Founders don't waste time with "maybe this hasn't been tried because it's obviously a bad idea," they go straight for "I came up with a genius solution no one else thought of because I am special and all my thoughts are prophecies"

The video game industry is facing record layoffs and huge amounts of uncertainty. I need a union contract to feel safe.

The last remaining gladiators in the Catania amphitheatre are about to go at it.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Love the phrase "art is window into the artist's soul", hell yeah it is. Now look at these Vander's balls I drew

It was SO FREAKING HARD to choose which games to put into the last four slots. At least half a dozen others could have gone there. my9games.com

"The best advice I ever got about writing secondary world fantasy was to write not from the point of view of someone encountering a world for the first time, but of someone who has lived in this world all their life." R.F.Kuang #writing

Oh hey I've still got one of these! Definitely not in perfect condition, but still fully working last time I tried it 😅

since women's day is an hour shorter this year, women will be taking that hour from another day at some point during the year. we don't tell you when, but it will happen

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

If you're reading this on Twitter, this is the long-promised notice that I'm done here. See you on the Fediverse, see you on Bluesky - see you in a world of enshittification-resistant social media. It's been fun, until it wasn't. 53/

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

The English: I can tell how you were brought up, where you went to school, and your parents' average household income within a thousand pounds within three seconds of hearing you speak Elon Musk: as you can see, it is the complete sameness of the culture that makes them stand together

Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.

forgot the most important of the genre

This position helps with blood pressure and thinking! I swear. Happy Valentine’s! #JayVik #jayvikfanart #sketch #arcanefanart

save 20 million rows in csv. you will certainly not regret saving 20 millions rows in csv.

Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to.

Oh excellent, costochondritis is EXACTLY what I need while clearing out the house I've been living in for almost a decade

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

Frog Fractions

I am waaaaay too old to still be getting ID'd buying a can of gin and tonic at the train station 🫠

😴 #silco #arcane #fanart #украрт

The only survivor of the infection that claimed all of her sisters... we tried four different antibiotics and nothing worked. Even this little one almost lost her eye, but after two months we think it should be safe to rehome her. I'll be devastated to lose her but she needs ratty company.

holy fucking shit guys I am SCREAMING about this it is SO FUCKING GOOD youtu.be/_hto7pPlbs8 #hollowknight #silksong #hornet

id die for him tbh

I got "multiple results" so the site didn't give me a description of any of them, boo. But apparently I'm equally Bard and Fighter ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.idrlabs.com/dungeons-dra...

I’ve been watching loads of Pokémon speedruns and challenge runs lately, and I chuckle every time I hear a grown man say “PP Up”

tfw you don't want to take your meds in the morning because taking your meds means you have officially Started The Day

Well, I have looked at the news today. I'm going back to bed.

TikTok has been doing this since the very beginning, the new ownership just involves a change of venue that means they have to put it in the privacy policy now. The app has always been spyware with some short videos on top; it's why all their IPs are blocked at the DNS level on all my devices.

I spent all yesterday morning stressing out because I was absolutely sure that SOMETHING was happening on 23 Jan but nothing was in any of my calendars I asked multiple groupchats if I was forgetting something, and nobody could think of anything then Housemate came downstairs at lunchtime and -

What the hell does Normal even mean in Pokemon

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. > In some versions of the Agamemnon story, Clytemnestra actually kills her husband, with Aegisthus merely the accessory to the crime. From the introduction to Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.

to fucken vanquish someone wearing scissor shoe

"fiction being self-indulgent is wrong" listen. just because you're miserable. doesn't mean you're a good person. suffering doesn't make you holy

As you might've already guessed, I trying to gradually trickle down the stuff that i drew throughout the year+ here x) Here's Prometheus sketch page from my sketchbook + some editing in Procreate 🦀 #hades2 #fanart #digitalart

Melinoe and Nemesis

The Last Drop 😌✨ #vanco #zaundads #arcane #fanart #украрт The day has come! I can finally share my contribution to the @vancozine.bsky.social !! I’m so happy knowing I became a part of this amazing project. My first zine 🥰

We're back!! Leftovers for Legacy of Zaun: A Vanco Zine are now OPEN from January 14th, 2026 at 12:00 PM PST to February 14th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST!! For more details, check out the full 🧵 below! ⬇️🐺♥🧪

Landlords have officially given us notice! Time to clear out nine years' worth of accumulated crap and get the hell out of this country ...does anyone want any MCU artbooks because I don't want them any more

I wish Netflix had something like Amazon's pop-up that gives you info about all the actors in a scene whenever you pause Without it I am totally lost trying to figure out who is who among the various blonde women and brunet men in US media, I swear they all have the same "USAmerican actor" features

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I really wanna go to Norway and Iceland...! tenpages.github.io/us-level/us.... tenpages.github.io/us-level/eu....

Back in the 90s, the Free Speech Coalition used to place this PSA before porn movies to raise awareness. That has been stuck in my head since I was before I was a teenager.

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Yep. People were photoshopping women's heads onto pictures of naked bodies loooong before generative AI existed.