My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

bluesky branding refresh unveiled

hello! my game is about exploring an interconnected underworld, grapple-hook movement tech, and frenetic FPS combat. been simmering on low for a few years now but it is almost ready. please wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/1396870/... #pitchyagame

saw lots of folks talking about ARC Raiders, realized they were the developers of The Finals (which uses AI-generated voices), and promptly ignored it. we know why from every angle but it's insane how uncritically this is being received and covered

I still think this is a strong contender for the funniest video ever uploaded. Absolutely unbeatable comedic rhythm

it's a long one this week folks

My birthday sale is now live! No discount code, prices are manually reduced on my end, including my full discography on Bandcamp which is around $40 today. Thanks for listening to my music! 2mellomakes.bandcamp.com 2mello.net/store

abscond #art #furry

to my many website/blog/RSS pervert moots (and anyone else who wants to chime in tbh!): do you have a favorite resource for making your own website/blog? whether that's the absolute most basic Making The Website Exist for Dummies or an in-depth HTML/CSS guide, I would like to see it!

this was written in 2023 in the wake of, I think, the TGAs failing to speak up about palestine and a broader discussion about how to "fix" it as an awards show. and I still believe what I said then, which is that you can't fix it bc it's succeeding at its goal, and its goal is to be an advertisement

It's time!!! Independent Games Festival judging is wrapping up and thus comes my list of IGF Games I Want To Talk About for the year! As usual, I'll threadpost this later (maybe tomorrow) but people willing to click on a link can read it in full right now on my blog! auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...

and she hits the character limit perfectly again. some are asking how she does it

Can't get enough of it really. A representation of Gulf South habitats as faithful as we can make it.

gosh this website is white

geez we talked about a lot this week Amazon Games? not smart Don't Nod + Netflix big boi update for ACNH BOTW OST is vinyl-only in the US for some godforsaken reason John played Once Upon a Katamari and some ninja stuff and I played Kinophobia and some point-and-click horror stuff!

if California were gerrymandered to favor Republicans as badly as Texas is, San Francisco and Sacramento would share a congressional district, connected by a strip of I-80 which would widen and shrink to swallow any sufficiently blue areas in its path. fuck em. thanks y'all.

Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.

if Teen Vogue as we know it dies today, I hope its team know in their hearts that they did more to champion democracy and freedom of speech and to mobilize citizens of all ages toward progressive causes than all the pundits at legacy outlets who sneered at the notion of wanting teens to be informed

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

pitched to a certain games-adjacent website and feeling pretty strong about my submission... fingers crossed!

geez we talked about a lot this week Amazon Games? not smart Don't Nod + Netflix big boi update for ACNH BOTW OST is vinyl-only in the US for some godforsaken reason John played Once Upon a Katamari and some ninja stuff and I played Kinophobia and some point-and-click horror stuff!

The Deadly Maze of Knives Is Concerningly Lethal

Fans Furious After News of Reliant Armadillo Recasting

She's flying in a little late.......

KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of non-commercial interactive fiction in 8 years, comes out on the 31st. An entry into Ectocomp.

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

"How Do Adventurers Die?" Source: QuestBusters, March 1988.

“what radicalized you” idk paying attention

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

realistically I know Strange Scaffold's whole schtick is aren't we quirkyyy pop off on TikTok bullshit but it sure is grim

everyone's favorite sea creature!

im glad the government posting halo memes is revealing that half the people reporting on it are fine with it

As it turns out, Texas is one of the queerest states in the country. Only California has more LGBTQ+ identifying residents. Texas is home to more queer people than all the queer people in Canada.

my pikmin plush horde is growing

through Guides anything is possible. amen

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

Hi, CEO of I Made It Games LLC, here. We're looking for viral indie games with a cool aesthetic that have a proven gameplay loop, narrative hook, the interest of top 1% streamers, and are 80-90% complete. In exchange for 50% of your profits we'll let you put our name on the Publisher field in Steam.

hey guess who hated this pagebound.co/books/21855e...

Also, this should not need to be said, because "promote the general welfare" def means feeding people, still it's worth noting that food stamps have a huge positive economic impact overall. Every $1 spent on SNAP adds $1.54 to the economy. As is often the case, doing right is also an overall good.

what's that word for the specific kind of racism that makes road architecture actively hostile to black people/neighborhoods

If you are still using Twitter, now is [yet another] great time to leave. We all know it's hard, yet we've done it and are now much happier to have done it. Keep your account if you need to, but stop cross posting today. Don't comment/like, don't be part of their system to help drag more people in.

I never wanna see the "young witch helps neighbor's cat in the Alps" post invoked ever again btw. leave that fucking woman alone. can't even have a dumb opinion online without risking lolcowification and the endless harassment that comes with it because u losers are married to hateful slop

heracross doodles

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.

astonished to finally start The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler and find that the opening sentence is "There is a marvelous moment in the hit movie 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?' that sums up our present national predicament very nicely"