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This point really upsets some folks, but it is true. Folks wonder why there's so much DLC, microtransactions and stuff and the answer is that at a $70 price point, inflation adjusted, games cost 75% of what they did in 2000 when it was typically $50.

Inflation is like that.

#TaxTheRich

An old time-y illustration of a Tomatoes.

Today is Octidi the 28th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate tomatoes. #JacobinDay

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Firefox now lets you disable AI — just not regular users Mozilla now lets enterprises disable AI in Firefox. Regular users must rely on hidden about:config tweaks instead of a simple switch.

For anyone else who uses Firefox and has been trying to figure out how to disable all the AI features: windowsreport.com/firefox-now-...

(Also, along with all the rest of these steps, if you right click on an image & get offered an AI chatbot, you can hover over that offer to remove the chatbot.)

You ever drink something that's hotter than you expected?

Star Trek: Into Thing

Hab mal dem Bundeskanzler gemailt:)

Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.

An old time-y illustration of a Eggplants.

Today is Sextidi the 26th of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate eggplants. #JacobinDay

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This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Just to be clear, an English degree - learning to critically assess texts - is actually one of the most dangerous for people such as Badenoch.

An educated population, able to bring hundreds of years of context to statements in a dawning age of AI slop and attention-seeking dishonesty is also vital.

Wow. Could totally have seen this coming.

Im Gespräch bei Hart aber Fair am 29. September 2025 erklärt Anwalt Chan-jo Jun, warum die Blockade der Gesetzesdurchsetzung von Seiten politischer Akteure problematisch ist.

Leserbrief in der ZEIT: Heute mal wieder eine ZEIT gekauft und im Zug gelesen: Martensteins Polemik, in der er vor sich hin weint, dass die Sozialschmarotzer einem hart arbeitenden Mann wie ihm per Erbschaftsteuer ein Menschenrecht nehmen wollen, ist in ihrer Ignoranz nicht zu ertragen. Er scheint sich im Thema überhaupt nicht auszukennen, keift aber einfach mal grob in die Richtung, wo er die Kommunisten vermutet, die ja bekanntlich kurz davor sind, Deutschland zu übernehmen. Dass es selbst in den progressivsten Entwürfen Freibeträge bis zu 700.000 Euro geben soll, die das bekannte »Oma Erna ihr klein Häuschen« quasi steuerfrei vererbbar lassen, oder dass selbst in der CDU immer mehr Stimmen laut werden, die über die großen Erbvermögen sprechen wollen – das scheint der ängstliche Martenstein nicht hören zu wollen. Oder er ist wirklich schon auf dem Weg in die Vergreisung, wo man es auch einfach nicht mehr schafft, den Debatten zu folgen. Dann sollte man aber auch keine Kolumnen in der ZEIT schreiben dürfen. Pierre Baigorry (Peter Fox), per E-Mail

Großartig: Niemand geringeres als Peter Fox (!) zerlegt Harald Martensteins Blödsinn über die Erbschaftssteuer in einem Leserbrief in der ZEIT.

Ob Pierre Baigorry alias Fox selbst mal über den Freibetrag kommen wird, wenn er sein Haus am See vererbt?

The German government made the same argument when moving to stricter asylum rules in the 90s. Since then, far-right violence in Germany has not only increased. In many regions the far right has become an institutionalized even dominant force. We now see a second generation of far-right thugs.

one of the common threads you will frequently find among devoted adult readers & writers is that as kids the librarian let them get away with reading whatever the fuck they wanted. so much of the scifi and fantasy I fell in love with as a kid was very much Not For Kids, but it made my brain light up

The whole bsky TOS update is garbage but they're also deciding to go full steam ahead with censoring creative expression

No point in taking feedback if you aren't going to actually listen to it. Art of fictional nonconsensual acts are consensual between the creator and, if properly tagged, the viewer. Nobody is being hurt from it. Get your shit together or we will leave your site like we did for tumblr and twitter.

The thing about the far-right leading the polls in Germany is that it is something you can feel as you go about the country each week - in Bavaria, in NRW, in Berlin. There are spikes in misanthropy, misogyny and racism that are as sharp as I have seen in 11 years here. It is a licence to cruelty.

Kit Harington as Professor Lockhart, Keira Knightley as Professor Umbridge, Iwan Rheon as Professor Lupin, Ruth Wilson as Bellatrix Lestrange, Ambika Mod as Nymphadora Tonks, Leo Woodall as Bill Weasley, Simon Pegg as Arthur Weasley, James McAvoy as Mad-Eye Moody, Gemma Whelan as Professor Sprout, and Matt Berry as Sir Cadogan Pottermore Publishing/Audible

Fuck them all.

Das ist so gut. Nicht die Kulturkampfebene bedienen, sondern auf der materiellen Ebene Konsens schaffen und die extreme Rechte als den Gegner markieren und dann auf der gesellschaftspolitischen Ebene Solidarität hoch halten. This is the way.
Vor allem: direkt die Wähler_innen adressieren.

Very few people can pull off a cucumber hat, but very few people are Xandiloquence Bizarre the Ab3rd 🥒

illustration of Phib the bear reading a book on a bench among sunflowers

a quiet moment

#art #cuteart

"BUT A CHILD COULD SEE IT & THINK IT'S OKAY TO DO IN REAL LIFE!" Here's a wild idea, instead of enacting fascism & violating people's privacy with invasive laws what if kids were taught not everything they see, watch & read is real & something being depicted doesn't auto mean it's good to do! WOWEE!

Kofi is beastly hostile towards nsfw and will freeze your account if they find you posting it anywhere. I've had a lot of suggestions to move to Kofi so I'm not sure this is as well-known as I thought it was

I started this sketch and then totally forgot about it 😬

Vorratsdatenspeicherung: Sag deine Meinung zur Massenüberwachung Die EU-Initiative für eine neue Vorratsdatenspeicherung ist auf dem Weg. Die EU-Kommission fragt in einer öffentlichen Konsultation nach eurer Meinung. Wollt ihr verhindern, dass Metadaten aller Mensc...

Befragung zur verdachtsunabhängigen Massenüberwachung: Die EU-Kommission will in einem Fragebogen wissen, was ihr von dem Neuanlauf zur #Vorratsdatenspeicherung haltet. Sag deine Meinung, bring dich ein! netzpolitik.org/2025/vorrats...

Michael Downie yawns while Jeff Chang sleeps with an eye mask on while riding a train.

you want to train? no, no, let's get ON a train

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.