Violet
@noshrinkingviolet.bsky.social
Probably not a flower.
Trans woman. Compulsive reader.
Trans woman. Compulsive reader.
The thing a lot of the media screeching about newly elected socialist mayors doesn't really grasp is that the nature of municipal politics means that socialist mayors are inevitably sewer socialists and mayors that build useful infrastructure are popular.
The attack may yet backfire on the media.
The attack may yet backfire on the media.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The thing a lot of the media screeching about newly elected socialist mayors doesn't really grasp is that the nature of municipal politics means that socialist mayors are inevitably sewer socialists and mayors that build useful infrastructure are popular.
The attack may yet backfire on the media.
The attack may yet backfire on the media.
Getting real excited for Demon Viking Watersports Planet because demon vikings presumably have to play some metal as fuck water polo only to be deeply disappointed.
"I'd love to see Demon Viking Forcefem Planet except instead of forcefem it's [pedestrian, thematically shallow kink], that would be so hot"
Congratulations on having outed your lacking comprehension of DVFP. By tribunal precedent I invoke the exemption for kinkshaming in contexts that demand shame
Congratulations on having outed your lacking comprehension of DVFP. By tribunal precedent I invoke the exemption for kinkshaming in contexts that demand shame
November 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Getting real excited for Demon Viking Watersports Planet because demon vikings presumably have to play some metal as fuck water polo only to be deeply disappointed.
My most woke opinion is that the primary purpose of increasing poor peoples' economic precarity for the ultra-rich is not to expand their own wealth, but to maintain the existence of a class who can be subjected to any and all forms of predation without recourse.
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
My most woke opinion is that the primary purpose of increasing poor peoples' economic precarity for the ultra-rich is not to expand their own wealth, but to maintain the existence of a class who can be subjected to any and all forms of predation without recourse.
"The sooner you let the people who screwed you over off the hook for it, the sooner we can go back to losing at everything!"
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
"The sooner you let the people who screwed you over off the hook for it, the sooner we can go back to losing at everything!"
There is no world in which any legitimacy remains vested in this Supreme Court. It is a partisan institution without even the slightest veneer of jurisprudence. The only law that exists is what the President wants.
This just into the newsroom
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court issues emergency order temporarily blocking full SNAP food aid payments.
November 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
There is no world in which any legitimacy remains vested in this Supreme Court. It is a partisan institution without even the slightest veneer of jurisprudence. The only law that exists is what the President wants.
It's not just that they don't believe in anything that's real, it's that politics as a phenomenon isn't real. Our experience of politics is so disconnected from anything material that the patent absurdity doesn't matter. Fascism flourishes where politics is an abstraction.
one of those very revealing moments when the rights anger supercedes reality a bit too much and it just shows they don’t really believe in anything that’s real
October 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It's not just that they don't believe in anything that's real, it's that politics as a phenomenon isn't real. Our experience of politics is so disconnected from anything material that the patent absurdity doesn't matter. Fascism flourishes where politics is an abstraction.
Counterpoint: AAA video games shouldn't exist. They're an economic nightmare which drives game companies to be wildly over-cautious because the cost of making them is so high. They depend on terrible working conditions.
AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Counterpoint: AAA video games shouldn't exist. They're an economic nightmare which drives game companies to be wildly over-cautious because the cost of making them is so high. They depend on terrible working conditions.
Back in my day, we had to get weirdly obsessed with Ranma and picked up delightful internalized transphobia instead. We had to walk uphill through the 'gee, I wish there was a magic fluid that would turn ME into a girl' both ways!
if you saw her age 9-14 and got weirdly obsessed youre either trans or a femboy now
October 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Back in my day, we had to get weirdly obsessed with Ranma and picked up delightful internalized transphobia instead. We had to walk uphill through the 'gee, I wish there was a magic fluid that would turn ME into a girl' both ways!
Even if they started Dev at the start of 2025 (highly unlikely), 2 years is not nearly enough time to deliver a novel product at any kind of quality. Games regularly spend more time in preprod. Hell, games regularly spend more time in ideation!
This is going to be hot dogshit.
This is going to be hot dogshit.
October 7, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Even if they started Dev at the start of 2025 (highly unlikely), 2 years is not nearly enough time to deliver a novel product at any kind of quality. Games regularly spend more time in preprod. Hell, games regularly spend more time in ideation!
This is going to be hot dogshit.
This is going to be hot dogshit.
The thing that baffles me most about people who delusionally believe that LLMs are becoming sentient is that they seem to not understand the moral implications of supporting LLM development if that's true. Like, maybe instead of saying this is good, you should be concerned by creating AI slaves?!
October 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The thing that baffles me most about people who delusionally believe that LLMs are becoming sentient is that they seem to not understand the moral implications of supporting LLM development if that's true. Like, maybe instead of saying this is good, you should be concerned by creating AI slaves?!
Fuck Charlie Kirk. His death does not excuse his life.
Fuck Charlie Kirk
Anyone want to get a round of "Fuck Charlie Kirk" going?
September 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Fuck Charlie Kirk. His death does not excuse his life.
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Last week, a white racist man was killed in front of his white racist ilk by a white man raised in a white racist family.
Now, Black, Latine, queer, trans, disabled, and migrant people are being doxxed, harassed, threatened, and fired.
Never doubt that this is a white supremacist country again.
Now, Black, Latine, queer, trans, disabled, and migrant people are being doxxed, harassed, threatened, and fired.
Never doubt that this is a white supremacist country again.
September 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Last week, a white racist man was killed in front of his white racist ilk by a white man raised in a white racist family.
Now, Black, Latine, queer, trans, disabled, and migrant people are being doxxed, harassed, threatened, and fired.
Never doubt that this is a white supremacist country again.
Now, Black, Latine, queer, trans, disabled, and migrant people are being doxxed, harassed, threatened, and fired.
Never doubt that this is a white supremacist country again.
The conservative movement demands that you say bigotry is civility, hatred is love, and oppression is peace. The center appears desperate to agree with them, because centrists are more afraid of conflict than justice.
Meanwhile, the subjects of bigotry are blamed through acts of wild contortion.
Meanwhile, the subjects of bigotry are blamed through acts of wild contortion.
September 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The conservative movement demands that you say bigotry is civility, hatred is love, and oppression is peace. The center appears desperate to agree with them, because centrists are more afraid of conflict than justice.
Meanwhile, the subjects of bigotry are blamed through acts of wild contortion.
Meanwhile, the subjects of bigotry are blamed through acts of wild contortion.
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Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
September 13, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
It is frustrating that, in the process of condemning the violence against Charlie Kirk, the media is demanding that we pretend the man himself was anything other than the monster we all knew him to be.
It can simultaneously be the case that the violence was a bad thing and he was a bad person.
It can simultaneously be the case that the violence was a bad thing and he was a bad person.
September 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It is frustrating that, in the process of condemning the violence against Charlie Kirk, the media is demanding that we pretend the man himself was anything other than the monster we all knew him to be.
It can simultaneously be the case that the violence was a bad thing and he was a bad person.
It can simultaneously be the case that the violence was a bad thing and he was a bad person.
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I'm genuinely confused at so much of my feed being filled with "Don't celebrate Charlie Kirk being shot **because** this gives Trump the go ahead to violently crush opposition." Did you mean to add "faster" to the end of that sentence? Like, he wasn't waiting for an impetus. It's happening already
September 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I'm genuinely confused at so much of my feed being filled with "Don't celebrate Charlie Kirk being shot **because** this gives Trump the go ahead to violently crush opposition." Did you mean to add "faster" to the end of that sentence? Like, he wasn't waiting for an impetus. It's happening already
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My requirements for any Democrat running for president are simple:
1. Undo/reverse every single anti-trans policy the Trump administration has implemented.
2. Pledge not to further restrict trans people's rights.
3. Support the passage of the Equality Act and make it a priority.
1. Undo/reverse every single anti-trans policy the Trump administration has implemented.
2. Pledge not to further restrict trans people's rights.
3. Support the passage of the Equality Act and make it a priority.
August 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
My requirements for any Democrat running for president are simple:
1. Undo/reverse every single anti-trans policy the Trump administration has implemented.
2. Pledge not to further restrict trans people's rights.
3. Support the passage of the Equality Act and make it a priority.
1. Undo/reverse every single anti-trans policy the Trump administration has implemented.
2. Pledge not to further restrict trans people's rights.
3. Support the passage of the Equality Act and make it a priority.
Pritzker: "We are watching. We are taking names."
Newsom: *posts in all caps*
Dipshit Centrists: "Can't you see that Newsom is the only viable candidate? No one else is standing up to Trump!"
Newsom: *posts in all caps*
Dipshit Centrists: "Can't you see that Newsom is the only viable candidate? No one else is standing up to Trump!"
August 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Pritzker: "We are watching. We are taking names."
Newsom: *posts in all caps*
Dipshit Centrists: "Can't you see that Newsom is the only viable candidate? No one else is standing up to Trump!"
Newsom: *posts in all caps*
Dipshit Centrists: "Can't you see that Newsom is the only viable candidate? No one else is standing up to Trump!"
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If you're a cisgender american who agrees with Newsom and believes that trans people deserve respect then you won't have a problem with ending your own life at the age of 54. Cutting 25 years out of your life isn't a big deal, right? Life expectancy is 79. Shouldn't be a big ask of y'all.
August 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you're a cisgender american who agrees with Newsom and believes that trans people deserve respect then you won't have a problem with ending your own life at the age of 54. Cutting 25 years out of your life isn't a big deal, right? Life expectancy is 79. Shouldn't be a big ask of y'all.
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gender transition is an isekai and your post-reincarnation superpower is to be the most anxious person in any given bathroom
August 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
gender transition is an isekai and your post-reincarnation superpower is to be the most anxious person in any given bathroom
New genre of non-devs asking me to look at crashes I'm seeing: 'here's an incoherent mess from an AI I gave a crash stack to, can we fix this?'
Universally, the AI's input is worse than useless and I'd rather just be given the stack and the repro.
Universally, the AI's input is worse than useless and I'd rather just be given the stack and the repro.
August 17, 2025 at 5:52 AM
New genre of non-devs asking me to look at crashes I'm seeing: 'here's an incoherent mess from an AI I gave a crash stack to, can we fix this?'
Universally, the AI's input is worse than useless and I'd rather just be given the stack and the repro.
Universally, the AI's input is worse than useless and I'd rather just be given the stack and the repro.
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i've regrettably just caught up on what has been happening to my friends at @transnews.network: a corporation-endorsed harassment campaign targeted at journalists.
Itch's behavior is inexcusable. plainly.
Itch's behavior is inexcusable. plainly.
August 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
i've regrettably just caught up on what has been happening to my friends at @transnews.network: a corporation-endorsed harassment campaign targeted at journalists.
Itch's behavior is inexcusable. plainly.
Itch's behavior is inexcusable. plainly.
New experience unlocked: trying to figure out what to do with sudden contact with an old friend from HS when you didn't transition until much later and now have to be like 'so... yeah, that's not my name anymore' and weigh just how badly this could go for you.
August 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
New experience unlocked: trying to figure out what to do with sudden contact with an old friend from HS when you didn't transition until much later and now have to be like 'so... yeah, that's not my name anymore' and weigh just how badly this could go for you.
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The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab.
Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls.
If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.
Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls.
If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.
July 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab.
Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls.
If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.
Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls.
If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.
The establishment of the Democratic Party is proving itself to be a racist institution willing to carry out a campaign of bigoted slander to defend their indefensible politics. The media will, of course, do everything in their power to launder those racist lies.
We saw this playbook in Britain.
We saw this playbook in Britain.
June 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The establishment of the Democratic Party is proving itself to be a racist institution willing to carry out a campaign of bigoted slander to defend their indefensible politics. The media will, of course, do everything in their power to launder those racist lies.
We saw this playbook in Britain.
We saw this playbook in Britain.