Too many games www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Spotted a praying mantis I almost accidentally drowned while watering plants this morning

Roadworks will tear us apart, again

Well, we weren't using it lately anyway, so goodbye hulu. Thanks for reminding me to trim unused subscriptions!

Gotta go with Spies Like Us, a movie I have probably watched dozens of times, but maybe not since I was growing up?

The fence lizards in our front yard must have hatched another set of eggs because I saw a few of these little dudes (~1 inch long) running around this morning

A little bit of progress on the onslaught swarm!

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?" BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao" 1. "It, um, doesn't say anything." 2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe." 3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

I remember buying the Dreamcast and SC1 on launch day, and the vast majority of people lined up at the best buy were there for FF8. I am still happy with my choice!

Bears managed to flip the script from last year's losing ways, by starting off strong in the 1st quarter and then falling apart afterwards. Always managing to hit me with the disappointment mix-ups. We'll see how this first month goes, but it feels like it could be another long season.

Well I've got my first fall painting project off the ground, going to add to my tyranids. Still love having an airbrush for priming and base coating.

Why yes I have cleared security at the airport 4 hours early

A few loosely connected facts: I visited Antwerp today! Antwerp has a surprisingly large #warhammer store. Buying stuff in euros saves money vs. buying in USD at home. I now have to put Fulgrim and Mortarion into my luggage.

I am so, so ready for NFL preseason to be over. So tired of all these molehills being turned into mountains. Bring on games that matter!

stop letting Matt Yglesias into public discourse challenge level impossible

Spent yesterday in Bruges, which is always* a good time. *Two times total

I would love easier access to doner kebab in the US

i am begging everyone to stop repeating the myth that brains are underdeveloped until 25 www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brai...

Week 1 of 4 in Belgium down! One cool place we took the students was Cantillon, a brewery that produces lambic-type beers using environmental yeasts. Lambics are a Belgium-only specialty (though other kinds of natural fermented beers exist all over the place) Lots of microbiology going on!

He called the CDC a cesspool of corruption that lied about the COVID vaccines. Now someone has committed violence because of the same misinformation.

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps. Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people" Sticker spotted in Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA

Weiner bus.jpg

It's officially a Belgium trip, I've seen the weiner bus go by.

Belgian graffiti on point as usual

Rain in Brussels, and I can tell that I'm firmly rooted in California because rain in August feels kind of weird now. Even after growing up in the Midwest with summer thunderstorms.

I don't have anything interesting to say about it but yeah

I have spent more than 12 hours here in O'Hare. Not exactly an exciting and invigorating day!

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

I leave for another August study abroad in Belgium soon so I'm trying to do some quick painting stuff before I go. Did these three Skaven minis yesterday and a little bit this morning.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

Wash step is the best step

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

More progress on Thanquol and Boneripper, just about ready for washes and then onto shading/lighting. This has been a fun one to work on.

Made some more decent progress today (I am a pretty slow painter)

www.wired.com/story/how-tr... You'd think someone like him, whose blood could probably make NYC rats sick if they got at it, would be desperately throwing money at healthcare out of purely selfish motives. But again, too stupid to even be selfish right.

Not too much progress yet! For this one my primary goal is to try out some OSL from the warpflame stuff. Making the cobblestone from plastic sheets was also new for me.

This weekend I've accidentally focused on activities that involve losing massive chucks of time without noticing: painting a mini, and playing Civilization 6.

Spent quite a while making a nice little cobblestone path for my next Skaven monstrosity to skip down

I would love for DMX to complete the "X Gon' Give it to Ya" trilogy with "X is Currently Givin' it to Ya" and "X Done Gave it to Ya"

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

Still working at this Leagues of Votann kill team. Got 'em nice and dirtied up, almost done!

Because I keep it in my calendar, I know today is the 20th anniversary of the first date @michaelchu7.bsky.social and I went on. I never really did figure out what Garden State was about after all.

Can’t wait until someone tells the NYT about the SAT scores of legacy admissions.

Not a cellphone in sight. Just people enjoying their lives.

Struggling with the work/they're building concentration camps balance.

A new t̶h̶r̶e̶a̶t̶ friend has arrived, yes-yes

oh, Eppendorf...

The "misinformation" in question here is that gender-affirming care reduces suicides among youth. It merely reduces depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...