oh brother, another bad post from political influencer beltway brian. i am furious at beltway brian all of the time. i share screencaps of beltway brian's posts with people who have no idea who he is. i hate all of beltway brian's posts and i read all of them every single day, including weekends

This is just the series in a nutshell really

*Pas le Québec

You're working on the final cut of Shrek and, at the very last minute, have to replace Smash Mouth's All Star with a completely different song. What do you go with instead?

My naming convention for pets is that there are essentially two valid paths, depending on what you want to be shouting when the creature is annoying you at 2AM. a) Austere human name. Such as Archie, Esther, Julius or Roberta. b) A starchy food. Your Muffin, Noodles or Potato.

A selection of shots animated by Éléa Gobbé-Mévellec for Ernest & Celestine (2012), dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner, La Parti Productions

So many professionals can see how AI is suitable for replacing someone else's job. Meanwhile, their own work requires nuance and experience that machines couldn't possibly replicate. I think every job is more complicated than it appears from the outside. And is worthy of consideration and dignity.

I don't believe it's possible to enforce norms across an entire app like Bluesky (or old Twitter). You have clusters of friends and communities, but posts regularly break containment and reach users who don't understand them.

Thank you, @theonion.com

I think it's @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social who says that we may be entertained by hypercompetent people doing cool shit, but we are *moved* by watching people who are trying to be good

rules for strip settlers of catan

You don't love aimlessly wandering around a barren wasteland in an avatar ripped from popular IP?

Bluesky Lifesavers: 1. OnlyPosts Feed. Shows posts from the folks you follow; no reposts or replies! HUGELY helpful for high-traffic days like Portfolio Day 2. Pronouns labeler. Shows your pronouns to anyone using the labeler! 3. Deck.blue. This is how I make clickable hyperlinks + scheduled posts.

Sorry that’s literally insane. Anyone who posts selfies… get out of there!!!

It's under 26 minutes long. Dr. Seuss + Boris Karloff + Chuck Jones. It's perfect. It's on a ton of streaming services. And it'll make your day so much better. Do yourself a favor and Grinch it up.

I stay on the Lodge Cast Iron mailing list so I can read things like this and say "that's right, king" out loud to an empty room

One of our BG leads puts pictures of peoples cats in as placeholders, you could be bringing joy into the world with things that already exist instead of using the slop machine

What's funny is the PDF editor built into your MacBook will warn you if it thinks you're using a black rectangle to improperly redact text.

Apple sure makes premium products.

read CHIPWRECKED here www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

maybe comics were a mistake

I adore King of Dragon Pass and Six Ages, despite being very bad at keeping my unfortunate bands of raiders alive.

Blippo+ ($11.99) - the people behind Untitled Goose Game have taken a whole new turn: a wild simulation of channel surfing cable TV, but delivered to you from another planet. feels like something from the multimedia CD-ROM glory days, shined to a finish. store.steampowered.com/app/3323850/...

It's time for another batch of Verge articles that are completely free to read for the day. First up: @superantonio64.bsky.social made a list of all the prompts in Microsoft's holiday-themed Copilot AI ad, then checked them twice. Guess what happened

Thanks to Amazon Music for featuring OTM on its Best of 2025 list! If you happen to be in Time Square please take a photo when we show up on this billboard:

Every morning LinkedIn puts a job post that I've told them I don't want to see in my Top Picks, greyed out, with the note: "We won't recommend this job anymore." THEN STOP SHOWING IT TO ME.

The Slay the Princess trailers are all excellent, but here's one of them. It's hugely helpful that the game has a narrator who can spell out the premise (and that the premise is unique and hooky!) and the narrator playing off the princess is 😘👌🏻

A huge step, in Canada

Also if you want to get into Moho, 12.5 is up for 25 bucks on the ol’ humblebundle as a revival bundle: www.humblebundle.com/software/pro...

Give us new Scrabble words you cowards.

I begged them to let me hire some weirdos to write some Lower Decks EU novels with saucy covers and they said no.

Goodness knows I’ve got massive lists of ideas, I’d need 100 years at least to use them all up. And there are always more new ones to add. If anyone really believes that ideas will run out, that’s a skill issue, maybe they should spend more time actively thinking.

Some economist at The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas considered the possibility that Sam Altman is either building robot God or robot Satan and then drew this chart.

Any time a headline ends with a question mark you can replace the "is" with an "isn't."

The most important question to ask about any new product or feature is "Does this solve a problem that real people have?"

The guy who wants you to put his proprietary coconut oil supplement in your coffee thinks almonds will kill you.

I've seen Wake Up Dead Man once in theaters, and now once at home and I've decided it's my favorite so far. It's probably the only time I've been sad thinking about future movies in the series because I won't get to see the dynamic of Blanc and Father Jud again. It was just so satisfying!

While working at Toon Boom, I had the chance to co-direct a 10-minute documentary following the production of the #Snoopy Presents specials at WildBrain Studios. #Peanuts #Animation

I shall become a gravy pirate.

I'm of the opinion that experts shouldn't be taken seriously outside their field of expertise, which for Galloway is… marketing.

Nothing is more effective at stamping out a lifelong love of reading than the way literature is taught in classrooms.

im begging people to get off of twitter or any social media that makes you feel awful about people in the world. please build joy however you can, its a precious resource and you need it to build healthy boundaries and get through the real battles.

I swear every time I see someone gushing about how amazing the latest vibe-coding toys are, it’s always someone who has NO CLUE what they are doing, or whether the auto-generated results are any good or actually useful for solving any real problems

showing a trailer at the Game Awards costs anywhere from $450,000 to a cool $1 million.. here's my old-ass Tiny Tires trailer for free ❤️ #indiegames

placeholders should be so bad you can't miss them or so adequate it wouldn't matter if they shipped. terrible or legally unusable assets which blend in are liability and sign of negligence also these placeholders rule

As an alternative to vibecoding an app, you can search for the restaurant's name and location along with "health inspection" and find detailed reports on each visit collected by the state in plain language.

The most pertinent part of this story, to me, is that even someone who hasn’t substantially coded in years could almost immediately discover that the AI coding assistance products (like all Big AI LLM products) are designed to create emotional dependence in their users right from the start.

Thanks to @retropals.bsky.social, I am now aware of Home Alone 2: Kevin's Dream, an unreleased Game Boy game which features some kind of nightmarish creature with the heads of Harry and Marv as its final boss. And now you are too. (Screenshot from the invaluable resource that is @tcrf.net.)