people are seriously castigating a trans woman for "not billing enough for her work" because she was desperately trying to get people to pay her for her work.

bona-fide trash. utter crab-bucket behavior with a side of transmisogyny, because most people seemingly can't help themselves from doing it.

the mobilizing ideology of this false Presidency is "what if we could kill even more people than COVID did— didn't, we mean, what if even more people happened to die from 'uncontrollable' infectious disease and murdered by police and killed themselves... that'd be great!"

so ends the Grand Republic

there's nothing I could say legally about Skrmetti that hasn't already been said with much more detail and at much more length than Justice Sotomayor, and, well, the reasoning swayed 3 justices

culturally my response is this, which could be elaborated into legal argument but would be self-injurious

this is over a decade old now, and people have gotten dumber instead

"ladylike" is a word used to diminish women and make them lesser as a way to gain status, and it's nice to see media deconstructing the notion of what is "proper" and "feminine" while America loses its goddamned mind over the idea that gender is anything more than what's taught in elementary health.

Lola isn’t a Jedi even slightly and she definitively forswore the Sith; she never had a blue saber, she has the red saber of her past, and found her own path to the yellow saber of her future

BlueSky hates gifs from phones for some reason

a game that is underrated: Final Fantasy 13-2.

It was unequivocally my favorite Final Fantasy of the entire franchise until Final Fantasy 16 made that question more difficult.

there is a bunch of text summarizing the plot of Final Fantasy 13 available as logs to read if you don't want spectacle

competing with Sephiroth head-to-head worked out so well for Genesis

(this was originally encoded by the Switch record feature and I had to down-encode it to fit on BlueSky)

remember everyone

what do we say when a Washington centrist think tank tries to do some coalition-splitting for funsies?