Managed to capture the perfect Mina mlem.

Average oil tanker captain trying to break through the strait of Hormuz

This political programming is interrupted to announce that Maude is the perfect creature.

I don't want the rewards card. I don't have an account. I don't want to sign up. I don't want the monthly newsletter. I don't want the in-store credit card. I don't want to hear about the benefits. I don't want the receipt mailed to me. Just ring up my laundry detergent and let me leave.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

This little sequence turned out okay. Bummer that the screen capture didn't record the VST GUIs (see first comment). #music

Starting wars to generate subject matter for your Hat Store should never be done.

Gave a talk yesterday on the psychology of gameplay for Colorado State University's Game Dev Club. 😁 #gamedev #games #ttrpg

Snickers, get off the cat! Cat? What cat?

Great resource for creators/designers of Solo RPGs!

Action shots from Harvest Dusk, a crisis communications exercise I developed and executed for Adams County, Colorado (with Cory Williamsen and CSU student/intern Addie Browne).

Before today, no F-15 had been shot down in more than 35 years — since January 19, 1991, during the Persian Gulf War. Before today, the U.S. had never had more than one aircraft shot down by friendly fire in a single day, let alone three.

A two-oscillator generative ambient patch. #music

Fetishized vs Strategic Dominance. In the former, they take out the leader because it's all about hyper-masculine American concepts of power and destruction. The latter waits and uses internal disruption to push advantage, and Trump isn't, and his court jesters can't be, patient and smart.

U.S. Central Command officials announced Sunday that three U.S. service members were killed in action during combat operations.

omg the original post, not as the printout version (for ease of reading)

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

FBI Director Kash Patel's new official government photo just dropped.

Conservatives spent years complaining about ”safe-spaces” and “liberal snowflakes” only to turn around and show they are absolutely terrified of ideas they don’t like (“racism is bad” “gender is fluid”) and willing to use state power to avoid the slightest discomfort. The snowiest of flakes.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned. A shocking end for a well-respected studio.

"Mumblesomething LOGISTICS mumblemumble. IT'S ALL Dr. Wictz's FAULT!"

Running four games at Genghiscon tomorrow through Sunday 😁

Why hasn’t anyone ever made a truly excellent movie about Studio 54?

That was me, pecking at the light. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...

One of my superpowers is downloading academic articles to a folder titled "READ" that I subsequently never open

Next Superbowl halftime should include a recreation of the confederate surrender at Appomattox while Jefferson Davis flees the scene dressed as an old lady.

Gonna continue this train and talk about another black creator that means a lot to me. Dwayne McDuffie. One of the founders of Milestone comics which was the first comic book universe that featured black and POC characters and of course Static Shock. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwayne_...

“MAGA-aligned military commanders” is a phrase that shouldn’t exist. Telling subordinates they have to go see the president’s wife’s bribe movie shouldn’t be a thing either. Even in the best case scenario, undoing Trump’s politicization of the military will be long, difficult, crucial work.

I absolutely cannot stand all this militaristic bullshit from these guys who never wore a uniform, never saw war and couldn’t qualify if they wanted to. Our Federal Government is not at war with American citizens and they need to cut this rhetoric out.

“Support President Trump”??? Remember when the DOJ used to act independent of the President as they are supposed to?

Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.

One thing that I’ve long found interesting is that as a staff officer, the effort needed to do a thing and the impact of the thing is wildly uncorrelated. I’ve spent years working on things that went nowhere and had some of the biggest impacts of my career with single emails or simple briefs.

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I ran a local Ai on an air gapped laptop last week to test the thing. It was telling me it was running code, and looking things up on the web and spitting out broken code and numbers like mad. It had no access to the net or a compiler.

Every time Trump breaks the clear letter of the law, the NYT and WaPo write a story about how he’s “pushing boundaries” or “testing the limits of his authority” He's not Chuck Yeager, guys. He's a crook.

Yep, nothing says "masculinity" like using up-armored cosplay bro force to beat up unarmed and defenseless people.

The Don't Tread On Me folks are sure turning into Comply Or Die.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

GOV. WALZ: “Now that Minnesota has been taken out of the investigation, it feels very difficult that we will get a fair outcome. And I say that only because people in positions of power have already passed judgment. They have stood and told you things that are verifiably false.”

"Secret police" is often misunderstood to mean a force that operates covertly, with all their operations secret. But a secret police force's actions are often public. The secret part is hiding their identities, because they're breaking laws to hurt politically disfavored people, and fear reprisals.

PBS taught me English, so... a lot of feelings today. But it's also an important reminder: people talk about how the next administration will fix things, but what Trump and Co. are doing right now will take generations to undo. We can't just sit passively - it's about fighting from every angle.

Welcome to 2026.

Saving this screenshot from Threads as a new reaction image

Heathcliff (back) and Constance (front) #PigeonsOfBsky

Setting up my new birding camera and the instructions say to only use high quality bird feed and to keep it fully stocked. So I’m pretty sure a bird wrote the setup manual.