musician (Slake Moth), audio editor, mastering engineer, haver of anxiety, trans as fuck
(any pronouns)

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musician (Slake Moth), audio editor, mastering engineer, haver of anxiety, trans as fuck
(any pronouns)
Obviously if democrats want to stand any chance against the republicans in the midterms and down the line in 2028, we’re going to have to make some concessions and cut support for cis people. I know it’s controversial but it just doesn’t make sense in the current political climate
“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest
I say this gently: people who perform racism are racists. It does not matter what is in their hearts or minds
yesterday musk said that companies that "overstate claims about their product" will be banned from advertising on X, today he says that his cars are alive
I spent the day sketching from the sidelines of the Tompkins Square Dog Parade, so my day was the best one.
I know some folks think that differentiating between sex and gender is woke, and the definitions are too complicated, and it's new and we can't expect people to understand, and here's notoriously woke outlet Hustler explaining it to a reader in 1974.
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
this is something Hall & Oates would ask
Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity
look if shit is so dire for the democrats that they NEED every vote from trans people, maybe they shouldn't run candidates who are transphobic or fold on even the slightest pushback to trans rights it's not our fault y'all's guys suck
Why do we keep on doing this? Praising a 'small core team' for a game with 1100+ people in the credits is incredibly misleading. This PR narrative hurts, hides the massive shadow workforce of outsourced developers and testers, and sets impossible standards for actual indie teams.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team of 75 people. "What we wanted to do was keep that core small, smaller than perhaps you might have done in the past, and scale capacity and capability with what we call distributed development." https://bit.ly/4hT02qg
this is the reason these questions are asked. it doesn't matter how well el-sayed answers, the media get to write a headline with his name and the muslim brotherhood in it. heated, islamist, implications, criticize, disavow, dual loyalty, scary man bad
Malcolm Gladwell: not a good writer, not a good thinker, and someone for whom evidence is optional when writing fuck this piece and fuck him.
“In recent years, many Americans have decided that their country’s problem was that it had too many police officers, when in fact its problem was that it had too few,” Malcolm Gladwell writes:
on a whim I fired up XIII (classic) to see whether I could finish it from the saved game from when I streamed it a couple years ago turns out I was on the last boss fight 😆 (just rolled credits)
a comment on a review of You Can See Everything wild.
The Superman No Smoking Ad, but I lost the audio track and dubbed it from memory
When Konami’s the most ethical company in the room, you know we’re in deep shit.
right now I'm mainly on PC, though I may eventually hook the PlayStation into the streaming apparatus.
karaoke isn't about good singing, it's about having fun a crowd of theater kids at karaoke will quickly disabuse anyone of thinking good singing is good karaoke