HnK inspired Kris art once again

I think the solution to kids on the Internet is to have specific, kid friendly spaces on the Internet. Kids wouldn't come across "adult content" on YouTube if barbie dot com still had flash games and this is a hill I will die on.

Oh! Then I know the EXACT person you should be mad at! Michael O'Rielly! He's the one that gutted the Children's Programming Rules, which covered internet as well as television.

HELLO?

#so the death of the Saturday morning cartoon is THIS motherfuckers fault?????

Indeed it is! The FCC controls how much of broadcasting has to cater to children and that includes how educational that programming has to be, and exactly how much and in what way you are allowed to advertise to kids. That's why for the entire 90s and up to the early 00s, kids shows had shorter commercial breaks, and ads that talked about a website had to say "ask your parents before going online", and those websites had to be non-commercial--i.e. they could not be shops, and could not have any way you could spend money or were encouraged to spend money. That's why Barbie.com was flash games, and O'Rielly LIFTING that ban is why Barbie.com now takes you directly to a storefront instead.

If you're mad about Saturday Morning Cartoons, dark patterns in ads targeted at children, online protections for kids, or wondering why educational children's shows aren't as much of a thing as they used to be, get mad at the FCC and the person in charge of it who is gutting the Children's Brodcasting Rules (sometimes called the Kid Vid Rules), because those rules control all of that!

While O'Rielly is responsible for gutting the rules in 2019, he was replaced in 2020 by Nathan Simington as head of the FCC, and Simington resigned in June of this year. The post remains vacant as of the time of this writing (August 31, 2025).

And a side note: Things like KOSA and SCREEN and all those other censorship bills that use "think of the children" are not going to protect children at all; if you want to protect kids online, there is already a way to do that it's called the Kid Vid Rules and the FCC is the one that can update and change them to keep up with the times! It doesn't need a congress vote, it already got voted on in 1990!

5 events every leftist in the US should know about:

Obviously other events are incredibly important, but like these are 3 of the most significant uses of force by the US Government against its own citizens, as well as what lead to May Day and the modern Gay Liberation movement

I would put Kent State as an honorable mention as well

And then there's Wounded Knee, the 1890 original when Tribal Folk did not, yet, have full citizenship rights (that'd be 1924):

This also definitely does belong on the list

white fantasy authors: okay so white people are from normalsberg and all nonwhite people are from the mysterious mystical kingdom of mystery world where the sands are mystical and weird. and also theyre ugly ass orcs

fantasy readers: this is fucking awesome. this rocks. youre so good at this man

nonwhite fantasy authors: so the knight is a black woman, and there are no orcs,

fantasy readers: okay what the fuck. can we stop bringing contemporary politics into everything. ugh. this sucks. i dont like this

happy disability pride month and once again, FUCK lazy subtitles. fuck the [speaks foreign language] instead of actually transcribing the words, fuck shortening sentences and changing whats been said for no reason, fuck censoring swearing in captions but not in audio and fuck anyone who says youre being 'too sensitive' for being upset about a lack of accessibility

Deltarune theories online are either the coolest connection of threads, leitmotifs, subtle repeats of concepts or themes leading into fun speculation

or just,

If Toby ends up working him into the plot I won’t complain, but with the state of the narrative at chapter 4 it’s like… what does it gain by introducing Gaster? If chapter 10 drops and Mr. Mystery show up all “collect my eight IMG_FRIENDs”, what does that do other than “look guys it’s the thing from the last game”? Is it not weird that his name is said exactly once in the in the game where he supposedly ties everything together, but he’s named like a dozen times in the game where he’s just the spooky mystery man?

hey i’m kinda curious bc i keep seeing people he him ing kris deltarune (don’t do that, btw. they use they them if you literally can’t read)

this is purely for the sake of curiosity. pls don’t misgender my nb sib

When we only had c1&2 I was firmly in the camp of “there’s no information to go off of, assigning any AGAB is pure projection” but after the c3 egg room presented masculinity as this cold, empty, ominous thing I’m fully in the AMAB camp.

...I think Alphys would be very supportive