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Apologies to all my friends on Substack. I'd gritted my teeth and supported you because I love your work. But Substack's partnership with Polymarket is the last straw for me.

Boomers lived the best version of the American dream and never let anyone have it again

Eh fuck it, I'll shoot my shot.

If you need someone to helm voiceover for your project, I pretty much do it all: casting actors, directing recording sessions, helping navigate agencies/unions/etc, you name it.

100% "damn this voice acting's awesome" rate 😊

We cannot and should not let generative AI take away these tiny, insignificant, but probably fun as hell jobs from artists

Now that MAGA vampires are scooping up the US's cinematic legacy, it's a good time to start stocking up on physical media.

Warner Archives puts out some of the most pristine prints of its library on Blu-Ray. Who knows if the greatest villains in US history will allow this to continue.

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transphobia is a gateway to so many abhorrent beliefs

if you aren't racist or antisemitic or classists or any other number of fucked up things, if you start becoming transphobic you'll become all of them

i've never met someone who is Just Transphobic

it's SOPA and KOSA all over again, but of course they're still weaponizing sensationalist language, in light of everything the DOJ is dropping, to irrelevantly come after LGBTQIA folk and disparage digital communications. They'll still attempt pivots like this.

Okay sorry I'm actually trying NOT to just be posting about this but this is wild to me. I never replied to them but I guess they saw the post because totally unprompted they followed up to keep trying to tell me how good Persona is. Lmao yeah dude that's so NORMAL feeling!

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Discord wasn’t the uniquely evil one, here. I’m sure Persona seems like a good deal for platforms frantically trying not to get fined by multiple governments for not complying “enough.” But you’d hope they choose an age verification vendor not tied to Peter Thiel and the anti-democracy gang.

Discord has announced that it's cutting ties with Persona, the AI software company backed by Peter Thiel used for age and identity verification.

i fucking love asset reuse. i wish all 3D zelda games came with a direct sequel where every character is just a character from the previous game that came back wrong.

also hey. i know everything is CRAZY right now. but between tow and rental and gas and them only paying me 180 for arthur. well. things have become shoestring in the span of 2 days
if you have a couple bucks to spare ko-fi.com/jovishark
its not an emergency by any means but itd help with rent

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

I've been building a guitar app. 4 modifier buttons combine into 16 chord types - basic chords, the Hendrix chord, jazz voicings. Here's me stumbling through Van Halen's 'Can't Stop Loving You' on mouse & keyboard. Way easier on touch :D
Follow for updates - this is just the start 👀 #OneTouchGuitar

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

Something has definitely happened in the tech space where all of these companies have decided people will put up with literally anything because these services are "essential." There's an odd arrogance accompanying "here is our new heinous policy you'll agree to because you can't live without us."

How this message finds me:

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

now that's the power of a union

big bill shakes is goated. sorry but i will never entertain the argument that he’s overrated. to write something like this and have it ring with such tremendous clarity four centuries later would be incredible if he pulled it off once but he did it dozens of times

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

please remember: part of why anti-ICE movements across the country are able to function as well as they are is because they are able to get the news out and get support via the internet

therefore, doing your part to pressure your reps to defend internet speech is one (of many) ways to help!

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

As a small business owner, I've been paying for Google Workspace for years, but every time Gemini interrupts my workflow, it feels like a highly-targeted advertisement for me to switch my e-mail provider and switch office suite too.

It's driving me nuts. I'm willing to pay more per seat to escape.