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Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.

The WH deleted the postโ€ฆbut now itโ€™s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenterโ€™s SNL monologue.

06.12.2025 03:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 968    ๐Ÿ” 244    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 89    ๐Ÿ“Œ 103

Gotta be honest, seeing it framed like this makes it even more wild. Whitewashing a genocidal regime is more important than some of the most prolific Eurovision countries? One that is a major financial contributor?

There's something about this failed regime that rots the brains of its supporters.

05.12.2025 22:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One of the most frustrating things of resurfacing some of these discourses from a decade or more ago is that theyโ€™re completely divorced from the original contexts that necessitated them. Most people wading in today are taking conversations at face value that were never about what they were about.

05.12.2025 21:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How to quit Spotify This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio qualityโ€”you name it.

So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

03.12.2025 00:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3105    ๐Ÿ” 1877    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 46    ๐Ÿ“Œ 144

People are all sharing this approvingly, but the reason Halle Berry is mad at Gavin Newsom is because her scam AI menopause supplement health woo company can't bleed taxpayers because of the bill he vetoed.

A pox on all of their houses.

05.12.2025 08:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 500    ๐Ÿ” 161    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

I really hope so. There are very few games like Sakura Wars.

05.12.2025 19:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Todd Howard? The radiant quest guy? Oh, yeah, he's a fan of AI.

05.12.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth A federal vaccine advisory committee has voted to end a longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day theyโ€™re born.

The Trump Administration finds new ways to pull the rug out from under Americans every day.

And now they're putting babies in danger.

Illinois just enacted a law to provide our own science-based recommendations to protect access to vaccines so families get the care they need.

05.12.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1041    ๐Ÿ” 236    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 29    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

05.12.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10095    ๐Ÿ” 2343    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 358    ๐Ÿ“Œ 102
Guillermo del Toro: 'I'm a Big Fan of Death ... I'm Certainly Looking Forward to It'

Guillermo del Toro: 'I'm a Big Fan of Death ... I'm Certainly Looking Forward to It'

โ€œWhy should you want to live longer?โ€ he asked the crowd of festival attendees, journalists and film students. โ€œIโ€™m a big fan of death โ€ฆ I think death is really good. Iโ€™m certainly looking forward to it, because itโ€™s the day you go, โ€˜Well, tomorrow I wonโ€™t have any problems.'โ€

โ€œWhy should you want to live longer?โ€ he asked the crowd of festival attendees, journalists and film students. โ€œIโ€™m a big fan of death โ€ฆ I think death is really good. Iโ€™m certainly looking forward to it, because itโ€™s the day you go, โ€˜Well, tomorrow I wonโ€™t have any problems.'โ€

Guillermo gets it.

05.12.2025 14:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 124    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Iโ€™ve been hit by a fiat twice in my life and both times it felt like being grazed by a large dog.

05.12.2025 16:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Netflix is buying Warner Bros. for $83 billion But what will they rename HBO Max this time?

If this goes thru it will accelerate Hollywoodโ€™s precipitous decline. Thousands laid off. Creatives w/fewer studios willing to bid on projects. Fewer choices of what to watch for consumers. Possibly a death blow for theatrical filmgoing. Just terrible news all around
www.theverge.com/news/838781/...

05.12.2025 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 889    ๐Ÿ” 219    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 94    ๐Ÿ“Œ 41
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Now that all my stretch goals got hit, the big giant 210+ game shuffler is gonna allow people to reset cleared games at random with tips.

I've cleared 110 games so far, and here's what the wheel currently looks like...!

05.12.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered (Steam) w/ 4 more games/collection is $13 on GMG Masterful Remasters Bundle buff.ly/5vkxnhW #ad

05.12.2025 16:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

As some of you are aware, part of Dragon Age day was to thank the DA Devs for all the hard work they put into the series we love so much.

This is also the first DA Day where we have no DA team, as they were laid off earlier this year.

So let's make an effort to support their new projects!๐Ÿงต

04.12.2025 17:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 639    ๐Ÿ” 303    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
Screenshot of Discord's privacy settings.

Screenshot of Discord's privacy settings.

Guys, do not use the Discord Checkpoint thing (Discord's attempt at Spotify Wrapped).

It requires enabling them access to scrape your data, and has an alarming amount of private data being used for it.

Make sure you have these disabled.

04.12.2025 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3790    ๐Ÿ” 2995    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 64    ๐Ÿ“Œ 86

It bears repeating, as Ana does here, that video game stores banning HORSES was a *policy* decision, not a legal one. There's nothing in HORSES that hasn't been depicted in books, plays, or movies, so why the big fuss about this game?

04.12.2025 21:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 103    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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ROUTINE is officially out, and the team at Lunar Software has shared a new devblog exploring the gameโ€™s journey.

Complete with a full timeline and a special message for players: store.steampowered.com/news/app/606...

04.12.2025 16:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
REPLACED | Announce Trailer | Coming 2022
YouTube video by Coatsink REPLACED | Announce Trailer | Coming 2022

HOLY FORKING SHIRT BALLS!

REPLACED HAS AN ANNOUNCEMENT DATE?????

March 12, 2026.

I helped announce this all the way back in 2021 to such an incredible response with this banger of a trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P5O...

Shoutout to Sad Cat Studios all the @coatsink.com team past and present!

04.12.2025 15:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Dragon Age Day Eve, everyone!

Join myself and lots of other actors much more wonderful than I tomorrow!!!

#DragonAge

04.12.2025 00:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 160    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Haven't done a camera analysis in a while!
Here's a quick look at the camera for Metroid Dread ๐ŸŽฅ

04.12.2025 01:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 305    ๐Ÿ” 78    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Thereโ€™s a kind of person thatโ€™ll defend Chick-fil-aโ€™s homophobia or Steamโ€™s censorship as a matter of personal freedom and when push comes to shove these are just libertarian-brained pedants whoโ€™d rather argue the legality of something than engage with their own regressive views.

04.12.2025 13:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i am going completely insane watching gamers make up shit about horses and interrogating every single thing the devs have said for inconsistencies and then deciding well it probably had cp in it. this is the easy mode version of the kinds of censorship that are to come and you're failing like babies

04.12.2025 07:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2605    ๐Ÿ” 654    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37    ๐Ÿ“Œ 35

Oh that's easy, Ikenfell.

In Stars And Time is also a tremendous favorite of mine.

You might mean something else by turn-based RPG tho? Like, dunno if JRPGs necessarily "count".

03.12.2025 23:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a cartoon character is standing in front of a room with a sign that says daddy . Alt: Hazbin character who is technically male but fuck it we ball, he's got the right vibe anyways, very fancy

I need like, a Concierge job for indie games, to justify my useless knowledge

I'm a dapper transfem behind a very important looking desk in the hotel lobby and randos walk up to me and I'm all "Honored guest you need but tell me your tastes and I will find you the appropriate game"

(go ahead, ask)

03.12.2025 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 106    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
mckitterick (ADE.............-
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irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one):
browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.menu
browser.ml.chat.page
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browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
โ€ข
browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
browser.ml.link Preview.enabled
browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing

mckitterick (ADE.............- Yesterday 601 irritatingly, the list of Al settings in Firefox has grown. to kill them all as of today (Nov 20, 2026), go into about:config and set all of these to false (yes, you'll have to copy and paste them one by one): browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled browser.ml.chat.menu browser.ml.chat.page โ€ข browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge โ€ข browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge browser.ml.link Preview.enabled browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate in addition to nuking Al, it'll also speed up your browsing

here's an updated guide on how to remove all of the AI from Firefox

22.11.2025 20:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 889    ๐Ÿ” 558    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 25    ๐Ÿ“Œ 23
The indie of the week logo.

The indie of the week logo.

Over at Kotaku, we are trying to cover at least one cool indie game every week. It's called Indie of the Week!

kotaku.com/opinion/impr...

If you are an indie dev with something cool, feel free to send it to Tips@Kotaku.com!

03.12.2025 23:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 282    ๐Ÿ” 91    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Spoilers for Horses, but like... this is it. This is the game.

03.12.2025 22:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 239    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

They should do MyChart Wrapped

03.12.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4469    ๐Ÿ” 1102    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 60    ๐Ÿ“Œ 107

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