WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army

The witch made him hot chocolate. "They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am." He took a sip. "They say I can overcome any hardship." "Mm," said the witch. "And I can. I do." The witch said nothing. "But I shouldn't have to!" "No." The witch held the hero as he wept. "No, you shouldn't."

3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment. 2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.

full disclosure: the brawl stars tcrf article has been deleted due to a cease & desist. you can find the text of the notice on that page. i've reached out in hopes a human might see this and move to retract it, but in the mean time, RIP

they just love admitting this shit out loud, man

sort of incredible to read a review that doesn't just made a vague nod at AI being bad, but actively reckons with the ways in which falling obsessively to AI usage actively obliterates the artistic intent and integrity of the work you've made.

The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.

[redacted] to these people

it isn't about how good you are with the tool, or if you're perfectly capable without it, or if it was just used to summarize functions you didn't care to read: "no ai" means "no ai". you could be the safest driver in the world, but "pedestrians only" still means no cars

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

2026 Primary Woke Wave

you have SO MUCH antisemitic bullshit to answer for, you stupid, rancid piece of shit. Disappear in disgrace. Mamdani has none. Unlike you, he hasn't defended Nazis and open antisemites. You aren't concerned with Jewish safety and you sure as fuck aren't with Muslim safety either

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

this website is run by the weakest most mewling sickly helpless babies

"That Time I Got Too Drunk And Accidentally Swore An Eternal Oath Of Brotherhood With Liu Bei!?" etc

Still need more baseball? We found a CD in our archives containing dozens of unused voice lines from MLB Slugfest 20-03 rejected by the MLB. Here's some of our favorites.

finally wrote that blog post, in which i argue that "people will lie about using AI for coding" is not a good reason to allow people to use AI for coding: blog.xkeeper.net/thoughts/ran...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

"Trans sisters." No, bitch, no Quisling is my sister. "a fully passing trans woman" - because the rest of us Don't Count, for some reason? Water preserve me. I just want to piss in peace, for fuck sake. I also love how she continues to just not address trans men at all. 1/

I consider my business settled with my hobbit brothers

Go fuck yourself

disadvantaged communities since the advent of social media: Help! We're constantly targeted by trolls who isolate us, harass us, & diminish/silence our contributions to public life! big brain bsky admins: what if there was a button where, if enough people pressed it, i didnt have to ever see you

Trying to start an actual fire 🔥 with this opening sentence.

Last night, while I was in the throes of a pretty severe breakdown, dear little Solstice here decided to show up to try to help. ... or just to demand cuddles for her own benefit, but either way, it helped. She's really hard to get a picture of, though. #caturday

Picture this exact scenario, but it started happening a decade ago and now every agency you work with won't shut up about you taking more time for less pay to correct their magic machine's mistakes and you'll have just the slightest idea what your games' localizers have put up with this whole time.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Don't use Fedora Linux

3 normally, 6 if they've been subjected to some of my more fiery rants about [ gestures vaguely at the world ]. That's my guess.

And, related: Disabled editor/writer looking for paid remote work. I have credited roles on @spiderwebsoftware.bsky.social's Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor (proofreading) and on Nienix: Cosmic Warfare (English script rewrite). Professional email: mjwalter[at]crystal-key.net

So, another disability denial. Because apparently the doctor they sent me to telling them that I needed to be on disability wasn't enough in the first place. Appeal denied. Story doesn't end there, folks. 1/

Centrist extremists, man. They don't care where they move, they care only that they remain moveable. They say they wish to persuade, but their only tactic is to be persuaded.

When I look at the game industry right now I get this very strong sense like the industry has somehow reached a conclusion they no longer need "employees" in order to make games. The games will now just sort of… somehow be made, by some… mysterious force. What is this force? Who can say

when trans people take HRT to feel normal: “look at these depraved sex freaks performing their sick fetish in public, we should bully them out of existence” when cis ppl take HRT so they can fuck real good:

the way the dem party treats my homestate of maine big fuel for my beliefs on how they do not think about nor really care about any state that isn't their own or does not contain personal friends/family the gideon campaign last time was more proof of this than choosing mills now, TBH

the most glaring problem with liberal capitalist democracy is that corporations are people but they cannot be imprisoned.

I want to subskoot a discussion where people are claiming things about the passage of Obamacare, then accusing each other of being zoomers who weren't there at the time. Unfortunately Bluesky doesn't give you enough characters to say something nuanced. I could have fit this into 2 Mastodon posts.

i think of the 2010 wipeout, and how dems responded with "more of the same". kicking out dean to replace him with kaine as DNC chairman, dismantling the 50 state strategy, telling ACORN to pound sand, and losing big? well, it didn't affect dem leadership, so they don't see a reason to change.

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

Yes, and let's also remember #YourSlipIsShowing, the Black women activists who predicted all of this first and received no credit. "Before Gamergate, before the 2016 election, they launched a campaign against Twitter trolls masquerading as women of color... If only more people had paid attention."

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

If anyone who sees this knows anyone at EA Legal, please reach out to me. EA has open sourced early Command and Conquer games, and I would love to try to get them to open source SimCity 2000. We could save years of time spent reverse engineering SC2K if they did so. Please spread this far and wide.

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