I AM THE BIG RAT THAT MAKES ALL OF THE RULES

Still playing Marathon, started branching out to thief after almost exclusively playing vandal. Still don't use thief very well but the grapple is sick and the drone is useful. Always forget to hack people with the visor but it's great for lockbox rooms

AI boosters and fence-sitters think viscerally negative reactions to AI are "irrational" but mass deployment of LLMs is actively destroying everything I care about (the open internet, the planet, creative industries, art, my ability to buy RAM). Total rejection is the most logical response.

The one I'd been missing! Get yer Ex.Mag anthologies today! Peow!

Grilled cheese sandwich but you put chili crisp in the pan while you're making it

Just realized that solo marathon is basically a single player campaign. You can grind enemies and gain XP and progress the story through priority contracts, and then play with pals and socialize and just help each other out with looting and pvp and standard contracts. Quite different experiences

just got out of a buuuunch of Marathon duo runs, some successful, others where we got walloped, but it was nice to end with one where a team was chasing us, me and the last guy downed each other... but i had a self-revive. they were upset about it. we didn't pick the fight!! your own fault, scrubs!

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

As I think I've expressed before, I was looking forward to this due to really liking The Expanse and the teaser being cool, but I will not buy this game. Just like I haven't bought Clair Obscur (maybe I will in a couple years on sale) and I'm not gonna play Arc Raiders. No AI, at all, sorry.

messy blackletter version:) 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 gonna get some prints of this for Gothcon next weekend<3

A bunch of dedicated folks and I wrote up this survey so we can build a better health plan for members of the canadian animation guild. If you're a member, please give it a look and fill it out! It'll help make sure the future plan actually fits your needs!

Blind Alley No. 421

So when this whole house of cards collapses and lots of people lose their shirts and millions of bystanders get wiped out in the economic fallout, what is going to happen to the architects? Something bad, right? It better be something bad. We can make that a reality.

The total annual emissions from the gas-fired power stations *just to run Grok* will, once operational, be greater than the total global GHG footprint of all global streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ (208bn hours) 🧐 ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m... greenly.earth/en-gb/leaf-m...

Though I doubt she had any input on this particular piece of minimization, I lay it squarely at the feet of Dr. Bonnie Henry's and her company of sycophants

a chopped uncle's thesis

Climate change is producing a severe crisis of hegemony in the system: The elites cannot picture a coherent way forward, they cannot form stable, coherent, non-pathological alliances that could navigate the future. The demands produced by the results of science confront the demands of the markets..

I can't stop thinking about this goddamn game. Had an afternoon of real fun trio and duo runs, which only makes its grip on me stronger

i think I believe in The Secret now. I was walking home from grabbing a coffee and thought "I bet I'll see a cat if I walk down this sidewalk" and I DID. I manifested a cat. And it was once I hadn't seen around there before! I got to pet it once before it returned to ignoring me in the garden

@drewgarner.bsky.social listening to podcasts during his solo runs

"At least in CANADA we actually believe in funding public services 😎" You sure about that? And at this rate our postal service will be privatized before the USPS

when I see direct action

3/19/26

Me and my friends call the Marathon sponsored kits "goof packs." We are creating culture. You go on a "goof run" where everyone's on goof packs and you just loot around cuz there's no starting stakes, it's mischievous, like a group of teens lighting off fireworks in a park at night

Okay so while acknowledging that bsky is glitchy, in this case it was my fault and I had to reboot my router. Lesson for next time

just a thought: no movement should ever depend so completely on the reputation of its chosen figurehead that one of its founders is forced to make a calculation like this on behalf of its survival

出口/EXIT Robot

Karl Arnold's unique line, Weimar Republic

Happy birthday to Irish artist Harry Clarke, born #onthisday in Dublin in 1889 (on #StPatricksDay no less). Here he is in a self-portrait as an absinthe drinking Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust. More in our essay "Harry Clarke’s Looking Glass" publicdomainreview.org/essay/h... #OTD

i made an informational chart showing the nuanced ways in which the weather can subtly impact my mood

This article matches exactly my own experience with this game. Every run brings something new, even if it's just a new way to die in the first two minutes of it Anyway sorry I keep posting about marathon, I'm obsessed

MARATHON #marathon

one of the coolest things in marathon is when you're the last runner left in the crew and you manage to take out another crew and revive all your peeps. i got to be the one to do it in one run tonight, and my buddy did it in the next one. feels heroic in a way that's hard to match

Runnah UESC wants to move bedtime up an houha! MIDA says no sleep til revolution. Stay up late. Midnight oil. Dusk til dawn. Cock a doodle do or die. You know what to do QUEST In a single run: 🔳 Play your gameboy under the covers and don’t get caught 🔳 Pretend to be asleep when Orion checks on you

Bluesky is doing this thing again where if my phone is connected by wifi, I can -see- images but I cannot -save- images. When I switch to data it's fine. It only happens in bsky, everything else is fine. Love a vibe-coded app 👍

Luckily for me, the only reason the baristas here ever express surprise when I order a latte is because my regular order is a pourover

It's very sunny outside, looks like 11 degrees, but it's actually 5. Suffice it to say, i under-dressed for my bike ride to the grocery store

Heyo the pride committee for @cag938.bsky.social is putting on a blood drive!! You can sign up here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So many genAI “use cases” are better served by just not being fucking wastefully bad at your job

WE’LL BE LESS ACTIVIST IF YOU BE LESS SHIT

MARATHON: FINDING GAME [Footage from the Tunnel in Willy Wonka but it's purple]

Hi everyone! Are you a 🍁 Canadian Cartoonist Opposed to AI 🚫🤖? Do you want to tell the government about it? 📢 Read on! (Deadline Sunday March 15) 🧵

From "Guardians of Democracy" commercial by Brikk studio (Sweden). The client is Fackförbundet ST (the Union of Civil Servants), Sweden's largest union of employees in state agencies. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5J...

It is somewhere between deeply amusing and blackly terrifying that Iran's shocking hardline ceasefire conditions which have everyone spinning into a "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE" frenzy are just like, "fuck off and obey the law."

my dudes marathon is so fun, especially if you can get a good crew of three people who've got the same vibes and skill level. sometimes a rando will fill that role well, but it's a gamble. anyway i am once again asking if any moots want to play marathon with me

Hays Code was self enforced! So was Comics Code Authority! These weren’t laws and look what still lasted DECADES and destroyed careers/freedom of expression. US comics industry never recovered from it bc comics aimed at adults still aren’t a thing, that’s why manga filled the market gap.

okay i think some of the systems in marathon are poorly explained, so here's a little thread on how the game clicked for me.