It took 179 hours and three failed tries, but I finally beat Baldur's Gate on Hounor mode, (and for the first time too)! The Golden dice are finally mine!

One of the most important pillars of fascism is the erosion of the public’s confidence in established institutions. When reputable media outlets frame fascist propaganda like this, they’re doing the work of fascism.

A lot of companies are not "pro-fascism" or "anti-fascism." They are "pro-making-more-money."🤷🏿‍♂️ Companies do face consequences for opposing fascism. If they can be pro-fascism and face no consequence? Then there is a perverse incentive to be pro-fascism. You *help* them by balancing the scales.🤯

I'm so embarrassed to be an American right now. Donald Trump is a senile old codger, standing before the United Nations, reading a speech clearly written by an alt right lunatic and a bunch of oil and gas lobbyists. Well done, U.S. voters. You really fucked this one up.

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Nothing to see here, nothing but corruption and incompetency for miles...

I can raise math, English and science scores in a district more by offering free breakfast and lunch, than by banning cell phones. But one feels like punishment and blaming bad, lazy, kids, and the other requires acknowledging adults' role in creating a dystopian environment not ideal for learning.

This is how it’s done, folks. (NSFW in that it quotes the sitting president and related words.) youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE?...

The kids are alright maybe?

My new rallying cry 💪

/2 Also: “I don’t care about the constitution or the rule of law because my feelings are hurt” is a very modern American conservative sentiment.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Being able to print a replacement Xbox controller battery cover leaves me feeling like a god!

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

Goddamn. You can’t even have principles and make ice cream because people are too afraid of Trump

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Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages). The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy. More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. My kid's laughter 2: A quiet hiking trail early in the morning 3: A hot shower 4: Cooking pizzas in my brick oven 5: Catching a fish

You fired a black woman for quoting a white man accurately. Don’t act like you care.

Here's your reminder to go lift heavy things, run, or just be physically active in some way. For me, working out is like a roulette wheel; most times it's just meh, but sometimes I get a dopamine hit that'll fuel me for days! Today was one of those moments. 🏋️‍♂️💪 I almost made it to the heavy snatches!

Congratulations to Brazil, joining South Korea among the countries who successfully did what the United States could not 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1

Joy is radical resistance to fascism. I hope you find joy and love in your day, and you have the time to appreciate the things you value.

You're telling me the dude has a Dex and Int of 20 and can't strum an instrument?

Age verification? *Two megabyte main hardrive*

I hope the ferocity of the patriotism these evil actions elicit will only continue to grow and grow.

for some reason i was absolutely *compelled* to give this NASA europa mission animation a freebird edit

compare missouri senator eric schmitt to notorious pro-slavery ideologue george fitzhugh

Today’s US Supreme Court ruling allowing racial targeting, that being Hispanic and working a low-income job and not speaking English proficiently ‘constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States’, is staggeringly racist. Shameful doesn’t come close. This is awful

Prince of Persia was a groundbreaking game for its accurate character movement back in the late 80's. To do this, the creator videotaped his own brother running and jumping on the sidewalk and then did pixel mapping frame by frame as shown here at the Strong Museum of Play

Hey cool hopefully no more signal jail next time I get a new phone signal.org/blog/introdu...

ICE is turning around now, escorted by Broadview police. Crowd is jubilant. Someone is shouting, "this is what it takes! They are turning around!"

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

Amen!

Listening to Nirvana's MTV Unplugged album, and it's so soothing in the swirl of this worst timeline... This is your reminder to go touch musical grass.

*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss

RIGHT Like did they go to the realtor and say we’ll take the closest thing you’ve got to ugly evil super villain lair???

Here's a GRC Manager role for a great beneficial corporation (yay anti-capitalism!) where you'd be taking over for a great manger who's created a terrific set of teams. north-wind-group.breezy.hr/p/e009c1b552...

My talk in the BTC Career Village Saturday won’t have slides (I’ll have printed cheat sheets for attendees instead instead) but if I’d have opted to do slides, this meme would’ve gone right on the first one. 😅

yo this guy is cooking

... say what now

What does "tough on crime" actually mean? To some people, it means "Reducing the murder rate, reducing the robbery rate, and making the streets safer."♥️👍🏿 To other people, it means "Intimidating, harassing, and shooting more innocent Black people." Which ironically, makes the murder rate go up. 🙃🙂

Another good protest in the books, this corner of red country had way more positive honks waves and cheers, and much more subdued haters, even though the protest size was smaller. A small but very noticable change.

I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government. I guess Summer is over. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Sand batteries are literally just silos of sand that retain heat exceptionally well -- so well that they can be tied to heat exchange systems to serve as proxy *electrical* batteries. Finland's new model can store enough power (100 MWh) to heat an entire town for a week. newatlas.com/energy/large...

If you want a great example of a security vendor chasing trends while their product burns down due to customers fleeing over vulnerabilities left: Citrix Netscaler internet facing devices over 5 years right: Netscaler blog