TrooperBari
@trooperbari.bsky.social
Have notebook, will travel. Indie game aficionado, "Asia hand" (whatever that means), too stubborn or cowardly to quit newspapers. He/him
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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NEW VIDEO: Big business is a death cult worshipping a many-faced Techno God. In an industry full of takers who want to eradicate the makers, so-called AI promises a nonsensical fantasy where games are made for free and sold to a world of laid off former workers. It is unhinged.
youtu.be/xcB_kqpYNhc
youtu.be/xcB_kqpYNhc
Execucult Of The Techno God
YouTube video by Stephanie Sterling
youtu.be
December 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
NEW VIDEO: Big business is a death cult worshipping a many-faced Techno God. In an industry full of takers who want to eradicate the makers, so-called AI promises a nonsensical fantasy where games are made for free and sold to a world of laid off former workers. It is unhinged.
youtu.be/xcB_kqpYNhc
youtu.be/xcB_kqpYNhc
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A lot of transphobic whataboutism is just straight up trying to make being a bigot sound like a legit position asked in good faith.
Nope, same old horseshit.
Nope, same old horseshit.
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 AM
A lot of transphobic whataboutism is just straight up trying to make being a bigot sound like a legit position asked in good faith.
Nope, same old horseshit.
Nope, same old horseshit.
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KOSA is never about protecting kids. It’s anti-queer and about making sure kids don’t have access to information they need to survive - from health basics to knowing they are not alone and not broken. And it will destroy the internet as we know it.
🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
KOSA is never about protecting kids. It’s anti-queer and about making sure kids don’t have access to information they need to survive - from health basics to knowing they are not alone and not broken. And it will destroy the internet as we know it.
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i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life
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Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
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Love how Democrats are judged by the most unhinged posts of random weirdos but Republicans are never called to answer for the actions of their elected representatives.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Love how Democrats are judged by the most unhinged posts of random weirdos but Republicans are never called to answer for the actions of their elected representatives.
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Now that Xinyan Huang has retracted his media statements, which he admits spread misinformation about bamboo scaffolding and the fire service’s response, I expect that @cnn.com, @reuters.com, @aljazeera.com, and every other outlet they quoted him will add corrections to their reporting.
I am so, so, so fucking angry right now
Clarification on remarks regarding the Tai Po Wang Fuk Court fire | News | News and Events | Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering
I wish to address and clarify several points arising from my recent interview with Channel 4 News on 26 November 2025 regarding the Wang Fuk Court fire ...
www.polyu.edu.hk
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Now that Xinyan Huang has retracted his media statements, which he admits spread misinformation about bamboo scaffolding and the fire service’s response, I expect that @cnn.com, @reuters.com, @aljazeera.com, and every other outlet they quoted him will add corrections to their reporting.
But the bamboo is still definitely to blame, right, digital team?
ICAC alleges that, in order to replace mesh netting damaged by typhoons, "someone" purchased substandard mesh netting from a local supplier at the price of $54/roll in july. And used up-to-spec mesh netting only at the bottom of the scaffoldings as a cover
December 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
But the bamboo is still definitely to blame, right, digital team?
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Seven samples of the scaffold netting from Wang Fuk Court did not meet fire retardant standards, according to HK Chief Secretary Eric Chan. The ICAC has also found that compliant netting was mixed in with non-compliant netting in order to evade patrols.
大埔宏福苑五級火｜陳國基：宏福苑7個棚網樣本未達阻燃測試標準 (16:02) - 20251201 - 港聞
政務司長陳國基表示，當局於大埔宏福苑的宏泰、宏道、宏志、宏仁閣檢取20個棚網樣本，其中7個位處高、中、低層不同地方的樣本未達阻燃測試標準。保安局長鄧炳強早前曾指棚網初步測試合乎標準，鄧炳強今日解釋指，在火勢猛烈時，調查人員起初只能在宏志閣地下檢取樣本測試，並發現合乎標準，但其後認為情况與各界觀察不一致，所以火勢受控後再於事發大廈檢取樣本。
news.mingpao.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Seven samples of the scaffold netting from Wang Fuk Court did not meet fire retardant standards, according to HK Chief Secretary Eric Chan. The ICAC has also found that compliant netting was mixed in with non-compliant netting in order to evade patrols.
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Vampiress, using hypnotic stare: "Say three things you like about yourself."
The vampiress' girlfriend, sweating profusely, trying and failing to fight it: "I. . . think my hair. . . is kinda cute."
Vampiress: "Two more."
The vampiress' girlfriend: "FFFFUUCCCKKKK."
The vampiress' girlfriend, sweating profusely, trying and failing to fight it: "I. . . think my hair. . . is kinda cute."
Vampiress: "Two more."
The vampiress' girlfriend: "FFFFUUCCCKKKK."
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Vampiress, using hypnotic stare: "Say three things you like about yourself."
The vampiress' girlfriend, sweating profusely, trying and failing to fight it: "I. . . think my hair. . . is kinda cute."
Vampiress: "Two more."
The vampiress' girlfriend: "FFFFUUCCCKKKK."
The vampiress' girlfriend, sweating profusely, trying and failing to fight it: "I. . . think my hair. . . is kinda cute."
Vampiress: "Two more."
The vampiress' girlfriend: "FFFFUUCCCKKKK."
Speaking as a geriatric millennial, I can only apologize for my generation's failure to destroy all sectors of the economy so Zoomers could be spared these kind of indignities. You deserve so much better.
December 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Speaking as a geriatric millennial, I can only apologize for my generation's failure to destroy all sectors of the economy so Zoomers could be spared these kind of indignities. You deserve so much better.
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Well this is right up there with "tech hoarding" and "people are not dining out enough"
November 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Well this is right up there with "tech hoarding" and "people are not dining out enough"
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
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I watched the industry curdle into money-extraction world-boiling garbage solutions in search of problems pushed by CEOs who threw themselves wholeheartedly behind weird fascist hatemongering.
The tech industry lost the benefit of the doubt on any new stuff because of its own actions!
The tech industry lost the benefit of the doubt on any new stuff because of its own actions!
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I watched the industry curdle into money-extraction world-boiling garbage solutions in search of problems pushed by CEOs who threw themselves wholeheartedly behind weird fascist hatemongering.
The tech industry lost the benefit of the doubt on any new stuff because of its own actions!
The tech industry lost the benefit of the doubt on any new stuff because of its own actions!
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I love insinuation from the AI weirdos (including Bsky’s own techno-libertarian staffers) that we who aren’t on board for AI are “anti-tech” as if a ton of us aren’t tech dorks ourselves
I was in tech professionally for nearly twenty years! Some tech is just bad!
I was in tech professionally for nearly twenty years! Some tech is just bad!
"the people who dislike one bad thing also dislike another bad thing"
this is only confusing because you've let genAI melt your brain
this is only confusing because you've let genAI melt your brain
December 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I love insinuation from the AI weirdos (including Bsky’s own techno-libertarian staffers) that we who aren’t on board for AI are “anti-tech” as if a ton of us aren’t tech dorks ourselves
I was in tech professionally for nearly twenty years! Some tech is just bad!
I was in tech professionally for nearly twenty years! Some tech is just bad!
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I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.
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This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
"Woke is ruining D&D". Meanwhile Dimension 20, one of the wokest real play shows around, just sold out Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl for live shows and brings armies of new players to RPGs.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
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Even by the standards of anti-woke journalism this is lazy dreck. The first piece of "evidence" that older gamers are mad about wokeness is a random Reddit comment — that isn't a complaint about wokeness.
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...
November 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Even by the standards of anti-woke journalism this is lazy dreck. The first piece of "evidence" that older gamers are mad about wokeness is a random Reddit comment — that isn't a complaint about wokeness.
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2025/11/2...
Time for demos! Psychedelic horror? Chill city-builder? Yuri (SFW) visual novel? Why not all of the above? We are live now at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/!
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Time for demos! Psychedelic horror? Chill city-builder? Yuri (SFW) visual novel? Why not all of the above? We are live now at www.twitch.tv/trooperbari/!
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It’s wild how providing much-needed aid to the survivors of the fire - before the government even felt like doing it - is now considered a national security threat
Next level paranoia.
“We sternly warn the anti-China disruptors who attempt to ‘disrupt Hong Kong through disaster’. No matter what methods you use, you will certainly be held accountable & strictly punished under the Hong Kong national security law & the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.”
“We sternly warn the anti-China disruptors who attempt to ‘disrupt Hong Kong through disaster’. No matter what methods you use, you will certainly be held accountable & strictly punished under the Hong Kong national security law & the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance.”
Anger mounts in Hong Kong over apartment fires as Beijing warns against ‘anti-China disruptors’
Police on Saturday detained one person who was part of a group that launched a petition demanding accountability
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
It’s wild how providing much-needed aid to the survivors of the fire - before the government even felt like doing it - is now considered a national security threat
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I can disagree with a political party about the form effective redress for the harms of colonisation should take or how to build and deliver universal healthcare and still happily give them my vote. but there's no level of "does marginalised group x deserve rights?" on which I can agree to disagree.
November 30, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I can disagree with a political party about the form effective redress for the harms of colonisation should take or how to build and deliver universal healthcare and still happily give them my vote. but there's no level of "does marginalised group x deserve rights?" on which I can agree to disagree.
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isn't it just so weird how the points of difference this kind of person expects you to accept are never things like "how best can we ensure that every human being is adequately housed and fed?" and always things like "are trans people human?"
There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
isn't it just so weird how the points of difference this kind of person expects you to accept are never things like "how best can we ensure that every human being is adequately housed and fed?" and always things like "are trans people human?"
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The arrests in Hong Kong right now are déjà vu for mainlanders like me who were active in civil society in the 2000s: citizens demanding investigations and accountability after public disasters are met not with answers, but arrests and intimidation. #mainlandization #香港加速内地化
Inmediahk reports that HK university student Miles Kwan, who was seen handing out fliers linking to a petition demanding an independent investigation and accountability for the Tai Po fire was detained and taken to the police station. The online petition and related media has since been deleted.
November 30, 2025 at 4:44 AM
The arrests in Hong Kong right now are déjà vu for mainlanders like me who were active in civil society in the 2000s: citizens demanding investigations and accountability after public disasters are met not with answers, but arrests and intimidation. #mainlandization #香港加速内地化