pencil drawing of the new fire pokemon who is a little Pomeranian dog with it's evolutions being essentially bigger and fluffier versions

ok hear me out

i haven't slept and forgot it was pokemon day

Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails.

it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

good morning. It's time for something to be done about Utah

Jamie Paige

a scarecrow is standing in front of a mountain and holding a sword Alt: Emil nier

Prediction: asuka and rei won't be in the new evangelion show but somehow Emil will

if steam is asking developers to put in an AI-generated content disclosure, i should be able to filter those "games" out of searches because trudging through next fest demos is miserable now

another 30 years of asuka vs rei discourse for some reason

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

>be me
>in public VRChat instance
>max capacity instance
>everyone is Japanese
>can't understand a thing
>girl and two guys are talking nearby
>suddenly, girl says "oohhh, sixxo seven…"
>8+ people turn, go "oohh!!" + do the hand movements
>mutual understanding
>memes rebuild the Tower of Babel, 2026

Key art for "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" on Dropout shows its title along with its three principal puppet characters in picture frames.

one of my all-time favorite weird and wonderful shows - DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED - is now on dropout!

full web series now; TV series (which less people have seen) over the course of the next few months. big thanks to blink industries, becky, and joe for their faith in us.

When the big breaking news finally comes, before they even have the chance to lower the flags to half-mast, the entire world will be like...

This rules.

Source: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8xYY78p/

Winds Suck Dicks

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

t4t dating:

base 1 - sharing discord (or signal if you're cool)
base 2 - sex
base e - natural logarithm
base 3 - info dumping about special interest
base 4 - doing each other's injections
base 5 - sorry what base is who on??? i'm not good at basketball
base 6 - 7

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

IF YOU MAKE A BAD GAME, YOU'RE FIRED
IF YOU MAKE A GOOD GAME, YOU'RE FIRED
IF YOU MAKE A DEAD GAME, YOU'RE FIRED
IF YOU MAKE A PROFITABLE GAME, YOU'RE FIRED
IF YOU MAKE A SUCCESSFUL GAME, YOU'RE FIRED
IF YOU MAKE A CHEAP GAME
IF YOU MAKE A AAA GAME, YOU'RE FIRED

IF YOU MAKE NO GAMES, YOU'RE SONY

every day lately I feel like I didn’t make the British aristrocracy—as depicted in The Sisters of Dorley—disgusting enough

a windows 11 menu showing "convert to adobe pdf", "ask copilot", and 4 more options that take time to load

windows 11 update: for the first time in my life, simply right clicking a file has a load time. unreal

okay you know what we're doing this

why rise of skywalker is the worst crime ever committed against cinema and the very concept of a coherent fictional universe: a thread

Introducing the Celeste Keycap Set, new in our official collection.

www.fangamer.com/collections/...

In Super Mario 64, it is actually possible to escape from the grasp of King Bob-omb or a Chuckya after they grab Mario, by whipping the Control Stick back and forth and mashing the A button a combined total of 11 times before they throw him.

Birdbrain

doing research

“Armored Core 6 has turned us all, even the guys, into pure-hearted girls.” Mecha and otome game fans in Japan unite around the idea that AC6 feels like a dating sim

What did they mean by this?

Waterstones 25% off offer on Welcome to Dorley Hall. Use code FEB26 between the 17th and the 20th of February.

Welcome to Dorley Hall is back in the UK! The first book of The Sisters of Dorley relaunches April 23rd, and for a limited time, you can get 25% off your pre-order at Waterstones with code FEB26.

Visit the website or app between Feb 17 and Feb 20 to pre-order!

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Image of the Yeti in the skiing Windows game SkiFree eating the player

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics