saying "try that against a real gestapo officer" with the same intonation as they say "try that in a small town" certainly feels revealing about who they see themselves as in that scenario

this is also one reason why I have no respect for AI musicians. you have no idea what it's like. you have no idea what musicians go through

...and also all the journalists are in the government or went to school with the government

I'm sorry. I relapsed. I can't keep talking about overwatch characters I have to stop

while we're here: every character in overwatch looks like a bland "example" character from a different game genre and they tried to spice them up by gluing random shit to them

every social media site..... so far

Jack's tenure at twitter is the model everyone assumes social media is like at its best: vaguely-enforced rules, full of nazis who demand to be heard because of "free speech", out of control harrassment campaigns, etc. but that's actually the abberation.

I sometimes wonder if bluesky is, too, a transitory website to post on, what with its owners being way too close to the same silicon valley cultism as twitter was. ideally we'll one day find our way to a non-american website and not all be subject to america's censorious laws anymore