"Just because my favorite political party decided to abandon trans rights and many of them say openly transphobic things doesn't make them the bad guys."

You know what? Fuck off.

One of the funny things about the cyberpunk genre and which I kind of blame on Aldous Huxley is how wrongly it interprets power and the way powerful people behave.

Like, in a dystopian society controlled by mega-corporations, no one is spying on you. They don't care. You can have whatever sex, drugs, porn, guns, or whatever you want as long as you can afford it. It's all good.

Whereas in the real world, power means imposing your prejudices and hang-ups on the entire world.

It's a bit suspicious, yes, that every western government, log jammed in every other respect, can suddenly ram through anti-trans, age verification, and other legislation almost simultaneously and with minimal resistance.

"OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin"

"OpenAI is on pace to undershoot its own five-year ad revenue projections by a whopping 90 percent... That figure isn’t just bad news for OpenAI, but for every giant tech company, all of which are jockeying for a piece of the AI ad pie. In 2026, Emarketer projects that the combination of OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon will bring in under $1 billion in ad revenue."

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-ad-revenue-ai-advertising-financial-projection

Gender dimorphism in video games: a badass redhead versus the most generic looking man you've ever seen.

I feel like my fingers could be half an inch longer. 🤔

No one believes "moderate" Democrats will roll back anything that's been done under Trump; on the contrary, they will be giddy about all the "anti-terrorism" powers they can use on behalf of themselves and their corporate donors.

"The hardest party to manage in the Iran talks isn’t Iran"

"Washington feared Israel was plotting to kill Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the men leading Iran’s side of the talks. Unable to order its ally to stand down, Washington warned its adversary about its friend."

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/7/16/the-hardest-party-to-manage-in-the-iran-talks-isnt-iran

Technocracy is bad, obviously, and our modern "technocrats" are actually stupid as fuck, but I can't help thinking it would be nice if our evil overlords at least knew, e.g., how hormones work.

Every attack on trans women is misogyny. Every attack on trans women becomes an attack on all women. They always say they're "defending" women. They mean they're trying to control their "property." The end goal is always stripping us of rights. No sports, no jobs, no bank accounts, nothing. Totally dependent on the men in our lives for everything. THAT is what they want.

Screaming: "We told you! We fucking told you!" As I'm dragged down the hall and thrown in a cell.

There's a common misconception that climate change will simply move farmland north of its current location. A lot of Americans were banking on Canada. And look, Canada is on fire.

Boreal forest doesn't become arable farmland easily. The more likely outcome is a lot of places become deserts and there is no arable land at all.