I’m liquidating my Pokemon TCG collection, and selling over 400 singles. I threw together a page on my website to keep them all listed in one place: ryanmcdiarmid.com/PokemonTCG/ Please feel free to DM or use the email in the link if interested in any items. RTs appreciated.

Welcome back William Henry Harrison.

This interview in Vanity Fair came out in 2010, and this exchange from it has lived rent-free in my head ever since.

Been reading through The Dark Tower series for the first time this year. Two books left, just started Song of Susannah last night. Frankly don’t see how anyone could have a bad word to say about this series, it fully kicks ass.

beloved orb…

Trying to explain there are golems made of yogurt attacking the town: “Gurt people hurt people!”

A thing console makers should be more worried about IMO: if everything is digital only, why choose them over Steam? Their storefronts suck, and you can’t count on anything to stick around generation-to-generation, and your storage options are much more limited.

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

You can’t own anything physical anymore, everything is digital, you can’t own anything digital now, storage is too expensive, you cant stream anything because they took it off the service once their parent company got bought out, you can’t get a McFlurry because the machine is broken

Playstation seeing Xbox self-destruct and immediately going Batman-without-the-Joker mode, looking for ways to kill itself.

Well this isn’t a very big deal given how cheap digital storage is. Now to take a big sip of water and open Newegg

BREAKING: Melat Kiros has won the Democratic primary in Colorado’s 1st district. The democratic socialist has unseated the district’s 29-year incumbent by running on Medicare for All, abolishing ICE, ending forever wars and more.

I know this is just what the Liberals believe at this point, but ask yourself: if Carney were a CPC wrecker, what if anything would he be doing differently?

He says it would be too expensive to meet our climate targets…so who is saving money when we don’t? The people whose houses burn down in forest fires? Those who lose homes to flooding? The people who die in heat domes?

a shocking guardian commission for @skunkset.beachmilk.party ⚡💙

If you want to ragebait yourself, watch this. It’s a lot of fear mongering and bullshit to say, effectively, that we’re doing a shock doctrine and we’re abandoning our climate targets. Happy Canada Day Eve, everyone.

This is pretty solid, and these two points really get at the heart of the matter. It acknowledges that software projects are *communities* just as much as they are produced products. LLMs cannot meaningfully participate in a community, and that distinction needs to drive how their output is seen.

When everything’s an Xbox, nothing is.

Last Living Millennial Dies

I know everything is totally detached from performance at this point but it’s still insane for Microsoft to pull IO’s funding for their fantasy project after the reception First Light just received.

my new biz card designs for vancaf & gcx!!! i'll have the frankie fairy books, a few jonesy collected editions, & some other small goodies at vancaf this upcoming weekend! And while I won't be at GCX in person, you'll be able to find my d2 brainrot merch at @thisishannako.bsky.social's table 💚

This is such a good point that I had never really thought about, w/r/t AI use in open source projects.

No hell deep enough for the Supreme Court, the chuds they represent, or the so-called liberals who helped get us here. Trans rights are human rights, full stop end of story.

Godot’s new AI policy is here. the TL;DR: all code must human authored.

went to the crab orgy and only two or three of the crabs there had ever heard of u

Probably the only game you'll ever play with voice appearances by both Joe Pera and John Waters.

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

Went browsing in the bookstore, and I think it’s nice they’re making hetslop for gay people now.

"You gotta check out this viral animated web show dude, it's about a bunch of weirdos trapped in a simulated world, but get this: it's also about trau--"

That classic story: the federal and provincial NDP are the same party when you want to discipline the left, and different parties when it comes time for the feds to hold their provincial counterparts to account.

I cringe at non-sex scenes in movies. I have never watched a non-sex scene that was actually imperative to the story. It always makes me feel like the producer is a virgin.

we imbibe benzos in this web zone

researching baseball

Maaaaan fucking hell

The Goosebumps Dog in the Criterion Closet.

bobby eggheads rise up our boy is getting astronomically more unintelligible

This one sneering tweet somehow explains and encapsulates everything about how corporate Democrats managed to lose to Donald Trump twice

friends are a type of animal that makes you say "yay" and "whee"

Snakes and rats! Snakes and rats!! SNAKES AND RATS!!!

lately it feels like some of the other viziers have been hamming up their ironic obsequiousness and honestly it devalues what we do

Honestly fitting for the continuation of the apparatus that murdered Lumumba to deny the celebration of his memory. Happy Birthday America www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/...

Regardless of content, I am SICK to DEATH of being bombarded with ads in contexts and environments I have already paid to access!! My tv, my PlayStation, airplanes, movie theaters, outlaw all of it!!

Sorry but there are only so many ways you can dress up “I want an ethnostate” while pretending not to know what that will inevitably entail

Soft power is when you force the British to make 1776 brand cheddar cheese

"Sorry developers, but that's fair." @stephanieformayor.bsky.social @seanorr.bsky.social

Tom Cruise has learned his first word "Skin" (Source: tinyurl.com/yuccdpup)

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!