Most popular posts by LGBTQ Allies and Advocates community members over the last 24 hours. Updated hourly.
Degenerative AI doesn’t do anything competently, isn’t in real demand, and requires an expensive network of support that was never needed by anything it’s replacing, but at least its forced adoption has made the things we actually want impossible to get!
Kinda stunned by how good the Castlevania GBA and DS collections are. Like, you’re telling me Konami of all companies put out a rerelease of old games that run well, include save states, rewind, concept art and game manual scans, control rebinding, and DS layout settings all for like $20 MSRP??
I reviewed Crisol: Theater of Idols. It's a lovely little action-horror with some impressive environmental and audio design, and you shoot killer statues with guns that drink your blood. I could nitpick much of it, but overall I'm impressed. Full review here: www.thejimquisition.com/post/crisol-...
I understand everyone's drowning in misery, but every push back against his regime is progress even if it doesn't feel like it. Countering every bit of good news with a bunch of WHY IT DOESN'T MATTER REALLY demoralizes people. Demoralized people? Stop fighting. Consider this a moment.
Tucker Carlson is evil. I'm glad he's on the right side of Occupied Palestine (for now), but a stopped clock being right twice daily doesn't mean the clock is working. He's not your friend. He's not even an ally of convenience, because he's very much pro-genocide -
A backer of this adamantly but politely put it on my radar. I feel unwell after watching the trailer and I say that as a compliment. The gameplay loop is exactly the kind of horror structure I’ve always wanted to work with myself, so I’m interested in seeing how it turns out. I hope it gets done.
It's worth remembering that Naomi Long told me that it was 'advice' from the MHRA that caused her to back the puberty blocker ban in the first place. That was over the prescribing environment, not the safety of the drugs. She no longer replies to me, got too uncomfortable I think.
Ugh. I don’t know how many homeowners deal with something like this, but I need to get some tools from the upper floor of my house but I can only reach it if I get my wall jump, but I can only get my wall jump if I first get my slide ability to access my basement. Any tips??
Finished Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow! Damn fine game. Really good sense of flow and progression. Loved the Soul mechanic a lot. Only found myself getting lost when it came time to mess with the floating gardens. Some bosses were tricky but not too bad overall. Good atmosphere. Good time.
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The best part is that at the very top is an update that this happened again: “Updated February 19 with details of a second AI-related data leak, this one adding 2 million photos and videos to the 1 billion IDs, email and phone numbers already exposed by an AI-powered identity verification service.”
I've never seen a legal aid lawyer, sliding scale lawyer, or public defender get even a fraction of the fame or praise or glory that Neil Katyal does. They're representing marginalized folks all the time, and his wins for "democracy" are between representing corporations AGAINST marginalized people.
there’s a joy and freedom to this performance that echoes the ecstatic feeling i feel playing music (and watching lots of other people play music). i’ve seen it in dancers but i’ve never seen it in competitive sports at this level. it really is that special a performance
Streeting has never been a reluctant participant. He’s instead been quite eager to find new ways to ruin the lives of trans people in the UK, proactive even. But he doesn’t have the guts to acknowledge that this is volitional, so he outsources his justification to willing proxies. Cowardly.
The PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial already failed trans kids by subjecting them to levels of scrutiny, coercion, and pathologisation akin to conversion practices. The new additional age restrictions - banning access for kids starting puberty - are just the latest abusive control tactic…
This. The right has been livestreaming their intentions forever. FRC’s Meg Kilgannon, now at US Dept of Ed, outlined the strategy of attacking top surgery as a way of delegitimizing trans people and “dividing the T from LGB”, back in 2017 at the Values Voter Summit to thousands, including lawmakers.
beginning to realize i had a weird brain breakthrough this morning in meditation and my hypervigilance is way lower than it’s ever been, which i’m processing as exhaustion but … isn’t. i just don’t feel like i’m going to jump out of my skin every five seconds
And lo, every single fucking thing Emma has said about LLMs and the psychological dangers has already come to pass. I am incandescent with rage about this. It'll get a lot worse, then slightly better as regulations get pushed, then much, much worse again. *sigh* And no, you're not immune.
The PATHWAYS puberty blocker trial were already an assault course of unnecessary and intrusive tests - designed by ‘gender critical’ transphobes to approximate conversion therapy practices as closely as possible! 😣 Increasing the age of entry to 14, now just makes it even more obstructive! 😖
Puberty blockers from 14-16 absolutely pointless, as puberty has almost completed at that time for many trans kids. The physical and psychological scars are already there. Transphobes just don’t want trans people to find peace - EVER! They want to be able to identify, hound, and vilify them! 😤