caving as an extreme sport is sooo unfathomable to me why are u as a creature of the daylight doing that. were u born without the dread in ur bones or something

come 9 year olds let us sleep in the hell fissures where time goes to suffocate

The children yearn for the caves.

Polygon employees who did not get laid off:

Tasha Robinson (entertainment editor)

Maddy Myers (I forget her exact title lol editor)

Zoe Hannah (games editor)

Ari Notis (guides editor)

Oil welsh (senior reporter I think)

Simone de Rochefort (senior video editor)

Matt Patches (executive editor)

Russ frushtick (I also forgot his exact title lol)

Another guides editor (Matthew Reynolds) was given the opportunity to stay on but declined it. I don’t fault anyone who stayed on because man ain’t it tough to find a writing job in this economy. And they’ve all expressed outrage on our behalf’s. But it appears valnet gutted everyone in the union and then the top tier management, leaving only some middle management

Also, full disclosure: my last piece will go live on the ghost of polygon dot com in the next few days. My manager had reached out to me letting me know it was up to me whether or not it did, and I said yes because I wanted it to be the last thing attached to my byline. It’s a good one!! I had fun writing it and I want to go out with something I’m proud of

I just want to note that in the US middle managers are not allowed to be in the union, so they weren't holdouts. In case anyone might think they were being rewarded for not being in the union, they didn't have a choice in the matter (and in fact, I suspect they're at high risk of being taken advantage of, but I don't know how to square the circle of middle management and union membership in late-stage capitalism)

fuck terry pulling no punches in this one

Sir Terry Pratchett once again continues to be relevant

But he always will be, “history repeats itself”

PSA

Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros' retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:

Screenshots from here.

If you get a comment like this, just report for spam and delete.

Also, don't put your fic through an "AI detector". A lot of those are just cover for techbros to say you gave them your work freely to put into their AI databases. Do not feed the machines.

Pepsi distributed Dr Pepper (on the left) And Coca-Cola distributed Dr Pepper (on the right). Dr. Pepper isn’t owned by either company, it is it’s own company Keurig Doctor Pepper, BUT they don’t have a bottling facility. In an area, they use whichever bottling facility gives them the best deal. That’s why sometimes it’s Pepsi shaped and sometimes it’s Coke shaped.

Dr. Pepper is the bisexual of sodas and i love that for her 💖

recently when im tempted to say 'i'm gonna kill myself' i try to correct it into saying "im gonna walk into the river and become a trout" or some other form of that. this is my new thing

btw this has graduated into me just saying "the trout population will be affected" and then not elaborating

"I can't tell if OP is doing a wildly bad faith reading of a sentiment I'm familiar with or if there's a corner of this website that is completely insane in a way that I am not personally privy to" is such a classic tumblr feeling isn't it. Like it really could be anything

source

4 Reasons to (Re)Normalize Masking

1. Apathy is violence: resist white supremacy by refusing to contribute to mass infection, disability, and death.

2. Destroy the state's argument that masking is only used by "criminals" to hide their identities.

3. Protect mask wearers from targeting: cops can't single them out if everyone is wearing a mask.

4. Combat the exclusion and erasure of disabled people from public spaces by making them safer.

the top one is the recent one, i just wanted a little collection of "parents can support their trans kids and no one went on fire or died"

and one for siblings:

don't forget about dwyane wade and gabrielle union supporting their daughter Zaya

oh hell yeah i hadn't seen this!!!

🇨🇦🇺🇸recall of nearly 2 million sharkninja multi-function pressure cookers: serious injuries and dozens of lawsuits🇺🇸🇨🇦

recall issued may 1, 2025

if you have one of these, stop using the pressure cooking functions IMMEDIATELY. contact sharkninja for a free replacement lid.

🇺🇸recall link for US🇺🇸 -- 🇨🇦recall link for canada🇨🇦

the problem is with the lid during pressure cooking. the vast majority of units were sold in the US.

emphasis mine, to make the model numbers easier to read. all of these models and any previously purchased replacement lids are being recalled.

TWENTY SIX FUCKING LAWSUITS FILED. TWENTY SIX LAWSUITS BEFORE THEY RECALLED THIS. these types of injuries can kill someone!

sharkninja is shipping out a free replacement lid to everyone who owns one of these. get on that quick, because shipping two million replacement lids seems like it might take some time.

these were on sale for 6 years all over the country, online and in stores. I bet a lot of these were given as gifts.

if you know anyone who cooks a lot, or who might reasonably have one of these, reach out to them. with nearly 2 million units recalled, it will be a while before everyone with one of these can be reached.

the non-pressure cooking settings are apparently still safe (says the company that took 26 lawsuits to issue a recall), even before getting a replacement lid. check your relevant recall link for instructions on how to get a free replacement lid.

🇺🇸recall link for US🇺🇸 -- 🇨🇦recall link for canada🇨🇦

with this many serious injuries, I am shocked they are not yet reporting any deaths.

Actually beyond my tags of blowing your kitchen tae fuck, I need people to understand what the major danger of this is.

So the way a pressure cooker works, the food is under pressure and because of that, HOTTER THAN BOILING. That's what cooks your food faster as well as the pressure forcing more liquid into the food. When you open the lid before the pressure is decreased by either venting or cooling off, that hotter than boiling food is going to escape in the quickest way possible, out the sides of the freshly opened pot and splatter everywhere, think like a shook up soda, except hotter than boiling. And because food is thicker than water, it's going to hold its heat like napalm and it's going to stick to your skin and continue burning. This is, as the youths say, Not Good.

i feel like it says something about us as a species that somebody worked real hard to invent 3D printing when i think anyone who has ever used a printer would agree with me that we have not really gotten our arms around 2D printing yet. we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

anyway, i saved this one to send to my coworker and now you hang above our single staff printer in our very busy library and we get to look at you as this printer fails us day after day.

it’s an honor to be affiliated with a frustration that is so near and dear to my heart

"I Kissed A Girl" was the first openly queer-themed song to hit the Billboard Top 20.

I was working at a radio station when that song came out - it was my HS job - and my boss openly made fun of me for liking it.

Fuck. I love her.

OP: so this is the ‘intense regional downpour’ on the weather forecast

I love when the weather says 'fuck you, get soaked,' to a single mile-wide or square-mile piece of land.

Wild Dogs see a Domesticated Dog

African wild dogs are one of my favorite animals. Those huge round circle ears and tricolored coats. I love you African wild dogs

HEY. HEY. HOW DID YOU GET OUT??? HEY-

dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog? dog?

We CANNOT have snudity (snake nudity) on this webbed site

Gotta respect their snivacy (snake privacy)

Comic #355 : Chronic pain is isolating - Website links here ~ Here's a comic for the spoonies, the suffering and the lonesome. Let's take ibuprofen together 🐻💊 That's right it's a double length comic! I had a lot to say that wouldn't fit in 4 panels 🥲

And eventually you stop being invited, and you cant even really ask to be invited because 99.9% youre gonna always decline. You still want to be included, to have the option, to know whats going on.

Just a tip, instead of "I hope it get better soon" try "I hope the pain improves soon" or "I hope you get some good rest soon". We're not gonna be well suddenly but we might have small improvemebt or alleviation of symptom severity. You can wish us some fun and minimum of pain. You can wish us good news, better treatment/management, better support. Your mileage will vary person to person, this is what works for me and what I go for wishing other disabled people well.

Its really scary to live in a body detwriorating fasyer than most, especially when you dont have old age to blame and for people to be understanding about. People can be very rude and dismissive aboit being young with disability, but disability has no age. Theres unfortunately no such thing as being too young.