to elaborate on that a bit more clearly, ive been really feeling the pressure of like. media as talking point lately. how increasingly it feels the push of many things is less, "read or watch or play this to experience it," but rather "read or watch or play this, to say that you experienced it." art as a disposable commodity for an increasingly wide-scope keeping up with the joneses. and that's all i can see in really griping about how expensive the switch 2 stuff is. like, there's such a wide bank of video games as an art form. if they never made another you could play game all of your life for free. so why is it so bad the new ones are expensive on launch? because their function is not to be understood as a work but as a checklist.

The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.

I wish there was a gaming community on here like an actual gaming community not just fandom shit because you can only take so much gay fanart and no mechanics discussion before you yearn unwisely for reddit again

an anonymised and edited exchange between a streamer (they/them) i like and a creepy alt-right bully who made a hate video about them. tw: transphobia

alt-right chud: you might realise i'm referring to [streamer] as their chosen pronouns of 'they/them'. i assure you it's not because i respect that identity, it's simply because i genuinely can't tell if they're a boy or a girl

streamer: *hits pause*

streamer: holy shit. my friends, no gender euphoria hits harder than the gender euphoria you get unintentionally from your greatest enemy. this guy can say whatever he wants for the rest of this video, he can never take this away from me. i'm fucking reeling

I want a game that uses Disco Elysium's same insanely well crafted narrative system and wonderful writing but it's about a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbor's cat in a small village in the Alps, and also Measurehead is there.

The thing that gets me about the impending Harry Potter show is like. I'm able to, for entirely hypothetical purposes, put aside my disdain and disgust for the author's full-tilt bigotry and put myself in the shoes of someone who's still a Fan, like I would be if the author hadn't doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on being a full-tilt bigot, and even then, imagining the alternate universe where JKR remained a staunch ally and well-meaning if clueless liberal philanthropic darling, I still can't quite wrap my head around why I'd want this show to be made

Everyone keeps saying it's going to be a Faithful Adaptation Of The Series and I'm just like... okay? This isn't A Series Of Unfortunate Events that got a bad adaptation and they had to go back and try again to get it right. The majority of fans liked and continue to like the movies, a lot, and despite some minor quibbles here and there, they're considered incredibly faithful adaptations. The Fandom isn't exactly divided on this, either.

Like, I imagine a nearby alternate timeline where JKR was never hit by the Idiot Stick That Makes You Hate Women and remained normal, and I remained a fan of a flawed but influential children's fantasy series, and I can't really think of a reason why I would be excited about them trying to make lightning strike a second time. Are people really that mad about Michael Gambon saying "Harry did you put your name in the goblet of fire" animatedly instead of calmly? Or is WB just worried that the incoming demographic of theme park attendees have nowhere near the nostalgic link to the series that millennials would, and that if they don't inject the series back into the zeitgeist, the golden goose might stop laying eggs?

If JK Rowling hadn't gone full terf and this remake was happening then we'd all be wearily rolling our eyes at yet another carriage being hitched to the endless train of unnecessarily remade hits that nobody wants. People would be joking about "they're making a live action Harry Potter now" (the joke of course being that the previous one was also live action this time so they don't even have the normal excuse). People would revive old comparisons of Lion King shots and Mulan shots and put up Harry Potter ones next to them and joke about how expressive the animation is in the original. I can't see any world in which anyone would want this.

>censors all existing data on trans healthcare

>orders a study

I'm sure this will be completely unbiased

Hey.

Hey.

Hey.

They are targeting adults.

US people:

Create a backup plan for access to HRT. Now.

Prepare in advance, stockpile what you legally (or in minecraft) can, find diy that you trust.

They are going to take your medically required medication from you. This study is expected to start in about six months, and will likely be bullshit that only takes a couple months after that. There is still time.

However, I would predict an almost guarantee of a major federal legal restriction on adult HRT access in the 6mo-1yr from now range. I don't want any of the bullshit I got at the time of the election about "fearmongering". I stand by everything I said then.

calculus class won the vote! good luck kitty youre really gonna need it

Does anything mean anything any more

joe Biden would have been 27 when Fred Hampton was shot

He was around for most of the "back in the day"

joe biden quite literally opposed school desegregation

for comparison fred hampton was 21 when he was murdered by the police. so it’s not like biden was too young.

Biden not only opposed school integration, that was the major issue he ran on when he won his first political office. It’s a pity he didn’t start a couple of years earlier, because then he would have been on record insulting MLK Jr. and that would have ended his (Biden’s) career long before he was able to do most of the really evil shit like letting the cops write a racist crime bill and then sponsoring it in Congress.

ACAB spotted in Pittsburgh

A friend of mine who shall remain nameless works on a science conference in the US annually that usually gets about 1000 to 2000 international visitors. This year, they've had less than two dozen registrations from outside the US.

what if people over a certain height had a special currency called tall coins that short people didn’t know about. And one day you’re walking with your friend (huge) and she drops something and you pick it up and say what is this and she says oh that’s my tall coin don’t worry about it. But you did worry

8ADA 8ING 8ADA 8OOM!!!!!!!!

clam shrimp still love their grind rails

[ID: Short video of a clam shrimp, light brown spherical crustacean, moving along the underside of a thin piece of plant matter as if traveling on a rail. "City Escape" from Sonic Adventure 2 is playing. End ID.]

i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one

what “don’t encourage the delusion” means:

what it does not mean:

I don’t mean to trivialize psychosis by making a weird comparison, but this guide also serves as a handy checklist for helping someone through a bad drug trip. In both cases your number one priority is to get the person through whatever they’re dealing with unharmed.

i don’t think it’s trivializing at all, nor a weird comparison—as a psychotic person who has had psychotic episodes inadvertently triggered by drug use and/or worsened while trying to self-medicate with drugs, i think this is an important addition.

Honestly, there are times when you can play into the delusion in a helpful way.

Say a friend thinks their house is bugged by the FBI. You can help them search for bugs. Yes, you know they don’t exist, but it will calm the person down to know that the house has been searched and is safe.

Don’t encourage the delusion by saying things like “I’m in your walls” or “it’s not the FBI, it’s interpol and (insert whatever conspiracy here)”. That’s the stuff you don’t want to do.

You are trying to make someone feel safe. Sometimes that means within their delusion to get them to safety.

yep yep!!

when im hallucinating bugs i like when other people can check and say they didnt find any bugs in my clothes, or run their hands over my skin and say they brushed all the bugs off.

i don’t like people who say “did you take your meds” or tell me it’s not real, and i dont like people who insist they need to pick the bugs out of my skin for me (yes someone did that and YES, it was weird as HELL)