I'm only half-joking about the force-femming by the way. here's the protagonist before and after:

about 8 hours into SMT V: Vengeance so far.

basic summary: high school kid finds himself in hell, gets force-femmed, flirts with demons who constantly misgender her

can’t believe they forcefemmed Sheik 😔

Alright, the demo is out so if you wanna play Mega Sokofox World, you can! https://store.steampowered.com/app/5212360/Mega_Sokofox_World_Demo/

oh, by the way, happy Kirk Got Merc'd Day to all who celebrate ❤️

Please stop saying chatbots "admitted they were wrong" or "talked to" other chatbots. These things are statistical programs *doing what they are programmed to do*.

I know humans love anthropomorphising things, I do it at the drop of a hat, but this is NOT the place for it.

pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out

"This is not a place of honor" as a tramp stamp

Happy Charlie Kirk is dead and you're not day ​:neocat_floof_devil:​

Thinking about how appalled society was at video games that let users do violent things to imaginary people

versus how complacent re: "artificial intelligence" that lets users custom design violence against real people.

okay, I go sleeps. goodnight sleepyfedis :blobfoxcomfysleepy:

Ghost in the Shell (2026) review in brief:

it's... fine. apparently it's much closer in tone to the manga, which makes me think that the best thing the original film did was to distance itself from the manga. there was lots of robot titty, and the opening and ending credit songs were pretty good, and that's about all that was especially memorable for me.

thankfully, Science Saru's other series this year, Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia, is fucking stellar, and you should go and watch that now.

"Of the 16 articles I read on men not going to college, only two mentioned masculinity or male flight."

"when girls enter a space, boys predictably leave" 100%

we gotta fix our Male Supremacist society and until we do, everything will get worse

https://substack.com/home/post/p-209177817

@alice i strongly support not suspending this bot. it was made by a queer person who reclaims the term fag/faggot and offers the bot as a service to others who feel similarly and enjoy being called that term. it is acting directly on behalf of the users who follow it; the shell script making the posts is not the entity that may or may not be reclaiming the slur, it's the people following the bot.

i fail to see what harm this bot is actually doing? the only thing i can think of is that it would maybe cause people who don't like seeing that word to come across one of these posts on the public timeline, but i don't think we should be weighing their comfort over the right of queer people to empower ourselves by reclaim slurs that have historically been used against us. if there were bots like this for other slurs that are used against me, i would follow them!!
ultimately, i think this bot is a positive thing, and anyone who doesn't like seeing it can super easily mute or block the account or set up a filter to hide posts containing the word fag

okay, yep, nishime is totally even better after a day in the fridge. I'm half tempted to let the entire batch go for a day before eating it next time

RE: https://blimps.xyz/@monstercollie/117243426781489243

This is a good video, and obviously applicable to way more than just furries.

"Trust, but verify" basically

brats right after they're put in their place:

brats right before they're about to get owned:

by the way, in case anyone doubts the part about male versus female contacts making a difference, here's the relevant snippets:

The independent transgender identity penalty, T (1), varies little by contact person sex: among applicants who pass and disclose a male-to-female name change, discrimination estimates are nearly identical for postings listing male and female contacts. By contrast, among applicants who do not disclose a name change, the non-passing penalty is close to zero for postings listing female contacts but 8.8 pp for those listing male contacts, a statistically significant difference of 7.9 pp.

Among strongly non-passing applicants who do not disclose a name change, the penalty is 14.3 pp with a male contact and 1.8 pp with a female contact, a difference of 12.5 pp. The corresponding difference among moderately non-passing applicants is only 3.0 pp and statistically insignificant.

(emphasis mine)

also, I shouldn't need to say it after the above, but absolutely do not disclose that you're a trans woman to a prospective employer. even if you're not "passing," you will get discriminated against. leave them guessing.