oof i could smell albеrto miеlgo on that mаrathon trailer before i even had time to scroll down and confirm it
my old girl isn't doing too well :')
i’m very quickly getting sick of left leaning dudes being like “eh well getting rid of DEI isn’t really the worst thing he could do” like congratulations you dumb fucks you fell for the fascist propaganda
they want you to think of DEI as the corny workplace training you had to take that one time so you’ll shrug it off as they axe every program that suggests minorities should have equal rights
this is the kind of shit that will happen as a result of moves like this. “but but but that’s not even DEI—“ it doesn’t fucking matter because everyone knows DEI is code for literally anything that doesn’t center white men
please send good vibes for my Chichi who’s currently on IV fluids at the overnight clinic with possible (hopefully reversible) kidney disease :(
inprnt has a flat $5 shipping sale this weekend if you’d like to throw a few bucks my way for building up a safeguard in case this spirals. no pressure of course. we’re waiting on infusion results to gauge the current functional capacity of her kidneys 🫠
please send good vibes for my Chichi who’s currently on IV fluids at the overnight clinic with possible (hopefully reversible) kidney disease :(
I often struggle with reconciling the morally bankrupt sentiment of space exploration with its undoubtedly powerful function in science fiction storytelling, with separating aspirational allegories of enlightenment and joy from real-life expressions of manic colonial thought patterns a-la the space race.
It is not necessarily something that bothers me too much, especially since even the most hyper privatized space tech companies can often yield trickle-down benefits to everyday life, while regimes they operate under shift and change with the times. Those times catching up with literary metaphors is not too worrying.
But there's always a nagging feeling in the back of my head that the great engine of distraction helping usher us into a rapidly looming wave of global fascism will eventually do the thing and tap into those channels of aspiration in some way or another. It's just a feeling, nothing structurally concrete I can point to, maybe even just a sign of me getting older. But it's there.
Anyway, the director of Mass Effect retweeted Elon Musk today
@noonesgaylikegatson your post has not left my mind since you made it. I see it everywhere.
Do not let them erase this. Do not let them tell you he meant "my heart goes out for you."
This man is the grandson of a Canadian Nazi sympathizer who moved to South Africa BECAUSE he thought the apartheid was just the coolest.
He has a gaggle of kids specifically because he believes his genes are superior and need to be spread to improve humanity.
He has thrown his support behind the neonazi party in Germany and the far right party in the UK, not to mention how far he's wormed up the ass of the Republican party.
He threw two sieg heil salutes back to back at the inauguration of the president of the United States and is trying to scrub the evidence off the internet.
Elon Reeve Musk is a fucking Nazi.
truly sorry but something about the tlou remake feels so insidious lmfao. like even moreso than usual? "designed from the ground up for the ps5" (to look exactly like the game built for the ps4) (with a full $70 price tag) (and a $100 special edition that comes with a comic book)
not to revive a throwaway post from three years ago but don't ever tell me I can't smell investment pipelines disguised as "value" ever again!
The older generation's fixation on forcing you to have kids is something they absolutely refuse to unlearn. You can give the calmest and most reasonable explanation for not having kids and the only thing they can think to say is, "But what of the heir to the lands?" "Who will inherit the throne?" "Please sire upon your barren death there will be a parochial schism that will soak our soils with brother-blood." They literally hate to see you happy with just a cat.
I hope the "What if Disco Elysium was about a witch finding her cat in the mountains" post never leaves the gaming discourse vernacular. It will never not be funny to me bc it's got all the Gamer Entitlement™ levels of CoD bros throwing hissy fits about "woke" shit but instead of being couched in far right reactionism it's the exact kind of "Kingdom of Conscience" style liberal outrage at anything with conviction and beliefs that DE waxed on about. Like even chuds who get mad that the game calls you out for being racist interact with the themes of DE better and understand them more than Cat Lady did.
Trying to comprehend this post shuts down my frontal lobe.
You need the context of these two tweets
Peer reviewed tags bc this is also a very good point that people should see
gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem
girls are contributing, too. the coquette aesthetic, the “i don’t want to girlboss i want a man to pay my bills”, girlmath girljob girlmoney. it’s a joke, it’s clothes, it’s whatever, i get it but it is driving a mentality of traditional gender roles and you know you’re joking but your boyfriend doesn’t. your kid brother doesn’t. you have to stop this shit it is a contributing factor
"The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it."
poem by Mikko Harvey
Me too!
Accurate
Inaccurate when I say I’m not very political it’s because I’m not. I’m a libertarian that leans conservative but politics bore me.
The next post on this dudes blog is about how women are naturally inferior