I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

The FIFA Peace Prize doesn't mean what it used to

There have been issues with bus tracker in the past few weeks - since mid-December. The City of Edinburgh Council is migrating to a new bus tracker system for third-party apps to obtain data from. In mid-December the old bus tracker system started to give out estimated (non-live) times only.

Saying ”Grok apologized” is like If I type “YOU’RE A BITCH” into Speak-And-Spell and tell you “Speak-An-Spell says you’re a bitch”

Es ist wieder soweit! It's time to take down and responsibly dispose of your xmas tree. Please consider the Christmas tree cannon

Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat

Amyway. Every memtion of tax-dodger supreme James Dyson is an excuse to remind everyone that Henry vaccuums are incredible AND made in the UK. www.myhenry.com/henry-hvr160 Gonna get their pet hair one when our current machine dies.

I sent this video to my friend and she got mad at me

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

Consumer PSA: A lot of stores will advertise an Xmas tree, but the package actually *contains* a Ymas tree. DON'T BE FOOLED.

The fucking kitchen roll, man.... 😂😂

Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges

I briefly came out of vacation hibernation today for a press interview. We wound up talking about how much of a mess the AAA games industry is in right now that (generative) AI is seen by execs as the solution to the very problems it created for itself over the past 20-30 years.

Playing around with using my lens flares inside the visor glass material , really digging this #GameDev #UE5 #UnrealEngine #TechArt

A quite demented Leader column published today by The Times. First, this in which it says that the Supreme Court decision mandated that single sex spaces be divided on the basis of "biology" not gender.

This much cool should be illegal

This from @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World newsletter. Spontaneous delight is one of my main reasons for being alive so, yeah. This sucks.

I mean, I thought he looked pretty great, also I will watch this special

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

The inevitable clash of the South African racist, 'want to rule the world' bros. Split the damn prize and be done.

Shirokuro, a Japanese restaurant in NYC's East Village, where the interior mimics a hand-drawn black-and-white sketchbook.

The BMA has published an updated policy position on the rights of transgender and non-binary people in healthcare settings. www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...

In 2026, the PSP will be as old as the Commodore 64 was when the PSP launched.

Hey losers leave trans folks alone

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Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year

Also - I've posted about my journey so far collecting PS1 games and how I have somehow found myself cataloguing all 3500 or so PAL variants... www.psxpaldb.com/blog/my_coll...

The existence of Solid and Liquid Snake, suggests the existence of Gaseous Snake and Plasma Snake.

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Discworld QOTD, from Thief of Time

Steam Replay accidentally exposing that barely anyone is playing new games anymore. Just 14% of total playtime was for 2025 games Wonder why new studios are dying so frequently

this is perfect

@memcard.art - your site is SO COOL!

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Think "Black Label" = original PS1 release? Not quite. Hundreds of PAL PS1 games were released BEFORE the black label existed in 1997. For early titles like Tomb Raider, the black label version is actually the reprint. New post diving into this collector confusion www.psxpaldb.com/blog/black_l...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

When this guidance is published (given legal standing), as it almost certainly will be, as a trans man I will not be allowed to use non-unisex public toilets. Which is almost every public toilet. Just want that to sink in, there. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

people are blogging about the game awards so it's time to link to my blog post from 2023 where I said what is still my firm opinion to this day auratriolo.com/blog/2023/12...

Okay - continuing work over the last few weeks on adding more data to PSXPALDB.com Also made a post about opening PS1 cases because the top results in Google recommend using a knife 🫠 localhost:1313/blog/opening... We're tracking 1486 games - and 3131 variants so far...

These Fan-Made WipEout Lego Sets Are Amazing, And You Can Build Them Yourself. (Repost)

Being a solo dev means being your own designer and your own project manager. Part of me wants to make incredibly intricate procedurally generated flowers, and part of me knows I have an unfinished Jira ticket* entitled "Save System" (*Metaphorically. I would never make myself use Jira)