I've heard "speed shrinks the world" before but Aviassembly is the first game that made me feel it. Upgrading to ramjets from turbo props makes all locations feel so much closer together because I have to start slowing down for landing thousands of feet sooner aka almost instantly.

I'd probably watch an anime adaptation of this martyrslop. I've certainly enjoyed worse.

Why can't Arknights get a collab with To Be Hero X? The biggest non-hoyo Chinese gacha plus the biggest donghua should collab. X's dimension hopping shenanigans could explain it. Both have philosophy and social commentary at their core. Come on...

Her excuse is that the data centers in question could create 100 permanent jobs in Maine. Democrats are getting a nazi candidate for the senate because this is the kind of person the establishment Democrats picked to oppose him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So, the furry chart in reverse?

A systematic examination of assassination attempts on world leaders shows that autocrats are more likely to be targeted. As repressiveness increases, attempts go up. However, weak/floundering autocrats are at greatest risk. Remind you of anyone? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Silicon Valley needs someone to swoop in and save it, by destroying AI.

The thing is, if they wanted to, they could easily write an article about "if you see someone shoplifting food, no you didn't". That's a relatively common meme that has been going on for years now. Heck, it received some media coverage when SNAP was canceled. But that's too popular to fear monger.

My funny Lower Deckers

Come to the Fediverse. We already have boykisser emoji for cats, dogs, foxes, possums, robots, and more.

Even though I'm not whaling (though I am probably spending more than I should) on Trickcal, I have still pulled almost every squeezy cheek. The funny part is the character I want most, Rudd, is completely useless to me mechanically. Oh well, she'll show up eventually.

I received the Babylon 5 blu ray collection as a gift. I'm shocked at the quality improvement compared to the version I've streamed in the past. That said, the higher fidelity makes the budget of the show so much more apparent. Maybe 1080P is what makes sci-fi too expensive for TV these days.

For the curious, this is literally how the Chinese government works. Their economy is mostly capitalist but the government owns shares of the big companies, sometimes golden shares giving them extra rights. Wonder if Republicans will coup over this like promised. www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/p...

Factorio has done major refactors to core systems to improve the performance of mods that used kludgey work arounds to do stuff they hadn't originally envisioned. You don't have to hate your community. You can embrace them.

I'm really enjoying Aviassembly. But now I can't tell if I always sucked at flying or if I am just out of practice. Still, immensely fun and satisfying gameplay loop.

Must tone down how epic I'm making this filler scene so it'll be awesome when I finally get to fire Chekov's planet buster when the stakes matter.

Wait, Ameku MD doesn't have any official merch? Just acrylic standees of fanart? That's such a bummer.

i don't know how to parody this anymore

Nefarith 😈🐉 #ArknightsEndfield #SpringWake

Lol, 83% of Warner Bros Discovery shares voted against giving David Zaslav his golden parachute. He's getting it anyway because rules don't apply to rich people. But people do hate him.

Wait, he stalked his ex who had a restraining order against him, rammed her car multiple times, fled the scene, and drove his car into a cop but he's getting no jail time or even a fine? This country hates women so much.

Just finished watching Lower Decks with my mom. She asked why it didn't get a spin off since it looked like they were setting one up. She asked if it was Paramount again. She has been watching since TOS first aired. She knows what's up. #StarTrek #LowerDecks

I thought this was an exaggeration but that block list couldn't have more trans people blocked if he manually hit every Chloe, Luna, and Zoey.

Here's my original character Waffles the Wizard. He was hired by the king to maintain the ley lines that used to work great.

Maybe that's why the Fediverse will never take off. I love my instance's administrator and most of the other admins I interact with. Sure, plenty of them suck but they just defederate my instance or vice versa then I don't have to put up with them.

Oh, neat. Tragodia's OP is sung by Chris Mann. While he got his start in The Voice, he was the Phantom of the Opera when they did an American tour. youtube.com/watch?v=-_v5...

Did anyone make an AMV out of Rob Cantor's "Shia LeBeouf"? I feel like there has to be a perfect anime pairing with that even if I don't know what it would be.

There's a phenomenon called elite projection. It's where the rich and powerful people assume what's best for them (as determined by their preferences) must be the best for everyone else because they are the best. This is elite projection by someone suicidal.

I sure love To Be Hero X. Now that I finally have a DVD player again, I sure wish I could send the creators a small amount of money to get physical copies of the show to watch any time. Alas, Aniplex did not forsee this possibility so the only physical release is the Japanese collectors editions.

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

Holy shit. @why.bsky.social makes so much more sense. He got the job and can't be fired because he's married to the (former) CEO. This site is even more pathetic than we all thought.

Does AtProto have a way to block an entire domain/instance? Surely, I shouldn't be required to block every user of pds(.)neonazis(.)org if somebody makes one. #AtProto #Atmosphere

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@bsky.app had an outage on April 3rd, their biggest outage ever on the 16th, and is now having trouble serving images and videos. Is that new CEO going to fix things at some point? I know they were brought in to find a way to make money but the website falling apart this bad hurts valuation too.

Sadly, he's not actually lost. The Trump administration just got caught lying about negotiations with Iran. He was allegedly in Islamabad for negotiations but was on camera in the white house.

What's the equivalent of chicken noodle soup in other cultures? Where I grew up it's the traditional dish that your mom makes for you when you're sick to help you get better. It's easy to digest and doesn't hurt coming back up if it doesn't stay down. But that can't be universal, right?

I just discovered PointlessHub's channel on YouTube and I'm shocked he doesn't have a video on the first Stargate movie given that Roland Emerich made it. Sure it's not a disaster movie but it is based on a book Emerich read and ran with.

Remember how companies jacked up prices in response to the Trump tariffs raising costs of everything? Well, they're getting a refund on the money they didn't lose. www.npr.org/2026/04/19/n...

The best way to explain what's wrong with Israel to Democrats is that it's gerrymandering. There is roughly a 50-50 split in the population of a one state solution. But they want a Jewish state so, they rigged the elections with unfair lines. Maybe they'll care about that more than genocide.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

A man killed his 7 children from ages 1.5-12 and a family friend. He also wounded his wife and girlfriend when shooting them. This isn't just about guns. It's about men. He's a family annihilator. Around half of all mass shootings are familicide. Men who hate their families kill them.

For when the (((echo))) is too subtle.

I still wish Nowell was a 2⭐. He exists to remind us that immortality isn't a free path to success in Arknights. So many of our plots involve ancient beings resolving centuries old grudges and doing crazy long plans. But it isn't all of them, life can suck for them too.

Hezbollah exists as a DIRECT result of Israeli violence in Lebanon. Literally. They formed in 1982 following Israel's invasion and occupation. They drove the IDF out of southern Lebanon in 2000. Western news media defiantly fails to report these facts. #IsraeliTerrorism #LebanonUnderAttack

I made the same mistake to end each of my first three runs of Coal LLC: I didn't have what I needed to get back out of the hole after digging myself into it. My brain must be smoother than the Avogadro sphere.

I'm seeing people spouting the staged assassination theory. I think the fastest way to debunk it is look at the gun they recovered. It has an MOA accuracy of 2-3. Given the distance, that means a perfect shot will land within a 3" diameter circle. What 3" circle covers an ear but no vital organs?