Star Trek: The Next Generation, possibly the best television show ever, is not about spaceships shooting lasers at each other, it is about a man who represents the best of us trying to teach his robot son to be human while debating whether humans even deserve to exist with his best frenemy, God.

it's so cool that we had an elegant system of global economic dominance and it's getting blown up by morons to dumb to realize how good a deal it is for us

everything I love about writing as a journalist/critic — a killer lede, a strong kicker, a surprise joke — is there to remind you about the person who wrote it, and that they see you as a person too.

We should prepare ourselves for a 2036 Republican candidate who promises to reverse income inequality and not starting foreign wars, positioning themselves against Trump, who cut taxes for the rich and started foreign wars by campaigning on being against Bush's tax cuts for the rich and foreign wars

If you can't say to your child "the man in black fled across the desert" and get a "and the gunslinger followed " in response You 🫵🏿 have forgotten the face of your father.

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There’s a lot of zen buddhism in the experience of extraction shooters: “it is my attachments / expectations that cause pain. Only by releasing them am I able to experience the endless samsara without pain.”

We don’t do a lot of personal blogging on @pcgamer.com so please enjoy my first person account of getting sloppergangered in 2026

Hasan has been an incredibly consistent Jewish ally. He constantly espouses the understanding that to be Jewish does not immediately make someone aligned with the Israeli government. Reading, "Hasan Piker and his fellow Jew-haters" is incredibly painful. The authors here don't care about Jews.

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The extent to which every single one of these guys has absolutely no idea what the fuck they're talking about is frankly stunning. You should be embarrassed to go out in public and spout shit like this. It should scar your soul and make you weep in shame, but that requires introspection, so...shit.

Did you see my guest co-hosting appearance on @kindafunnyvids.bsky.social alongside the dope ass @blessingjr.bsky.social Spoiler alert I live Resident Evil Requiem.

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Hear me out: it might suggest a level of state sanctioned and institutionally sanctioned violence that has had a chilling effect on campus protests, and led these students to direct their energies into other kinds of activities, which assumes they weren't expelled, thrown in jail, or deported.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

It's like... we don't have to wonder any more if we're the baddies. We are the baddies. Now the question becomes... what do we do about it? Our elected leaders appear to be of two minds.

I happened to be in downtown SF today, so I tried stopping by the Superhuman AI office to ask about the AI “editor” based on me. Unfortunately just got a very nice office manager who said no one was in. Lots of games people in Grammarly’s pool too besides me…

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

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When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I don't get to publish weird and random ideas often as a freelancer, so thanks to @lotrlore.bsky.social for letting me write what started as "Yelp reviews of every shop in Silvermoon" and mutated into "An in-character episode of No Reservations about a fake elf city" www.mmorpg.com/columns/a-tr...

A MUST READ! Another sinkhole for those in games journalism to deal with, as websites are being bought up, consolidated, changed, and shut down. Do not give these websites your time, your talent, your clicks, or anything that could remotely benefit them. #Gaming #VideoGames #Journalism

I wrote about what’s at stake - and what we as citizens can do. Read the full post here:

Take joy where you find it. Hubby and I went to a lovely lunch at the only restaurant here that overlooks the ocean. He was wearing a Xavier’s Academy hoodie. Our waiter was a lovely young man named Trayvon, and he was a big X-Man fun. Just a sweet connection through our beloved mutants.

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

a fan of this energy tbh, and ambitious politicos should be trying to outdo each other here

well, my hcl warlock died at level 79 in hell act 4 to lightning ghosties. Was a good run :D

genuinely delighted to see the games press taking on areas like prediction markets + gambling + gamification, which are tumorous outgrowths of game design & should be subject to rigorous, knowledgeable critique and *derision* within the games community

Is ‘Democrats want open borders’ the most successful strawmanning of a policy position in American history? O.o

Here's the State of the Union, there, I saved you an hour of being lied to and getting dumber #StateOfTheUnion #SOTU

You think "the online left" is unhinged, dog please talk to an independent voter IRL. They want universal healthcare and abolish taxes. They want to dissolve the coast guard. They want to rename the army the coast guard. They want their alien implants removed, and they also want more alien implants

twitter wasn't an indispensable town square where common folk could speak truth to power. it was a game you played on your phone

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

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However long it's been since you listened to Superunknown all the way through, it's been too long. Go fix that shit

every government official in february 2025: we are going to cook the books on jobs numbers and there's nothing anyone can do about it. everyone seeing today's jobs report: 130,000 jobs, hey that's not bad at all!

How much worse is trading alien baby futures than the countless financial crimes that happen every single day? aftermath.site/space-warlord-...

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i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them