Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
Oh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
The Dem Senate leadership's unbelievable negotiating position is that they will give Trump everything he wants except that they demand: an extension of Obamacare subsidies so that they expire right after the midterms, not before. This sounds like political malpractice on several levels.
Unfortunately, they have not created an AI model that can replace your dignity
"Grocery prices are too high" and "Stop purity testing people" are right wing talking points?????
What the fuck?? Are the authorities seriously blaming the KIDS for being SHOT?!?! Anything to not blame guns, huh??? What the actual fuck??
He rose to power through crying about censorship from the medical establishment. And now Vinay Prasad is spending his time as an FDA official censoring his critics.
My sentient enchanted sword came out to me as transmasc. Talk about Un-She/They-ing your blade! I told him "I don't care how you identify, I just need you to he/it whatever is in front of me!"
[Bill Cassidy looking down at corpse of chicken he has fucked to death]: That chicken should not have been fucked that hard
"Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role" www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.
Three.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine that dramatically BOOSTS the immune system’s ability to fight tumors- even WITHOUT targeting a SPECIFIC cancer type. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery AND radiation treatment.
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89
'Please don't say in the news that I bribed.'
“The process of enforcing silence upon opponents while the German people are bludgeoned into acceptance of National Socialist domination advanced another step today with the issuance of a formal order … authorizing the arming of Nazi storm troopers … and their use as "auxiliary police."
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro—who claims she’s helping Trump fight crime in D.C.—will no longer charge people for illegally carrying shotguns and assault weapons in public, which is a felony offense under D.C. law. Washingtonians, do we feel safer yet? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
SCOOP — Members of DC National Guard are preparing to carry M17 pistols, multiple sources confirm to me. This follows earlier reports that the guard reversed course and would soon be arming members in DC. Now we know they’re making sure they meet requirements if/when the order to arm them comes.
Hey, assholes, why is 75% of this article "How did this guy get hired?!" and not "WHY THE FUCK IS ICE THE GESTAPO?!?!"
Misleading headline: we don't actually KNOW that this guy voluntarily self-deporting, because he can't be reached because no one knows where he is or if he even has actual legal representation! #ICE #IceAreDomesticTerrorists
Texas is completely LAWLESS Texas GOP is drunk with power What they are doing to Shero Rep. Nicole Collier is called: KIDNAPPING & EXTORTION? Are there no decent Law Enforcement people in the entire state? ARREST Greg Abbott Dan Patrick Ken Paxton & 100% TX GOP www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
Disband ICE. Get rid of the entire DHS while we're at it.
While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.
Videographer is 20-30 feet away from this interaction. The whole situation is low-key and quiet. Cop brandishes his steel asp (expandable, telescoping baton) to menace this journalist. There is no basis whatsoever for this behavior. Zero threat.
The White House’s official X account has a long thread in which they’ve posted pictures of people arrested during the feds’ occupation of the city. Every single person in the thread is a person of color.
being in ICE or Border Patrol must be so crazy right now, you’re walking around as the disposable henchmen you can kill without qualms in the coming century of films and video games
Or park a vehicle. Last night they walked the Trinidad neighborhood, shining flashlights into parked, unoccupied vehicles. This is some bullshit.
Meanwhile in DC:
Due to a bizarre code interdepency in Super Mario Sunshine, Mario can gain permanent aggression to durians. While normally, he can handle them gently, if Mario enters a sewer and jumps once, he will become incapable of kicking them with anything except full force.
Twitter's AI - Grok - was briefly banned from Twitter today. What a time to be alive.
Two things can be true: 1) The President has legal authority over the D.C. police and the D.C. National Guard that he doesn't have *anywhere else* in the country; & 2) Even if this doesn't set a legal precedent, it sets an ominous *political* precedent for pretextually overriding local government.
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
What if your friend is holding the severed head of a tiny kid that they deliberately starved and now they are refusing to admit any of that is happening while also claiming it's justified and they'll keep doing the thing that isn't happening? Are they still your friend or nah?
ME (placing my arm around my best friend): hey buddy here's what I'm prepared to do together with you--purchase one-way tickets to The Netherlands where, together, we will turn you into the International Court of Justice for the genocide you're doing.
The UK is about to ban access to Wikipedia, just remember this bill was originally pitched as a means to protect kids from accessing porn.
Also this is one of the funniest screens I have ever seen in a video game
Trump on DC: "The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY ... There will be no 'MR. NICE GUY.' We want our Capital BACK."
Yep. The brief openly complains that they are restricted from arresting someone who an officer "observed ... speaking exclusively Spanish," who works at a place known to hire undocumented immigrants (so any restaurant or construction job?) and shopping at a store in an immigrant neighborhood.
The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.
Riot Games is accused of actively suppressing any negative comments related to Mastercard or otherwise mentioning the anti-game/NSFW censorship movement on its esports broadcasts. The decision to do so was reportedly made internally, according to an obtained statement. www.si.com/esports/news...
Also, it turns out we have a second angle of the exact same moment.
Yeah, I don't think this is AI. None of the usual signs of AI are present. AI is not good a consistent faces in crowds and correct limb placement when limbs go behind other things. This is a real photo, unfortunately.
Yeah, I was looking for the usual telltale signs of AI and wasn't finding any. And if this is an old picture, then it's not like it has the benefit of "well, AI got better since".
The exact same coding error in several places. Doncha hate it when that happens?
uhhhh. so they removed article 1 sections 9 and 10 from the official constitution page. Stuff about Habeas Corpus I'm guessing might be the reason for the removal of 9, and 10 restricts the powers of states and prohibits punishment without a fair trial constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
On Google maps, whenever new satellite images replace old ones, the erasure can be seen side by side with the adjacent older photo. I don't know how frequently they update.
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
It was only a matter of time, but Canada has joined the censorship bandwagon with Bill S-209. Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell. www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...
Time has changed
And so it begins... Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]
Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.
😐 So ICE can get student loan forgiveness...
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
Tried calling Stripe as a part of the counter-action to Collective Shout. Was met with a robot telling me I had a $100 prize and when I reached an operator, he tried getting me to take it as well instead of addressing my concern. Hey Stripe, why is your number passing off consumers to scammers?
Cheat Sheet v.2 nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i more comprehensive info can be found here: stop-paypros.neocities.org yellat.money MAKE YOUR CALLS!!!
Oh my god the PayPal call was SO FUNNY. The guy on the phone was like "We don't allow processing payments for explicit material." So I hit him with "So if I were to go and purchase a copy of Game of Thrones online, my payment would be blocked?" I think it clicked for him then.
I took the "confused and asking questions" route on the phone with Visa today and in my initial questions, I didn't mention video games at all and the person on the phone said "Visa doesn't block payments to video game sites" so I KNOW they're floundering under these calls.
thank you, muckraking journalists of the bari weiss tribune, for exposing the awesome stuff zohran mamdani has tweeted about like abolishing medical bills and seizing the property of millionaires
OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia write to your MPs.
I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save. Save the png and repost as widely as you can
HOW COOL IS THIS? Researchers have developed a DENTAL FLOSS that can DELIVER vaccines THROUGH the gums, a method that could one day offer a NEEDLE-FREE alternative for vaccination. This approach effectively stimulated immunity AND provided FULL protection against a lethal strain of influenza. 🧪🧵⬇️
EX GREEN BERET: “In my entire career, I never witnessed the brutality and use of indiscriminate & unnecessary force against an unarmed, starving civilian population until I was in Gaza at the hands of IDF & US contractors… without question, war crimes.”
Guess I'll post it here, too. It really is a shame I can't share 10 years of memories in 180 characters. But! I did have fun trying to come up with something to say.
Hello. It's almost been 10 years since UNDERTALE released. Now, I'm looking for your memories. Let's turn back together. Face the flower and speak. memories.undertale.com
🦊ours didn't get submitted either, but hopefully it makes it across the internet in this form (and I wanna add that deltarune got us back into gamedev, so thanks too for that)
"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well i asked goombella and her tattle log says you're a bitch
Tony Hawk's Pro Tactics Advance
Threat of being completely arrested, and for The people that work at itchio, that means that literally every single one of their workers can be arrested and if they are immigrants, deported. I need people to think for one second and be very serious right now. Itchio has to comply or they're likely
I am not trying to bootlick for companies I'm saying this as a former sex worker. Please listen to us, we called all of this since FOSTA/SESTA. Y'all don't get how this works. If anyone accuses a person or company of engaging in sex trafficking of any kind, it essentially gives law enforcement
Incredible. Federal prosecutors are seeing many cases of people accused of assaulting Border Patrol agents being turned down by grand juries! Los Angeles federal prosecutors are privately saying it’s because CBP agents are just “arresting first and asking questions later.”
Don’t forget this one as well chng.it/fCz4JyP97N
Let’s change gears. Do some good Sign this. Make it go viral. Protect sex workers. End payment processor discrimination action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Here’s a short script: “Hello, my name is _____, and I would like to file a complaint. I find it troubling that Mastercard is blocking content on (the platforms you use) and making it difficult for me to make legal purchases. I am going to stop using Mastercard if this isn’t rescinded and fixed."
Once again, there is an ACLU petition specifically made to stop Mastercard from unlawfully policing adult content. It’s getting pretty grim for us out there. Please sign and/or spread the word. action.aclu.org/petition/mas...
Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted? We got like way more people than that don't we?
With that being said, put your energy towards visa and mastercard with much more vigor than itch. The reactionaries of this world understand that you attack the roots most aggressively, and it's how they've been winning. Certainly, we can do the same.
I will fully admit to posting this in haste, wasn't expecting this to go big when much bigger names than me are talking about it. Itch is not the root of evil here, but I can't see my friend's lives get mulched in front of me and NOT be angry. I don't think it's unreasonable to want a statement.
ah, okay, cool, so you just have no reading comprehension then. My mistake.
Ah, I see. You're just trolling. Arguing for arguing's sake and not actually comprehending what people are saying to you. My mistake.
Guess you can only read one sentence per tweet, huh?
Yeah, I can see something I purchased in my library but I don't see it when I explicitly search for its title. Please don't muddy the waters with misinformation.
The post says they've taken the stuff off of browse and search pages, not off the site entirely. Are you seeing evidence of them pulling already-owened games from people's libraries? Because I can see NSFW things I've purchased and even things I've just put into lists.
Pragmatism is the language of people who understand what can and can't be done in the fucked up system we live in. Your idealism will net you lots of anger and no progress. That being said, did they pull stuff people already bought? This is the first I heard of that, and that would def be shitty.
I'm not. I'm aware of some of the screwed up stuff that happened in this snap action that they took without warning. They've said that they're doing an audit of the games they quickly took down, so I'm hoping that will reverse any takedowns of said SFW works.
Again, it's not itch who are bending the knee to artificial outrage. It's the payment processors who are forcing itch's hand. I'm not "bootlicking", I'm being pragmatic and pointing out how itch is a victim in this bullshit too, almost as much as the creators getting screwed by their snap action.
You realize you're saying this about a lot of small game devs and marginalized creators, right...? Who are just trying to make a living?
"Greed"?? Holy shit, dude, this isn't greed, it's about not being able to pay their creators if they don't do something to stop their payment processors from blacklisting them. That's not greed, it's survival. It's either this or lose the ability to pay ANYBODY!!
Jonathan Howard 