So every freelancer you know is going to lose their insurance or be bankrupted by premiums because Schumer is an invertebrate

makeing video game :)

we're simultaneously expected to believe that the executive commands an infinitely powerful military panopticon, has the ability to instantly levy taxes via social media post, and yet is a helpless widdle baby in the face of issues like the cost of food and electricity

Federal agents do not have a universal and unimpeachable right to perform their duties without interference, actually. A key element of a free society is that the security services must conduct themselves in a way that elicits consent from the governed.

for all they used to moan about "virtue signaling", prayer is, for the new right, performative in the purest sense. they are their own god

library book sale find

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

Access to the sacraments is the tip of the iceberg. They won't allow clergy access bc they aren't running a proper detention facility. The scandal that religious protests are highlighting is not that the detainees' religious rights are being violated, but that ALL their rights are being violated.

fascinating nyt obit blurb here about famous eugenicist and research thief james watson

Hey everyone - I hate doing this but we had to have major emergency plumbing work done on the house we just moved into. The main pipe from upstairs to the basement was completely rusted out and filling the wall with water in several places. Any help infinitely appreciated gofund.me/42cedbf8c

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

most relatable thing about Zohran is that Stereogum passed on writing about his music

my "no one should read too much into last night's election results" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions etc

it would appear that the american people are not buying the line that the democrats are to blame for the shutdown

[Exit Clown.]

it's a beautiful night to be an american

fyi — i removed all the music from all of my projects from Spotify, because on top of the indignity of being exploited, i don't want my art to support war profiteering or ICE recruitment. you can catch me pretty much anywhere else, but ideally on bandcamp: harrisonlemke.bandcamp.com/album/foreve...

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t... It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article. Please share :)

video game titles that make me reflexively say “is there a mr. __________”: - ms pac-man - ms flight simulator

their plainly stated goal is to starve forty million people until they get what they want, which is to rip health care away from millions more that this is too monstrous for most news organizations to tell the truth about does not change the facts

fools rush in where eagles fear to dare

A poem for All Souls’ Day from Jane Kenyon

wow these silent hill games are getting more realistic

drake and ted cruz should never be allowed to attend a sporting event unless they are together and rooting for opposite teams and allowing that is just for science

while i do hate everything right now, i must acknowledge that LA has been through some horrors this year and i am truly happy that they are happy

maybe divine justice is still real, it just has a list of priorities it's working through in an unusual order

can't comprehend being a dodgers fan. it's like being a fan of Money or Military Force

the bad guys win every time

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

Looking at bluesky is being like Shakyamuni, in great compassion, trying to lower a single spider thread into hell to help those suffering escape but it's baseball and they like it down there

come on jays... tonight is my one yearly chance to fix my sleep schedule

no

please... put in blake trienen...

tired of people saying baseball is boring to watch. it's so exciting i want to vomit

it's an underrated feature of MLB that there are several teams named after silly little birds

The crowd at this bed stuy sports bar is cheering the jays and booing the Cuomo ads

the kind of money insurance companies have to advertise should really be a national scandal

handing out full-sized boxes of good and plenty on halloween would be a tremendous bit

candy tier list version 2025.10

i am once again having cause to reflect on how unsatisfactory skittles are

when the fielders lift their hands like that they are ritually declaring a No Fun Zone. they're allowed to do this. look it up

wedged ball ??????????????;?????!!???????

m&ms are a great candy but i cannot abide the anthropomorphized manifestations presented in advertising. who is this debauched lothario

weird ps1 game i found

one of my favorite sources of collage art material is 80s issues of a prominent architecture magazine featuring the homes of the obscenely rich, largely because some of those spaces have a powerfully evil aura to me. anyway the trump bathroom is something you'd see in there

someone listened to my halloween album and told three friends about it, and they lucked into a stash of magic anklets. someone else didn't listen or share and they were waylaid by skeleton warriors, died, and lost half their gold. just repeating what i heard