I wrote about Pump It Up! (And going thru it a bit) teamheron.substack.com/p/bye-2025-h...

I somehow unblocked myself on writing stepcharts and have made a bunch in the last week. I'm having a really good time and I'm excited to share them for testing soon!

i'm sorry but the mormons partnering with a guy named Mr Beast is way too on the fuckin nose man

Fuck ICE abolish ICE fuck the police ACAB fuck trump fuck republicans fuck most of the democrats

Announcing ICE Breaker: A charity speedrun event by myself & @rrlat.bsky.social on Jan 30 - Feb 1 to support Minnesotans in defending from ICE. Submit runs: oengus.io/marathon/ice... Volunteer: forms.gle/51HEcBmhUC8X... Run submissions close Sunday. Volunteer apps have a soft deadline of Saturday

I had fun writing the alt text.

just think, this may be the last time we see Aaron Rodgers on a football field

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Chess.com is getting enshittified and I'm not here for it. I don't need a popup telling me to add a "streak widget" to my phone. Fuck off.

LOS ANGELES: ICE is prowling Silverlake & the hills

Idk who needs to hear this but if you have a spreadsheet full of #ERROR because you haven't filled in data yet, wrap your formula in ifna([formula],"") and it'll hide the errors. e.g. instead of = A1 + A2 use =ifna(A1 + A2, "")

And Renee Good’s last words appear to be “We’re not mad at you.”

You know I keep that thang on me (Albuterol)

Artists - I need some help! I would like to partner with artists/creatives in the future to collab on soap scents and designs. Basically asking for a soap band design on specific scents or themes. Realistically, what should my budget be? What's standard these days? Flat $? Percent of sales? Both?

I had the silly idea of making a pack of stepfiles to songs under one minute long. Menu BGM loops, stuff like that. I'm sourcing ideas; hit me with your links!

Any shot I know any rhythm gamers going to Anime Los Angeles this weekend? Going there as Cosplay Support Husband, but I just found out there's a rhythm game meetup!

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

Finally deleting my Twitter account with the forced genAI news. Part of me feels bad giving up 17k followers or whatever, although not like I have a use for them. And not like 95% cared about anything other than League anyway, so... good riddance?

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

it’s a time of year where people often feel isolated, alone & the shadows of the world seem closer. I’ve lost friends during this time of year, people who I know would have found the light again. just a reminder to reach out to friends, family or support organizations. just take that first step.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Going into 2026, a reminder for everyone who's fallen off the creative wagon, game dev, writing, art, music, whatever, no matter how long:

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

NEW: For the last seven weeks, Naughty Dog has enacted mandatory overtime for staff to finish an internal demo of their next game, Intergalactic. The game won't be out until 2027, leaving some staff wondering: If they're crunching now, what will next year be like? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It would be great to pass a law banning recruiters from saying "We'll keep your resume on file" or "we'll keep you in mind for future roles".

Bleh. I woke up sick.

Pedantic note of the day: Elo is the last name of the man who invented the Elo rating system - Hungarian-American chess player Arpad Elo. It is not an acronym. Anyone who stylizes Elo as "ELO" is incorrect. I've seen so many "ELO"s in esports brand names that it hurts my pedantic little heart.

I don't follow the "AI will make us bad at things" argument. Didn't we all hear about how we need to learn our times tables as kids because "You'll never have a calculator in your pocket all the time?" I don't know how to navigate with the stars, either, but I have Google maps.

"What I remember most about his dad is that he had a pet monkey he used to bring to the locker room on a lot of occasions" is a WILD story to just drop and leave.

LANDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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This is Poncho. He's trying to fix some mistakes on his medical record. Actually does not require any more shots, must have been a typo. 12/10 (TT: veterinariabarranquitas)

This is Magnus. He just beat cancer. His family wrote the big news on their car and bought him balloons to celebrate. Magnus got so much love from strangers the whole way home. His human said, "I hope everyone has a Magnus in their lives, who shows them what determination and strength are." 14/10

I'm at the combination

It’s amazing how much of this advertising is “you know that thing you were already doing without any issues? What if your phone told you to do it?”

This is Bolt. He just learned how to speak. Thinks it works best when he uses his whole body. 12/10 (TT: gavi_570)

New LIFE4 release dropped tonight!!!

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

All this performative outrage just because Mamdani is visiting the White House, and then that pointy-eared Frankenstein Jeffries blindly goes along with it like the chump he is. It’s like watching a bunch of Decepticons voting for a resolution condemning happiness because the Care Bears are in town

Watching the episode where Trunks debuted and was briefly the coolest a character has ever been completely rewrote my brain

They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books. But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular. It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.

During this cloudflare outage, let me supply you with this wisdom of the ages: “single point of failure” can be sung to the tune of “all the single ladies”

Yes. I don’t know what my blood type is or when I last saw an eye doctor but you better believe I know I GOT SECRETS CANT LEAVE CANCUN

Also I think we can all agree GOOD GRACIOUS / ASS IS BODACIOUS is up there with anything Keats or Wordsworth have ever written

WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️