Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialCharles Hughes @charleshughes2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have been saying this for years. "Drinking the Kool-Aid" sounds a lot less funny/pithy when you realize over 300 people who died there were under eighteen and 150 of them were ten years old and younger. 518155
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialIris/アイリス 🏳️⚧️ @irisdescentbird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026funniest rom hack reasoning of all time 47100813657
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialsasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Astonishing really how ADHD-denialism so closely matches early trans-denialism (say, a decade ago, before it went mask-off eliminationist), to the point that it includes the exact same personalities, again vomiting their know-nothing opinions all over the place. 302152664
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialJames W @soukoutaigi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I feel like "actually Japanese game companies just have laws that make it harder to lay people off" usually gets deployed as like a harsh truth, but, like...yeah! They aren't morally better, it's just regulation and worker's rights! You should find that encouraging! 113237
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialBlack Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 29/09/2026As exciting as a lucky dice roll can be in a story-heavy game, they often feel like a vestigial holdover from TTRPGs, where the abstraction of dice for social/story checks is necessary to keep events flowing forward. There also isn't savescumming in TTRPGs. Players have to adapt to a bad roll... 517223
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.social🌿Elaine Tipping🍃 @triaelf9.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"I'm trans and this trans rep didn't land for me" totally fine, no worries there "I'm trans and this trans rep is BAD because it didn't land for me" please learn what nuance and personal taste is Also if you're not nonbinary, plz consider that NONBINARY rep might hit different for you too 19917
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 18/09/2026Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nef… 66129182820
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialSophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It takes a toll. 162099692
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialBlack Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 09/09/2026A lot of video games have a very transactional and frictionless approach to romance. You max out a meter, and then lock in your partner for the rest of the game, and that's that. No more tension, just a party member wholly committed to you. What if pursuing romance could make things worse? 221529
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialBlack Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 09/09/2026Being in a relationship means opening yourself up to someone you can never fully know - a vulnerability that can be as wonderful as it can be dangerous. There's no saying the "right" thing to safely win someone's heart in Scarlet Hollow, because everyone has their own motivations outside of you. 837180
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialTrick Weekes @trickweekes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026An important thing that people don't often hear about the Stanford Prison Experiment is that only about a third of the guard participants became abusive, and that was after being told that they should act more like guards. (Assuming I'm remembering the You're Wrong About podcast correctly.) 1539
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialM Kirby @marykirby.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's been a while. I'm *pretty sure* it was supposed to be a spirit animating the stitched-together bodies. It may have kept Leandra's head alive, though, like a worse version of Wynne. 64511
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/09/2026You know, when you find out that the art you like is made by people you've learned hold views you find wholly repugnant, I don't think you need to disavow ever having enjoyed the art. It's okay to acknowledge you liked or loved that art, but are now putting it aside. That was then, this is now. 22673631386
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026the fact that they were all screaming about how disrespectful it was to the victims to let the Muslim mayor attend, and then the Muslim mayor was the only one who fucking respected the victims I don't really believe in hell but I KNOW it is not hot enough 32330495
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialJadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This article reveals that Lilly Wachowski tried to make a show based on @hannahtempler.com's brilliant COSMOKNIGHTS. While its a shame we'll never get to see that show, you can still bask in the glory of the original comic: www.cosmoknights.spacecosmoknights.spaceCosmoknightsFor this ragtag band of space gays, liberation means beating the patriarchy at its own game. 6403153
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 13/09/2026this, I think, is the actual centrist position on trans people in sports in this country I want a world in which trans kids play sports and everyone is welcoming and lets them be themselves and maybe a lot of the country isn’t there yet, but they also simply have other priorities in their lives 281375189
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialAndy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"The super-rich have apocalypse fantasies of their own, built not on faith or ideology but on a calm and rational evaluation of how best to maintain their position; they would genuinely rather reign in hell than share in heaven."theguardian.comNaomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui... 26517
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialCaitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026She took the bullet for DA2 being “bad” in fandom hate, despite the writing in that game being the best part of it. It’s absolutely insane. Someone take her name out of their mouth. 31047
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialCaitie @ghildirthalen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The latest chud wankoff is about how Diablo 5 is “cooked” because Jennifer Hepler (DAO,DA2) is on the writing team. So please remember that Hepler wrote all your favorite dark moments in Dragon Age (Hespith’s poem, for example), and that she still got death threats for it because shes a woman. 613918
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/09/2026www.welcometohellworld.com/i-do-not-bel... 6749171110
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.social星空★lone @hoshizoralone.bsky.social · 13/09/2026hi new metroid fans i have some stuff that you should read cuz i like it and i want you to read it too vol 1 metroiddatabase.com/old_site/man... vol 2 metroiddatabase.com/old_site/man... 512073663
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialdaryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com... 2845491916
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialJames W @soukoutaigi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is not mine but I think the best analogy for this I've encountered, the one people really seem to get in their bones, is "would you rather do an easy homework assignment yourself or edit the work of someone who did it badly" 0295122
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Lots of journalists have learned this firsthand over the past decade—they’ve watched coworkers and peers at other publications make the most reasonable asks imaginable in contract negotiations and watched their employers respond by spending millions on lawyers who drag it out for years and then lose 428791
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialMike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We throw newbs in a pit. We tell them they must be competitive auteurs from day one, and that they’re disposable. Young professionals need space to learn. Apprenticeships and junior roles. They don’t know what they don’t know. We need entry level jobs. We’re moving in the opposite direction. 521737
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.social✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026I genuinely love everything about this explanation. No notes. 10 out of 10. 231289317
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialKelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026People don’t fake disability … they fake being well. They play through the pain. They say they’re “fine” when they’re suffering tremendously. They do this because our capitalist, ableist society demands it. Disabled people are discriminated against & told to “try harder” 🧵 6634220
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This show had what I like to call The Michael Chang effect. If it's super obvious that you're just having a blast doing your thing, people will forgive a whole lot of imperfect tbecause you gave them joy by remembering that the most infectious long distance emotion is true love of the game. 722417
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026this show had the juice. They didn't always have the timing, but boy did they have the juice. Balls to the wall all the way, left it all out there. Nobody can accuse them of not trying, and you gotta respect someone who truly loves the game like this. 1738060
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialDimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡 3867702315
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026“this person is bad so their work was always bad” is also a really dangerous view to take because it leads to - unconscious or not - a bias towards “but I do like this other person’s work, ergo they must be a good person” which, as we have seen over and over, is simply not true 4160262173
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialJulia Kaye, lovergirl era @upandoutcomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026trying to patiently explain to a cis person whose brain has been fried by the culture wars that trans women are actually women and it's not just a patronizing little game society goes along with to help us feel better 111715341
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialIt's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026They mean that disability is now less a mark of shame and more of an identity signifier: a way to connect to those with similar experiences. The UK is very invested in the idea of 'benefits scroungers'. It's been a predictable way to get people riled for decades. The Telegraph wants to go back. 311330
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972, the honorific “Ms.” was virtually unheard of. Unmarried women were referred to as “Miss [father’s last name]” and married women as “Mrs. [husband’s last name].” “Ms.” was an assertion of individual identity. Women who used it were widely mocked. 201528323
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialdaily arturia (commissions open) @dailyarturia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026her time will come again 4637237
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialWario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Fate/Extra Record - out Jan 28, 2027 7516291
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialNeco-Tan - LowPoly #EnVTuber @tannerofthenorth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I can't even call this a glow up, this is a whole new game lmao Same enemy! 1195
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is why Scarlet Hollow is such a fantastic game. Your choices really matter and sometimes following your moral intuition is just really, really hard. 314523
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialFillet Knife 7.56 Spoilers @filletknife.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Reading this interview with Aoi Yuuki about Madoka and she's swinging hard from the first question No movie spoiler 34119
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialTuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places: 1511467610141
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Women buried with swords actually used them (how shocking! But also—seriously cool analysis). “These princesses were active practitioners of hunting or athletic skills rather than merely symbolic owners of the weapons found in their tombs,” says Zeinab Hashesh” ⚔️ www.snexplores.org/article/egyp...snexplores.orgAncient Egyptian princesses may have been skilled warriorsA study of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the weapons buried with some royal women were merely ceremonial. 7354111
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialJoshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 25/08/2026there’s something really incredible about how effortless many Nintendo game scores are; it’s so easy to overlook their playful complexity, or how hard some of these mfers are shredding 213432
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialErin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/08/2026Weeks ago, Amnesty International caved to JK Rowling's threats and removed it report on anti-trans groups. But they didn't stop there. Now, it appears that the organization is issuing DMCA takedown notices to activists who saved the report. Subscribe to support our journalism. SB Investigates.erininthemorning.comAmnesty UK Reportedly Using Copyright Law To Erase Its Own Report On Anti-Trans Groups And Target ActivistsAfter JK Rowling threatened to sue the human rights organization, it capitulated—and then reportedly issued takedown requests. 331187498
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 24/08/2026Even for people who have never taken HRT, there are so many factors that go into making someone a certain sex. Sex is a collection of characteristics, a trans woman is arguably as “biologically female” as a cis woman without having any gender-affirming medical care. 07627
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialminami @sakaimii.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Thiiiiiis. I still remember being talked down my so many people about “having the computer draw for me,” and literally all those people are completely fine with AI?? Fuck off. 110021
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialAnil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry. 423257931
Reposted by @tripolace.bsky.socialAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...dn711306.ca.archive.org 3935321443
