Bryant Francis

It’s feeling until it’s thinking. Feel for a while, hit a point where you need to light the next spark, then the thinking kicks in.

here’s a thought: what if this sentence ended at “disco elysium is a great work of art” and then we appreciated/criticized it on its own terms. wouldn’t that be fun

Low key mad that non-work writing projects are *so much fucking easier* now that I’m being treated for ADHD.

…Eli Vance from Half-Life?

Celia Rose Good is AMAZING but when she started lecturing me on the importance of Star Trek I knew we’d crossed a rubicon.

Frustrated to report that Strange New Worlds this week may be the show’s first bad episode. 😬😬😬

lmaooooooo

let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex

Republicans *want* to destroy this country!

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

Holy fuck

I mean hell’s a nice place if you like the heat (and I’ve read way worse).

That's definitely bad advice. I'm sorry it was all you got! I shouldn't have talked in a way that acts like my experience was universal.

That said I don't think it's the *only* "left message" out in the ecosystem. TV, film, and games all play a role.

No one *wants* to do this because it invites harassment and goes against the left's (sincere and good) sensibilities of wanting to work together for common goals. But the right's 30-year campaign against the "liberal media" shows it works. Tim Walz's "weird" line was the closest we've gotten here.

My working theory is to counter all these goons from Peterson, to Tate, to Alex Jones is aggressive messaging that dunks on them and calls out how shitty they are. It happens in corners of the left, while mainstream news takes a neutral tone, giving grace for YouTube, etc. to platform them.

Had to eat crow and read the article because I agree it's good, it's the kind of message that helped me out when I was younger.

I worry a "left-wing dating guru" would just be a fart in the wind though when tackling this. It operates in the right's framework.

Okay mea culpa, I hadn't read your piece before replying. Your message is the kind that helped me not be a shit dude when I was younger.

Really liked this line: "Men get themselves into a terrible muddle when they become obsessed with securing female attention. It becomes a self-refuting prophecy.

If your framework for masculinity is men getting laid then you're already operating in the far-right's frame of reference. No one has ever "shamed me" about being a man or for flirting with women.

What is the velocity of an unladen swallow?

leafo Admin 4 hours ago (12 edits) (+115) For those who aren't aware, Stripe is one of the payment processors we've used since our early days. They have provided the "Pay with card" option on our checkout page for over 10 years. We spoke with Stripe yesterday about their content policies. They confirmed that they will not be able to support adult content that fits the following definition: "content designed for sexual gratification." Stripe asked us to pass along the following message to our users: Stripe is currently unable to support sexually explicit content due to restrictions placed on them by their banking partners, despite card networks generally supporting adult content (with the appropriate registrations). Stripe has indicated that they hope to be able to support adult content in the future. We are in the process of talking with other payment partners to accept card payments that Stripe is unable to process. We disabled Stripe payments last week on pages identified as having "adult NSFW content." Now that we have a more specific definition from Stripe, we may review that initial list for potential re-introduction.

Itch is re-indexing free NSFW content on the platform—and offering some context for why Stripe doesn’t want to be the payment platform for adult games.

Stripe’s definition is—depending on your tastes—very broad.
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NOPE

the right wing media ecosystem is so efficiently set up to take random posts from non public figures and turn them into pseudoevents. to the point where the entire social media system rn really just favors their viral propaganda machine.

Who was vice President when that happened?

They’re building suspense!

Is it the greatest moment for you?

HOLY SHIT CONGRATS REB

New thing from me. I played Battlefield 6 and learned some new details about the game, it’s pretty cool stuff.

We're asking!!! We just got one line saying "powered by Godot."

for many of the worst people in our politics, the only real belief they have is that it should be illegal for us not to like them