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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 9h

Can I offer you a nice Anne Hathaway dancing in these trying times?

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 1d

Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

www.theguardian.com

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 1d

child harness with leash.jpg
the child looks hearty, hale, and psychologically stable.
the image is plainly photoshopped, as you can tell from the pixels.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 1d

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Dear President Obama,
I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza."
Palestinians have families, too.
This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide.
I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world.
Love,
Ms Rachel

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 1d

If Leftist protestors were even one-tenth as violent as Ngo claims, he would not be around to post dumb shit anymore.

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 1d

He’s also a hardline “deflation is never, ever, EVER okay” guy, so his position is that price gouging, monopoly power, collusion, etc. are regrettable but cannot be remediated at all.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 1d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 2d

Jon Fasman is the Economist's senior culture correspondent, based in New York.

the Economist's senior culture correspondent

SENIOR CULTURE CORRESPONDENT

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Jon Fasman is the Economist's senior culture correspondent, based in New York.

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 2d

It was a Playstation Plus free game at one point!

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a spot where a lady in a niqab runs across the screen and if you get twitchy and gun her down the game -doesn’t- go REMEMBER, DON’T KILL CIVILIANS like CoD does and it has stuck with me for the last decade+.

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 2d

Yes.

fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 2d

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Sometimes the replychain gets a little awkward and that’s okay.

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 2d

I am in a weird position on this because I thought it was fine when Spec Ops: The Line did it and did not think it was fine when TLoU2 did it and I couldn’t begin to tell you how my mind is differentiating the two.

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 2d

FO2 mentions big nuke-fueled mega-twisters thrashing across the Great Plains. That would have been a cool place to explore.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3d

I have frogs everywhere

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 3d

I am pretty sure that if someone is perceived as Black, or a woman, or trans, etc. that Heated Gaming Moments will make the effort to match the slur with the perception.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3d

Life would have been better never knowing what I'd lost because of these racists. Because this might kill me.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

Classics hivemind! I have in my head that there's a passage somewhere where a ruler (a Roman emperor?) comes across a woman tilling her own fields and orders some arrangement to be made for her?

I don't know if I am imagining it, but I can't find it again. Wonder if anyone recognizes it?

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 3d

Washington, D.C., home of the “No True Bill.”

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 3d

According to the film scholar Linda Williams, body horror falls into one of three "gross" genres or "genres of excess" which also includes pornography and melodrama.[3]

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According to the film scholar Linda Williams, body horror falls into one of three "gross" genres or "genres of excess" which also includes pornography and melodrama.[3]

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 3d

AC4 Freedom Cry is explicitly about murdering slavers and AC3 Liberation is about the Black Creole experience during the Revolution, so this is very much backsliding on the part of even this specific branch of Ubi.

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite AC is the tiny AC4 spin-off where you play the Black dude and just go around murdering slavers and fomenting a slave rebellion.

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fatalist.bsky.social @fatalist.bsky.social · 3d

“We want to be clear: the ‘policy’ being circulated is not something we created or endorse in any way.”

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“don’t say anything like ‘that is not something we created.’”

???

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 4d

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

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