Beautiful and Terrible as the Cheesecake Factory

this machine makes forks in a really weird way Another rat leaving the Twitter boat. Indie RPG designer, former podcaster, full-time technical writer, one-time journalist. Once was too poor to join a cult. he/they. Games at https://understory.itch.io/

[importantpics]

[shimamitsu]

ppl are so mad in the replies to this tweet but op is literally right

[edgar-allan-possum]

[stroebe2]

[nyantara]

things that would exist if intellectual property wasn't a thing

so much cheap generic medication. reverse engineering compounds would be even more financially profitable.

fewer people dead of vaccine preventable illnesses in the global south bc the greatest barrier to distributing some vaccines like hpv is their ip

plant seeds and grafts that come from the plants instead of licensing them. don't invest so much in preventing cross contamination. more localised experimental breeding.

library of the world: every book and journal article in the world could be digitised and be searchable for every person in the world to read regardless of where they live. cheap reprint runs and local translations everywhere.

an online interface where every citation could actually lead to the text in question

freedom from the hell that is DRM software

everytime someone reverse engineered your shitty proprietary software we would all be freed from it instead of them getting DMCA'd

so much hardware would be opened up & therefore made so much cooler.

so many more songs that riff off and sample and interpolate shit from this decade instead of like 70 years ago and more analysis of music that didn't keep getting nuked off the internet

preserving movies and tv shows and games as long as someone, somewhere has the desire to host them

just go publish your fanfic/art/vid as is instead of all us pretending it isn't fanwork or begging the corporation for mercy / licensing

a world without ip lawyers. im getting chills just imagining it.

[nocakeno]

#there cant simply be no more IP we need acrive anti-IP enforcement #or else companies will still enforce various paywalls and implement DRM a bit differently on their own #same w medical formulas and tech we need active anti-patent anti-privatization enforcement or theyll find a way to withhold it for profit #IP laws are one of the tools of capitalism and colonialism #when increasing capital is the way the entire system works and benefits them #they will always find a way even if you get rid of IP #this isnt to say its useless this IS to say be more anti-IP now and then keep aiming higher

tags via foxpunk

[nyantara]

this is true, but right now to break DRM is super mega illegal and setting up shadow libraries sends you to jail, for life. people who hack video games get sent to jail. reverse engineering is illegal as fuck.

if we enforced anti privatisation that would look like forced licensing by nation states, like you discovered a drug? now make the formula and its manufacture public. its much more complicated. simply abolishing the threat of IP litigation protects the people who make the ongoing IP regime bearable and encourage more people to be involved in efforts to liberate intellectual property secrets.

[indiepressrevolution]

Now at IPR: Stealing Cthulhu

Stealing Cthulhu is my guide to Lovecraftian storytelling for roleplaying games. Its central idea is: by stealing, adapting and combining Lovecraft's ideas, you can create scenarios that seem new and horrific. It includes Cthulhu Dark, my rules-light system for Cthulhu gaming.

https://www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Stealing-Cthulhu-Print-PDF.html

[pussysoupforthesoul-deactivated]

Squidward clocking out of the Krusty Krab and heading to the nearest gay after hours event 

[bpdcassidy-archived-deactivated]

Come on, now, op. We all know squidward doesn’t go to the club.

He’s one of those “I’m not like other gays” gays who goes home to a bottle of wine and his obscure 50s vaudeville records, and then mopes because he can never find a boyfriend.

[calamaricarlo]

I love this website so much

[cinnamonghost]

[jurassicpeanut]

No bond stronger than a disabled girl and her disabled cat

[status-quo-hater]

This version of the progress flag legitimately looks so nice

Gilbert baker rainbow, huge intersex circle, the design is cluttered but in a good way 10/10

[ID: A version of the progress pride flag with a large purple intersex ring outlined in gold, looping through pink, blue, brown, and black chevrons on the side, which have a base of white. The horizontal stripes are: pink, red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, dark blue, and purple. End ID.]

[kira-serialfaggot]

It's happening the morphing into Ohio

[the-lumpfish-queen]

[yuriwinged]

[autistic-af]

[jam-does-audio]

Girls. That's the original image. We've come full circle. It's always just been the state of Ohio

[14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat]

Love when people accidentally recreate the meme like with the "fuck this post and happy birthday Sonic" one

[depsidase]

[anti-workshop]

Ok but dude for real this this this. I didn't really have words to use but this helps a lot.

I love my city, I am in community here and I feel held and seen and supported and it is amazing. And still.

I can only describe it as decay. This country is decaying, and not in like, a good natural returning to the soil with the help of mushrooms and insects kind of decay. The kind of rusting, falling apart, collapsing, cracked and filthy and dripping with poisonous petrochemical sort of decay.

The giant is still lumbering but it has a weeping, suppurating wound in its body that reeks and is killing it too slowly.

[theinstagrahame]

I mean, that's the product of decades of Conservative Austerity. All the money that would have gone into maintenance has instead gone into the military and tax breaks for billionaires. Every decaying road and sagging bridge came from neglect at government scale.

I don't think I'm saying anything especially new here, I'm probably stating the obvious. But I think it's hitting me harder today, July 4, 2026, with Donald Trump raking in billions from crypto cash and the America 250 event or whatever it's called, while the Reflecting Pool is cordoned off as a biohazard.

It's just... We could have good things, but instead like 6 guys have nice things while the rest of us get to struggle and rot in the summer heat.

[miniaturize]

the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you

[atelier-tamamoland]

[ryebreadgf]

girlhood this girlhood that. woman you are 26

[ryebreadgf]

I got a message about how this is supposedly mean. I am holding your hand when I say that refusing womanhood and clinging onto girlhood will not save you from the realities of adulthood. I am not saying you are not young. 26 is incredibly young. you are free to love the concepts and media associated with girlhood but there is much to love about womanhood that you are not seeing. there is something to be said for being free of the shackles of girlhood and childhood. you are an autonomous being. you have power over your life and the paths you will take. it is easier to see the paths when you start taking yourself seriously instead of waiting for others to do so. no one is saying you have to be serious. womanhood is joy too. a different shade of yellow

[newtypezaku]

Big mood

[depsidase]

[theinstagrahame]

Elon Musk says he will donate $6 billion if the World Food Programme proves to him that amount would solve world hunger - London Daily

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, challenged a United Nations official’s claim that just a small percentage of his wealth could help solve

The World Food Programme is an org within the UN. I know he'd tweeted out that he'd make a donation, I don't think I realized that he'd challenged them directly before.

They came back with a full plan and prospectus for how the money would be used, within a few days. It would have ended it for a few years at least.

Elon fucking ghosted them.

I guess instead he donated a bunch of Tesla stock to his own foundation?

Let's never forget that he challenged the WFP to show him how they'd solve world hunger, they did, and he walked away from an opportunity to do it. He was the world's first trillionaire, and he walked away.

[rosewattastone]

Hedron Crab

[sunflowers-and-scales]

“this character did not act in the most objectively logical way possible!” is not ! actually valid literary criticism

[sunflowers-and-scales]

i have trust that the media literacy enjoyers will find this one idk

[acceptableduraz]

[theinstagrahame]

Characters acting logically is boring anyway.

"I would have done it differently if I was there." Okay. You're a different person.

"I can't relate to them because they do things differently." Alright, are you listening to yourself? Because that doesn't sound great ...

[occidentalist]

Every time Israel throws another pinkwashing spectacle, every time the west uses LGBT rights as a pretext with which to slaughter people indiscriminately in our region; it does not only go to endear that genocidal colony to or manufacture consent amongst western queers, who famously have no moral backbone to speak of

It also goes to further entrench the very concept of queerness with imperial aggression until they are inextricable from one another in the minds of most imperialised subjects. Pinkwashing does not only aim to obscure and justify imperial crimes, it also very materially makes our lives as sexual minorities in the imperial periphery more dangerous and the uphill battle for our liberation even more insurmountable by linking our existence to the aggression of the enemies of our people.

[occidentalist]

And by ‘our liberation’ I mean our liberation as sexual minorities of the imperial periphery. I do not include you in this.

I’ve long made peace with the fact that as western LGBTs you are more than content knowing that the price of the advancement of your rights is silence when the symbols of your movement are used to justify the murder of my people and my neighbours and comrades across the globe.

Contrary to the popular saying, I no longer believe “our liberation is connected.” My liberation will only come with the liberation of my people and the death of the empire of which you are a willing agent.

[ernestsewell]

“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; one day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hallow mockery; your prayers and hyms [sic], your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy – a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.”

— Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), from a speech given at Rochester, New York, July 5, 1852.