And do NOT be getting hung up on "property damage" to the machines involved in construction and all that shit.

Jesus Christ, promise me you won't wring your hands over the assets of some godforsaken corporation that is financially profiting from active oppression.

@FlashMobOfOne
Yeah... I'm beginning to wonder if they understand the difference between, say, a D&D player and a Monopoly player.

That feels like a really weird for a game company to have, but it's becoming pretty standard for businesses across the board to be run by execs who don't understand the industry they are in.

So...did Hasbro really not realize that D&D players are not casual consumers? That they have opinions about what they get served up? And that they spend hundreds, sometimes *thousands* of hours playing these games and become deeply, personally invested in them?

It feels like it didn't occur to them that D&D players (the older ones of whom had already seen D&D trade hands before Hasbro, and may have mixed feelings about those events) would be keeping tabs on them and all things D&D.

#DnD #WotC

@FlashMobOfOne
Yeah... It's a mess. Toxic masculinity sucks.

I'm reflecting on it right now because I am talking with my brother and beginning to have the realization that he *does not* realize how much some men lie to other men. He gets mired down in manosphere stuff, and it's starting to seem to me like he hasn't asked himself "are these men even telling the truth about themselves, and how would I know that?"

You know, I recently discovered that—as a woman—I really have no comprehension of how often men lie to impress other men.

Sure, dudes lie to impress women, and this I try to clock, but somehow it took me a while to realize that dudebros are just constantly lying to each other 24/7.

Class action lawsuit: Neurodivergent Men vs. The Manosphere

The grifters are taking advantage of people who are desperately trying to understand social situations that they just don't get. They are monetizing social anxiety.

What bugs the hell out of me is watching guys thank and praise these fucking grade-school-level bullies for grifting them, for making them angrier and lonelier & using their insecurities to make money.

Between the garbage that AI puts out taking over the Internet *and* the garbage that humans are generating to fuck with AI, this whole thing just can't keep functioning, can it? Like, where the hell are they planning to get good training data from? They've filled online spaces with garbage. I don't get what the long-term plan is, if there is one.

Nobody MADE you try to steal anything. You did that, because you think you deserve to profit off of completely unpaid labor. You don't get to be angry about what happens next.

And yes, I know some of these get into people directly & intentionally messing with a data model, but it's still really funny to me that these people using stolen knowledge are fucking upset that people would fuck with their theft-machines.

AI tar-pits and Nightshade images are fucking hilarious to me in that, if AI companies weren't stealing to begin with, these things wouldn't be a problem for them.

It's like a glitter bomb package. They did it to themselves.

It's really weird to me that posting your own content online that you never said was okay for an AI to trawl could be considered a "cyberattack". If you just put something out there, knowing that AIs will scrape your website, that is "cyber defense".

Lauren Sanchez's brother is quoted as saying he thinks this wedding will be like "a Princess Di" thing.

Um... A lot of people loved Princess Diana. No one—Jeff Bezos included—loves Lauren Sanchez. So no, I don't think it's going to be "a Princess Di thing".

What the fuck is wrong with rich people that they act confused when regular people hate their ostentatious displays of wealth?

Like, I don't care whether Bezos's wedding is as "respectful" of Venice or not, and I don't think people protesting care either. It's not about the disruption—protests will cause more disruption—it's about the audacity of Bezos to think people wouldn't pelt him with rotten eggs if they got the chance.

Dude, Jeff, Bezos, my man, people hate you. You are more cruel and greedy and selfish than some of us can even imagine. Enjoy your wealth, I guess, but don't expect people to be nice or treat you well.

Jeff Bezos and the other billionaires are playing like it's Versailles in the late 18th century... Y'all... a day is coming.

Read the room, people! Every display of your sickening wealth in the faces of people just trying to survive and live their lives is going to make people hate you *that* much more.

You think you can just laugh at suffering forever? You've got to be kidding. There are a LOT of us. There are only a few of you, and it's not even like you're particularly clever or anything.

If there was ever a time where it might be a good idea to *stop flaunting your wealth* I really think now is that time.

They won't, but I actually prefer that anyway. Go on, keep on angering people, keep on causing outrage. Keep going—I want to see where this ends.

From a news article, "...Israelis already exhausted after two years of war.'

What war? Constantly bombing and killing people who are utterly incapable of retaliating is not a war. So exhausting having to kill so many people. Must be so tough.

As it turns out, I *did* actually have 4 SpaceX rockets exploding on my 2025 bingo card.

I had never watched Marc Maron's stand-up before, but he might become a favorite comedian of mine after that special.

I appreciate the comics who use comedy to explore the human experience and are willing to get real open about emotional struggle. That's where you get into the stuff that *only* stand-up can do.

Stale jokes that hurt marginalized people are not the bleeding edge of comedy.

But not because he's punching down at someone but because he's making jokes about things you "aren't supposed to" joke about...like grief and death.

Comedy can really push boundaries. Stand up comedy at its best *does* push boundaries.

Making the same three jokes about trans people that all the other anti-woke "comedians" make does not push the boundaries. At all. Given the right audience, it's the safest material ever, and it's dull no matter WHO you say it to.