A Gay Magikarp

*taps sign*

Definitively, the anti trans position is a losing one

Image: an IG post from @mattxiv.bsky.social that shows a picture of a Donald Trump at a fancy Halloween dinner party surrounded by apparently wealthy white people dressed in a 'great Gatsby' theme. Caption: on the night 42 million Americans, including 16 million children, lost access to food assistance, Donald Trump threw a great Gatsby themed party with his billionaire friends. "If you still think trans people are the problem, you're focused on the wrong 1%"

"If you still think trans people are the problem, you're focused on the wrong 1%"

Via @mattxiv.bsky.social

For the love of God stop calling capitalism “Technofeudalism.” This is not a mutant regression off the track of benign capitalism’s progress to utopia. This is capitalism doing capitalism.

I highly encourage people to get involved more directly. Large general protests are 100% good and useful, but more targetted protests or activism should also be where you go next. Like get involved in anti-ICE activism in your city for example - helping to coordinate disrupting their activities.

I appreciate the energy behind the No Kings protest—it’s a net positive. But it feels a lot like the Women’s March, channeling and containing people’s activism instead of expanding it. What comes after? Does No Kings offer a path forward, or just a release valve that drains our energy?

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

oh look that thing that was inevitable and obvious has happened.

Good :) because if it can't exist without proper pay and permissions it shouldn't exist

iconic screenshot from Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988).

Elvira, the queen of Halloween, being relatable af.

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

email stands for "egnored mail"

DEI for me, not for thee.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

In our economic system it’s not enough to post a profit every year. No. Your profit this year has to be bigger than last year. It HAS TO get bigger and bigger every year forever and that’s totally normal and not problematic at all.

So exhausting..

I don't mind when shows/films/games/etc redesign a female character to make her chest smaller, i just hate it when it's ONLY done to "desexualize" them. As if large chests are inherently sexual.

That's a feature, not a bug...

Everybody saying that this doesn't narrow it down, it's the one that is like super regressive on sex, sexuality, and gender.

I hear rumblings that EA might continue profiting an oligarchic dictatorship that routinely destabilizes other countries by committing and supporting war crimes and human rights violations while openly ignoring international law, freedom of press, and the right to fair trial

Every trans person i i ow who has spoken out about the trans athlete issue warned that this would happen to cis girls. We were showing compassion for female athletes even as everyone else was calling us the worst imaginable names and slurs possible and denying our genders.

Brazil bans the sale of loot boxes to minors The ban is part of a larger safety law that aims to protect children and adolescents online

Brazil's president has signed a ban on the sale of loot boxes to players under 18 years old, as part of a larger online safety law.

www.gamesindustry.biz/brazil-bans-...

It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

I hope my fears are unfounded, and we continue to see progressive output from EA studios.

Whatever your thoughts on execution, our industry is worse off if one of the few AAA studios taking big swings at representation in big budget games is pressured to back down or tone down concepts.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

You have to defend the right for art and media to be "sexually gratifying"

You have to defend "gratification"

You have to defend the right for people to get off nasty style

You need to be more disgusted with people who want to say what people can do with their own time and money than x or y kink

4. It still doesn't address the *root* causes of crime. Surveillance is not a theory of sustainably preventing crime or keeping people safe. Surveillance gets convictions, but do convictions lower crime rates city or state-wide? No! Put that money to things that do: housing, education, health.

A few found cars is enough to appease folks that mass surveillance is OK for those small wins but here are the important takeaways: 1. Police are so shockingly cozy with the multi-billion dollar companies that sell surveillance tech that you have to ask who is actually making policy.

Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵