*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?

modern gamers are so fucking toxic i was just playing fetch and she like. gestured like she was gonna throw the ball yeah? but she faked it out! she didn't actually throw the ball! what the fuck! if this is the direction the fetch meta is going i'm switching to tug o war or maybe even run in circles i am done with this community.

steam notifications

your childhood best friend who moved four states away in 2014 is playing Terraria

coworker from your high school job is playing My Sexy Anime Neighbor from Sin University

ex friend who blocked you on everything but steam for some reason is playing The Binding of Isaac

the guy you genuinely thought of as a brother at one point but havent seen in years is playing Elden Ring

rando who was kind of nice to you in tf2 a decade ago is playing Team Fortress 2

your parents' neighbors' son is playing Resident Evil 4 (2023)

The UK government did an investigation into the porn sites that haven't yet implemented the age verification measures and they...I shit you not, they published a list. A LIST of all the porn sites. That you can still access without having to verify your age. They made a government employee make a list of all the porn sites and check if they have age verification and then they published a list of those that don't. For all the public to read.

It's like those magazines about what to do on shore leave the army produced during wwii that included a "watch out for these bars, that's where the homosexuals congregate."

I am no longer asking. Transport me to the President Gore Was Sworn Into Office January 20, 2001 universe right this instant.

so here's what I've now done to make the internet usable as a person living in the UK without handing my ID and/or facial scans over to random third parties:

• signed up for a ProtonVPN account
• set up a tunnel from my router to a ProtonVPN server in Sweden
• written a python script to query DNS servers for social media domains every 15 minutes and collate the results into a list of IP address ranges
• created routing and firewall policies to block connections to those IP ranges on my normal connection and send them through the VPN tunnel instead
• set up a second, personal VPN so I can make my mobile devices connect to the internet through my home network even when I'm not at home

now it's time to open source this whole thing so others can enjoy using the internet the same way they did three weeks ago

The 13th century Swedish peasant boy who's crashing on my couch keeps eating my leftover General Tso's. I always tell him he can order his own but he's all "oh no, just wonton soup is fine with me, it reminds me of winters at home by the fire" but when I open the fridge the next day, what do I see? Not my leftovers! I don't even think they had wontons in medieval Sweden.

13th century Swedish peasant boy roommate is getting really into Elden Ring, like playing it all hours of the day. I'm glad he's adjusting so well to modern technology but I want to use the TV sometimes too, you know?

13th century Swedish peasant boy roommate saw me taking my meds and made me explain what each pill does. I guess medicine's changed a lot since his day because he seemed really interested. It's been a couple hours and he still keeps muttering things like "to think a healer could work such miracles..."

ohhhh

13th century Swedish peasant girl roommate stole my fucking leftovers again

This fear of Black freedom, and the assumption that our freedom must mean insanity and unruliness, is why Trump has called in the National Guard. Yeah, sure, distraction. But you have to understand: Trump’s distractions always double as a reiteration of his white supremacist beliefs. He will dither over the Smithsonian and the removal of Black names from buildings as a distraction, because those things feel good and right to him.

It should not be lost that every city he has signalled out for a takeover by the National Guard–Baltimore, New York, Chicago, Oakland and Los Angeles–are the major metropolitan areas currently administered by Black mayors. They are also centers of Black wealth and ownership. DC is a testing ground, yes, of whether Americans will tolerate the federal white supremacist takeover of cities run by Black powers. I don’t think a Black mayor is likely to be any better, materially, for Black people than a white one–we have 45 years, at this point, of the failure of Black mayors championing neoliberalism to see that. But that is beside the point here. To a white supremacist, the mere fact of these mayors makes them illegitimate.

From the essay Chocolate City...

Also has the observation that conservatives hate federal government employment because it's historically been a pathway to the middle class for Black people, which, I'd never really considered that angle before.

The secret to gluten free baking is that the bastards don’t put enough xanthan gum or other binders in their gluten free flour and you should add your own. Add like 1/4 tsp of xanthan gum to your baked goods aight it’ll be better and most grocery stores these days have some in the baking aisle.

One bag of that stuff will last you for ages. Use it in cookies, cakes, sweet breads. Anything made with baking soda or baking powder.

Anything made with yeast though I wish you luck, pal. I ain’t touching that.

Gluten free flour does in fact work really well as breading for chicken. They also make really good gluten free panko bread crumbs these days though you can also use some gluten free corn flakes you’ve crushed up with a rolling pin or something.

For gravy or thickening up soups use corn starch just like you would flour. Maybe slightly less corn starch.

Okay now you know how to cook gluten free. It’s that easy.

They make gluten free pasta and gluten free flour tortillas these days and corn tortillas are just corn. Rice noodles are rice. Glutinous rice flour doesn’t actually have gluten in it. Always remember what I have taught you.

They’re calling me every slur under the sun over on twitter for this post

Wait hold on rb canceled that’s the wrong word wait no stop

Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.

Word for today: wisdom of repugnance

The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad

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this is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all

Some ya’ll who are younger need to google Frank Serpico and read about his time in the NYPD and what the cops did to him and attempted to do to him up until the late 90′s. He literally had to go into hiding in Italy and Switzerland and multiple times people tried to kill him. He only came back to America after the mafia (who hated the NYPD a lot, obviously) said “you’re under our protection.”

Damn, NYPD is so bad, Mafia started protecting good cops

👆Really really good article by the way. Feels like a good piece to show to folks you know who are still on the fence about things like police or prison abolition. Plus the pseudonym the author uses is hysterical, and he's really quite a good writer.

extremely good article, please read it. at the very least read the "how to be a bastard" section, it outlines a lot of the ways cops will try to trick you

this is GREAT two sentence horror actually