In case you had any doubts Skin Deep is a good game, here's an excerpt from its patch notes.

So it turns out great blue herons mostly alternate between preening themselves and having Vietnam flashbacks, and occasionally they catch a fish #videography #birds #wildlife

Things like this are what keep me from falling into doomerism. What we’re dealing with isn’t a sea change; it’s a tiny handful of jerks who are disproportionately loud! (mostly because legacy media has found it profitable to search for the biggest jerks on earth and then hand them bullhorns)

“Github repos are not a product. You're not actually furthering the adoption of the protocol; you're just throwing this thing out there like a dead fish and telling third parties to draw the rest of the owl for you.” This is a damn good piece on so many levels.

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

lol wild how the US went from "support the troops" for 20 years to "disabled veterans are welfare queens" being the new slop line do they think veterans and active duty and reservists dont talk to each other? how are they gonna do a fascism without a military

Boards of Canada's Olsen performed on a PDP-1. Holy shit. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wubk...

THE HULK HAS GONE SOFT

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a new mRNA vaccine that has been shown to suppress abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, offering hope to MILLIONS of patients with age-related vision loss. The vaccine triggered strong antibody responses that REDUCED retinal damage by UP TO 85%.

bluesky: community moderation! we're all about community moderation! we want you to moderate yourselves! we are giving you the tools to do it yourself! one of the biggest and longest running community mod lists:

I wouldn't say "whole thing collapses" but yeah; PDS migrations allow you to own your identity and data, but an AppView can always suppress content from a given DID, no matter what PDS hosts it. Self-hosting means that you can always post; it doesn't ensure that anyone will see it.

Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the bad guys know they’re losing, so it’s important to read it when they say it out loud.

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

This week: Somebody found Polybius! Or maybe not. But hey, it's October: critical-distance.com/2025/10/05/o...

action/platformer speedruns: yea we have to do 100 frame perfect tricks to clip through all these sections and it's all skill based and precise practice and speed old jrpg speedruns: WE HAVE TO TORTURE THE GAME BY RIPPING ITS SOUL OUT AND REPLACING IT WITH DR MARIO TO FORCE IT TO DO OUR BIDDING

Buy our videogame it's on sale it has good jokes store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

That tension between “making my own PDS isn’t that hard, technically” and “I should not be in the business of social networks” Its one of those shitty “nobody should _want_ to do this, but somebody needs to do it and everyone currently doing it is terrible” things. like a diy irc server circa 2001

I love this so much. We need more Frog Fractions / Golden Potato shenanigans to bring joy and serindipity to gaming

thinkin bout thos

taggin @drewcurtis.bsky.social for new and interesting ways to say “Duke sucks”

Good lord, Takakeisho looks like he’s 19 years old now. What a transformation. #sumo

I went here and everyone knew Garak

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Man if Taxidermy was available when I was a Scout, I’d have been all over that

RetroAchievements users caused a collective uproar that got site admins to remove a bigoted rom hack in the time since Jay posted this. It hasn't even been 10 hours.

Got banned from RetroAchievements for saying that supporting Nazi content is bad, in case you're curious about that site's stance on things

This may be one of the greatest days of my life. I just received word from UNLV Dept of Geoscience saying I may have literally actually discovered a rock formation during my desert explorations that's unknown to science. I could not be more excited! This is my childhood dream! (Even if it gets ID'd)

Die Fugger II / PC / Sunflowers / 1996

By far, one of the silliest LPs I have ever purchased.

100%ed Silksong! 72h for all endings + all content (including the stuff that doesn't contribute to 100%). Low points: * Groal. * The rosary grind in the early game. High points: * First Sinner -- omfg, best boss Team Cherry has ever made. * Grandma Silk in Cursed Child mode. * Harpoon traversal!

Virtual Machines render fonts. It’s kind of insane.

 TrueType has its own instruction set, memory stack, and function calls.

 You can debug it like assembly. It’s also exploitable:

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

no. no, they were not. they silenced me for fear of Kiwi Farms.

Takarafuji has retired, after 16 years of wrestling without missing a bout. He will pivot to coaching, as Kiriyama-oyakata. #sumo

Old and busted: Judge shopping. New hotness: Grand jury shopping.

Hey folks, there's a Steam Sale on right now, who would like a good old Casey recommendation thread? Well, gather round everyone, I'll make some choice picks that I really love and I hope you'll love too. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.

1) I would get fired and sued _instantly_ for giving some random tech company my corporate login. 2) P sure our workday login requires 2fa, so even if I _was_ an idiot, it wouldn’t work. (And if your employer doesn’t have 2fa for this shit, lol lmao, name and shame.) 3) Fuck landlords in general.

I'm just saying, Portland also has the most strip clubs per capita of any city in the US.

another day 🙃

I was adamant in Dec 2023 that (the then juryo rikishi) Onosato would make ozeki by the end of 2024. Turns out even that 'wild hot take' which was roundly mocked by my co-hosts - and in sumo spaces online - was unselling just how good he'd be in ozumo. #Sumo #相撲 #Onosato #大の里

you aren’t protecting yourself from anything by overthinking about bad things that might happen we live in the future we expect imagining fake scenarios and hurting your own feelings is almost as bad for you as actually having the bad things happen. don’t do that

THE MEME IS REAL

Gotta participate in this year's -tober challenge

Drove out (well, @evan.sooscreek.productions did the driving really) to Coldwater Lake and Silver Lake yesterday. Highway 504 has some fantastic scenery, made for a gorgeous trip #photography #pnw

every fucking god damn time “sure he was a mass murderer, but he was a white dude, so here’s five paragraphs about what a devoted family man he was, before we mention the dead churchgoers, the arson, or the UXO in his truck”

the part of me that hates LLMs goes “eww” the part of me that played Eve for too long goes “oh a joint project with querious\.co”

you might disagree with this decision but from what i understand it does actually elevate fighting games closer to real combat sports where everyone watches through some low quality re-streaming site instead of the official broadcast

Actually y'know, fuck my doomerism.