Jay Allen
@amaninblack.bsky.social
nobody that you know unless you've heard of him.
deeply curséd combo of IR, tabletop wargaming, far right extremism in fandom spaces, and video game/industry crit. hell is empty and all the posts are here.
old writing: https://jayallen.contently.com
deeply curséd combo of IR, tabletop wargaming, far right extremism in fandom spaces, and video game/industry crit. hell is empty and all the posts are here.
old writing: https://jayallen.contently.com
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This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
I think it's fine Chat GPT is telling people how to kill themselves. They'll figure it out one way or another if they're serious.
December 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
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Stuck inside from the snow? Why not try this fun drink recipe* courtesy of Greatures!
greatures.com/comic/171/
*do not make this drink or drink this drink if offered
greatures.com/comic/171/
*do not make this drink or drink this drink if offered
December 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Stuck inside from the snow? Why not try this fun drink recipe* courtesy of Greatures!
greatures.com/comic/171/
*do not make this drink or drink this drink if offered
greatures.com/comic/171/
*do not make this drink or drink this drink if offered
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Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN investigates the fate of Gaza’s missing aid seekers | CNN
Ammar Wadi knew he was risking his life when he set out to get a bag of flour for his family from an aid truck near the Zikim crossing into Gaza in June.
www.cnn.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse.
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...
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"What Fulnecky’s mother is saying out loud — that trans people shouldn’t be allowed to teach at all — is what this movement actually wants."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"What Fulnecky’s mother is saying out loud — that trans people shouldn’t be allowed to teach at all — is what this movement actually wants."
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
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I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
A coordinated campaign to drive trans people out of public life
Parker Molloy on the latest Oklahoma anti-trans work
www.welcometohellworld.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
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For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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sure thing boss 🫡
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
sure thing boss 🫡
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they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA
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I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.
rogue one is a bad movie folks
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM
rogue one is a bad movie folks
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The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented. Hear more on today's episode of "The Daily." nyti.ms/480eqtm
The Autism Diagnosis Problem
Autism rates have increased in recent decades, but the reasons are more complicated than what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has presented.
nyti.ms
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.
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One Minor Problem I am having is that these in-universe brands are... unusual in a way which might not work well in an out-of-context ad
November 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
One Minor Problem I am having is that these in-universe brands are... unusual in a way which might not work well in an out-of-context ad
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The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The “google is using your email to train AI” debacle is imo most instructively seen as tracer dye for multiple failures: many people are instinctively skeptical of tech companies now; and many outlets that should have had experts able to cogently weigh in and go “wait a minute” simply don’t anymore.
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The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
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Annihilation
sorry for rewilding your wife. I hope it's some consolation to look at all the flora and fauna that are thriving inside her
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Annihilation
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*solid snake voice* based, eh? .... based on what?
November 21, 2025 at 6:18 AM
*solid snake voice* based, eh? .... based on what?
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
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I consider it my professional obligation to inflict as much collateral psychic damage on passing web designers as possible.
November 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I consider it my professional obligation to inflict as much collateral psychic damage on passing web designers as possible.
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Also out today, Phantom Brigade 2.0 - a total relaunch (and a half-price discount) for a game I wanted to love at launch but it was pretty flawed beyond its core (very fun) combat loop.
Well, they've replaced just about everything but that core loop. Only played a bit, but it seems VERY improved.
Well, they've replaced just about everything but that core loop. Only played a bit, but it seems VERY improved.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Also out today, Phantom Brigade 2.0 - a total relaunch (and a half-price discount) for a game I wanted to love at launch but it was pretty flawed beyond its core (very fun) combat loop.
Well, they've replaced just about everything but that core loop. Only played a bit, but it seems VERY improved.
Well, they've replaced just about everything but that core loop. Only played a bit, but it seems VERY improved.
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"Illusive sims are defined primarily by the fictive character of their simulations, in contrast to games whose sims have achieved sufficient coherence to bestow real sentience to their inhabitants, like Kirby and the Forgotten Land"
illusive sim
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"Illusive sims are defined primarily by the fictive character of their simulations, in contrast to games whose sims have achieved sufficient coherence to bestow real sentience to their inhabitants, like Kirby and the Forgotten Land"
this was a particularly bad case of someone being cut in half
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
this was a particularly bad case of someone being cut in half