And now I'm finished and in a year of me reading ≈55 books, this instantly shot to the top 5. If you enjoy Weird Fiction, Strange Cities, Alchemical notes of fantasy and sci-fi, and just plain fantastic fiction, pick up a copy of "The Works of Vermin" immediately!!

Page 274 of "The Works of Vermin" was the precise moment when @hironennes.bsky.social blew my mind, and it's been a wave after wave of things clicking together. Holy shit.

Phenomenally fun game

BUY THIS GAME it is one of the most creative experiences I've ever played and I love it dearly

Will the commentary in this be heavy-handed? Absolutely. Will I still enjoy the hell out of it? Probably!

SpaceX in shambles

Yo @timgettys.bsky.social please tell me you're listening to Verso's Drafts, the new music from the Thank You Update. Lorien made 20 new minutes of awesome music 😭😭😭

'Clair Obscur: Expedition 33' won 9 awards at #TheGameAwards — the most for any game ever 🎮 • Game of the Year • Best Narrative • Best Game Direction • Best RPG • Best Art Direction • Best Score & Music • Best Performance • Best Debut Indie Game • Best Independent Game

Well deserved ❤️ god I love this game!

damn the lead of Saros is hot 👀

God DAMN I can't wait for this game. Fucking love Rahul Kohli

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OHMYGOD YES

My votes for The Game Awards tonight. I know I'll get some wrong but I bet I'll get more of them right!

Every once in a while the Indiana State government comes to its senses. Thank you to @indems.bsky.social for fighting the good fight and to the republicans who came to their senses in opposing this bill.

Did a full playthrough of And Roger... and 🥺 youtu.be/uKMclnYWZiw?...

Ah, see, the fatal flaw with this threat is that our State government hasn't paved the roads in decadesAlso our corrupt GOP supermajority doesn't want to help Hoosiers at all, so this is largely empty :P Fuck Trump

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

The game "and Roger" may have been the most emotionally impactful piece of media I've experienced this year. It could only work properly as a video game and it uses the mechanics of the game itself as strong narrative tools.

main economic message from the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

"He's not interested in uniting the country." Literally referring to the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Ossoff: "This is so much deeper than the politics. What does it say about the moral condition of this Congress that the thing that has them all tied up in knots is a very simple question: Should people's health insurance premiums go up double or triple? This is a policy choice."

What pisses me off even more about shit like this is that nothing in this "commercial" is un-filmable by hiring an actual production crew and actual actors. Like, there's no possible defense, McDonald's just wanted to avoid giving dozens of people a job and instead burn a bunch of power.

NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less. “You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.

@blessingjr.bsky.social Some shows that would be your kinda thing imo: Dark Matter (AppleTV+), Devs(Hulu), Legion(Hulu), Altered Carbon SEASON ONE ONLY (Netflix), Archive 81(Netflix), Scavenger's Reign (Netflix/HBO), and possibly The Strain (Hulu)

hey a fun thing is that if congress is delegating authority to an independent agency then by definition that agency is not "unaccountable." it is still accountable to congress. and it is interesting (read: extremely frustrating) to me that these people just write congress out of existence here.

Two things are playing through my mind routinely right now. The first is that this Supreme Court is illegitimate. The second is these quotes from Letter From a Birmingham Jail, by MLK. 1/

Breaking: Trump's EOs are firstly NOT LAWS. Also Executive Orders are for the Executive branch of the FEDERAL government. He can't limit the regulative ability of states if they choose to do so of their own volition. I know he will try, and courts may let him, but it's just blatantly not a thing.

I'll tell ya, idk what the solution is, but the Hollywood Foreign Press really fucked themselves with this category name. I guess any movie that has a laugh in it anywhere is a comedy now. And musicals? Pssh who ever heard of 'em? (This is mostly due to One Battle After Another being here)

In a universe where entropy is such a major driving force, it could be argued that conservatism is "unnatural" and "against God"

Y'all, if you haven't yet, check out "Kingdom of Night" on Steam. I'm having a blast with it so far and the pixel art/80s vibes are great

Just letting @hironennes.bsky.social know that they have my brain held captive by Works of Vermin. I haven't felt this enamored with a fictional setting since reading Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris trilogy. Something about seedy cities with a mycological edge to them just hit the spot!

@blessingjr.bsky.social you unlocked the craziest Tim lore today

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

The Golden Age.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

blood thirsty maniac

Man you ever have one of those days when you realize you have no real-life friends? Yeah.

Updated this story with a statement from Santa Ragione with their side of what went on today with Humble, but they're confirming Humble told them that "nothing in the game warrants removal from their store."

Humble has relisted Horses.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."

Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.

Indiana Republicans want to carve Marion County (Indianapolis) into four slices. It's shameful, corrupt, and unconstitutional.

he's gotta go

25th Amendment now.

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.