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I’m reading a book from the year 2000 about how ‘birth rate’ & ‘ageing population’ panics recurred in the West throughout the 20thC in response to moribund socioeconomic vibes and I’m like maaaan, you ain’t seen nothing yet dog

One of the most irritating things about this whole "Well you'll get along if you don't talk politics" is of course I fucking will, I am a cishet white man with a Protestant background. They love me. They just want to harm literally everyone else in my entire fucking life.

Wrote about how the UK's online age verification requirements are already proving to be a disaster (as UK regulators were clearly warned it would be) and how unhelpful the UK's response to this mess has been, including their tech minister saying anyone who complains supports predators.

Twitch Twitch is the world

Live with Castlevania: Symphony of the Night -- Where every part of the castle's an Aria of Sorrow! www.twitch.tv/BisectedBrio...

I can't believe they're actually doing it. They're actually arguing that women are worse at pool than men because of strength. That women can't break the balls up as well as men at the start. Fucking insane

Also, obviously, completely ignoring what medical transition does

As a reminder, when trans women got together to create an all-trans women team and then played against another all-trans women team, the usual suspects complained because that day the field could have been made available to "normal" people.

the hard mode corollary to disco elysium convincing people that gamers are art is convincing gamers that they already like literature

What a lovely day for a Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! I'll be live again at 18:00 BST (UST+1; 5 hours and 14 minutes from now).

Gear status; ground!

BisectedBrioche - Twitch Some bleach blonde Briton who has a strange obsession with bread, Metroid and her favourite flavour/brand of bubblegum. On Mastodon.social and Bluesky as BisectedBrioche

Baldur's Gate 3 -- Turns out there's a lot going on in the Underdark.
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www.twitch.tv/EnfysPranc

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

I will never stop bringing up that both the furry fandom and the American anime fandom largely originated from the same group of people.

Remember if you're calling, a good way to 'refresh' the bit is to act like you just heard about this issue from this article.

I follow quite a few left wing British political people on YouTube and it's so frustrating how most of them will list off all the things wrong with Labour and won't even mention LGBT rights. Like come on it's one of the major issues of our time, at least mention it in passing

Banks are happy to take your games away, but when you try to take something from them, they are like "get down, that person in the rabbit costume has a gun" and they call the police. Uhg.

David Lammy and JD Vance bonded over ‘dysfunctional’ childhoods – and a Diet Coke The UK foreign secretary opens up about his friendship with the VP, that ‘island of strangers’ speech, and his guilt over Zelenskyy’s Oval Office encounter

We need to learn to internalise - I find this difficult and I guess others do too - that there is no sense in which this is actually a Labour Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

YouTube video by His Cursedness D&D Animated: The Most Terrifying Thing In All Of Dungeons And Dragons

I'm pleased to see that my second ever animated short is doing fairly well on YouTube :D

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#dnd #ttrpg #rpg

I’ve written, alongside colleagues, to the Minister for Women & Equalities about the appointment of the new EHRC Chair.

We share the concerns that both the JCHR and WEC had during the pre-appointment hearing.

The EHRC urgently needs to rebuild trust with all communities.

Maybe the growing number of MPs who feel betrayed by their leaders are reason for hope. They must find the courage to defend their trans constituents, too. Whether they cite the UK’s vertiginous slide down European LGBTQ+ rights rankings, the Council of Europe being asked to investigate the proposed implementation of the ruling or the contents of the more than 50,000 responses to the EHRC’s public consultation on its code of practice, they will not lack for evidence to back them up. MPs who attended the mass lobby probably learned alarming things about what the EHRC’s code of practice might look like, based on the interim guidance it released in April, which is being challenged in the high cout by the Good Law project. They might have heard from the news or comment pages that women who are trans may be banned from women’s loos and shelters. What they probably did not hear is that the EHRC’s interim guidance also says a women-only gardening club with more than 25 members will be legally required to exclude a trans woman, even if she’s legally a woman, and even if her fellow members want her there. Perhaps you’re just learning this, too. If so, pause a moment longer to consider what this would mean. This guidance, were it to become legally enshrined, would rob citizens, trans and otherwise, of the freedom to choose whom they associate with and to recognise others for who they truly are.

Great article, Freddie O’Connell and @theguardian.com.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Perhaps you’re just learning this, too. If so, pause a moment longer to consider what this would mean.”

Guys, these are the points we need to keep making, to those who don’t yet understand.
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The EHRC is ignoring trans voices Leaked documents confirm that the EHRC is planning to ignore 50% of the consultation submission.

We think, in the EHRC's haste to embed its anti trans agenda, it is breaching its legal obligations conscientiously to consider consultation responses - and we expect to sue. goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-...

TTRPG NPC Idea: A group of three warforged (or similar) rival adventurers;

Kali the Wizard, a mathematical genius low on wisdom
Rhyst "Tick Tick" Watcher, Mastermind Rogue, and party face
Cassie the Bard, the heart of the group

Together they are Cassie's Trio, often portmanteau'd...

I am a lefty who spends my social media time on Bluesky (the supposed lefty app) & I hadn't heard anything about this "Sydney Sweeny thing" until Charlie Warzel's article (about the discourse surrounding it) yesterday

Seeing how badly mainstream media treated a victim of sex trafficking because she was trans reminds me why I didn't come out till 25.

This shit becomes so internalized.

As you're learning now, unlike Twitter, you can't quote tweet a member of a minority who said something you don't like to summon a pileon

The sheer audacity of trying to wring your hands and say BSky is worse when you're still reflexively trying to use Twitter's toxicity as a bludgeon...

Twitch Twitch is the world

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No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events.

The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.

Some expressed opinions in this which are completely typical for pleb members of the public, but could never be stated by our pro commentary set, as well as admissions about how Westminster politics actually functions which nobody will admit aloud until the scandal, at which point 'everyone knew'.