it's wild how Vampire Survivors goes from "oh neat, I have a whip, like Simon Belmont" to ... whatever this is

You turn to your AI girlfriend and say "I dunno, I'm just having a really hard time, I'm stressed out and I don't know why." "It's normal to be stressed," she says "especially knowing that all your data is out there being sold by unscrupulous brokers. But with my sponsor nordVPN--"

I don't love the way the fallout show depicts Caesar's Legion – I think it gets that they're larpers but misses that they're FASCISTS, they're not generic badguys, they're not raiders with a funny Roman theme, they are pursuing a pretty explicitly fascist social project

really enjoying the new sagamartha kit, lets you make some really classic beefy battletech/titanfall-y boys

my first time in Auckland I walked into the bathroom of the old BK on Queen Street and one of the toilets was just a big hole in the floor, like somebody had ripped up the whole toilet and run away. they'd tried to do the same to the hand dryer but only the casing on the outside had come away

playing armored core 6 again

These teddies have seen your Incognito browser. And they are DISGUSTED. Simpson's Catalogue, Fall and Winter 1918-19. Toronto Public Library, ref ARCTC 658.871 S38.

ended up watching The Signal (2014) and like ... okay it's not terrible but The Block Island Sound absolutely smokes it on the same core conceit with like 1/20th the budget

surprising nobody, the author of this piece is on the big TERF blocklist

every so often I remember the movie Werewolves (2024), whose name really buries the lede that it is about one BILLION werewolves

I JOKED ABOUT LETTERS OF MARQUE LIKE TWO WEEKS AGO WHAT IS HAPPENING

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

eyyyy my Lancer commission finally came in art by Franceso Silva/francescolobo on X

Musk's latest completely bullshit promise is "within 5 years we'll be building AI data centers in space" and I'm going ... do you have any idea how hard it was to build the ISS, what a truly monumental effort it was to build something that's around 100m end to end

"Bloody Oath" is such a funny piece of slang, if you know what it means you imagine a cheerful old man and if you don't you imagine an angel of vengeance with a flaming sword

Paulus Silentarius is puppygirl coded his job is extremely stressful and oppressive and he just wants to be silly and loved send tweet

guess I'm a spaceship now, time to spread to the Imperial Radch babyyyyyy

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

feels like the vibe is shifting. perhaps it's delusion, but I see light on the horizon

my new app Frodo uses cutting-edge technology to identify anybody who wants to destroy democracy then it sends a wee man to shank them

"because AI is being crammed into everything, I could be using it at any time, it's hard to avoid!" should make you angry, not make you go "welp guess I gotta accept AI now"

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

okay naming yourself after Lord of the Rings is kinda odd but why do they ALWAYS pick the villains

Talking to one of these types at a con who asked how I 'got in' with so many 'famous writers' who I'd been talking to and I said "we made friends before anyone knew who we were decades ago by striking up interesting conversations and enjoying each other's company" and he kept re-asking the question.

Andrew Tate has put out a video saying, and I quote, "if I didn't get tired I would've won" and it's such astronomical cope lmao, yeah bro if he'd missed every punch and your hands had rocket boosters you would've won too

guys who get into ANY combat sport in order to be better at street fights are ridiculous but it's doubly-so for HEMA like bro are you gonna bust out your feder when some toughs in leather jackets roll up? are they gonna politely wait while you get your longsword out of your surfboard bag

There's no doubt about it - spend enough time in Night City, and you're eventually going to run into some gonks. Can you guess who you want by your side when the gonks roll up? That's right - some chooms.

more and more places have started making it so the element picker on uBlock origin can't be used on their stupid AI buttons and I swear to god I'm learning how to code just to get around it

sometimes fencing makes you do ridiculous shit. why yes I'm practicing footwork with a coin balanced on my index finger to make sure im stable why do you ask

i really appreciate that Pluribus is kinda anti-second-screen watching. it often goes for minutes at a time without dialogue, it requires proper attention, it must be WATCHED not just put on

Nah you're fine everyone already knows

the bluesky experience

been playing the battletech video game, really enjoying it, but on the other hand why is the driver of ever civilian I'm tasked to protect this MFer

Since it's xmas eve AND there's apparently another wave from xitter, let's have a starter pack X #giveaway thread. Follow, like, & repost this by xmas to A. Follow cool people and B. Win an advanced ebook copy of my pulpy lesbian cyber-romantasy BOOM goes the Bride. Read it before anyone else!

As we start romanticizing art & community again, can we also romanticize writing as a communal activity instead of a elitist loner one? I write best with friends. I love sharing messy WIPs. The most rewarding part of writing is getting to see other people's reactions to what I've made.

if you're wondering why your trans friends everywhere are a little on edge right now, it's because a story about a radical conservative christian student abusing rules and processes to deliberately target a trans instructor consistently gets reframed to omit the entirety of the anti-trans bigotry

It's Christmas day here in Aotearoa New Zealand! Seasons of greetings from the end of the world!

I don't think Keeper is Osgood Perkins' best film but at the same time: 1) Tatiana Maslany is an *incredible* final girl, her performance is the sun this whole thing revolves around 2) the third act has some great reveals (both plot and monster)

This is what it is to be a trans professional. Any pretext will be used to eliminate us. Our institutions abandon us, refuse to fight for us - even when all we're guilty of is doing our jobs correctly. How are we meant to live in society? How are we supposed to win?

NO I will NOT ALLOW it, that NAME is already TAKEN

looking back on my progress: a mech from january, a mech from december

as I said this morning please give this season if you can. here are a few places trying to help: solitarywatch.org/donations/do... www.theyoungcenter.org cityofasylum.org www.zakat.org

there's a moment 30 seconds into the 6th round where you can see Jake Paul's heart break and his hopes shatter

I am posting about the Vasa FOR NO REASON

the king is designing a huge new ship to be the flagship of his fleet, there is absolutely NO way this could go wrong, history has absolutely zero precedent for this, not at all www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Civil War is frustratingly opaque and cowardly about its politics, then Jesse Plemons shows up to give us five minutes of a film that's not afraid of its own subtext. the whole "what kind of American are you" bit is the only time they actually SAY IT

Important takahē news! www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

oh man lmao guess who's in Epstein's book