Paolo Chikiamco

This is a fever dream. The city is not under migrant occupation. This whole thing kicked off because ICE began an intense operation across the city to raid Home Depots and nail salons and places where random undocumented immigrants might be going about their day working a job.

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

I think the interesting thing - and the point which can't be made enough, alas - is that it's a tool designed to confuse people who don't understand how the tool works (the opposite of classic UI design, right?) That is not something that can be shrugged off for a mass market tool.

Is Your Child Practicing the Recorder, or Are Winged Harpies from the Seventh Circle of Hell Tormenting You from Within Your Own Home? 1. What was once a beautiful creature has suddenly transformed into a vicious, cruel monster with lovely hair. 2. Its presence makes all living cre...

"What first began as a minor nuisance crescendos into an eardrum-shattering screech unlike anything found in nature."

Episode 2 of @calumstuart.bsky.social’s conversation with Cathy and Karen is out and it’s a really powerful one: currentsnewsletter.com/p/the-kind-o...

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮

We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

"The High Court said it found that Duterte and petitioner Sen. Ronald Dela Rosa 'failed to establish a clear and unmistakable right for the immediate issuance of a TRO'."

Ang laban ng Nexperia Workers ay laban nating lahat! Tumindig para sa nakabubuhay na sahod at karapatang mag-unyon! Sumama sa pakikibaka ng uring manggagawa! ✊🏼

#ReinstateNexperia4
#NexperiaWorkersOnStrike
#StandWithNexperiaWorkers

Gabe Kidd on Hey!(EW)

It’s up and holy fucking shit.
🤼▶️ youtu.be/X-xYplgSBzo?...

Apex Legend's French VAs all refused to come back and provide their voices for A.I. training to replace them.

www.reddit.com/r/Games/s/1F...

I cannot begin to express how truly and deeply I want these anti-human, scum fuck, corporate ghouls to lose their jobs. *Minimum.*

"Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights. "If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not 'inalienable' and they're not 'rights.' "We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins. "And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with."

I've been screaming this for years.

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It's been an incredible launch and people are *loving* Gun-Dog, but don't take our word for it, we have:

🚀 220 reviews on Steam - 'Very Positive'
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Honestly, this kind of survey was doomed from the start because romance and sexy plots are still seen as inherently bad so a lot of people do NOT share in public that they like them, even for anonymous surveys.

The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible Not only am I VP of Reproduction for this household, but I’ve also been the end-user of this Small Child for over three years now. I’m going to giv...

"UX storytelling should be persuasive, empathetic, and spark imagination. Future child iterations should focus more on context and narrative structure and less on cheese snacks and Band-aids."

‘Comelec being red-tagged by fellow govt agency’ - Malaya Business Insight THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday accused a fellow government agency of “red tagging” the poll body, as it even as it issued a new policy prohibiting discriminatory and harassment acts d...

"The Commission on Elections (Comelec) yesterday accused a fellow government agency of 'red tagging' the poll body, as it even as it issued a new policy prohibiting discriminatory and harassment acts during the campaign period for the May elections."
malaya.com.ph/news/nationa...

Nightdive uses real people to help remaster and preserve classic games with its KEX engine, often collaborating with the original game creators to ensure the final product remains faithful to the original. An AI upscale/port with 0 thought put into it is not "preservation".

Another reminder for those who still seem to have not understood:
Chat programs do not “look up” information and then repeat it. They write plausible language in answer to a prompt based on their data set. References will use real people, journals & words from titles, but will not truly exist.

#njpw #njnbg
After all this time. Finally. The "G" in IWGP stands for:

Tetia receives words of encouragement from an older lady, telling her, "The people that restrict your learning only seek to control you."

Witch Hat Atelier has good politics.

The Memorare-Manila 1945 monument, located at the Plazuela de Santa Isabel in Intramuros, Manila.

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Manila. The Memorare-Manila 1945 monument, located at the Plazuela de Santa Isabela in Intramuros, Manila commemorates the hundreds of thousands of known and unknown Manileños killed by Imperial Japanese forces as they defended the city.

Discworld QOTD, from Mort

Alternative Alamat edited by @anitero.bsky.social 5/5. It took me more than a year to finish this book, not because it was a hard read, but because I never wanted it to end. The Alipin’s Tale by Raymond Falgui is my favorite but there isn’t a lackluster story in this collection #books #philippinelit

Court orders Quiboloy’s return to Pasig jail A court has ordered Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) leader Pastor Apollo Quiboloy’s transfer back to Pasig City Jail by February 12, his lawyer said Thursday.

Court orders Quiboloy’s return to Pasig jail

So. There are a number of issues with this list of words that can now get a scientific grant application spiked at the National Science Foundation. And one is because the word “bias”, in all of its forms, is often used in the text of work that employs statistical methodology, especially Epi.

Resistance Bundle Adventurer! This new Resistance Bundle presents tabletop roleplaying games about fighting authoritarian regimes and punching Nazis. For just US$12.95 you get all five complete games in our Starter Col...

The resistance bundle at the Bundle of Holding site features a pile of brilliant anti-fascist games that you deserve to have in your collection. Go punch some Nazis.

Sticker decal on a lamp post. It reads: I don't wear rainbow colored items to tell you who's in my bed. I wear progressive pride items so the family acriss the street knows they are safe. So the couple in the restaurant know they aren't alone. So the boy who sees me notice him looking at dresses knows I won't judge. I wear because you make them hide.

Just saw this in a chat. And I think I'm gonna wear way more 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ items again.
Don't let them make you afraid. Show them we still stand together. Against them.

The Jedi Academy Will No Longer Teach Anakin Skywalker’s Massacre of the Younglings “The new Republican governor of Arkansas, Sarah Sanders, said the move to ban critical race theory in public schools in her state was a preventativ...

"This isolated incident does not reflect who we are as a modern society and does not need to be taught to our youth."

A cartoon drawing of a moray eel, depicted here as whie with black spots on it against a red background. The eel has a speech bubble saying 'Death is Inevitable'. Below a caption reads 'Memento Moray'. Artist: Gemma Correll, '15.

Another filthy morning here, so it's certainly a day for The Best Cartoon: