The post I was quoting was deleted like ten minutes later but it said "I used to hang out with this girl Mary Lou Phonecall who would sell different parts of me while I was asleep. I think you can buy my memories of Hurricane Katrina on an oil rig somewhere."

every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm... Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

dudes rock

this exists it is called thinking

For those who are cancelling all their subscriptions and now have nothing to do with their lives, may I suggest Caves of Qud?

Twenty years ago when I played a hunter in World of Warcraft I was unreasonably proud of myself for naming my pet crab Scuttlebutt

A nickel is exactly five grams, so I like to measure stuff in nickels as a proxy. What does 36 grams feel like? Nobody knows. “about as much as 7 nickels” ah yep, got it

A US nickel weighs five grams and is worth five cents. 91 nickels weigh 1.003 pounds and are worth $4.55. $4.55 is worth roughly £3.34. We can deduce from this that the US pound nickel is worth 1.36 pound sterling. In conclusion, I should have gotten a little more sleep.

Yeah: don't waste the life you have right now

There are simple, effective techniques you can take in your every day life, right now, to protect yourself from the nearly-universal surveillance that so many of us live under. Here's a set of resources from @eff.org that you can start with. ssd.eff.org

If you're organized and timely then our interests may converge So submit your clips and resume to circumvent the purge and stay in me-di-aaaaaa

Trick question. G contains Houston, so it has all the other regions in it.

[to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic] A Video Producer role has opened at The Verge

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Just in time for tech event season, we’re introducing Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge Senior Reviewer @vicmsong.bsky.social that will dissect and discuss the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re gonna change your life. bit.ly/4p5ngMD

I was at the Space Cowboys game so I have no idea what everyone is trying to manifest right now. Space Cowboys won fyi

is this good

screen time for bean time

And just as I was thinking this, in comes @grackle.space with the full take! The magnets are the coolest part, indeed. www.theverge.com/analysis/762...

Funny thing is that the most amusing thing to come out of neural networks to me personally is "name one thing in this photo" and it didn't require billions of capex to make

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn the Inklings’ pub table and turn the Eagle and Child into the Eagle and Shit

It's Thursday, and that means I'm putting together this week's Installer newsletter for The Verge! I want to know what you're into right now. What are you reading / watching / playing / going down a deep rabbit hole about? Tell me so I can include it! (And subscribe to Installer!)

my hot take is that the right morale patches can save the look

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It was real fun editing @superantonio64.bsky.social on this one! Love a SFF PC. Wish it had a x16 slot, but then it would be a different thing.

We can’t let weird stuff like the actual, rock bottom crime rates affect our number one industry, which is the imaginary crime industrial complex

a thing i simply cannot get over, as The Media collapses for i think the 5th time in my adult life, is what the fuck business the people who own these publications think they are in. shouldn’t the point be to just make enough money making the articles to make more articles

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Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns

I am about to be earnest on main. Sorry? Probably not sorry. Ten years ago, summer 2015, I got a DM from some folks I knew from Twitter and the blog world asking if I'd be interested in joining them to round out the party for a TTRPG. A Dragon Age TTRPG. (1/7)

Strava’s “Athlete Intelligence” feature interpreted this hike from last year — in which I descended nearly 3,000 feet down a mountain over 2.8 miles — as a gentle *ascent* because it doesn’t know what to do with downhill. Thank u strava

my most unanticipated 40-year-old activity nerd trait is that i now have electrolyte opinions. The new lemonade-flavored LMNT salt is good but not as good as mango chili.

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TikTok says it needs my watch history so it can tailor my Shorts. My shorts fit pretty well already but sure, why not. Can someone send these to TikTok? I don't have their address LL Bean Field Watch that like $10 casio Seiko 5 Apple Watch 3 Apple Watch 5 Garmin Epix Pro 2

the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain

this would have destroyed me if it existed in 2006

[keanu voice]

I don't care what happens to my dead body since i'll be dead and who cares but please never do this to me

Clear writing requires clear thinking

I’m sorry I said four mice can’t be a Pokémon. I’m sorry I said a bag of trash can’t be a Pokémon. I’m sorry I said someone’s keys can’t be a Pokémon. I’m sorry I said Alcremie should be pasteurized

Disco Elysium rules. That’s all.

Hell yeah brother

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

all sculpted miniatures are graven idols and an affront to god just use different colours wooden cubes if its good enough for the eurogamers its good enough for you

oof sorry, unfollowing now. I was thrilled to learn that she was also a crab but I had no idea she was climbing up the side of the bucket

I grew up near Pittsblorgh but I was born in Philabieldia