What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

BTW I have a blog now, I’m part of the blogosphere. So if you prefer, you can read this whole ramble in blogpost form, like it’s 2008: blog.olddog.games/posts/the-vi...

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.

This account stuck my comic through an ugly AI filter, removed my @ from the bottom and blocked me when I called them out.

Live NOW and I found some cool new shit so let's try the Mega Man X1-3 Cross Matrix Randomizer and see if I can handle this shit! Feels like the sort of unmitigated chaos we can enjoy for a stream or two, so lets try it! On Youtube at youtube.com/live/jdIeHPB... On Twitch at www.twitch.tv/Anoriand

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

Fucking incredible dystopian shit, comparing super rich people risking millions if not billions of lives just to make more money to people that risked their life actually building incredible things that would then make millions of dollars for super rich people.

I’m playing Battleship (® Hasbro) while watching Battleship (2012) and it’s baffling how award-winning this cast is Alexander Skarsgård, Liam Neeson, Jesse Plemons!? Ramy Malek briefly, Rihanna, Hamish Linklater. No action for 33 minutes. There’s a world where this could have been Barbie

war profiteering: it’s not just for defense contractors anymore

“Counting or not counting pensions?” I ask, milliseconds before Louis DeJoy runs me over in an adorable Pixar mail truck

White being the color of the year is a little on the nose, Pantone

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

Playing D&D weekly with no scheduling issues is the biggest indicator of success

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Perhaps the smartest #ClimateAction investment in cities is in public transit. While others make excuses, Paris is building a WHOLE NEW METRO NETWORK CONNECTING SUBURBS. “…the Grand Paris Express, a new 200km system with 4 new lines & 68 new stations.” #ActionStartsHere @mayors4climate.bsky.social

“Noctivagant,” the newest word I learned, from Jeopardy! tonight

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

I haven’t been fucked like that since grade school, Charlie Brown.

Forget it, Charlie Brown, it’s Chinatown.

Twitter had to turn off its location feature within hours because thousands of prominent and "verified" MAGA accounts turned out to be foreign and I think it's hilarious that Elon was the one who exposed them all

I miss my brother man

big unsaid thing here about “labor”: You could ask AI “get me a taxi” and in the background it scans Uber and Lyft and picks one. Both their CEOs talk about leverage: they have the data and size to set the terms of business. individual writers, artists, small businesses have no such leverage.

Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?” TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.” ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”

Dogs when they see a treat bag

Just hanging out in the dark under a log. As one does. #oilpaintingtimelapse #paintingtimelapse

62% of Israelis, and 73%(!) of Jewish Israelis, said they'd oppose Palestinian statehood, even if it's coupled with normalization with Saudi Arabia. The Israeli public (not just government) and the rest of the world seem to be moving in 2 very opposite directions. www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

“hope opposite of despair”??? welcome back Danganronpa

My last word on the matter

performative is orthogonal to liminal in a nontrivial way

It really does seem like there's a decent chance that these senators screwed us because they don't want their personal Thanksgiving plans to be disrupted.

I make things because I can be honest and nuanced and messy through the things I make. It’s for my own self expression and sometimes if I’m lucky, it’s to feel seen and to connect with the audience. And other times, I also make things for money and recognition when it’s necessary.

Oh, have I got something that reflects what you’re talking about. God bless you, South Korean Bootleg Knockoff Media.

Started lifting weights. It has its ups and downs.

On this beautiful morning in Astoria, I cast my ballot for our city and our future. I hope you will too.

Iraqi national holiday

Everyone bully me for still not being done with the Strahd + Spelljammer mash-up that I brazenly said was “coming 2024”

if lore is to be believed, fred astaire used to dance and glide around his tailor's workshop before taking a suit home to make sure the collar always stayed glued to his neck

i hate gay halloween what do you mean you're the reaction gif of robert redford nodding

I ditched it & did this research recently. Even Apple gives more money to the artists. Spotify is literally the bottom level.

my new life means i have a few more hours per week for ttrpg editing commissions. got something that needs a rigorous, honest, considered line/copy edit? hit me up. i'm pretty affordable, and i can cut you a deal if needs be.

Part of an absolutely stunning thread by @dieworkwear.bsky.social that covers the Battle of Blair Mountain (largest labor uprising in US history), The International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the book Bowling Alone and an appearance of @unitehere.org

I FOUND THE BOOK WITH THE ORB

If you can time your jumps perfectly and wedge a turtle shell against the stairs, the number of innings glitch out and become symbols instead

In Die Another Day, a mirrored satellite for “agricultural development” is actually a space laser that melts Iceland and then targets South Korea it’s built by a North Korean general who (lol) uses gene therapy to become a white billionaire The satellite is named Icarus

the day that society at large understands that testosterone and estrogen are necessary hormones in your body regardless of your sex, and that hormone supplementation is a health question rather than a loaded emotional question, will be one of the greatest days in human history.