The Hellsage

I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.

In case you’re curious what kind of uses for AI they were promoting at this HoYoverse sponsored event, here’s what one of the winners created with it:

“a cost-effective pipeline that produces audiobook content for under $50 per chapter, compared to $10K-$20K+ for traditional full-cast productions.”

What's the name of the bar if you don't mind shouting it out?

AOC is right. As usual.

a man in a red jacket is covering his mouth with his hands ALT: a man in a red jacket is covering his mouth with his hands

It’s kinda wild just HOW good a song Thriller is ya know

Weeks 40-41: Belle of the Ballroom Crypto interests and White House ballroom donors are the biggest beneficiaries of the administration's latest rounds of corruption.

NEW: Over the past two weeks alone, the administration has: pardoned a crypto CEO who laundered money for terrorist groups, created pay-to-play opportunities with the White House ballroom, given government contracts to Don Jr., and more.

Read more in our latest Corruption Calendar ⬇️

May moonlight guide you!

Happy Halloween from the Crossroads!🎃

May you have a bewitching eve, and thank you for all your support of Hades II and our team. 🌒🌕🌘

They are already testing on an equal basis. None of those countries have conducted a nuclear test in almost 30 years.

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

I’ve increasingly seen Trump supporters claim that they voted for him to see him “own” the left on social media—which IMO is a form of coping that shows he has done nothing to materially improve their lives (he’s actually made them worse, but they won’t admit that)

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Breaking: NBC fires teams of journalists focused on marginalized communities, axing NBC Out & NBC BLK staff NBC News has fired journalists who reported on Black, Latino, Asian and LGBTQ+ communities.

Very sad to see NBC Out go down. I know journalists who have worked there and it was home to some of the best in depth reporting on LGBTQ+ issues out there from a legacy media outlet.

Legacy media continues to abandon us, and it seems only we can tell our own stories these days.

These freaks are so fucking creepy

every day we inch closer to this, the reality we’re already living through

AI-generated influencer scandals are here Now anyone can play with the hyperrealistic likenesses of public figures.

For @spitfirenews.com, I found that increasingly realistic AI-generated videos are being deployed to harass, smear, and create endless offensive content of influencers, whose likenesses are already readily available online. It’s happening to private figures, too.
spitfirenews.com/p/ai-generat...

There will be so many “I didn’t think it would be THIS bad” takes.

And those are the folks who need to look inward and ask why they were OK with it for so long but won’t.

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Little Rocket Lab doesn't really seem like my style of game but I'm tempted to pick up a copy just to support how @nomorerobots.io is handling these reviews

We banned a guy on the Steam forums for repeatedly saying there were “too many women” in our game

So he flipped his positive review to negative

Still totally worth it

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.