"Living is cool." - Mike Minotti, 2026

Just remembered this exists and had to listen to it and then had to share it.

Living to witness the global disinvestment from human creativity by the capitalist class has been an absolutely depressing sight to behold. Especially as someone who places art (yes, general 'art') among humanity's most divine aptitudes.

Corollary to @faineg.bsky.social's discourse on "good tech needs no begging to adopt": when the humble web browser has become so encumbered by AI features that an article about using the command line to run GitHub scripts to shut them off is viral news amongst normies, it's a full repudiation of AI.

Perfect Tides: Station to Station comes out today. You MUST play it with me when it drops. That’s all I shall do today I think @meredithgran.com store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...

This is a total mess, affecting the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of people, and we have to fix it. Act now: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...

"Imperialist" Graffiti on an MLK, Obama, Kamala mural in Los Angeles

“It was a simpler time then, back when all people wanted to talk about was the leader of the country molesting underage girls,” said Denver resident Scott Munoz

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In a world of AI slop shortcuts in gaming, I am reminded that for The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa, the developer's 60 year old father learned pixelart in MSPaint to help make the game If it matters enough to you, you can always learn too, even at 60

Believe it or not, material conditions do affect a person’s ability to function, big surprise I know

I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like “audiences intrigued by his unusual communication style”

Facebook reminds me that on this day in 2017 a woman turned to me in the veg section of Sainsbury's and said "hopefully now we've left the EU we can have loose carrots that aren't wet"

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we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me

I am not immune to the charms of a really big moon rocket: defector.com/i-am-not-imm...

This has been my whole year and it’s only January lol

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Lotta places in the UK could stand to be subjected to this.

Bringing this post over from Tumblr

The Prime Minister has come up with a very measured, diplomatic response and I think that if the President could remember who Starmer was, he would respect that.

✨🏳️‍⚧️ Belated Pride Comic (1/4) 🏳️‍⚧️✨

These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

Every capitalist's dream is to prevent you from using the stuff you already own in order to rent it from them instead

Just because a lot of people are cruel, bigoted, and brainwashed doesn’t mean we have to find a “middle ground” with them or a “compromise” that satisfies some of their racist delusions. We just don’t.

to young people: you may at some point have heard about the Y2K problem. some people may have told you it wasn't a big deal i need you to understand the only reason it wasn't a big deal was that everyone spent loads of time fixing code before it could become a problem, which is why it never did

Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???

Construction sites are NOT playgrounds, kids. Now please look away from this big plastic tube that would be amazing to slide down.

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 16 The Sickness Unto Death, and then... Splitting of the Breast

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

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The only life advice I have to offer: Drinking a big glass of water won't solve all your problems, but it's often a remarkably good start.

NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:

Whelp, I was already making a video essay on it and was going to release it tomorrow, but because Stephen Miller had to open his fascist mouth about Star Trek, I added to it and released it today. So enjoy me clowning on conservative assholes terrible Star Trek opinions - youtu.be/3HOzBtDUlbo

Stormtroopers Who Killed Tatooine Farmers Feared for Their Lives hard-drive.net/stormtrooper...

How to disable all the AI in Firefox until they fire their dumbass chatbot humping CEO. www.askvg.com/how-to-disab...

You have just 1 week to play Perfect Tides before the sequel, Perfect Tides: Station to Station comes out! The games can be enjoyed out of order, but what better way to spend the week? store.steampowered.com/app/1172800/...

“In the years ahead, as more and more of what makes us who we are is gobbled up by fewer and fewer ghoulish robber barons, we’re all going to have to decide how much of ourselves we’re willing to keep renting from people who hurt us.”

the best part of the internet, hands down. Hence why the Right wants to destroy it.

So Trump could be about to invade Greenland & break up NATO because this one impossibly rich scumbag wants to be even richer.