In a year of dystopian headlines this one may be the most dystopian yet. I'm so ashamed of this country

I don't have any stakes in the wellbeing of the whitehouse. but you have to admit. it's wild that he's just knocking down the whitehouse

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

THE MEME IS REAL

Playing FF Tactics for the first time? Here’s a tip. Go to Mandalia Plain. You’re gonna spend 5 miserable hours having all your characters power up like goku next to a terrified bird or have them throw rocks at each other until they’re max level. This is the best game ever made btw.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

The GBA has lessons to learn for those willing to listen.

new site from ex-polygon folks just launched. hell yeah

Kenshin was my favorite anime character for 15 years. In 2017 I stopped talking about him. 🤷 It's not hard, boy wizard stans. I interviewed his wife once. She was curating a gallery of his work at Otakon 2013. I wonder what her life has been since, and if she knew. CW: Child pornography

when the AI bubble finally collapses and everyone who spent a year smugly hyping it suddenly has to come crawling back with their tail between their legs, i just want to say i am not going to be the bigger person about it. i am going to be meaner than you can even believe

jobs should be legally required to offrer 10-20 "tired days" where you can just sleep in until you're not tired and then come in.

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

From a friend who was there today: MIT class president denounced the MIT administration and said “we MIT students showed the world what we want is an end to Israeli military collaboration," the crowd erupted in chants of "free palestine," flags everywhere, they cut the livestream 🇵🇸

the more i learn about ai development and the data centers these tech corporations are building and the amount of money and power the people in these companies have and the jobs they want to destroy, the more i understand that we cannot let them build this future they want for us

I'm mildly annoyed that we're very unlikely to get a card for the very best part of ff5 - casting level 5-death on a room full of statues for ten hours until your whole team is basically max power

"Doubles down on support for children"

“It's time to become something other than efficient, which is a wonderful thing for a machine or a system to be, and can be a wonderful tool for a human to harness, but is a terrible and enslaving purpose for a life.”

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

Ex-Biden State Department official says even the Israeli military expected the US to only let them bomb Gaza for weeks, rather than unconditionally for a year and a half:

CANT LOSE MONEY IF YA DONT HAVE ANY - dashare.zone ADMIN

Thankfully I've been preparing for economic collapse my whole life by never making enough money to live comfortably or have investments

A good motto to live by:

I built a utopian city, and as long as this tortured child stays in this basement, the people of Omelas get to live here!

The beauty of MH Wilds' sales success is that it was very much a slow burn. Decades of building up player trust and goodwill... Not chasing some flash-in-the-pan fad in the hopes of making a quick buck I WOndER iF puBLiShErs wilL leArN thiS LESSoN?

What’d she do? Return a Tesla?

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

I think that we might be at the end of the road here for this generation of tech advancement. And it all comes down to one thing: The inability to care about the greater whole of humanity. 1/4

Incredible how thoroughly Democrats got played here. Spent four years following through on a Trump executive order, pissed away any shot at building a real youth coalition for 2024 by alienating literally every teenager in America, lost the election, and now Trump gets to "save" TikTok. Clown shit.

I really needed this poem today and maybe you do too? "Good Bones," by the wonderful Maggie Smith. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

I love art

Rest up Biden. We'll need you at the top of your game when you run in 2028

Sagan, the sage? From his 1995 book. The state of #America

I needed this today. You may too.

Going out last night to hang out with friends, watch a hockey game, and just be alive did *wonders* for my mental health today. Shit is gonna be bad, but it isn't going to be insurmountable. The biggest lesson i learned from 2016 was that you have to live, and live fully.