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Studio head Thomas Mahler is having one, with a series of confusing, contradictory social media posts

 

'Giant Bomb has new owners, and you're looking at them'

 

The Infinity Nikki community is not boycotting. It's girlcotting.

 

The wall-to-wall union of Blizzard Team 4 includes nearly 200 developers

 

Description: Two images of Boo (from the Mario games). In the first image, Boo eagerly looks leftward, tongue hanging out and showing their teeth. In the other one, Boo has bashfully turned away and attempts to hide behind its tiny "arms".

 

The name of the castle translates to "Castle on the Crest".

The old castle (the ruin in the foreground) was probably built in the 14th century, though very little information about it is available. It was inhabited by local aristocrats up until the French Revolution when it was severely damaged. Instead of rebuilding the old castle, a new one was erected (in the background) in a pseudo-Renaissance style during the 19th century.

 

A video essay about fascists' mentality and their rhetorical strategies beyond their dishonest arguments. How they subvert discourse by wasting everyone's time.

 

Last week I couldn't play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. This week I can play Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Case closed, right? I just demonstrated that anybody can "git gud" if they struggle for long enough, didn't I? No, I simply showed that I could personally do it for one particular game.

Let's talk about gitting gud, understanding the needs of others, and how it all relates to the arc words of Clair Obscur. For those who come after.

 

Workers are fighting for working conditions and mental health support.

 

Original comic by Shen Comix

Description: A four panel comic. In the first panel the artist wakes up, extremely stressed, exclaiming "Oh my god, I am late for work!!" In the second panel the artist attempts to dress while also brushing the teeth. In the third panel the artist (fully dressed now) runs frantically. In the fourth panel the artist arrives at work, a building with the name "Drawing yuri at home in my sweatpants".

 

Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.

 
[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact: The mouse was already invented in the 60s and was part of the famous "Mother of all Demos" which shaped modern computing like no other single event since then.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, the UK does not need to import transphobia from anywhere. The UK's TERFs pioneered modern transphobia in many cases and they have been at it for a loooooong time. In many cases, it was the UK's TERFs who came up with a ton of the now common transphobic arguments which the US and other places adopted from them, rather than the other way around.

Mind, they are 110% fascists and they love to sit down with the US' Heritage Foundation and other fascist US orgs in order to coordinate with them.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Underground tunnels are not part of the US' jurisdiction and thus the US government has no obligation to save them.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

As other people have already mentioned: No, you are not paranoid. The pattern that you recognise is fake outrage or ragebait.

If you have some time to spare and are curiously about how the right-wing outrage machine works, I can highly recommend the video essay "Stellar Blade: The Fake Outrage" by Shaun. His videos can be a little dry, but he goes to great lengths to pick apart a single example (the video game Stellar Blade) and how the right-wing first embraced the game (in the name of their fight against "wokeism, DEI,..."), only to then do a full about-face when the game did not turn out exactly as they had envisioned (and claim that the game was full of "wokeism, DEI,...").

It's a long video, but it does a very good job to expose the mix of unsubstantiated claims, copy-pasted accusations and ultimately fake outrage that underlies right-wing behavior these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPsSguYNHpk

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

I am not a liberal, so I can totally be outraged about what the article is describing and point out the Guardian's contribution to that particular problem.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

Here is some news coverage of what's going on in the Guardian. Mind, some of the articles are a little older, but the overall situation hasn't improved. The only thing that has changed is the normalization of the transphobic content the Guardian has put out over the years.

The articles below contain links to various Guardian articles

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

And let's not forget that the Guardian has had no qualms to participate in transphobic witchhunting for years. No matter what hand-wringing they now do, they share a part of the responsibility for it coming this far and probably won't stop pushing transphobia either...

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Personal note: And let's not forget that the Guardian has been fine with pushing transphobia, so they contribute to the anti-queer sentiment that empowers anti-queer groups' attempts to censor books. Something the Guardian surely won't acknowledge any time soon...

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Say nothing more!

(Yes, I know it's not the original, but cat girls feel more appropriate in this context.)

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't take articles such as this one seriously if they don't mention right-wing terrorists recruiting through the same channels and means. That has been a known problem for more than a decade.

Treating online radicalisation solely as a problem of people with a migrant/non-European/Muslim/... background is very telling and borders on lying by omission.

[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

“Pure feminism is nolens volens radical. It necessarily excludes (...) moderation, restriction, half-measures. Being feminist in no way means wanting to obtain a right for a small number of women at the expense of other women à tout prix - being feminist only ever means fighting for the overall liberation of the entire female sex.”

A quote from her writings (machine-translated from German)

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