I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd... This year's crop of public domain entrants has some real classics. The Maltese Falcon(book), All Quiet on the Western Front (film), Betty Boop, Marx Brothers' Animal Crackers, Silly Symphony cartoons, and the first four Nancy Drew books.

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

Scary Christmas was this year's tree.

Great show at Chapel of Bones tonight. Weedeater, The Goddamn Gallows, Bronco, and Yes Ma'am. Excellent start to winter vacation.

Put some finishing touches on some high vibrancy goblins. Testing out a new macro lens configuration.

Taking a moment to stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

Photo dump from this week.

tonight is the night I became Dale Gribble and blocked the feds

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky. Block on sight. Protect your digital space. Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them. The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks! But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!! This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free. MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

Wake Forest Pride had a great little drumline.

www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/chiles-... The supreme court is hearing a case today that could lift the ban on "conversion therapy" and this is could be the first brick in the long road to extermination. First they lift the ban, then they will try to make it mandatory. Resist at the first step.

What rights do libraries & archives need to preserve our shared cultural heritage in the digital age? We explore the Four Digital Rights statement with global librarians, incl. Stephen Wyber of @ifla.org. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/fou... Co-hosted with @authorsalliance.bsky.social

Doodling things with colored pencils this evening.

Dug out my colored pencils and drew this crooked tree fella today.

In Paris, the Cluny museum has a display with a set of reliquary boxes and put some cheeky magic the gathering cards with fancy frames into them.

George Lowe was an artist and fine art collector in addition to his more famous work as a voice actor. This glimpse into his home makes me happy, so many books and work on every inch of the walls. A life well lived. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPJf...

If you wanna watch Hoshoryu's amazing run of matches to win the new year Hatsu Basho and achieve Yokozuna, here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1r...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

Pretty good follow up for Thanksgiving leftovers 🍺

I made a "starter pack" of OSR folks to follow. I couldn't fit everyone on it (sorry for those I didn't get to, it's not personal!): go.bsky.app/666yWeT

OSR/indie RPG Starter Pack #2, just adding some more that couldn't fit in #1: go.bsky.app/J9iMkh

Hi everyone. The Onion, with the help of the Sandy Hook families, has purchased InfoWars. We are planning on making it a very funny, very stupid website. We have retained the services of some Onion and Clickhole Hall of Famers to pull this off. I can't wait to show you what we have cooked up.

deck.blue If you view this app on PC i highly recommend using this.

I managed to drag myself through the workday for every day this week. Tomorrow is my birthday. If you haven't updated your passport, hop on it. If you haven't gotten a lawyer yet, go get one. Plan for the worst and hope for the best. I'm resting myself until Monday.

Wasn't ready to relax or sleep just yet, so instead I stayed up until 2am puttering around in HeroForge to mock up my character for a Star Wars 5E game. He has rocket boots. That should be fun.

One thought this morning that might be worth a damn: Yesterday I believed in the basic goodness of human beings. That's in spite of Pol Pot, Stalin, Kissinger, et al. So what, now it's my turn and suddenly this means humans are bad and irredeemable? Privileged ass take, I reject you.

Seeing some new friends migrating over to this platform. So I think it's time to post this again. Being useful helps keep the ennui at bay. Use this tool to import follows from the Twit site. It prepopulates a list and you can click through and choose whom you keep. skeet.labnotes.org

Made it to bedtime without an emotional breakdown. That's a small personal victory. Tomorrow will be work, then i'm going to start inventorying my office, and make a plan to get rid of a lot of my bulkier possessions and extraneous collectibles. Setting up an exit plan will take streamlining.

I grew up on these streets.

Saturday's fun run on the greenway this week was a visit to The Pipes, a local spot for parkour and graffiti.

Greetings @ozone.birb.house I've been working in game business and game dev for a while now, if you can add my labels.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dmj... This is an absolute game changer! The app was already amazing, this allows full scale shifting, item positioning, and untethered poses.

Today's weather is a preview of the incoming summer heat, so I'm trying to find that sliver of time to take my daily run between the roasting overhead sun and biting insect swarms at dusk. I think 6:00 p.m. is the sweet spot today.

Happy International Workers' Day! Did you know that the holiday began as an AMERICAN tradition? That's right - we gave the world May Day. Why does the US celebrate labor in September, and not May? Well...it actually has to do with the fight for the 8-hour day and a key event in Chicago history!

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www.adeptusars.com/wp-content/u... This year's Golden Demon slayer sword best in show is ludicrously good.

I had so many otherwise reasonable people insist I read Hillbilly Elegy to help me, someone from Appalachia, understand Appalachia. It's been a real joy taking my victory lap as Vance continues to prove himself to be the absolute worst.

I saw a thread where everyone was using that GitHub map generator to share your travels, so I got curious. I've seen a lot more of the continent than I thought.

Do you remember the game consoles you got in order? Ti-99/4A NES Game Boy SNES Playstation 1 Playstation 2 Xbox Gamecube Playstation 3 Xbox 360 Game Boy Advance SP Nintendo Wii Xbox One Had games on the family IBM DOS PC around 1989, and we upgraded to a Gateway 2000 in 1996 and got online.

I wrote about D&D's long, strange year—and how the cultural explosion of Baldur's Gate 3 and the growing appraisal of Honor Among Thieves should've made it the TTRPG's highest of highs... if 2023 hadn't been bookended by two devastating failures of corporate hubris.

Free Troika? Free Troika. www.troikarpg.com/resources

Night sky after dusk

I grew up in West Virginia and we left just after college. The economic and political situation was untenable there. Since leaving, it became an absolute right-wing madhouse at the state level. We tried Wisconsin, and the cycle repeated. Then North Carolina a decade ago, and again it repeats.

Milo Manara's comic adaptation of Umberto Eco's "Name Of The Rose"! Holy shit, incredible, why am I only hearing about this now, etc etc etc. I mean---look at this goddamn art (from the bit where Adso has a religious vision while looking at reliefs on a door, like the dork he is):

Always a small thrill to see your name in the credits. Assassin's Creed Mirage launched this week. Ubisoft sprang for some wonderful Mediterranean food at the office, as a treat.