rairun
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Relatedly, the most asinine thing of all is how transphobes call themselves "gender critical" when they really are gender conservatives. There's little more critical of gender than putting your money where your mouth is and being transgender.
They are afraid the patriarchy that brought them into being will crumble, and in this sense, yes, I do want transgender for everyone. I want everyone to be free of gender as a hierarchy that oppresses us.
December 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Relatedly, the most asinine thing of all is how transphobes call themselves "gender critical" when they really are gender conservatives. There's little more critical of gender than putting your money where your mouth is and being transgender.
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the (trans)feminized, penetrable "boy," is a classical acceptable object of HETEROsexual desire within this regime. nothing new there. what they're policing when they say it's gay to love your wife is that it's "effeminate and ridiculous" to treat your sexual property (women, children) as equals
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
the (trans)feminized, penetrable "boy," is a classical acceptable object of HETEROsexual desire within this regime. nothing new there. what they're policing when they say it's gay to love your wife is that it's "effeminate and ridiculous" to treat your sexual property (women, children) as equals
They keep saying Linux is now very simple to use, and that might be true if you just want to browse the Internet, but I haven't done as much computering since DOS days, and I don't even mean all the terminal fiddling, just how you need some sort of trick for every little thing you need your PC to do
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
They keep saying Linux is now very simple to use, and that might be true if you just want to browse the Internet, but I haven't done as much computering since DOS days, and I don't even mean all the terminal fiddling, just how you need some sort of trick for every little thing you need your PC to do
This, and I feel like I can't stop bringing this up because it truly makes life worse.
November 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This, and I feel like I can't stop bringing this up because it truly makes life worse.
The thing about LLMs and games is that in a different political environment you COULD make use of them in creative, essentially non-generative ways. E.g. text adventures from the 70s were so frustrating not because we wanted them to go off-script, but because they couldn't parse your input very well
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The thing about LLMs and games is that in a different political environment you COULD make use of them in creative, essentially non-generative ways. E.g. text adventures from the 70s were so frustrating not because we wanted them to go off-script, but because they couldn't parse your input very well
They don't even bother making sense anymore. If age verification keeps children safe (dodgy claim in the first place, but let's run with it), then it does so by stopping children from getting verified. Adults refusing to undergo verification don't harm anyone because THEY WOULD HAVE PASSED ANYWAY.
UK government asks everybody to stop using VPNs.
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
August 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
They don't even bother making sense anymore. If age verification keeps children safe (dodgy claim in the first place, but let's run with it), then it does so by stopping children from getting verified. Adults refusing to undergo verification don't harm anyone because THEY WOULD HAVE PASSED ANYWAY.
Niche pet peeve: people shooting music videos during the day - or even more "professional" footage like sideline cameras at a football match - using a really low aperture for bokeh, and then lowering the exposure to compensate instead of a ND filter. It looks so awfully choppy, do they not notice
August 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Niche pet peeve: people shooting music videos during the day - or even more "professional" footage like sideline cameras at a football match - using a really low aperture for bokeh, and then lowering the exposure to compensate instead of a ND filter. It looks so awfully choppy, do they not notice
In my late teens/early twenties, while getting some education in philosophy of science and p. of mind, I was really interested in the question of what a mind is in the first place - and for a variety of reasons, a physicalist perspective was what made the most sense to me, despite it appearing to..
August 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
In my late teens/early twenties, while getting some education in philosophy of science and p. of mind, I was really interested in the question of what a mind is in the first place - and for a variety of reasons, a physicalist perspective was what made the most sense to me, despite it appearing to..
Slightly diminish a band
Neutral Milk Motel
Neutral Milk Motel
August 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Slightly diminish a band
Neutral Milk Motel
Neutral Milk Motel
Is it just me or has the Internet Archive been "down" for a couple of days in the UK? I thought it was just down, but it's fine on a VPN.
August 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Is it just me or has the Internet Archive been "down" for a couple of days in the UK? I thought it was just down, but it's fine on a VPN.
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google is straight up fucking evil for putting the "ai mode" tab at the leftmost position so my faulty muscle memory will accidentally click on it
August 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
google is straight up fucking evil for putting the "ai mode" tab at the leftmost position so my faulty muscle memory will accidentally click on it
Genuine question: when/if the EHRC guidance comes into effect, what do we do other than try to get the guidance revoked? I mean, in the immediate aftermath, do we pressure organisations to turn all segregated toilets into gender neutral ones?
August 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Genuine question: when/if the EHRC guidance comes into effect, what do we do other than try to get the guidance revoked? I mean, in the immediate aftermath, do we pressure organisations to turn all segregated toilets into gender neutral ones?
If they have no thoughts or intuitions on a subject at all, what makes them think they should be tackling it in the first place? The "AI for brainstorming" types ("I wrote it, I just used it to come up with an idea/direction!") really weird me out for giving up on what makes them human.
“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.
August 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
If they have no thoughts or intuitions on a subject at all, what makes them think they should be tackling it in the first place? The "AI for brainstorming" types ("I wrote it, I just used it to come up with an idea/direction!") really weird me out for giving up on what makes them human.
In my forever Minecraft server (which I started pre-Caves & Cliffs), I've just left everything I had in my main base and started a "new" game somewhere far off the map. It's just dawned on me that I've never run a mining operation with the new terrain generation. All the iron is gone lol
July 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In my forever Minecraft server (which I started pre-Caves & Cliffs), I've just left everything I had in my main base and started a "new" game somewhere far off the map. It's just dawned on me that I've never run a mining operation with the new terrain generation. All the iron is gone lol
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I got to talk to Ross on my Stream a while back about the Stop Killing Games initiative, and it's a shame the traction has stopped, so even if I'm a relatively tiny streamer, let's see if we can't give this another push?
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
June 24, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I got to talk to Ross on my Stream a while back about the Stop Killing Games initiative, and it's a shame the traction has stopped, so even if I'm a relatively tiny streamer, let's see if we can't give this another push?
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
If you're in an EU citizen, it'll take 2 mins:
www.stopkillinggames.com/eci
A few years ago I often looked up Unity tutorials, so PirateSoftware started coming up in my recommendations a lot, and I thought it struck me how his persona was so meticulously crafted. Long hair and a smooth face, paired with a really deep voice to subtly stave off any queer allegations, ...
The Stop Killing Games initiative is giving up because of a relentless campaign of misinformation and verbal abuse largely directed by PirateSoftware/Thor, which has completely tanked their momentum and burned out its founder.
youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo
youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo
The end of Stop Killing Games
YouTube video by Accursed Farms
youtu.be
June 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A few years ago I often looked up Unity tutorials, so PirateSoftware started coming up in my recommendations a lot, and I thought it struck me how his persona was so meticulously crafted. Long hair and a smooth face, paired with a really deep voice to subtly stave off any queer allegations, ...
Not usually a fan of remasters, and I'm happy to play the originals and enjoy what they were trying to do with the limitations of the medium, but Oblivion might just be an exception because I could never get over that awful bloom.
April 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Not usually a fan of remasters, and I'm happy to play the originals and enjoy what they were trying to do with the limitations of the medium, but Oblivion might just be an exception because I could never get over that awful bloom.
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This petition is well intentioned but I'm done with gender recognition we need abolition now.
No more legal sex. The only reforms we should accept should be steps towards dismantling the violence embedded in sex segregation.
No more legal sex. The only reforms we should accept should be steps towards dismantling the violence embedded in sex segregation.
Less than 7,000 signatures needed for self-ID to be considered for debate in Parliament.
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Sign here 👇
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
April 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This petition is well intentioned but I'm done with gender recognition we need abolition now.
No more legal sex. The only reforms we should accept should be steps towards dismantling the violence embedded in sex segregation.
No more legal sex. The only reforms we should accept should be steps towards dismantling the violence embedded in sex segregation.
US fascism is all the more depressing when you know Labour are doing every single thing they need to do to ensure that's us in a few years time, deliberately and eagerly.
March 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
US fascism is all the more depressing when you know Labour are doing every single thing they need to do to ensure that's us in a few years time, deliberately and eagerly.
Google used to be so good as a quick corpus search when you were working on a translation - I would wonder if a translation of mine sounded natural enough, so I'd run a search and see if there was any actual RL usage. Now the results are littered with machine translations, absolutely useless.
March 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Google used to be so good as a quick corpus search when you were working on a translation - I would wonder if a translation of mine sounded natural enough, so I'd run a search and see if there was any actual RL usage. Now the results are littered with machine translations, absolutely useless.
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When you hate trans people, you don't have to actually be a feminist to be a "feminist" in the newspapers. You just need to put some suffragette bunting on the most heinous far right shit imaginable and call for the eradication of trans rights in law.
March 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
When you hate trans people, you don't have to actually be a feminist to be a "feminist" in the newspapers. You just need to put some suffragette bunting on the most heinous far right shit imaginable and call for the eradication of trans rights in law.
“Why do you need to transition, we should simply abolish gender instead” is such unserious, disingenuous wordplay. We should abolish gender so you can transition. I'm not overly concerned about what transitioning means – HRT, different presentation, allegiance to unexpected groups and other roles...
December 27, 2024 at 11:30 PM
“Why do you need to transition, we should simply abolish gender instead” is such unserious, disingenuous wordplay. We should abolish gender so you can transition. I'm not overly concerned about what transitioning means – HRT, different presentation, allegiance to unexpected groups and other roles...
Always on the lookout for couch co-op games, and I often get recommended It Takes Two, but I can't get over the mental hurdle of playing a married cishet couple — not just as an incidental bit of character building but as the main premise. For all I know it's a great game, but my body screams no lol
December 24, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Always on the lookout for couch co-op games, and I often get recommended It Takes Two, but I can't get over the mental hurdle of playing a married cishet couple — not just as an incidental bit of character building but as the main premise. For all I know it's a great game, but my body screams no lol
It's so funny how I have almost no social media presence, and zero interest in amassing a following (even if I did, I doubt I'd get one), but whenever I say anything on specific band subreddits or discord servers, there's always someone who goes, "Are you THE Rairun??" lol
November 15, 2024 at 1:05 PM
It's so funny how I have almost no social media presence, and zero interest in amassing a following (even if I did, I doubt I'd get one), but whenever I say anything on specific band subreddits or discord servers, there's always someone who goes, "Are you THE Rairun??" lol