Just fyi this is one of the many reasons Californians don’t like Newsom. A 5% tax on our 200 billionaires would prevent a healthcare collapse from the ACA subsidies going away and he’s opposed to it.

The retirement of the MetroCard at midnight tonight is bittersweet for me. In 1983, as a young lawyer, I took a year's leave of absence from my law firm to serve as special counsel to Richard Ravitch, chairman of the NY MTA. He gave me the task of leading a study ...

All Retro Game Zine issues are 20% off over on my webstore. Check them out and treat yourself to something new for 2026! (You’ll see the discount at checkout) pixelsandpolygons.net/collections/...

heyo! the winter sale rec thread continues! splitting it up cuz the other one got past 100 titles and was getting unwieldy to browse through, so the next chunk'll all be through here. who knows, maybe we'll even end up needing THREE threads by the end of this sale.

50 ICE agents swarming a public library to arrest one person. This isn’t policing — it’s authoritarian spectacle. Armed intimidation, fear as policy, and taxpayer money burned to terrorize communities. This is fascism in plain sight. #TrumpWatch #Resist

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Kero Kero Cowboy, the 2025 Game Boy Color action platformer, is OUT NOW ON STEAM! 🐸🤠 store.steampowered.com/app/3884910/...

for anybody who, like me, maybe didn't recognize the name, I saw from the comments on this she wasn't just *a* reporter on epstein so much as *the* reporter in the sense she's the reason most people in the US heard anything about it beyond smaller dead ends before her work. from her wikipedia page 👇🏼

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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Majda. Majda is 58 and a mother of 6- Kamel, 33, Mayada, 29, Mohammed, 26, Madeline, 21, Zanaib, 18 and Layali, 15. They all lost their homes. Majda had surgery last week to improve her vision but it was unsuccessful and she lost 80% of it.

six months ago Reader’s Digest asked if they could purchase the publishing rights for this elaborate shitpost I wrote a year ago now wherein I pretended to be the elf equivalent of David Brooks at the North Pole. Thought it was maybe a phishing scam but it’s real LMAOO

Re-upping

bsky.app/profile/give... please buy us help if you know someone who can intervene

My little sister means everything to me. To save a life, share this and read our story ASAP. I have $400 for the first person to make this go viral, just email in the website link on the second image and profile page. Please, save her life. I will give you all a game to play.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

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...

If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is. It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.

Ivalice Miku:

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

hear me out: parasite eve and quest 64 are basically the same game. - octagonal battle arena - inspect everything = profit - confusing upgrade system - both protags can BONK - banger soundtrack - woke in this essay i will discuss my theories on why Aya and Brian would canonically be besties-

-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission -Greedily uses up resources preferentially - Forces a new mode of existence on you -Steals your own shit to sell back to you -Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings AI or colonialism?

Swen Vincke of Larian Studios responded to backlash for using AI with a promise to rewind time to before anyone knew about that. paletteswap.site/dif...

I say this with zero irony: if you are even tangentially a part of a retro video game community, it is your civic duty to push back against this company and shun anyone who doesn't. This is fascism tapping gently at the door and as soon as you let it in, it's going to invite its friends.

"My daughter opposes genocide and also sexual abuse. Where did I go wrong?"

Breaking: New bipartisan bill would make 2026 the year online protest organizing dies. Dems and R’s alike have just indicated they plan to end the first amendment of the Internet next year. Our statement: fightforthefuture.org/news/2025-12...

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

...I can't believe professional wrestling is a Homestuck.

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

Curzon is missing. I let him out back to do his business and he just disappeared. I've looked and I haven't found them. Anybody if you're in the Potomac/ Bethesda area please keep an eye out.

I'm giving out this star, so get it while you can folks

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

As much as I love buff badass lesbian Samus, I also really love the version of her from that one Super Metroid gag manga where she's this weirdo obsessed with round objects and hiding in small spaces

Happy ACAB day to all who celebrate <3

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— Modern Suffering :') #art | #digitalart

They will post the same pictures they currently post of North Korea and South Korea with the night lights to justify criticism of any future Palestinian government vs Israel. Just so you’re aware

"The no standing, minimal physical labour position you applied for is no longer available - try instead this related listing:" Pain Factory worker needed Chairs are banned Accommodations available for manager's nephew only Must supply own shoes (company will reimburse up to $3) Seasonal position

Indeed emails be like “we found an open position at Slavery for you”

what if you blame yourself for everything because that at least gives you the illusion of control over it?

My wife, a prodigious sleep-talker, failed to disclose her affliction when we started dating, which led to the fright of my life the night she sat bolt upright in bed and in a low flat monotone loudly declared that “THIRTEEN BABIES REMAIN UNFATHERED.”

AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.

these are so clearly only controlled by humans it’s astounding how much everyone gives elon musk for lying to everyone all the time about everything

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hi gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b…

I think a lot about Hitoshi Akamatsu describing Castlevania (NES) as "cinematic", a word that kind of gets overused when talking about modern games, but it's true here. shmuplations.com/castlevania/

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