Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

Stray #MGP thoughts Sweet Tooth did it better 90s club song is really back this year I thought Rise was kinda okay but then got way too cornball. Oh look, he rose. Did Leonardo ask to be dressed like a sith (Star Wars) or is it just a coincidence?

Watching #UMK live today since it's got English commentary and also gosh do I need escapism today. Erika! The Eurovangelists podcast thought she could win last year! She really didn't get the points she deserved. Also damn she's hot. This outfit is fantastic and so well crafted

this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here

Every major disaster in this country over my lifetime has been self inflicted by right wing ideologues with just enough complicit or inert Democrats to enable or ratify them. That's why we've been on this doom trajectory for the last ~50 years and it'll keep getting worse if that doesn't change

I think #Eurovizija might have been my favorite national final so far. Almost all of the songs were competent and entertaining, and a little off beat. My favorite didn't win, but I'm happy with the winner! www.youtube.com/live/WHdHpo6...

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

“America has been authoritarian from the moment it was founded: it was just that the authoritarianism extended to specific groups. Indigenous people, Black people, and women, those who didn’t own land. By refusing to resolve these issues, the right has created an opening…”

I really enjoyed speaking with @micahloewinger.bsky.social for @onthemedia.bsky.social about the long history of U.S. media capture. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays

Are you in Philly on Saturday evening? Do you like @jeffstormer.gobirds.online ? (duh, obviously) Do you want to see me and Jeff play Insatiable Cravings by @strautmaskreplica.bsky.social , a game about monsterfucking, cooking, betrayal, and possible cannibalism? Unity Java. 7pm. Be there.

I didn't get to live watch Dora 2026 (Croatia Eurovision final), but there were a lot of good songs, plenty of okay songs, and at least one bad song! I think my favorite was Devin's "Over Me" with its anime ass aesthetic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD1U...

I would have live blogged Esti Laul, but we were out when it started. So rewatch thread! Chicherik & Max - "Jolly Roger" I don't know how committed these young men are to this urban pirate persona. Meg: "not enough." 4/10

Wild that I have to watch Denmark's Eurovision final in order to see a native American performing on TV #dmgp

As Eurovision season heats up, here is a good recap and reminder of the terrible, entirely self-inflicted wound that the EBU has inflicted. I love this contest, and fear it is in danger of self-destruction

itch.io/b/3484/no-ic... The NO ICE IN MINNESOTA bundle is up. There's a lifetime's worth of good games in this! If you submitted something or just want to shout something out, reply here and let's reshare it and spread the word on this thing.

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

I got to playtest Monstrous Detectives, and it was such a fun time! An improvised mystery with a great cast of supernatural characters. You can watch the playthrough linked as a reply, and back the Kickstarter below!

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

You know they've lost the narrative in Minnesota, because the thing they're doing to distract from it is release more Epstein files

We have some real C-suite fascism going on. Executives decided that frictionless isn't just what they want in tech. It's what they want in humans, which requires subservience.

This hit so fucking hard today.

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.

I remember reading about Trump's 2011 Comedy Central roast, saying jokes are fine because people were talking about him. That feels like the motivating ideology of his 2nd term. He is breaking the country & world order not out of any deeply held belief, but so people will talk about him forever.

Late to live blogging Luxembourg final, I was still eating lunch. Let's go!

Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...

PECO sending me high energy use alerts like it's not 16 whole degrees outside

Malta's #Eurovision final! I remember hearing somewhere that there's a lot of strong competitors this year, so I've been looking forward to this one! Already I can see this one will be more watched than Moldova's because YouTube decided to put ads into the stream

Moldova taking last year off from #Eurovision has clearly let them have more budget for this year. Let's see if the song quality has improved as well. Hopefully nobody will be reading lyrics off their phone this year lol

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

Killing Eve is really committed to justifying why characters who have no reason to be speaking English are speaking English

The thing about the artists/indie game designers passing around the same $10 joke is that sometimes you need the $10, the next time someone else will and you’ll have $10 to give. In this way we uplift each other and get to keep making art.

If you use Discord, please take a minute to fill out their survey re: the potential addition of AI features. Companies, stop shoving these rubbish 'upgrades' down our throats! 👎🏻 discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Right. The point is not “it matters extra because it’s a citizen,” the point is “we either hang together or we will all hang separately.”

This is why I say hope is a weapon. Without hope we cannot work for something better. They need you hopeless. They need you scared. They need you to acquiesce. They attack your hope because without it you are disarmed. Find your quiet, find your peace, let hope grow, then work on what you are able.

Just a reminder as I wake up to a timeline that is nothing but reposts of people being outraged: it’s okay to feel that way. It’s okay to want to find a solution. But spend time considering what your goal is when you repost/share things.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

Nobody in the West Virginia family has mentioned my green hair, which is Appalachian for "we don't like your green hair"

As somebody who loves larps and story games, I'm really curious what RPGs would look like if "women being social and playing pretend" had been taken as seriously as "men telling stories about their chess pieces."

JANUARY 2ND (MY BIRTHDAY!!!) OUR MAGICAL GIRLS ON SKATES ARE FULLY DEBUTING!!!!! DO YOU LOVE MAGICAL GIRLS?? DO YOU LOVE INDIE ANIMATION?? DO YOU LOVE ROLLER SKATING?!?! WELL MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!! AHHHH I'm so excited for our full proof of concept short to be shared with the world!!!!

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Podcasting pro-tip: Make sure you hit record 😭

The more I have looked at the artist’s other work, the more I have become convinced that this is probably awkward and fake-looking on purpose.

One of the most fun bits of MST3K-adjacent trivia that doesn't get brought up enough is that the guy who played Sam the Keeper in Werewolf was also in Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun music video. Still wearing the trademark tiny red sunglasses, even!

Eurovision 2024’s Nemo announces they are returning their trophy in protest of Israel’s participation: “[Eurovision] was used to soften the image of a state accused of severe wrongdoing… when entire countries withdraw over this contradiction, it should be clear that something is deeply wrong.”

100% convinced that we can get together on Eurovision night, drink the usual amount and somehow end up with a working orrery