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this is such an incredible video. thank you for sharing

TIL the guy in blackadder and hugh laurie are the same person. never connected those dots

Stacey has what is to me the definitive analysis of all this discourse on games and art:

safety my ass. it is and always was a terrible idea.
and you should feel bad for thinking its a good idea

also my god bandcamps music search is SO GOOD. being able to progressively narrow down genre tags is sick

anyway tl;dr I'm about to spend a LOT of money on music

it means my life is basically just work, eating, and then being completely numb for the rest of it. sucks whole ass. fuck that

insta, bluesky, youtube and (previously) twitter suck so much time out of my day collectively and its frying my fucking brain. I'm constantly simultaneously bored but also have no energy to do anything because I'm _ALWAYS_ checking something on my phone, AND watching yt, AND listening to music

been a very long time coming, and has been weighing on me for about as long. but finally managed.

and while I'm at it I will be trying to cut out a bunch of attention leaches from my daily routine.

cancelled my netflix and spotify subs. got jellyfin on my home network + a vpn so I can use it while out an about + have downloaded my entire bandcamp catalog to my nas.

entering my selfhosted, "fuck you I'm not going to fund your yacht/deathbot company" era.

Goes without saying, it is absolutely fucking obscene that Mouthwashing - arguably one of our better examples of video games as a serious storytelling art form in recent years - has been removed from itchio due to pressure from pay processing services and weirdo activism.

finally some good fucking news

The fact that normal human behaviour (gathering together to share something) is considered an economic anomaly tells you how absolutely deranged the economic models of humans are

'Baman Piderman' Returns To Creators' YouTube After 10 Years After a 10 year distribution nightmare, internet cult favorite 'Baman Piderman' returns to its owner's channel on Aug. 1 with new episodes planned.

After a decade in distribution limbo, 'Baman Piderman' is finally coming home. Its creators have reclaimed the rights and will produce four to five new episodes to complete the story they began in the pre-YouTube, Newgrounds era of internet animation.
www.cartoonbrew.com/animators/ba...

if only crypto hadn't been coopted by dweebs lol

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

Let’s change gears. Do some good

Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination

action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

They're putting blue food coloring in everything "Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently. "Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained. But I didn't want my burger to be blue.

Oh dang, @foxtrotluna.social, masterful post.

Y'all have got to take a moment and read this.

blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre-putti...

Bridge of a horsehead fiddle carved to resemble a demon's face

Mongolian horsehead fiddles often have a demon face carved into the bridge, which I think is tight

corporations have become too emboldened. absolutely insane license terms

obviously its actually emfasten

mint gang will have its revenge

ah shit im fucked

I'm taking u to court

the emoji picker in windows has just kinda... stopped working?
if I try to search for anything I just get this now.

boid

with fascism sweeping the us and uk and not looking to improve any time soon... we have got to get less annoying about talking about each other's incoming legislation

Also as an addition; sign this petition ASAP if you're someone in the UK.

Rather than just sitting around and doing fuck all, we need to make it clear that this Bullshit OSA won't work. Ever. Nor do folk fucking want it.

Contact your MPs about the bill too.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

lol who could have guessed that the UKs extremely ill-advised porn age verification act would not in fact affect only porn sites.

I am Shocked.

get a vpn. don't give this site or any other ID or payment info if you don't absolutely need to.

time to join a webring :^)