The art is by Aïda Amer who works for Axios.

If you consider every action by MAGAists as the behavior of a cruel, schoolyard bully who will hurt you and then mock you for your inability to defend yourself, everyone of their actions makes sense.

The cruelty is the point.

Yeah, even in the best possible light, they completely lost touch with reality.

Oh, she is going to be livid. Rightfully so, but I still fear for her blood pressure.

It’s quite amazing how these people show their asses on LinkedIn and think it makes them look smart, instead of proving that they completely lost touch with reality. It fits the picture that one the very same day they laid of thousands, Microsoft also send out an invitation to hear them pitch genAI at GamesCom. That’s corpo brain on late stage capitalism.

I was once a fan of Nina Paley, because of her activism against copyright and even bought some of her merch. Then I found out that she is a capital-letters TERF.

You can find a “TERFy Archive” with all her transphobic writing on her website, she hosts a transphobic podcast with the subtitle “A TERF and a t-slur walk into a podcast studio” which she uses to promote the “autogynephilia” conspiracy theory, among so, so much more transphobia.

Paley would consider this comment of mine to be “censorship”. As usual with her type she wants to dish out, but doesn’t want to be criticized for it.

Fair point. I remember seeing some tweet or similar with said something in the vein of: “ChatGPT sounds like a middle manager on LinkedIn. No wonder, middle managers think that ChatGPT is intelligent.”

Your submission in “Sharks need no Air” was removed for Hello!

I removed this submission. Yes, we love Blahaj around here, but nonetheless Blahaj isn’t really specific to Femcel Memes. It’d make more sense over on Trans Memes

Thanks for your understanding!.

Worse, LinkedIn.

I could not agree more in regards to “Haven”. It is such a fantastic game in how it depicts the central relationship and I am always disappointed how rare it is to see two loving partners carry a story together.

I am relieved.

Yeah, the non-disclosure is most telling IMO. 11bit is an experienced development studio, it is not credible for them to not know about Steam’s AI disclosure requirement.

Thus, to me, there are three possible explanations: They either decided to hide the use of genAI because they were aware that disclosing its use would hurt their reputation. Or they decided that it was “no big deal” and were willing to risk gambling with their reputation and their relationship with Valve. Or they will blame this on outsourcing and freelance contractors, which they then failed to supervise and/or instruct properly.

Either option makes them look bad and extremely sloppy at best.

I am sorry, I can only squeak.

Short for “sovereign citizen”, a group of people who believe they do not have to adhere to any laws because they reject the notion they are citizens of a nation and justify it with conspiracy nonsense.

Lowering workers’ wages is exactly why he got a pay bump. Capitalism working as intended.

How gender dysphoria manifests differs from individual to individual, people experience it in different way, particularly in regards to what someone struggles with: Someone may feel more dysphoric in regards to their face; others in regards to their chest;… And yeah, yearning for different genitals is definitely something that meets the criteria for gender dysphoria.

Does that make you trans, nonbinary, something else? That’s something nobody can tell you, because we do not know how strong your feelings are, how much they define you and what you make out of them. That’s why the trans community usually avoids telling other people if they are trans or not - or deny anyone that label who claims it.

If you wish to be trans nonbinary, then you are. If you think, these terms do not fit you, then you are not.

Personally I struggled with similar feelings when I was younger. Fast forward and I am now fully transitioning, because I realized it was “not just that.” I wanted it all. But that’s my way to deal with my feelings. You may chose whatever path suits you and on that path you can try out what this thing or that and cast them off again if they do not feel right. It’s a journey of self-discovery and - for better or worse - it’s all up to you to discover.

Also Mustelids, because Mustelids are hella cute and who can blame nature for wanting to create more cute things?!

Yeah, it’s a means to an end: Right-wing propaganda.

The artist is RustyAtom, u/khynra on Reddit

For those who want some context: Theosophy has always been a huge part of the New Age movement and the founder of Theosophy, Madame Blavatsky, was a white supremacist. She taught her followers about a “Great White Brotherhood” (aka The Masters) who were racially superior to others. She was also convinced of the existence of superior “root races” (one of them being the Aryans) and various “sub-races”…

Unsurprisingly Theosophy would (for example) merge with the Völkisch movement in Germany (the precursor of the nazi party).

Theosophy with its belief in a secret underground realms, ancient high cultures, lost continents, superior alien races and so on and so forth, was one of the big influences on the late 20th century New Age movement.