bless yourself before you mess yourself

My copy of Sawyer Lee and the Quest to Just Stay Home by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social arrived just in time to start it as a bedtime story yesterday. So far, getting big Roald Dahl vibes from the writing style in the best way. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

JUNE 10 is the * last day * to sign up for online NarraScope talks, which is stream on the @iftechfoundation.org Discord channel. You have to join that channel and get an attendee role by Thursday to access the conference channels. Here's the @narrascope.org schedule (see June 13-14) narrascope.org

WOMAN: is mansplaining a crime GOOD COP: sadly no PUN COP: actually it's a *lowers shades* miss demean her GOOD COP: did u just fucken actually me

Well said @quakefultales.bsky.social

A skeet that makes the game designers say "Hell yeah!"

Almost a decade ago, I was very Special Interested in mushrooms and developed an organizing training framework based on mycelium. The core teaching was, people think the above-ground part (the mushroom) is the body of the organism, but that isn't the case. So too with movement. (cont)

(yelling over the roar of a huge building that provides no jobs and spikes utility prices to power a bad, unpopular product being forced into everyone's lives with the promise that it will soon replace them) YOU RUBES ONLY THINK THIS SUCKS BECAUSE YOUR FEEBLE INTELLECTS ARE UNDER THE THRALL OF MEMES

Nighthawks, our vampire RPG, is coming in FALL OF 2026!! Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. See our new trailer below, and wishlist here: bit.ly/4o36HRx

This was in reference to gen ML games, but I have a feeling this could become evergreen for a lot of gen ML stuff.

AI Consultant: *takes huge bong rip* Oh shit, is that proposal to Adobe due today?

Sometimes it's hard to explain why I love Dungeon Crawler Carl so much, and sometimes there's chapter 57 of the Parade of Horribles audiobook. (very minor spoiler for book 8 ahead)

Erase every congressional map, pass a constitutional amendment against gerrymandering, redraw fair maps that actually reflect and respect the intent of the 14th amendment, and start the fuck over. No it'll never fucking happen, but it goddam well should.

Attended this for the first time last year, and it was as great as everyone told me it was!

The Call for Proposals for Roguelike Celebration 2026 is OPEN! We're looking for speakers to deliver cool talks about procedural content, roguelike game design, generative art, and more! Roguelike Celebration is a virtual conference, no physical attendance required. Check it out and tell a friend!

To the reporters always asking physicists if we should be worried about computers, I'm a computer scientist who's available to give you my options on whether we should be worried about black holes!

The Secret of Monkey Island CD-ROM soundtrack followed by In the End by Linkin Park

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only 30 Rock Star Trek the Next Generation Game of Thrones Star Trek Deep Space 9 Firefly Elementary How I Met Your Mother House of the Dragon House X Men (90s cartoon) Community I Love Lucy Brooklyn 99 Burn Notice Futurama (assuming no anime)

Nature did not design mankind to stare at screens indoors all day. We are made to struggle for the bounty of the earth. To follow the herds north and kill for our meat. To make love in cold nights as we ponder the stars. Luckily we rebelled against nature. That would suck. Screens are way better.

COACH SULLY: “Shift your eyes to this monstrosity… one year. One President. Donating his salary is just a headline. It doesn’t offset the BILLIONS Trump is accumulating elsewhere.” 💰

If Trump dies richer than when he became president, with his Supreme Court justices still in power, without he himself ever facing consequences, with the 1% keeping all their gains, with the ICE budget in tact and without any prosecutions of ICE or his admin he didn’t lose. He won. Understand that.

Man Who Helped Elect A Corrupt Fascist Bigoted Madman Would Like You To Know He Was Fooled But Would Like To Make Other Recommendations

I have nothing to say that matches the gravity of the situation. I just want peace and safety for everyone targeted by the insane whims of a madman.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

If someone tries to sell you a robot that mines for gold, ask them why they aren't selling you gold. If Claude/Copilot/etc. were as good as human software engineers, they wouldn't sell you the agent. They would sell you the software it makes.

Wait, is it possible to actually like politicians?

COKE: is pepsi okay DR PEPPER: *removes surgical mask* we did everything we could

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...

ok, this was was percolating in my head all evening so I had to diagram it

The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified. Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.

The right way to get into the Epstein files.

This is what I've been trying and failing to say about The Giving Tree for years.

I have been absolutely LOVING this meme of "5 classes you took at university." Everybody is picking the weirdest, most "useless" classes they took in the best way. Celebrating the joy of learning a thing just because it's interesting. So joyful at a time when I could really use some joy.

Five classes you took in college: - Ancient Epic - Medieval Cathedrals - Philosophy of Mind - Algorithms (taught by the secretary of the American Mathematical Society) - Interactive Narrative Systems

A drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP

Big Trouble in Little China with Big Naturals

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —MLK Jr.

I bring a sort of historical materialism to my analysis of the games industry that journalists looking for a simple "AI taking jobs" narrative don't really like.

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Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few. -Percy Shelly, The Mask of Anarchy Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

We are thrilled to announce that AIIDE-26 will be held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil from November 9-13, 2026! Paper abstracts due June 19 with full submissions due June 26, 2026. sites.google.com/view/aiide20...

So thrilled to be taking AIIDE outside of North America for the first time! Joined by @lucasnfe.bsky.social as Program Chair we're going with the very appropriate theme of "New Grounds". Please submit all your best work and join us this November!

(post credits scene) CAPTAIN AMERICA: But... how's a dead man going to help? NICK FURY: Of all the guys to ask that... ok. Come on in. HENRY KISSINGER: Never thought I'd be glad to know the world has so many super powers ha ha. But no more jokes. Support for Dr. Doom is on the rise in Southeast Asia

So anyway, xAI's response to rampant use of Grok to generate CSAM and sexual abuse is to... monetize it