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this is surreal, it's been 12 hours and we're almost at €14,000!! Thank you all SO much for the outpouring!
Hey! Hi! Hello!
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You can find it riiiiight
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But what IS .meow?
Well!
Let us explain... with video!
Our Kickstarter is... (drumroll, if you please) LIVE!
You can find it riiiiight
here: kickstarter.dotmeow.org
But what IS .meow?
Well!
Let us explain... with video!
December 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
this is surreal, it's been 12 hours and we're almost at €14,000!! Thank you all SO much for the outpouring!
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The Trump administration is attempting to force a new term for gender affirming care to call it "sex rejecting procedures." This term was literally made up this year by the far right group Ethics and Public Policy Center in a comment submitted in April 2025. It is now being used widely by HHS.
December 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Trump administration is attempting to force a new term for gender affirming care to call it "sex rejecting procedures." This term was literally made up this year by the far right group Ethics and Public Policy Center in a comment submitted in April 2025. It is now being used widely by HHS.
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It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.
December 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's incredible to me how the mainstream press will be incredulous and skeptical when RFK Jr and other HHS officials push they're quackery around vaccines but suddenly become credulous when they go attack trans healthcare. Anti vax and anti trans beliefs are all the same quack pseudoscience.
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We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
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There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 AM
There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.
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Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
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[trans people fired from all federal jobs]
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
[trans people fired from all federal jobs]
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
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i do take the fact that there is a crisis among straight, predominantly young, mostly white men seriously but as a gay man who has spent my entire life not immediately legible as gay i promise you it's primarily a skill issue
July 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
i do take the fact that there is a crisis among straight, predominantly young, mostly white men seriously but as a gay man who has spent my entire life not immediately legible as gay i promise you it's primarily a skill issue
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I already own all of these but I still bought this
VISA, MASTERCARD, AND PAYPAL ARE ALL SYMPTOMATIC OF THE EVILS SLOWLY INFESTING EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF OUR WORLD
Do not let the payment providers control the landscape of art and expression!!
VISA, MASTERCARD, AND PAYPAL ARE ALL SYMPTOMATIC OF THE EVILS SLOWLY INFESTING EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF OUR WORLD
Do not let the payment providers control the landscape of art and expression!!
July 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I already own all of these but I still bought this
VISA, MASTERCARD, AND PAYPAL ARE ALL SYMPTOMATIC OF THE EVILS SLOWLY INFESTING EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF OUR WORLD
Do not let the payment providers control the landscape of art and expression!!
VISA, MASTERCARD, AND PAYPAL ARE ALL SYMPTOMATIC OF THE EVILS SLOWLY INFESTING EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF OUR WORLD
Do not let the payment providers control the landscape of art and expression!!
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"people used to be so much tougher they didn't need vaccines/pasteurization/air conditioning" no idiot they just died
July 14, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"people used to be so much tougher they didn't need vaccines/pasteurization/air conditioning" no idiot they just died
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my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
you are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.
Really was one of the dumbest and most harmful things possible for “virtue signaling” to become some kind of epithet. Sending externally visible signals that you are engaging in pro-social behavior is normal, natural, and good, it’s how society works. Other people can’t read your fucking mind.
July 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.
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Democrats say that persecution of trans people is a distraction because they feel distracted by being asked to care about trans people.
July 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Democrats say that persecution of trans people is a distraction because they feel distracted by being asked to care about trans people.
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I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Telling the Truth About the Supreme Court
The task of interpreting the law is inherently “political.” But no justice has been this comfortable saying so in public.
ballsandstrikes.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump
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'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
July 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
'Vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
The word is 'vacations.'
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Headcanons are funny because to me the point is to make a piece of media more enjoyable, but so many people seem to use them as a way to not actually look for the media they want.
"Armored Core is about lesbians fucking nasty, to me"
Okay, cool, but it's not. Nexus Alpha is.
"Armored Core is about lesbians fucking nasty, to me"
Okay, cool, but it's not. Nexus Alpha is.
Nexus Alpha: Unbroken by Ela Maxima
elajo.itch.io
June 28, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Headcanons are funny because to me the point is to make a piece of media more enjoyable, but so many people seem to use them as a way to not actually look for the media they want.
"Armored Core is about lesbians fucking nasty, to me"
Okay, cool, but it's not. Nexus Alpha is.
"Armored Core is about lesbians fucking nasty, to me"
Okay, cool, but it's not. Nexus Alpha is.
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2) A provision that would have done away with gender-affirming care under Medicaid.
These are some good wins in an otherwise terrible bill. My staff and I will be fighting to remove the worst provisions from this bill up until the very end. I'll continue to update you as we get more rulings.
These are some good wins in an otherwise terrible bill. My staff and I will be fighting to remove the worst provisions from this bill up until the very end. I'll continue to update you as we get more rulings.
June 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
2) A provision that would have done away with gender-affirming care under Medicaid.
These are some good wins in an otherwise terrible bill. My staff and I will be fighting to remove the worst provisions from this bill up until the very end. I'll continue to update you as we get more rulings.
These are some good wins in an otherwise terrible bill. My staff and I will be fighting to remove the worst provisions from this bill up until the very end. I'll continue to update you as we get more rulings.
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one of my favorite things to do is reveal to people that I've done voice training and can sound much more traditionally cis if I want to. I just don't. I CHOOSE to sound like a clocky transfem.
June 6, 2025 at 12:14 AM
one of my favorite things to do is reveal to people that I've done voice training and can sound much more traditionally cis if I want to. I just don't. I CHOOSE to sound like a clocky transfem.
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They used to make commercials about this
May 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
They used to make commercials about this
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Okor's Basilisk is a future AI that creates simulations of everyone who ever existed who tried to create Roko's Basilisk and tortures them for all eternity because they didn't try to create Okor's Basilisk instead.
April 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Okor's Basilisk is a future AI that creates simulations of everyone who ever existed who tried to create Roko's Basilisk and tortures them for all eternity because they didn't try to create Okor's Basilisk instead.
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So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
The group chats that changed America
A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.
www.semafor.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
So basically there's a cabal of billionaire broligarchs, far right propagandists, and reactionary centrist journalists all on group chats radicalizing together and exerting coordinated narratives and influence on media and politics
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
www.semafor.com/article/04/2...
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It's so fucking important to think of yourself as cute
February 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
It's so fucking important to think of yourself as cute
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RT if you fuck with trans men and trans women or if you think Elon musk should live just long enough to see everything he's built crumble in front of him
April 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
RT if you fuck with trans men and trans women or if you think Elon musk should live just long enough to see everything he's built crumble in front of him
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Trans women¹ have two genders:
• Woman
• Their actual gender, which is complex and informed by a lifetime of trauma and compulsory masculinity and requires a more nuanced model of gender identity than popular language allows for.
• Woman
• Their actual gender, which is complex and informed by a lifetime of trauma and compulsory masculinity and requires a more nuanced model of gender identity than popular language allows for.
April 21, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Trans women¹ have two genders:
• Woman
• Their actual gender, which is complex and informed by a lifetime of trauma and compulsory masculinity and requires a more nuanced model of gender identity than popular language allows for.
• Woman
• Their actual gender, which is complex and informed by a lifetime of trauma and compulsory masculinity and requires a more nuanced model of gender identity than popular language allows for.