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crunchyroll is dying, repost to make it die faster
Crunchyroll will officially end its free ad-supported streaming tier on December 31, 2025.
Viewers without a subscription will no longer be able to watch anime for free with ads starting in 2026. 🍿
Viewers without a subscription will no longer be able to watch anime for free with ads starting in 2026. 🍿
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 AM
crunchyroll is dying, repost to make it die faster
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one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it
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This has been the mantra since the arrival of blockchain, and I have to ask:
why
(the why is rhetorical)
why
(the why is rhetorical)
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This has been the mantra since the arrival of blockchain, and I have to ask:
why
(the why is rhetorical)
why
(the why is rhetorical)
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It's similar to--not the same, but similar in the mechanism--the issue with fixating on emergence. You think "oh wow, this is one of my strengths, guess I'll play to one of my strengths" when you should be thinking "this is one of my strengths, how can I accentuate it for maximum effect?"
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
It's similar to--not the same, but similar in the mechanism--the issue with fixating on emergence. You think "oh wow, this is one of my strengths, guess I'll play to one of my strengths" when you should be thinking "this is one of my strengths, how can I accentuate it for maximum effect?"
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
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hey if you're an artist into drawing robots or mecha and stuff someone uploaded Kuramochi Kyoryu's Robot Drawing tutorial art book to IA, it's got a lot of diagrams, models, exercises etc. Obv it's a Japanese book but it might be useful to look at. archive.org/details/kura...
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
hey if you're an artist into drawing robots or mecha and stuff someone uploaded Kuramochi Kyoryu's Robot Drawing tutorial art book to IA, it's got a lot of diagrams, models, exercises etc. Obv it's a Japanese book but it might be useful to look at. archive.org/details/kura...
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#SaveSpeech
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
November 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
#SaveSpeech
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
if you are in the EU you should be FURIOUS with your leaders for pushing this through in such an undemocratic manner.
continue to raise your voices and contact your representatives. demand that Chat Control be put down for good.
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Me: THIS SCENE I'M WRITING ISNT GOOD ENOUGH
brain: it's fine. Remember? Just make it, you can make it good later!
Me: NO IT HAS TO BE GOOD
Brain: ITS THE FIRST DRAFT IT DOESN'T MATTER
Me: AAAAAA
Brain: AAAAAAAAA
brain: it's fine. Remember? Just make it, you can make it good later!
Me: NO IT HAS TO BE GOOD
Brain: ITS THE FIRST DRAFT IT DOESN'T MATTER
Me: AAAAAA
Brain: AAAAAAAAA
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Me: THIS SCENE I'M WRITING ISNT GOOD ENOUGH
brain: it's fine. Remember? Just make it, you can make it good later!
Me: NO IT HAS TO BE GOOD
Brain: ITS THE FIRST DRAFT IT DOESN'T MATTER
Me: AAAAAA
Brain: AAAAAAAAA
brain: it's fine. Remember? Just make it, you can make it good later!
Me: NO IT HAS TO BE GOOD
Brain: ITS THE FIRST DRAFT IT DOESN'T MATTER
Me: AAAAAA
Brain: AAAAAAAAA
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Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.
It NEEDS mass pushback.
It NEEDS mass pushback.
🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
October 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass.
It NEEDS mass pushback.
It NEEDS mass pushback.
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I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
October 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
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remember that time when I wrote an article explaining how and why alt right types like to infiltrate wholesome communities and how to be resilient against that behavior?
docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...
docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...
October 24, 2025 at 1:38 PM
remember that time when I wrote an article explaining how and why alt right types like to infiltrate wholesome communities and how to be resilient against that behavior?
docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...
docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen...
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Play your fave game. Then, in your mind, start to do What Ifs? What would improve the experience, or change it into something new?
This is why modding makes great designers. You pull apart a system to replace it and find out the downstream effects.
This is why modding makes great designers. You pull apart a system to replace it and find out the downstream effects.
October 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Play your fave game. Then, in your mind, start to do What Ifs? What would improve the experience, or change it into something new?
This is why modding makes great designers. You pull apart a system to replace it and find out the downstream effects.
This is why modding makes great designers. You pull apart a system to replace it and find out the downstream effects.
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Now applying that lesson to all gameplay, what are the enjoyable experiences you want to give the player? Power? Fear? Panic? Horniness? Longing? Stonks? Stability? Etc
What are the mechanics you need to design to bring that out? Forget all other games, what does those exact things?
What are the mechanics you need to design to bring that out? Forget all other games, what does those exact things?
October 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Now applying that lesson to all gameplay, what are the enjoyable experiences you want to give the player? Power? Fear? Panic? Horniness? Longing? Stonks? Stability? Etc
What are the mechanics you need to design to bring that out? Forget all other games, what does those exact things?
What are the mechanics you need to design to bring that out? Forget all other games, what does those exact things?
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Games are interactive experiences. Interaction means choices. Choices need meaning - they have results, rewards, consequences. Choices with intent is strategy.
Playing the game is just skimming that surface. You must deconstruct it all. Pull it apart.
Playing the game is just skimming that surface. You must deconstruct it all. Pull it apart.
October 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Games are interactive experiences. Interaction means choices. Choices need meaning - they have results, rewards, consequences. Choices with intent is strategy.
Playing the game is just skimming that surface. You must deconstruct it all. Pull it apart.
Playing the game is just skimming that surface. You must deconstruct it all. Pull it apart.
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Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔
Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.
Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.
Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.
Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs
Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.
www.wilx.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Its almost like anti-porn laws are never actually about porn. 🤔
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new friend. their name's Patchy
October 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM
new friend. their name's Patchy
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my friend just shared this with me
October 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
my friend just shared this with me
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Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
October 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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Your charitable donations are going to feed pizza to someone with a $120,000 salary.
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
October 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Your charitable donations are going to feed pizza to someone with a $120,000 salary.
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the best part of designing a space is imagining an inept organization operating within that space and fucking it all up. this is my fav joke so far
September 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
the best part of designing a space is imagining an inept organization operating within that space and fucking it all up. this is my fav joke so far
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Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:
www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:
www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
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Like i stress myself out, twist myself up in knots thinking "what if someone gets this thing and feels like I wasted their time??" I cant stand it. I try to let it go and just create.
And meanwhile people with more money than God want to shovel cement down your throat and call it lunch.
And meanwhile people with more money than God want to shovel cement down your throat and call it lunch.
October 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Like i stress myself out, twist myself up in knots thinking "what if someone gets this thing and feels like I wasted their time??" I cant stand it. I try to let it go and just create.
And meanwhile people with more money than God want to shovel cement down your throat and call it lunch.
And meanwhile people with more money than God want to shovel cement down your throat and call it lunch.
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on that note,
October 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
on that note,