final fantasy tactics

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

*tapping the sign*

CHOTINER: I don't know, I just feel like I've been tacitly operating in a moral framework that would fall apart with even the barest scrutiny. But maybe that collapse would bring new clarity DOCTOR: Listen, there is an interviewer I want you to talk to. The best in the business. CHOTINER: ...

Silver lining of feeling down is it gives you an excuse to listen to a whole dang lot of Leonard Cohen.

Relistened to All Hail West Texas because I was feeling a bit homesick despite it all. I used to listen to this whenever I drove down I-20 going from New Orleans to Dallas, seeing nothing but trees and rolling fields for hours. I don't know if another album captures the beautiful loneliness of Texas

trains are magic and it’s so embarrassing that the richest country in the history of the world is all “high speed rail? nah we don’t need it”

Autism announcement: I am in Japan for the first time since getting diagnosed and I can fully embrace on a genetic level that trains and monorails are the shit. No more denial, no more downplaying, no more being tsuderr about trains. Those things are real fuckin cool man

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

who up strokin' they sword while lamenting the social realities

the one meager mercy trump has brought into the national hell scape is fewer and fewer people have any tolerance for this consultantspeak drivel. the idiots willing to pay idiots like this guy are dwindling and dying out

my wife just referred to diet cokes as "fridge cigarettes" and i've been stunlocked for the last five minutes

imo a fair conclusion to draw about dem leadership's obstinance in the face of revolt from their voters is that they'd rather win an intra-party fight with their left wing & their own voters than maximize potential electoral gains in the midterms

we started watching the americans and im really loving it but every episode description is “the jennings’ marriage faces another test: a potentially deadly spy mission” yeah dude i know

this would theoretically provide power long enough to play the monorail episode of The Simpsons, which is all we really need electricity to do these days anyway

I think Thenardier is one of my favourite parts of Les Miserables. In a book centred aroundthe social injustices created by poverty it's so good to have a character whose suffering just makes them *worse*, who never learns anything, and who gets away with it completely

On the other hand, the times I’m yelling at my tv because I died for the 137th time in the sands of karak are times I don’t have to think or hear about Charlie fucking Kirk, so

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

You are now Loved by Marmots.

I used to write Father’s Day cards to my dad praising him for traits he didn’t have, hoping it would nudge him into being who I actually needed him to be. Anyway, that’s what Newsom, Ezra Klein, and other conservative-leaning Democrats remind me of in how they’re reacting to Charlie Kirk’s death.

A newt (from 2020)

caves of qud

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

trump is urgently redirecting all scientific funding to a manhattan project scale endeavor focused on making a microscopic camel 🪡

My kid sent this to me and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to unhear it.

genuinely and unbelievably delighted by how silksong just took so long because they were having fun, staying offline, and going at their own pace. human beings need more opportunities to work like this.

got a job for you 621 [dragging jira ticket to your queue]

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The #HugoAward for Best Game or Interactive Work goes to Caves of Qud.

My Jellical Romance

Left Organizers will be served by distinguishing b/w a political force / politician willing to fight versus one who shares our long term outcome goals and distinguish further if they share our short term goals. Remove Trump is an example of short term. SPECIFICALLY to identify our interests. Not to

If your solution to people shitting the streets is cops and not toilets you're just a fascist.

sandwich guy got charged with one count of monte cristo

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!

let me be 100% clear. I am in charge of the left. I am its King. I decide what we talk about and what we don't. I have a whole filing cabinet filled with verboten topics. When people try to speak on these things I have them silenced using my many technological terrors. I do this because I am Evil

live action catbus looking pretty sweet

Blue Prince is intoxicating because it appeals to my ultimate fantasy of getting to live in a house