Cameron "SpaceDoddyssey" Dodd

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

clinton's plan to beat trump was to elevate him above the rest of the republican field and then coast to an easy victory. i don't think she was right about that

I hate watching the news and learning the names of kinds of missiles. It means we've failed again. People are dying again.

all previous endless wars have been based off lies with no official off ramp or plan i think the iran war under trump is more notable because they’re admitting theres no plan less than 2 days in

This is a policy of genocide.

I'm a game design genius

Polymarket is just insider trading, but with a sign around its neck saying "not insider trading".

Normal society

(That actor plays a major role in the games)

I had just been thinking to myself "It's odd they haven't introduced [faction] yet. Also odd they haven't found a role for [actor]." and lo and behold

The best thing you can do in light of the Ellison takeover of Warner Brothers invest your time, energy, and money in supporting independent creators and independent distribution networks and independent venues. It is absolutely crucial to make independence a viable option.

Forever grateful that Kash Patel is spending all his time doing this shit instead of bothering with basic competence on behalf of the regime

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Maria Loconsole1*, Silvia Benavides-Varela2,3, Lucia Regolin1 Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of this association, and whether it is unique to humans, we tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). as a precocial species, chicks can be tested shortly after hatching, allowing us to control their pretest experiences. Similar to humans, both 3-day-old [experiment 1 (exp. 1)] and 1-day-old (exp. 2) chicks spontaneously choose a spiky shape when hearing the “kiki” sound and a round shape when hearing the “bouba” sound. results from naïve young animals suggest a predisposed mechanism for matching the dimensions of shape and sound, which may be widespread across species.

main fig from the paper showing the association between bouba/round and kiki/spiky in newborn chicks

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling

canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI

it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

Rax King: ‘Men’s value gets lower the more times they wear that hat’

you can't work with Republicans. you can't compromise with them either. you either win or they do.

HELL YEAAAAAAAAAH

those camps were built under obama and kept open under biden. ICE budgets increased every year under obama and biden. no one from the first trump term was prosecuted and biden told trump "welcome home" on inauguration day

neo-liberalism doesn't fight fascism it enables it.

This comes two weeks after the Council of Europe banned conversion therapy.

The right wing and activist press like the nyt have worked hard to promote the false narrative that transphobic policies are sweeping Europe. They were pushing a lie. Europe speaks for itself

it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters

pessimism of the intellect + optimism of the will

(Jokes aside I'm asking cause I've not done any warhammer stuff and 2 models for $5 sounds pretty tempting)

What is this from?

Yeah, let what is happening to Discord radicalize you against the encroaching of puritan fascism we are seeing in laws world wide.

The US, Canada and a good chunk of the EU like Spain are looking into making laws that will actively do the same for a more expansive area of the internet.

*pointing to stock line propped up by hype that meets 8 of 8 criteria for being an unsustainable bubble* when the line is above this level then you HAVE to let all wealthy pedophiles get away with it

haha yeah she got so mad today lol got er big time anyway everybody back to work tomorrow's another day I suppose hey I liked the part where she perjured herself on video quick question is anything going to happen anything at all no not really and don't get my hopes up alright then thanks had to ask

an image flashed in my head of a discord exec seeing everyone get together in IRC in protest and rambling to himself like the grinch trying to figure out christmas: "they chat without exclusive unlock quests. they chat without memes. they chat without emojis, video chat, and streams."

I loved the series, but I wish they'd gotten a little weirder with the tuunbaaq design

The gamer side of me is so happy and the game developer side of me is so sad. This is exactly what I was imagining.