The use of wartime rhetoric in Conservative dialogue isn’t new. It’s just especially gross when they are putting actual firearms in the hands of highly untrained, hyped up military LARPers and sending them into actual communities doing actual damage to actual people. Fuuuuuuuuuck this dude. 😡

The folks at @gobelins.fr just cannot miss. The talent on display in their content is nothing short of incredible! This is another one I stumbled across tonight. #animation #shortfilms #GOBELINSParis www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GjJ...

Boosting! Vox peeps do good work, y'all, and some of them are going to need help after these layoffs.

I understand Henry Cavil is gonna be lead in a #Highlander remake. Anyone called up Marc Martel for some bodacious Queen-coded new music for it? Let’s goooooo! 👏 🗡️ ⚡️ #movies

Which Azure network design is cheaper? by Jose Moreno #Azure blog.cloudtrooper.net/2026/01/16/w...

I've written another thing for the corporate blog - www.coeo.com/2026/01/azur... It's not quite what I originally submitted. You can read that on my personal blog at thelonedba.wordpress.com/2026/01/27/a... and play spot the difference... #Azure #CostManagement #GeoPolitics #InterestingTimes

Forgot how fucking righteous this song and album are. #workout? More like #rockout amirite let’s goooooo🤘🎸🧟‍♂️ music.apple.com/us/album/get...

I confess I don’t really consider the implications of my driveway becoming a wholly unsafe sheet of ice on my ability to work out. The missing-workout-scaries are setting in 😩

I settled on the couch tonight post-tattoo session to rewatch Rogue One and, my good gravy, what a masterpiece it remains!Compelling, beautiful to look at, wonderful characters, brilliant expansion of the original score… 🧑‍🍳 💋 🤩

Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing — at an international conference — that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponents for having defeated him in an election. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...

Are we winning the 5G race yet? 🫠 🤡

Week 2 of the next workout cycle. I have *got* to quit missing Lower Body Day 2 (usually on Fridays). Dunno if I just need to drop it and consolidate into a single lower body day, or change days, or what, but… Powerlifting Me would be appalled! 😳 The rest of it is going well, at least. 💪🏻

It's funny watching his brain power up in real time. 🤣🤗🥹

No YOU'RE a child! 🤡 (also I got a new crew member for my SoT crew 🐖🏴‍☠️) #SeaOfThieves #gaymer #pcgaming

lol “Difficult decision.” Sure, Jan.

I’d no idea this existed until evening, but I’m so very glad it does, and I hope the creators get to make more of it! ✨🌈 💪🏻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vy...

I fired up a short run of @windblown.game after having not tried it in a while, and I'd forgotten how 🔥this OST is. #gaymer #pcgaming #videogamemusic open.spotify.com/album/1unAts...

I found this great review of the current state of Alpha 2 PVP in #AshesOfCreation. Deep, lots of examples, and generally positive with meaningful attempts at critique. #mmorpg #pcgaming #gaymer

More #AshesOfCreation thoughts: Still hooked, low-down-time and high mobility healing is <3, love the music (Bear McReary bein' a baller as always), I wish it were a bit more clear when/what direction to move as you level, I wish there were more low-level PVP. #pcgaming #gaymer

I have to keep reminding myself that “My first #MMORPG was Vanilla #WoW” is to any sane non-curmudgeon a reasonable indicator of age and experience in the Genre. WoW is 21 f’in years old. Entire cohorts of people only know MMORPGs as a post-WoW experience. uuuuuugh 👴🏻 #gaymer #pcgaming

My #AshesOfCreation session tonight was some of the most fun I've had in an #MMORPG since the early New World days. The pulls were chaotic, [my] healing frantic, someone gave me a free floofy kitty mount (!), and I learned a few more bits of how town projects and crafting work! #pcgaming #gaymer

It feels like a lot of the people levying the most aggressive criticisms of #AshesOfCreation so far overlap strongly with the same kinds of MMORPG players that tend to make me quit MMORPGs. The golden path, metal-slurping, hyper-optimized, min-maxed, opti-build-or-gtfo kinda’ players. v0v

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

Luc Besson’s Dracula is.. something. 🤔 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is a visual treasure. 😍 That’s what #movienight with @ryan.doesthings.online tonight taught me. 📺 🍿 🤓 🤓

I got some time to play around with some stuff in #AshesOfCreation today: becoming a citizen of a town, and figuring out gathering and refining a bit better. They really need more guidance on crafting, but I’m getting it slowly. Also seeing the node system at work is pretty rad. 😀 #mmorpg #pcgaming

In-fucking-sane. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Was curious, so I looked into the most played games on Christmas Day the last few years, and, well, yep. (Note: Call of Duty for years 2023-2025 includes all games that can be played through the Call of Duty launcher.) A wee bit static at the top. Source: Circana Player Engagement Tracker

also, this happened this year: Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrorism is far-right was disappeared. www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

A few observations of things that need help in #AshesOfCreation EA: quest board quests are way farther in their distance and scope than the locality of the board would have you assume, solo play seems strongly discouraged, there are wide open fields of hundreds of roaming enemies doing nothing /1

Awwww yisssss :3 #pcgaming #NoRestfortheWicked www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayIq...

Hosting my mom and her two ambulating potatoes for #Christmas this year. 🥰 🥔 🥔 🎄

Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he doesn’t have much time left. Sasse is just 53 years old.

Stephen and the @ashesofcreation.bsky.social team's last (Dec 18) Dev Update includes specific block for ~*The Future*~. Good insights on expectations here given a lot of the current discourse around their Steam EA launch. youtu.be/2_hVM203YnU?... #pcgaming #mmorpg #AshesOfCreation

Ooo this will be a fun listen, methinks :3

There’s a bit of fuzz in places, but otherwise the 4K UHD special edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is an amazing looking and sounding piece of cinema. 🤩 #movies #StarTrek

There is a lot of all caps song titles on Spotify albums these days. Sometimes inverted caps. Deliberate artistic move, or just some derpy behavior in a Spotify API somewhere that no one thought was important enough to fix? 🤔

#Workout moving like it should but so is the creeping (maybe seasonal?) “what tf am I even doing any of this for” existential dread. Sooooo not a net negative! Noice. 💪🏻 🫠

Whoa! It’s wild how ephemeral it all is sometimes. :o

Is it bad that the first thing I noticed about this post was how much cake 🍑 is in this picture? 🙈👀

Re: Silksong, there is a particular strain of tragedy baked into the Cogwork Dancers fight. No spoilies, I guess, but there is a very similar kind of sadness to the last phase that feels very similar to how the original Hollow Knight fight felt in HK.

Post-VGA lossless @christopherlarkin.bsky.social blasting on new Sonos system from @teamcherry.bsky.social’s Silksong while cooking tofu naked with a vodka cocktail? This all the time is what I hope retirement is like . #gaymer

I only recently discovered the comedy of Tom Papa, and there is something in the relative positivity of his content and something in his delivery that tickle me.

Living room media setup progress! Soundbar mounted on the wall and cable management for TV and sound bar is in place and lookin’ clean. Both of the new woofers are in their place. Setup of new Apple TV box has begun, and the stands for the Era 300 surrounds arrive tomorrow. Let’s👏 fucking 👏 go 👏

I finally broke down and watched the Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred cinematics on YouTube because it felt unlikely I’ll want to finish it myself. It was…. fine. 🤷‍♂️ #pcgaming #diablo #arpg #gaymer

Just doing a dry run of audio test on the new Sonos gear we got for the living room (Arc Ultra, 2x Gen4 Subs, and 2x Era 300’s as surrounds), I popped in the Tron: Legacy 4K UHD BD. Hooooooly shit that movie is still, even all these years later, an audio-visual ~*feast*~ 😍 #movies #hometheater

I just saw KPop Demon Hunters and I feel like I’d have been a much stronger Gay had I gotten to be a late teen/early 20s gaybie getting that kind of messaging in my life (and also just S-tier animation quality). *gushes in 40-something* ✨ 🕺🏼 😭

@keengamesstudio.bsky.social’s #Enshrouded has me in its grips. I was content to wait til 1.0 to get back into it before cozy game FOMO took hold. “Just to see what changed, that’s all!” I said. “I’ll stay in the opening area!” Sure, self-Jan. Sure. 🫠

I re-discovered this staying up too late drifting through YouTube and felt compelled to re-share it because, despite the game being not very sticky for me, this song and the style with which she delivers it are S-tier. #EndlessDungeon #pcgaming #music

I did that thing again where I used every possible distraction to justify running from sleep. 🫠