Commander Squeaks

When trans creators are subtle, people dismiss the trans subtext as “headcanon.” When trans creators are loud and proud, people call it “obnoxious” and “cringe.” They just don’t want us to be represented in media at all. Because they don’t want us to exist at all.

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

So, Musk lied when he accused Ukraine of violating Starlink’s terms of service. What a surprise. NOT.

And landlords wonder why we all hate them

Not the top Steam review of Dressmaker making me cry this morning!

It's the Best Game Animation of 2025, now with some additional entries that are no longer under boycott! I'm very glad to finally be able to give them the praise they deserve

I miss the sound of Japan.

First Apartment

There is this pervasive thing in all tech grifts over the past decade: NFTs, crypto, LLMs that there all pushed by people who don’t…know anything? They don’t know how movies work, they don’t know how books work, how anime works, how video games work

Every time, I remain the most vindicated person in history docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teen... some cozy fans got SO mad at this and tried to problematize the fuck out of it rather than reckoning with the invasion of their spaces by alt right types. it keeps happening.

📢 LOOKING FOR VOICE ACTORS 8 Roles Open for Indie Fighting Game - Audition with 3 voice lines/character by Nov 22 - You may apply for multiple roles - Paid contract, see role for details

As a white kid in a liberal state, my childhood education in public school on civil rights was extremely reverent of MLK jr, and mentioned Malcolm X as “this other guy who believed in violence anyway let’s move on.” And my adulthood has been a process of unpacking who made that curriculum and why.

Kelly Clarkson Calls ChatGPT her lover among other praise and personal use. -y www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

or less than 24 hours (@darraghmckenna.bsky.social for the pic)

A US lawmaker has announced plans to introduce a new bill that would give gamers ownership of the games they buy 🎮 The Power To The Players Act would require publishers to make games playable offline before shutting down their servers

BREAKING: Katie Zacharia has been fired from White House Press Secretary position. She held the job for 5 days.

Wow the Tesla Roadster has an invisible battery

Polymarket is paying people to QRT its branded esports accounts on X. Players, coaches, and other prominent figures make hundreds or even thousands per month. “Literally this needs to look organic,” wrote a Polymarket rep on the Discord where this is organized. www.readergrev.com/p/polymarket...

BREAKING: Dollar General has been caught listing one price on the shelf, and charging another price at the register. NY Attorney General Letitia James found shoppers in New York being overcharged 14% of the time.

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Ah fuck he killed it

So, if I'm getting this right, you can buy a Sally Rooney novel in Israel but not in the UK bc she's too anti-Israel.

Notably Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of modern Zionism, used this same "It's not that we hate Arabs, it's just impossible for both of us to get what we want" apologism while outlining the ideology ("he called it polite indifference") It's like they knew from the start exactly what their movement was.

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

Vet.

We need to set the record straight about this because right wingers are trying to compare $5 gas under Biden to gas prices under Trump. Yes, gas hit $5 under Biden. For about 10 days in June 2022, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Then prices came back down. #BlueWaveIn20Days

It would be nice if elected Democrats start speaking up about the regime seeking to nullify the will of hundreds of thousands of voters in the city where masked armed agents did street executions in front of cameras

the asbestos comparison stays winning: yes, it may be good at preventing houses from burning down in the rare event that happens, but asbestos gives you cancer, so like,

It's almost a joke at this point, but the entire story of Mamdani's mayorship really has been "it turns out we can just turn off the orphan grinding machine, the switch was right there the whole time."

Folks, if you're still on Twitter this is what you're supporting. It can't be any more cut and dried.

If you can only show solidarity when it's easy, you are not an ally, you're a coward.

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It's such a daft standard in acting that performers are expected to be kept so in the dark about what they're working on. It should not be so unheard of that actors actually know who they're working with and what they're working on. You're having them sign an NDA regardless, so.