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Hi hi! I'm happy and proud to announce that I've spent the last few weeks preparing the relaunch of @digitalfoundry.bsky.social as its Launch Site Editor! A dream role in many ways. I'll be translating the DF team's videos in the site's early months while building exclusive content. Check it out:

okay I believe I get to remove and replace the question marks in my profile starting tomorrow, and I'm very, very excited to share that news to all 90ish real humans who follow me and my bot army in excess of 1,000 weird-ass accounts in the meantime, have dog

I posted this in replies, but to clarify: Seattle joined the rest of the nation in tonight's progressive turn. Nearly the entire ballot went that way by high %: City Council, City Attorney, levies, school board. Tight mayoral race is an exception, but entrenched incumbent is within losing margin.

I sure hope Seattle got the memo and did the thing over past 48 hours. Wilson is down by a winnable margin..... if our electorate actually participated. Here's to a tense few days of ballot counting, and a reminder that we're the West Coast's centrist embarrassment all too often.

In early results, Katie Wilson trails incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell by 7 points, which would put her within reach of catching him in late returns. This is going to be a nailbiter.

Harrell up by 7 points in earliest drop. Still within margin of error for Wilson to eke out a win.

"not much, just spamming F5 on King County and Seattle election results, sup witchu"

IF YOU ARE IN SEATTLE OR WA STATE RN AND ARE FRESHLY EXCITED FOR SOME REASON AND HAVEN'T VOTED YET, YOU HAVE 90 MINUTES TO SCRIBBLE LIKE SEVEN EASY BUBBLES, SIGN YOUR NAME, AND HIT YOUR LOCAL BALLOT BOX

fear-based politics are out of runway. the Nixon-and-on, centrist-solution lie doesn't expand the middle class economy, doesn't stabilize rent, and sure as hell doesn't scream doggedly at the fascists who kidnap our neighbors and embrace corruption. we're not buying it anymore. LFG.

Seattle: you still have a few hours to fish out your unfilled ballot (NO JUDGMENT I GET IT JUST DO IT), grab the sticker, fill in a few bubbles, sign the envelope, drop your ballot at a nearby ballot box, and get some free 'scream

LOLed at this in today's "please vote, Seattle" thread. by all means, copy and text this to all of your, uh, ballot baddies (alt text included)

The dumbest site admins in the world are opting for same strat that a guy in my college dorm used to inflate his Quake fansite numbers in 1999. I remember the first day that guy didn't get his usual stack of pizzas delivered to his room. His face said it all. I look fwd to El*n making the same face

today in "the fuck do YOU want" expressions

......sorry but I think I did this, look at the timestamp 😞

gonna end this game by taking the dog for a walk, one moment plz

that outfield collision is the most bodied someone has been in sports since Shawn Bradley in the '00s

Seattle: check your mail-in ballot's receipt status! Check that it hasn't been flagged for issues! (Or, ya know, go drop your ballot in a drop box, already!) URL for checking your ballot: info.kingcounty.gov/kcelections/...

This seems counter to the narrative they’ve been pushing, that only a Harrell administration will resist Trump. It seems like the Harrell administration is quite comfortable in a Vichy-style collaboration with the Trump administration.

I can think of one thing scarier than not voting, Seattle, and that's the fear of your non-vote leading to a certain candidate winning. Make a SPOOKY plan to get your ballot to a drop box this weekend!

TCG yammering, pt 2. Last night, I cracked my first #RiftboundOrigins booster box (provided by Riot), so I'm bumping my thread to say: Proving Grounds and Champion Decks are robust options for new players, and I really like the game. But I'm not loving the Riftbound-specific booster pack experience.

autumnal Sam / autumnal dog

TCG time! My #RiftboundOrigins review set has arrived. It's a shame the $30 Proving Grounds starter set is already sold out everywhere, cuz at MSRP, it's a nice value. Four premade starter decks, nifty double-sided scoring tokens, cheap-but-info-filled player mats.

my review of Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection by @digitaleclipse.bsky.social is that David Jaffe got a big-ass PROTECT TRANS KIDS sticker into the game's documentary section, so, 10/10

My friend recently passed away, and the Apple Music playlists he made for his kids and family before passing will likely be deleted, along with other irreplaceable data, because of how Apple handles such accounts and requests. Even though the family followed Apple's guidance in advance. It's vile.

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready. I am now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/27/t...

Unlike some QTs here, I *did* watch Amazon's moves the whole time. And marveled at the lack of compelling exclusives, the strategy of giving away shovelware and 3-year-old hits, and Luna being built on the back of games that had fallen out of vogue for years. If they'd been smarter...

met a beaver

new on Amazon Luna this week: Snoop Doog's Boardroom Chaos (this is only funny to the 0.05% of you who have any idea Amazon launched an AI-slop, Snoop Dogg-starring video game last week)

met a cat

can anyone explain to me why my usual sites either don't load on MS Edge, or have broken features like non-functioning search bars and hamburger menus? I have identical extensions installed on Chrome, and that renders pages just fine. feels really 2025 for MS to turn my desktop browsing into agony

based on recent Xbox announcements and news, I worry Microsoft's eventual response will be "ICE: Now on PS5"

if I were a pilot, I'd instruct everyone to close their windows while I was taxiing "to reduce heat from sunlight," then would proceed to taxi past the gate and all the way to a surprise Chuck E. Cheese party for my passengers

I already QTed someone else on this, but this speech closer is incredible because it distills something that Trump's admin wants to choke out: the understanding that for many Americans, hiding their true selves has BEEN their "American" legacy, and that we all deserve better as a collective nation.

Literal superhero speech. When has a politician ever talked like this on camera? Chills

"Katie Wilson gets help from her out-of-state parents to help pay for childcare for her young daughter" is not an attack that is going to resonate with any young parents who are grappling with Seattle's expensive childcare

It's that easy, Washington State! Make a voting plan! The sooner your vote is in, the better for the candidates you support (lots of reasons why). So don't delay!

this cited bit right here tells you everything you need to know. Madden NFL has been a wasteland of flat, bare-minimum lighting pipelines for its entire current-gen cycle, and EA wants us to believe they've been waiting five years for an art-theft AI pipeline to fix that. sureJan.gif

today in unhinged BuyNothing, local kidnapper edition

not that an elected official's spouse is the ultimate mark of someone's ability to lead or conduct policy, but the below conduct in Seattle is such an on-the-nose example of Harrell's bluster and displacement-based policies that you'd think it'd been cribbed from a Veep episode

Flock has ***already*** been misused by law enforcement in horrifying, privacy-violating ways. You couldn't pay me to install a Ring camera on my house before with its privacy issues and especially not now. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

good-ass baseball series. makes sense that it went to seven games and a one-run difference in the final game. I'd be fine with a Canadian team winning an "American" sports title this year, at least. see you next year, Mariners!

Waited until the end of tonight's seattle baseballs to say: man, this series has been about two VERY good teams trading off big nights. Toronto won tonight's game far more than Seattle lost it. Tomorrow's series ender is gonna be one for the ages.

1/ We need to have a chat about Seattle Police and how they're handling the No Kings protests. They've been really… good. It's a marked departure in both tone and tactics from SPD's approach to protests in the past, and I think it could be a model for police forces nationwide. …

is this what prompted shitjet

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

I came back, tonight is pulled pork and gosh DANG this sauce and texture and perfect juiciness

the idea that JD Vance is so convinced he'd be the next President, he's willing to push "Trump is a king" messaging my dude you do know how succession to the throne works, right

Best view of the Seattle protests so far