Let me tell you the tale of Charlie, a simple girl that discovers she's long lost royalty, and when arrives at the Castle, the prince himself falls for her! What she does? Falls for his fiancée. SideQuested is a Fantasy RomCom webcomic, by me and @kbspangler.com, free to read at sidequested.com

Proud to be a Luddite. From this article: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what...

It's usually just a tool to share their hateful beliefs. It's never going to be "trans rights are human rights, debate me" because it isn't up for debate, good people aren't playing this childish game like the trolls are because the stakes are too high. Don't let these losers waste your time.

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Let me get this right... evolutionarily speaking: Some creatures crawled up out of the oceans onto land, grew land-traversing limbs and became land-dwelling mammals, then for whatever reason some of those creatures decided to re-enter the oceans for good? Huh. I guess all's whale that ends whale.

This is your regular reminder that Covid is airborne. It’s not over. It’s still killing and disabling people. It’s a novel virus and we still don’t know the full long term effects, but what we do know is not encouraging. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick. Protect one another.

What's that, little app? You want me to accept new and more intrusive cookie preferences? *deletes app*

Does the world need a "long after everyone's stopped talking about it" take on the latest Superman movie? Probably not, but it's getting one anyway after I finally saw the film last night. I mostly liked it! (But only *mostly*.)

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: No means no. I do not want to be reminded in 3 days. Or 30. Not later. "No" should be available as a final answer.

This is something that probably hurts user growth but is unambiguously good about the day to day use of this website. There’s so many grifter accounts with a shit ton of followers that I forget exist bc I don’t repost them and the people I follow don’t repost them, you can actually curate your feed

Peter Thiel giving lectures about the antichrist is just another illustration of the fact that the most dangerous thing about billionaires is that they exist in a world where nobody tells them their stupid ideas are stupid and are therefore prone to inflict their stupid ideas on all of us.

If you have four solid entire hours to carve out, well, this might be an interesting watch...

I can't imagine attending a five-movie-slots-per-day-for-8-days film festival, but Melissa and guest 'caster Kelvin are slogging through. More power (and fancy ice cream) to 'em.

As I was saying... It's not sustainable, and it's bad! Just imagine what we could do with the money that is being burned on dysfunctional techbro ego projects. Imagine the progress we could make without this technology polluting our planet and wasting our time, as well as other finite resources.

Cookie Monster channeling his inner Norman Krasner wasn't something I expected to see this morning, but, here we are. "Ugggggghhh!" indeed, my good muppet.

Gen AI doesn't actually perform ANY cognitive functions. Hope this helps!

Wait, if My Dress-Up Darling's 2nd season is over, that means no more listening to its all-time earworm of an ending song? Hmm. Where's that single being sold, let's go find out.

The game's website (linked in quoted post) has a Discourse Generator that kicked out, among other wacky gems, "Flat Earth Theory is a psyop by big k-pop" and you know what, they may have sold me on this game right there.

I finished one helluva beautiful page today for agirlandherfed.com . If you haven't, maybe it's time to do a re-read of the whole thing. We're working in the very last comics now.

Tell you what, folks, it's been a VERY long couple of weeks, working hard to bring out a LOT of content and navigate a hardware migration in the process. If any of you could toss me a couple of bucks, whether on Patreon or just PayPal, that would mean the world right now. paypal.me/newbiespud

For my 3D printing enthusiasts:

Satisfactory.

The solution right now is not saying “move to Mastodon, to Pillowfort, use Picarto galleries” etc, bc that won't stop this silent escalation of censorship and sexual repression on the internet. The issue is not which platform we choose, but rather raising our voices against what is happening.

One of the small joys of coming back to Guild Wars 2 is visiting my homestead every day or so to take a pickaxe to my candy corn mining node. I look forward to celebrating the Halloween event again. I can't eat real candy corn anymore, but I can carry the candy corn in my heart nonetheless.

Episode 216: Fantastic Fest 2025 Day 2 We are podcasting daily from Fantastic Fest 2025! Today we bring you news of the movies we saw on Day 2! Movies discussed: Her Will Be Done The Ice Tower When We Were Live Reflection in a Dead Diamond Mother of Flies Sirat Vicious Silencio

To all the people canceling their Disney+ subscriptions, please think about taking that money and supporting some SWers and artist. Like $15 can be spread to multiple artists which honestly goes a long way for small creators.

Been spending a LOT of time in games lately, as a mental refuge. So here: The latest of my sporadic website updates is about the progress of my current #GuildWars2 main.

News and solidarity! #Covid surges increase in US, UK, Ireland, Canada. One man's Covid infection lasted 2 years (new record). #LongCovid has a pooled prevalence of 36% worldwide. Online horror seminars, regional news and Covid data, vax updates, and more. Link: www.patreon.com/posts/covid-...

Remember when Disney lawyers were supposed to be this invincible force of cataphracts that would bury any opposition, no matter if it was a government or a grief-stricken parent putting Spider-man on their son's grave

and if you think we're the future / that we build tomorrow / when was the last day without a war? / we speak of greatness that we have never been -- VNV Nation, "Testament"

The surprisingly connected origins of "astrology", "stellar", "disaster", and "star". #etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #astrology #disaster #stellar youtube.com/shorts/wypsy...

On the day of Robert Redford's passing, do yourself a favor tonight and rediscover the often overlooked 80's hacker thriller "Sneakers." Amazing cast, great script, fun performances from everyone.

Sometimes, if you're diligent and clever and keep at your writing, the perfect phrasing just... comes to you.

It's exhausting, and none of us are infallible, and due to the "one of today's 10,000" rule none of us can know everything about everyone at all times. It'd be nice if we had more than, like, a tiny handful of fringe outlets that we could rely on at all.

big sothis [ #rsk_art #fefw ]

Remember: You can block if you want to. You can leave those jerks behind. Your friends can block and if they don't block then they're no friends of mine. Etc, you know how the song goes. Don't engage, don't boost, just block and improve the general air quality of the skies of blue.

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

So you're saying you could add a "for Dummies" wrapper around The Art of War and it'd be the exact same book

You know how every OSHA regulation is written in blood? Every entry in The Art of War is written in Sun Tzu's tears of pure frustration at the rich dinguses who keep losing battles for extremely preventable reasons.

Thank you to the glamour photo bear for making everyone's timeline today a bit less... grim? Is that the word? Sure.

Going live soon-ish with more Pokemon Salt and Shadow with guest commentary from my friend who helped make it! I definitely did not over-prepare for this session, no sirree, nope. twitch.tv/newbiespud

It's #Satisfactory 1.0 anniversary day, so I wrote about how much (and the various ways) I adore this game. In case you need a distraction or whatever, for no particular reason.

Ah. Feels like there's a new mute word for the day, doesn't it.

I apologize for nothing. Absolutely nothing. #Satisfactory

I’m worried they can.

Happy 1.0 Anniversary Day, #Satisfactory. I love this game so much, and have for years. Even if I'm feeling a bit stuck in my current solo game, the answer to that will probably just be "start a new game." And I WILL. I love it.

I actually played some #Satisfactory for the first time in... a while. (Look, sometimes you need a break.) Tonight I got started on a plan for fully automating SAM Fluctuator production, something I should've done ages ago... whoops.

Back at the space ninja action! Let's go!