Bobcat (Blarg!)

Also, read The Circle by Dave Eggers if you want a really harrowing and frankly awful example of why attaching all of your real-world personal information to everything you do on the internet is a dystopian hellscape.

Or, you know, "Nosedive" from Black Mirror.

Please make your complaints LOUDLY and IMMEDIATELY known. Discord Support exists, as does the "why did you cancel?" survey for Discord Nitro. You can also email support directly. You can tag their socials.

Please, don't just walk away. For some of us, Discord is the *only* reasonable place.

I'm seeing a massive amount of, "Well, I guess I won't use Discord anymore," posts, and instead of making that decision immediately, I would first encourage everyone to use your words and fight back against this the way we did with itch.io and other services when they implemented restrictions.

Wouldn't you party if you had an owl?

The culprit(s)?

- Soy products
- Running with cushioned shoes
- Not just eating protein constantly
- Not getting as jacked as possible

It's all pseudoscientific masculinity-crisis fearmongering, but enough latched on to the "soy" thing that our current CDC director, among others, is hooked.

There were lots of infographics that euphemistically conflated the size of someone's testes with both quantity of ejaculate and sperm count, *none of which are related*. I remember one used literally a sequential series of sports balls as percentage graphs. Ping-pong vs. basketball AMIRITE FELLAS?!

It was all wrapped up in a ton of things: our "forefathers" (read: hunter-gatherers) were rugged wilderness athletes who ran barefoot, ate massive quantities of meat daily, and had huge testicles which conferred legendary ejaculatory (read: impregnation) power, which they always called "potency".

Per other people's comments, yes, there was a whole hysteria (testeria?) about it for a long while. I recall seeing Men's Health Magazine (which has always been a complete and total rag) back in the mid-'00s lament the "feminizing" effects of soy-based foods on modern men and *insist* on MEAT.

But also, yes, like... just own who you are? It's fine?

The problem was that part of hipsterism at the time was the collective decision that outspoken earnestness was uncool; everything must be couched in irony. Unless there's a change in what it means to be a hipster, being proud to be a hipster is antithetical to hipsterdom.

Conservatives Boycott All Forms Of Entertainment WASHINGTON—Decrying the un-American nature of any activity intended to provide amusement or the slightest bit of diversion, conservatives across the country announced an immediate boycott Tuesday of a...

"Why do you have to think so deeply about things?!"

theonion.com/conservative...

Have you never encountered this? It's a reactionary boogeyman that gets trotted out every so often to scare credulous people. "The left wants to take away your burgers and replace them with insect meat!"

Part of it is that people in the USA just don't know how to cook it, but I guarantee at least a little bit of it is identity-signalling: tofu is woke soy fake food opposed to real manly beef. Same reason there's always that weird hysteria about being forced to secretly eat bugs.

But how can I get ragepost upvotes and attention on the internet if I don't just vaguely gesture and rhetorically ask, "Why aren't Americans doing anything?!"

Pitchfork is putting up a paywall?

Finally, the trash takes itself out.

As soon as they go up, I will share them!

Playing on stage at the #ANE variety show was frightening but also really lovely. Thank you everyone who came out to see our set and to @blues-tone.bsky.social for putting the band together and just being a source of sheer chutzpah!

My favorite animate to camera moment for the project was Fani not actually playing the piano at all, I TRICKED ALL OF YOU AHAHAHHAAHAH #ANE #ANE2026

MORE METAL AT FURRY CONS!

There is a grindcore band playing At a furry convention, I can't believe this is finally happening. Tearing up, actually.

It is not even funny how delicious these are

Congress inches toward reclaiming war powers with AUMF repeals - Roll Call After several fits and starts, lawmakers have finally repealed the 2002 Iraq War and 1991 Gulf War authorizations.

Oh wow, I missed that Congress finally repealed the 2002 Iraq War Authorization of Use of Military Force (AUMF), which has provided legal grounding for almost every American military action since (under the aegis of fighting terrorism).

Genuine good, and somewhat surprising, political news.

the pipeline is real, do not deny the pipeline

Remember folks, during winter every ten degree temperature drop lowers your tire’s PSI by 1 so it’s very important to go to the gas station and notice that the air thing doesn’t work and then do that five more times at five different gas stations

There is also the issue of Bellwether experiencing something quite analogous to contemporary sexism: she's a very small, fashionable, seemingly meek woman given a ceremonial title and being treated daily like garbage by a big, powerful man.

She's awful, but she *does also experience deep prejudice*

Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough

Standards are at rock bottom now because the student is the customer now and profs are service providers.

Why not just... get biscoff and dunk it in coffee like usual?

having to tell people im mega gay now. just the times we live in

Oh for sure on all counts. It's just bonkers sometimes to think back on just how... bad things were *already*.