valergain 🌹
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Definitely an Elf IRL| Marxist | RPG and GSG enthusiast| (he/him). Profile picture by @iara-art.bsky.social
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The Shojo slop anime I am watching has gotten something right about California In n Out bbyyy
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The Shojo slop anime I am watching has gotten something right about California In n Out bbyyy
When I went back to my parents house I intially thought I would play a narrative game or something to pass the time but I have since realized wait I can just watch the cartoons I had a minor desire to catch up.
So now I have finished Helluva Boss season 1 doing season 2 today.
So now I have finished Helluva Boss season 1 doing season 2 today.
November 26, 2025 at 9:29 PM
When I went back to my parents house I intially thought I would play a narrative game or something to pass the time but I have since realized wait I can just watch the cartoons I had a minor desire to catch up.
So now I have finished Helluva Boss season 1 doing season 2 today.
So now I have finished Helluva Boss season 1 doing season 2 today.
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
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Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts
Yahtzee has correctly observed that video games that make you choose a faction make you pick between "fascists and nutters" but Obsidian has a bad habit of making you pick between "Fascists and fascists".
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Yahtzee has correctly observed that video games that make you choose a faction make you pick between "fascists and nutters" but Obsidian has a bad habit of making you pick between "Fascists and fascists".
Hot take if you had the resources Andy Serkis for a major role in your game I don't think you should qualify for best "indie" game awards.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Hot take if you had the resources Andy Serkis for a major role in your game I don't think you should qualify for best "indie" game awards.
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Yes please do that. Give him as much airtime as possible on any topic he wants (especially the age of consent)
"elevate charismatic figures such as Alan Dershowitz"
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November 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Yes please do that. Give him as much airtime as possible on any topic he wants (especially the age of consent)
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It is wild to me that the largest company on the stock market, one with such incredible prestige and a huge PR team got dog-walked here. Why would you EVER give this ANY oxygen? Now everybody is asking whether NVIDIA is like Enron! This didn't help at all!
Nvidia refuted accounting questions in a memo to analysts, saying "Unlike Enron, NVIDIA does not use Special Purpose Entities to hide debt and inflate revenue" (Tae Kim/Barron's Online)
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Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
It is wild to me that the largest company on the stock market, one with such incredible prestige and a huge PR team got dog-walked here. Why would you EVER give this ANY oxygen? Now everybody is asking whether NVIDIA is like Enron! This didn't help at all!
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so Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin famous created the improved turtle ships, tanks of the sea, and in 23 battles against the Japanese, he won every one.
He was defeated through politics, his enemies wound King Seonjo up when Yi refused a foolish order and he was tortured. The next battle was a total loss
He was defeated through politics, his enemies wound King Seonjo up when Yi refused a foolish order and he was tortured. The next battle was a total loss
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
so Korean Admiral Yi Sun-sin famous created the improved turtle ships, tanks of the sea, and in 23 battles against the Japanese, he won every one.
He was defeated through politics, his enemies wound King Seonjo up when Yi refused a foolish order and he was tortured. The next battle was a total loss
He was defeated through politics, his enemies wound King Seonjo up when Yi refused a foolish order and he was tortured. The next battle was a total loss
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Reminder that removing planned obsolescence and creating modular, open, standards-based tech that is repairable and made to last is one of the goals of "degrowth".
People wont be poorer with good, efficient tech. You just wont be get the bloated growth figures of continually expanding consumption.
People wont be poorer with good, efficient tech. You just wont be get the bloated growth figures of continually expanding consumption.
there has been no meaningful improvement in the devices or their functionality in 10 years in any way that affects what any normal person uses them to do, people only switch when forced updates cause a device which worked fine yesterday to lag so bad you can't type at full speed until you replace it
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
November 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Reminder that removing planned obsolescence and creating modular, open, standards-based tech that is repairable and made to last is one of the goals of "degrowth".
People wont be poorer with good, efficient tech. You just wont be get the bloated growth figures of continually expanding consumption.
People wont be poorer with good, efficient tech. You just wont be get the bloated growth figures of continually expanding consumption.
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so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
Riley Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates are speaking out about the real problems on her team: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
ow.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?
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Not really the point but making an LLM that's vulgar and rude is actually very easy and for a long time companies were trying to PREVENT that. Remember the Microsoft Twitter bot that became a Nazi? Elon is jacking himself for things that were done a long time ago.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Not really the point but making an LLM that's vulgar and rude is actually very easy and for a long time companies were trying to PREVENT that. Remember the Microsoft Twitter bot that became a Nazi? Elon is jacking himself for things that were done a long time ago.
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It's time to end the arguments, they've gone on much too long. Here is the definitive ranking of Star Wars:
1. Star Wars (film, 1977)
2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present)
3. Star Wars (video game, 1983)
4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976)
5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)
1. Star Wars (film, 1977)
2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present)
3. Star Wars (video game, 1983)
4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976)
5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)
November 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
It's time to end the arguments, they've gone on much too long. Here is the definitive ranking of Star Wars:
1. Star Wars (film, 1977)
2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present)
3. Star Wars (video game, 1983)
4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976)
5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)
1. Star Wars (film, 1977)
2. Star Wars (comic book series, 1977-present)
3. Star Wars (video game, 1983)
4. Star Wars (novelisation, 1976)
5. Star Wars (proposed missile defence system, 1983)
Saying I'm going to go stay at my parent's house feel kinda weird when they live like 30 minutes away from my place even if its true.
November 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Saying I'm going to go stay at my parent's house feel kinda weird when they live like 30 minutes away from my place even if its true.
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no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
US operations against Venezuela to begin within days.
Covert ops the first move.
Covert ops the first move.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
no one has even bothered trying to convince us there’s a threat from Venezuela. no weapons of mass destruction. nothing. just a war of choice because why not.
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american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts
It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.
Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM
american oligarchs uniformly abandoned a lifetime of democratic support because it was easier for them to believe that “based meme” accounts run by czechoslovakian teens were proof of a mass populist movement in service to elon musk than face the hard truth that most people hate their fucking guts
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what are some good groceries to buy as a beginner
November 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
what are some good groceries to buy as a beginner
Pope throws a rave and beefs with JD Vance (doesn't even excommunicate him I might add) and says basic shit about immigrants and everyone forgets about the homophobia, anti-abortion stuff, and being against birth control.
Cool! Apparently it is very easy to get away with stuff.
Cool! Apparently it is very easy to get away with stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Pope throws a rave and beefs with JD Vance (doesn't even excommunicate him I might add) and says basic shit about immigrants and everyone forgets about the homophobia, anti-abortion stuff, and being against birth control.
Cool! Apparently it is very easy to get away with stuff.
Cool! Apparently it is very easy to get away with stuff.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Megyn Kelly Anxiously Waits For Everyone Else To Start Condoning Pedophilia Too
Megyn Kelly Anxiously Waits For Everyone Else To Start Condoning Pedophilia Too
NEW YORK—Faced with backlash against comments she made last week downplaying the sex trafficking crimes of Jeffrey Epstein, an anxious Megyn Kelly appeared on her podcast Monday waiting for everyone e...
theonion.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Megyn Kelly Anxiously Waits For Everyone Else To Start Condoning Pedophilia Too
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let's talk webisodes,
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
let's talk webisodes,
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hell yeah brother
The issue isn't who gets representation, it's that once you start unwinding federalism, why stop at presidential elections? Why bother having "states" at all other than as national administrative boundaries?
And why keep the Senate at all? Why not just a giant House, proportionally elected?
And why keep the Senate at all? Why not just a giant House, proportionally elected?
Sorry, but this is nonsensical. Federalism isn't a binary. Elect the President by national popular vote and both the little and the big empty states STILL get overrepresented in the Senate, which, need I remind you, confirms judicial and other nominations.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
hell yeah brother
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