If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Posted this four days ago and though I know the Minnesota representatives are some of the more active in the country they, and everyone else, aren't going far enough fast enough. We need action now.

Need more public figures and celebrities and community leaders saying the right things. It honestly helps.

Lived half my life with the existence of DHS/ICE and half my life without and there isn't a moment I've felt safer with it around. Not one. Dismantling both is the bare minimum from here on.

I'm not here to kink shame, but I do think I should be able to specifically opt out of seeing stuffed animal fucking on the timeline. Also think that some users should consider that Repost and Like serve different purposes.

One of the things you learn living somewhere with cold weather is that communities are safer when ice is cleared off the roads.

I need people to wrap their minds around the fact that here in Minneapolis, ICE broke the window of a vehicle yesterday, pepper sprayed the occupants, and arrested them, and shot another observer in the face today, and OBSERVERS ARE STILL GOING OUT TO PROTECT THEIR NEIGHBORS AT MASSIVE PERSONAL RISK

Need him on a bumper sticker that says "I honk for Pikachonk"

There are people responding to this saying "this is how KINGPIN got popular as mayor" and, like, I know we're on here and general feelings about Mamdani were already positive so they're probably just noting the coincidence but I imagine at *least* one's somehow thinking this is a slippery slope. -_-

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse. This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares. Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

MYSTERY HISTORY I realized the Mystery Tournament I won at @ClimbCancel featured "ESPN International Winter Sports 2002" in Grand Finals My Father was the NA Production CPO for that game Has ANYONE won a tournament on a game their Father made before?! I can't stop smiling 😄

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

Microblogging is just a catastrophically bad form of human interaction. If you sat down to design a system specifically meant to make people act out and create harassment mobs, you'd be hard pressed to build something more effectively toxic.

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Funniest move that has ever existed in a fighting game. Polarizing design that instantly warps the gamestate. Creates every single possible aspect of bad game feel for the other player. A sadistic attack that would break most games. He unironically needs it & it doesn't even make him top 4.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

I just realized UMVC3 has multiple The Funnies to cancel out The Bird and The Bullet Hell and The Buster and The Boots and The Breaker. Because getting hit with those destroys you but it becomes worth it when someone forgets just long enough that The Pipe is still really, really funny.

it's so important for a competitive game to have The Funny. what that means always changes but it's always imperative. xrd pot buster is The Funny. tf2 soldier airshot is The Funny. rivals kragg rock is The Funny. if your game lacks it what you actually have is a spelling bee with graphics

"oh this is such a good joke i just thought up, let's see if anyone already made it"

No I don't care if this has been done and no I don't care how bad that 'shop is this dumbass idea was in my head and it needed out before it infected something.

no jokes. just sad. tell your young friends to never join the military and/or harass recruiters

What an insane thing to wake up to. At this point it should be assumed this administration, from its leader all the way down to its foot soldiers, will do anything and everything it wants to exercise or retain power and needs to be treated as such by both our own reps and by other nations.

Solidarity with the people of Venezuela. Solidarity with the people of yet another country that my country has made unilateral unjust war on. What a long list, what a grotesquely revoltingly long list. Impeaching Trump is the bare minimum here man. Bare minimum of legal action required

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

There are many things to love about Rami’s top 10 for 2025 but this is one of my favourites.

went back and grabbed the full video of her intro. absolutely incredible 🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌🇮🇹🍝👩‍🍳🤌

Registration is up for the first 10 games of AIT 2026 - DRAGON BALL FighterZ - Killer Instinct (1994) - Windjammers 2 - Neo Turf Masters - Mystery Game Doubles - Mortal Kombat 9* - Mortal Kombat XL* - Mortal Kombat 11* - Injustice* - Injustice 2* (*Special NRS showcase) www.start.gg/tournament/a...

The gates are open for Combo Breaker 2026 Mystery 2v2 (and a handful of other AIT tourneys) so get registering! It's $10 per team and everyone who enters gets a brand new Mystery Mixtape sticker like last year. Yes, that could mean I give away 256 stickers.

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

The gaming world is lucky to have Rami as a voice.

On my favorite games of 2025, in that weird meandering way I think about games and life and industry and everything. Thanks to @giantbomb.bsky.social for having me! giantbomb.com/articles/ram...

Happy new year! fingers crossed you all have a great '26

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

2025 media thread? Instructions unclear, I'm going to post the lineups from this year's mystery brackets at my locals. Not going to include TNM lineups because I don't save those anywhere, this will just be Mid Hudson Mayhem monthlies and maybe the Vortex Gallery lineup. AMA if you like.

The new year's resolutions have already started

Lily wanted to try to stay up until midnight. Said she could try so we all watched Arrietty, then her and I played Castle Crashers and Suika Game until about 10:30 while the missus went to bed. Kid was struggling by then so she KO'd. Was nice to revisit a movie and game-filled NYE with the new gen.

Hungry for Mystery? Go play in Chris's tourney tonight on Fightcade. Swisstery bracket that's usually over in two hours and everyone gets to play 5-6 games.

For anyone wondering: sign up for Mystery 2v2 doesn't go live until Friday, 1/2/26 on the AIT page. www.start.gg/tournament/a... I've put in for a 128-team cap, along with my apologies to Margot for making bracketing that much more difficult. I honestly don't know what I'll do if we hit that. o_O

To everyone trying to get rooms at the venue, I just wanted to tell you good luck, we're all counting on you.

Live from the Midwest! Join us for CB2026 on May 22-24 at the Schaumburg Convention Center in Illinois! Visit combobreaker.org for more info. Visit start.gg/cb2026 to register. youtu.be/4LxvsjJ-qJs?...

It's Tuesday. You know what that means. (also probably gonna stream some Daemon Bride before bracket starts like maybe 7ish?)