

YouTube video by snakpak I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson S02E02 - "The Capital Room"

"I don't WANT THAT!"

Leaving other things aside what Vermeule is saying is just incredibly fucking stupid

… I really hope people understand that in the physical sciences equations mean something concrete, that you can actually calculate numbers with them and compare those numbers to measured values? They’re not just jumbles of vibes?

Did ChatGPT write this?

Obviously.

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I liked Fantastic Four a lot when I saw it on opening day, but my 12yo surprised me by saying he wanted to see it again, so, y'know, twist my arm, we saw it again. And I liked it a lot more the second time, without the baggage of "New MCU movie!" hanging off it. Pleasant surprise!

"I give it... wait, can you do half-forks?"

How far she has fallen

They tell you "Oh, don't overblow" and "Oh, watch your tone," but secretly* every trombone player wants to play so loud the sound that comes out is just pitched white noise.

* Or not so secretly.