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Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it
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December 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Everyone is more or less okay with it” dude you make people emigrate to work there because you don’t do remote work, they risk having to change countries if they disagree with it
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Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond.
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025
A charity fundraising marathon in support of Child's Play Charity.
desertbus.org
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond.
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope!
Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause!
desertbus.org
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when these companies try to claim this is about what’s legal or not, they’re lying. none of the games that were removed from steam or itch broke the law. financial companies are making subjective decisions based on what might inconvenience them
aftermath.site/steam-itch-p...
aftermath.site/steam-itch-p...
!["But the idea that it's just about what's legal is ridiculous,” he added. “It's not about what the law allows you to process. These are often very subjective rules around what falls outside the brand guidelines for Visa and Mastercard. And even if something doesn't fall outside the brand guidelines, it may just be something that is uncomfortable. ... [Questions of] 'Is this inside the bounds? Is this outside the bounds? Should we be processing that? Should we not be processing that?' are often incredibly subjective."
Stabile speculated that specific game removals on Steam and new rules on both Steam and Itch are meant to bring video games in line with what card companies and payment processors would be comfortable with in real-life porn. But that approach, he noted, doesn’t really stand up to prolonged scrutiny: "The difference is that you can't shoot anybody in real life, but there are plenty of games in which you can do that,” he said. “The stuff [companies] are talking about is entirely legal. It's legal to have in a book, it's legal to have in a game. They are making decisions based on their brand, based on public pressure from anti-porn groups, and that can be reversed."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gdejlhcswjbzraadoltdpps/bafkreidzcjf4pvd6l6xlui5d4w32e5gomvdei65csxkb6e74isv46amdii@jpeg)
August 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
when these companies try to claim this is about what’s legal or not, they’re lying. none of the games that were removed from steam or itch broke the law. financial companies are making subjective decisions based on what might inconvenience them
aftermath.site/steam-itch-p...
aftermath.site/steam-itch-p...
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The replacement of everything with generative AI is NOT inevitable, but it sure is if you all shrug and say "Well, it's inevitable" like your brain was washed in bad predictive SF for decades.
July 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The replacement of everything with generative AI is NOT inevitable, but it sure is if you all shrug and say "Well, it's inevitable" like your brain was washed in bad predictive SF for decades.
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The professional agitators are ICE.
this is literally the same thing southern segregationists said about the civil rights movement.
June 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The professional agitators are ICE.
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One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever
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This Friday (friday, friday)
I'll be on the Desert Bus Express crew for the evening shift (4pm to 12am PT)
We have a ton of ideas for ways to entertain you all, and some of them might even be good!
DB Express is raising funds for the BC Cancer Foundation, all the details on the linked page below.
I'll be on the Desert Bus Express crew for the evening shift (4pm to 12am PT)
We have a ton of ideas for ways to entertain you all, and some of them might even be good!
DB Express is raising funds for the BC Cancer Foundation, all the details on the linked page below.
In 22 short day days we embark on #dbexpress, our 24 hour marathon benefitting the BC Cancer Foundation. But how does all this even work?
Great question. We made James answer it:
desertbus.org/express2025/...
Great question. We made James answer it:
desertbus.org/express2025/...
What Even Is Desert Bus Express?
PJ here, James wrote an awesome article about all the deets for Desert Bus Express. I’m gonna get out of his way.
Hey Friends! Let's dig into the details of Desert Bus Express!
During 2020, 2021, an...
desertbus.org
May 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This Friday (friday, friday)
I'll be on the Desert Bus Express crew for the evening shift (4pm to 12am PT)
We have a ton of ideas for ways to entertain you all, and some of them might even be good!
DB Express is raising funds for the BC Cancer Foundation, all the details on the linked page below.
I'll be on the Desert Bus Express crew for the evening shift (4pm to 12am PT)
We have a ton of ideas for ways to entertain you all, and some of them might even be good!
DB Express is raising funds for the BC Cancer Foundation, all the details on the linked page below.
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Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast.
For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join
For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join
May 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Giant Bomb lives! Fandom has sold the site to us and it is now fully independent and employee-owned. We'll see you all on Tuesday for the Giant Bombcast.
For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join
For more info right now, head over to www.giantbomb.com/join
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Job Applications that make you both upload the resume AND enter each job / skill individually should be sent beyond the Blackwall from Cyberpunk.
May 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Job Applications that make you both upload the resume AND enter each job / skill individually should be sent beyond the Blackwall from Cyberpunk.
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there are obviously plenty of people doing good work on twitch and youtube, but we really lose a lot by not having dedicated gaming websites with veteran journalists on staff and editorial standards and shit
May 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
there are obviously plenty of people doing good work on twitch and youtube, but we really lose a lot by not having dedicated gaming websites with veteran journalists on staff and editorial standards and shit
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For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)
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April 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
For anyone aware of the tragedy at Vancouver Lapu Lapu festival, here's a thread of GoFundMe's available to help support the many victims. (copy pasted from my friend 'J' in the Vancouver Filipino community)
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Happy Election Day Canada! Please go vote. 🇨🇦
April 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Happy Election Day Canada! Please go vote. 🇨🇦
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They did, and you can read the letters written by Roman aristocrats living in Gaul who had basically given up on trying to fix anything and retreated to a comfortable self-exile on their vast estates
I wonder if Roman elites watching the fall of their empire also thought: “This is so stupid.”
April 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
They did, and you can read the letters written by Roman aristocrats living in Gaul who had basically given up on trying to fix anything and retreated to a comfortable self-exile on their vast estates
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April 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Delivery time 🎀🐈⬛
October 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Delivery time 🎀🐈⬛
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TERFs wrote philosophy papers a few years ago on this, they said they think trans women are men and trans men are men. They just want to create a fortress around womanhood that is exclusive to those deemed to be performing the role adequately.
March 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
TERFs wrote philosophy papers a few years ago on this, they said they think trans women are men and trans men are men. They just want to create a fortress around womanhood that is exclusive to those deemed to be performing the role adequately.
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The United States treating trans women like men, opens up a problem, what do you do with trans men?
If trans women should be treated like men, trans men should be treated like women.
So now people like this (shown below) are forced to use women's bathroom.
If trans women should be treated like men, trans men should be treated like women.
So now people like this (shown below) are forced to use women's bathroom.
March 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The United States treating trans women like men, opens up a problem, what do you do with trans men?
If trans women should be treated like men, trans men should be treated like women.
So now people like this (shown below) are forced to use women's bathroom.
If trans women should be treated like men, trans men should be treated like women.
So now people like this (shown below) are forced to use women's bathroom.
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The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
March 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The thing about so-called generative artificial intelligence is, the intelligence isn't artificial. It's real. It's OURS. The techbros stole our intelligence (our data, our thoughts, our stories, our art) and used the software to regurgitate it and spackle it together into digital particleboard.
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chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
March 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
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Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved: www.saverilawfirm.com/meta-languag...
March 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved: www.saverilawfirm.com/meta-languag...
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Perhaps the Gamers are alright
March 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Perhaps the Gamers are alright