What gets me about executives at movie/videogame studios being taken aback at consumer backlash to AI is that they seem genuinely surprised that we like the human beings that make the things that we like

This is incredible news. Today, Virginia officials will unveil a statue of Barbara Johns at the Capitol to replace one of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that had stood for more than a century. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

I understand that time is a construct and days move into each other with no care for the boundaries we have set in order to count them. Tomorrow is built from a 1000 yesterdays, not from its arbitrary designation on a calendar. But nevertheless - fuck 2025.

I don’t know how to process the horrific fire hose of tragedy that has been omnipresent but has spiked this weekend, and I suspect I’m not alone. We aren’t meant to carry this much suffering and be able to function at “normal” capacity. Be gentle with yourself and others, if you can.

Well. Got basically...nothing? South of Midnight has a confirmed PS5 port early next year. They announced a new Star Wars game, but it's The Old Republic, not the Jedi series (will still be playing, I think). And E33 shadowdropped its DLC.

So we’re all feeling burnt out, right?

Posting this little 2 minute masterpiece again. It's a French supermarket Christmas ad. It's everything that McDonalds ad is not. I prefer human art and creativity over whatever the fuck that was. If that makes me a luddite and anti-tech then a] so be it and b] kindly fuck off.

This is quite a thing from the people who brought you a copyright extension act that strains the rule against perpetuities. Actual human artists can't tell stories with your characters for decades to come, but Sam Altman's toy can put them into porn, no problem.

Generations of steely eyed, take-no-prisoners Disney IP lawyers are screaming anew in hell today

The legal fight over Virginia board appointments is over. The 22 Youngkin picks rejected by Democrats will not join their respective university boards, handing Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger a chance to immediately reshape VA higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Pastor is completely correct here, no notes.

if i am elected to represent the hardworking people of my district, i will make sure that every resident, no matter who they are, can learn how to play the convoluted card game from the Witcher

Its been remarkable the spine of the rank and file Federal Judiciary particularly when compared to the Calvinball Roberts Court

The reason the judiciary functions is because judges understand that despite everyone being human beings who hold grudges and have stupid opinions and peccadilloes and flaws, there is a sense that you have to justify what you're doing on more than "because I say so." This Court is undermining that.

We’re a week out from The Game Awards, and instead of a bingo card, I decided to make a wishlist, of sorts. I’ll follow up after to see which, if any, of these things I get.

#tbt to a month ago, today. The Schadenfreude still makes me smile.

*watches ad, steeples fingers, looks at VA Dem bench* Elaine Luria Run for Senate instead of HD2 Challenge?

it's advent you know what that means

Please don’t fuck this up. Please don’t fuck this up. Please don’t fuck this up. These two games are so precious to me. Please. Please be good.

what do you MEAN I'm supposed to do work now, isn't everyone off until the new year

I restarted my router and kept doing the setup process over and over and over again. It failed several more times. And then randomly worked? I don't fucking know anymore. I hate technology. Especially printers. Printers can burn in the fiery depths of Hell.

Unless I can somehow beat this printer into reconnecting to the wifi it's stopped recognizing for no reason (I have tried every bit of troubleshooting - none of it has worked), I am never buying another HP product again. Dad got me this one just over a year ago as a gift. And. Yeah.

look, when the dog on your team has been dunking the basketball untouched for years it would be pretty surprising to see the other team finally roll up to the park with their own jersey-wearing labrador

he fell victim to one of the classic blunders! the most famous of which is, ‘never answer the phone for isaac chotiner,’ but only slightly less well-known is this: ‘never behave in a manner which causes derek guy to critique your fashion choices’

kennedys were a mistake

This is mooted in about 60 days or so, since he’ll be out of office. :)

Please be good. Please be good. Please be good.

*glances at Game Awards nominees for music* I knew this would happen, and I don’t fucking know what to vote for. Silksong is my current background music, but it’s on rotation with Hades II and E33. So. I’ll be happy, regardless, for a lot of the winners, I think.

the doom and salvation of the republic is going to rest on the last emotion everyone still has in common spite

all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading

few things have inspired as much grim, hollow pride in my country as seeing my nation's capital blanketed in obscenities, warnings, and insults towards and about the local ethnic cleansing force

It’s not “retaliation.” It’s meeting your minimum ethical requirements to hold a law license. Either we deserve to be a self-regulating and policing profession, or we don’t. Oathbreakers can get fucked.

There are currently 37 fics on AO3 with Trump/Clinton (Bill) parings, 25 of them are marked "Explicit"

the crown is in the gutter, Jennifer Carroll Foy/Sam Rasoul/Ghazala Hashmi/Lashrecse Aird/yknow honestly whoever at this point

Someone please fucking primary Mark Warner. Do not make me do it myself.

I hit the first Underworld track as I walked through the doors of my office building for the first time in over 40 days. “All I hear are screams” inside my mind indeed.

Let’s do this in Virginia

*sighs* Fine, give me the GabeCube. I refuse to get a PC, and I want to play Steam Games on my TV.

Warner is up for reelection. He was widely seen driving towards surrender behind the scenes, but he's voting no in public because it's unpopular. The real question is whether he supports a senate leadership change. If not, someone who supports senate leadership change should primary him.

I think Kaine’s probably retiring after this term, and he’s also being a sin-eater for Warner (who is up in 2026) here. I am so angry that 40 days without work or pay might have been for nothing. But this isn’t over quite yet.

No kings, only this queen

making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

From the top rope

cannot wait for this guy to fade into obscurity as a has-been

I wonder how the council of unelected law wizards is handling tonight. Well, Alito's sorted: he's about to fly several flags that they don't let you display in Germany

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

virginia democrats winning the three big offices with a cia agent, an indian muslim immigrant, and a black lawyer who loves committing terms of service violations is real 2025 democratic party moment

You can’t layoff most of the state and think you weren’t gonna pay for it. That orange prick and his goons were delusional for that.