shrapnel

an anime high school girl crying captioned "yeah i may be RACIST but you were MEAN and that's worse"

average bluesky poster after pulling out the calipers like measurehead:

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

Remember two years ago when Patreon did a blanket ban of all ageplay related content and those creators raised the alarm then only to get soundly ignored because of people’s personal “ick” around the kink?

The full count as of today:

YouTube suspended
Twitch banned 3x
Patreon suspended (temporary)
Patreon 3x audio flags (one false posi)
Ko-fi suspended (indefinite?)
Buy Me a Coffee suspended
Vice reporting censored
Pornhub censored 3x times
Fansly censored 1x

Ana decided to call out payment processors and their unilateral response was attempting to fuck up her life and that should be bigger news than it is as of now

MeToo was the only reason people started caring about Epstein, btw.

Everything Epstein did was more or less public knowledge for decades prior, but only after the social consciousness of "rape by powerful men is bad actually" hit, did it get taken seriously, starting with Miami Herald's work.

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

Especially for the Bible franchise

That shit needs to excise all its canon

In Donkey Kong Country 2, it is possible to trap Diddy Kong in a state of eternal horror. Hitting K. Rool with a team-up throw in a specific manner will cause Diddy's eyes to pop out in shock; however, he will never recover and stay in this state until the game is reset.

Not until you mentioned it

Damn you

I should be transparent. The NYT has approached @mississippifreepress.org reporters and editors about potential reporting partnerships. We have declined to have those conversations. We know it’s a reader play and don’t want clubby NYT control/influence on our reporting choices for obvious reasons.

Really a devastating indictment of the @nytimes.com when high-quality regional journalists won't collaborate with them because they fear it would call their integrity into question.

Thou shalt not forgive or forget all the evil things Marjorie Taylor Greene said and did. The main reason she is talking more ‘sane’ these days is because she wants to inherit the MAGA cult.

"If you hate GenAI you're going to have to stop playing new games when they all start using it"

My brother in Christ, my backlog is literally thousands of games long. I have lifetimes worth of earlier titles to play, & I will gladly do that instead of boiling the oceans for a new CoD or whatever

thing about autism is if you work really hard for many years, you can learn through trial-and-error how to navigate social situations and interpersonal connections SO effectively that people don't really believe you're autistic anymore and resent you for not being perfect at nonverbal communication

a cool wolf: "every time you repost this wolf a transphobe gets punched."

Incoming call from pokemon rumble spheal

Charlie Kirk joked about people being killed and called for public, televised executions for Trump’s political opponents

"i gotta be honest, being Terminally Online™ really fucked me up reading this in my suburb's FB group:" East Perth Local "I'm looking for a kitten to come join me and my partner. Does anyone know a good breeder?"

aesthetically horrible yes, but fascinating on an anthropological and cultural level - to an American, there is nothing more worthy of contemptuous dismissal than a burger that turns out to be nothing

Mankeeping Is Why Women Are Done With Dating Researchers at Stanford have finally given a name to something many women have been dealing with for years. It’s called mankeeping.

where did providing evidence for claims go. did people always just say random shit. it physically hurts me

www.vice.com/en/article/m...

Every so often I run into one of the sanctimonious "pet ownership is unethical" types, and 100% of the time it turns out they don't know how pets end up in shelters. They think it's a supply-and-demand situation where if people stop adopting then the cat factory will simply cease production. 🤦‍♀️

Have... Have you guys ever read a single Stephen King or Richard Bachman book. Or, like, any book ever?

Jesus Christ.

libertarians belong in a zoo

let me introduce you to a guy called, "elon musk." or "donald trump" surely you must know by now that they are all Deeply Stupid

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

A comic panel from Watchmen, showing a partially muscled skeleton (Dr Manhattan) screaming in pain in front of two horrified security guards. Text reads: “November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing…”

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

Ahhhhh
They deleted the tweet, so I was assuming since I didn't have the context

From: Thomas Jr., Landon Sent: 9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM To: Subject: Got another call from Connelly.. Importance: High Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com] He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too. Anyway, for what its worth... Landon Thomas, Jr. Financial Reporter New York Times http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h tml

Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."