microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

For fuck’s sake.

"Defund the police" was never a mainstream Dem policy proposal, but Dems let themselves get branded as the "Defund the Police" party in part because so many of them can't stop talking about how they gotta stop being the "Defund the Police" party. They're doing it to themselves.

One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.

Mark another one down for the "everyone is twelve now" theory of politics

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

The discourse around piracy coming from Japanese Mangaka is really funny. They would close every Library under the guise of piracy if they could.

"No, No, NO. You CANNOT go to a friend's house & read their manga or you are a CRIMINAL" These same people will then go to hardoff & buy manga from the 1970s for 10 yen for research purposes. You couldn't write a funnier joke.

people are so fucking stupid i could just scream

Alien polycules! Human polycules! Space sex! Read my new article!

More than 840,000 people around the world die every year from health conditions linked to work stress, according to a new report. www.ilo.org/resource/new...

i feel bad for this WTYP listener

It turns out that “hey man, you shouldn’t jerk off in front of people who don’t want you to, I don’t want to work with you anymore” and “we will use the power and implied violence of the State to censor free speech” were *not* in fact, equivalent problems!

No fan of his but it's kinda funny seeing Isaacman try to simultaneously juggle "We're Making NASA Great Again and doing Big Bold Science" and "We need to slash NASA's budget to the lowest level in 60 years"

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

This bit gets me every time

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

Oh it was real gross man, and 100% public facing. Guys thought they were being real clever claiming sexual ownership of two sisters in advance of it no longer technically being rape and then wonder why America elected a pedophile.

Saturn, Mimas and Dione - Cassini, 2009 - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2mJmU4n

The unwritten caveat here of course being that they weren't paying taxes anyway, so net loss to the state is $0 and arguably a net positive societal gain

Thoroughly. I misspelled it making this post. How many u's are in it? Where do they go? I get it wrong every time, and never consistently.

Before this starts going viral here I want to point out that the "confirmation" is an AI chatbot, and when other people asked it, it gave completely contradictory information saying that it was for the offline game share feature (allowing you to play a game shared game for 30 days without owning it)

#Booksky Author C.J. Cherryh announces her retirement - www.facebook.com/share/1HAebj...

many oomfs

The Iranian schoolgirl, the cancer patient whose clinical trial was cancelled, the African AIDS patient who can't get treatment anymore — none of these are "real" to our media elites. Can't imagine themselves in that situation or visualize it. But "panic at the fancy gala!" on the other hand,

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya

My very first tiger drawing and my latest

A favorite bird genre of mine has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur' Groove-Billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/3...

It was real easy to make me reread a book compulsively as a tween so long as it was about a Cool Mythical Creature

“The court is currently ruled by a brutal Christofascist majority; it sees itself as an all-powerful legislature. And as an all-powerful, Christofascist legislature, the court is determined to prevent any & all efforts to restore democracy and end Christian authoritarianism.” You gotta face facts.

oh my god

Why Was I Invited To An Island Off The Coast of Costa Rica By A Genetics Company? (With apologies to Dan Olson)

I love this essay very much!!!!

it’s not even close (this is from 1985)

Final Fantasy X - 25th Anniversary Website up with anniversary logo and merch announcements jp.finalfantasy.com/ffx25th

unrelenting

Centrists on here will say, "oh you want to firebomb a Walmart? That pales in comparison to my strategy, voting" and then firebomb a Walmart

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

When radioactivity was discovered, there was a rush to market for all sorts of radioactive consumer goods. There were water jugs made out of uranium glass, for example. I think about that a lot these days whenever I see AI products being marketed to consumers.

Remember, discord is -still- planning to do this in around a month or two. Cancel your nitro, but ALSO call your reps and tell them that online Id/ age verification policy is an unsafe invasion of privacy www.congress.gov/members/find...

This is hilarious and then to give matching orders to the right wing influencer network to get out there and repeat some version of “this is why we need a white house ballroom!!!” Is hilarious

Doodled Turians, they would be like evil twins, but sexy

Phobos over Mars - Olympus Mons - ESA Mars Express - 125 MP - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2rggHKy

Babe wake up new official Farcille art dropped

If you get traumatized while voluntarily attending a leisure event run by Nazis a possible downside is a lack of sympathy.

yeah I feel weird about this but I am not sure a firing squad is any more barbaric than what Alabama is currently doing. I have read multiple detailed reports from observing death by nitrogen gas and I swear I almost threw up. we should not be trying to find the most aesthetic way to murder people.

this is what all the social media in the Purge movies looks like