ok i understand that the different forms of the soldier fantasy in games, movies etc are all evil and a way to play-act the imperial crimes of our nations. i get that. but even so. someone has to say it. the idea of the operator is so fucking lame just a freak with a beard in a shirt

It spews a white sickness!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Mamdani releases video overviewing Know Your Rights if you see ICE + promises to protect New Yorkers and the right to protest, specifically in response to anti-ICE action last Saturday that stopped a massive raid. Comes following question from me asking for his comment on that action.

Inspiring leadership as ever from The Handbasket: a BRILLIANT Independent Journalism Gift Buying Guide. Thank you @marisakabas.bsky.social!! The @flaminghydra.com lair is roaring with pride to be included among great IRL publications, for great IRL readers. www.thehandbasket.co/p/independen...

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

It wasn't all about walking. To sustain the yearlong boycott, they built a massive organized carpool system with 40 pickup stations around the city; at their peak, they were giving 15,000 rides a day. The police harassed them. Politicians and commentators called them disruptive. But they persisted.

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Are you on generic Vyvanse? There was a nationwide recall in the fall that a lot of people missed because they put out the news generally but didn’t tell people who were on it directly. Check your lot numbers here: www.pharmacy.ca.gov/about/recall...

Last year we've made a game we thought might be our last one as Moonana. We called it Ginger's letter to Santa, also as a personal letter from myself to Santa, hoping for better days. Now one year later, we have it discounted as a Christmas present for anyone who believed we could make it through!

It ain't the holidays without @skatunenetwork.bsky.social.

This week, a federal judge wrote that federal agents – largely from ICE, but also CBP and other agencies operating in D.C. – had adopted an “arrest first, ask questions later” approach, ignoring legal requirements around when and how immigrants can be detained. @maustermuhle.bsky.social reports:

PSA!! almost everything that is uploaded to streaming services can be bought from qobuz! unless they SPECIFICALLY excluded it. i buy a ton of kids stuff from there: danny go, ms. rachel, super simple songs... amazon music also often sells the mp3s. (but qobuz sells flacs and pays artists better)

People who make hyper shareable animal videos with AI will not see paradise

Unreal levels of civic engagement happening here

Happy Saturday everyone! I'm Nora and I have a glass jewelry shop! Here's some of the jewelry I have in stock; in the replies I'm going to share some of the glass wreaths I've been making. nora.jewelry Shares appreciated! #bsnm

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

This is quite narrow framing which kind of fudges two issues into one, but both those issues are interesting: the enormous bloat of large academic spaces, and the rise of AI authored papers. Neither are unique to AI research but the former is very bad right now: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Crowdfunding campaign for a good outfit, doing some good work investigating and explaining the terrible weirdness of the AI industry store.gamersnexus.net/ai-dystopia

Holy shit, the radicalization of Steve Burke from GamersNexus has been an absolute treat to watch. Just the first minute of this video gives you a great idea of how fucking furious this should all be making us. POP THE BUBBLE

in the end, the future of cinema is Hundreds of Beavers

Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability lyra.horse/blog/2025/12... "CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"

Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...

I will keep banging on this drum: if we want to fight fascism, we're going to have to normalize masking because no one is coming to save us

Looking for big-scale RPG/LARP suggestions! For the first time, I'm gonna have 11 of the players from my home RPG games under my roof at the same time. What should we play?

Even if this was true--and I question the premise that there are a lot of Jewish Americans who don't know what the Jordan River is--this kind of condescending "if you think murder is wrong name five of their albums" stuff is exactly why they lost the kids

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

this is like if a Shepard tone was dope

New disintegration loops dropped

For today's gift book rec, I'm choosing one of the most devastating, beautiful, nuanced, gorgeous, tragic, incendiary, and, yes, hopeful books of the year: ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS, by OMAR EL AKKAD. Deservedly won the National Book Award. Summary in alt text. 7/?

Hooboy, the pushback and nastiness I got from being a disabled 25 year old when MS hit me *hard*--like a person can't be young and disabled.

if u followed me on cohost u may remember i've been working on a game with my 2 best frenz! got rly motivated to pick it back up today so hopefully we'll be makin progress on it again soon ^^ (unmute to hear this title track noah wrote like 10 years ago... how are they so talented tho)

“OK GO” new song out now everywhere 🆗 ✅ prod. @russelbuck.com mastering by Ryan Schwabe poster @wolfears.net photoshoot & cover art @avas.cam “YCH” graphics and character @hazelboy.bsky.social

the stores podcast is the podcast you'd put in a video game to make fun of the idea of podcasts (complimentary)

I'm going to pretend that @skatunenetwork.bsky.social made this just for me because every aspect of this speaks to my childhood

East Coast Late Night Shoppers Take note

Creator day sale! Itch is waiving their cut, so we put LT on sale with that 15% taken off. wick.itch.io/lancer-tactics

What if we threw every person involved in private equity into the ocean: aftermath.site/splash-damage-...

What a joy (and what a list)

Here's a long Thanksgiving listen if you wanna go ultra deep on the Caves of Qud endgame. The hosts & Brian/Caelyn are so insightful as always, but I'm also thankful they let me rattle on re: the teeming melange that went into the ending. This was the post-release exhale I needed. Hope you enjoy!

Very clear illustration of how propaganda works – some OpenAI hack publishes a non-peer-reviewed preprint of a paper alongside multiple other OpenAI hacks (most of whom are not clearly listed as working for OpenAI), getting an inexpert journalist to make a deeply unserious claim on social media.

It can't just be on the teachers and professors. Parents and other members of the community need to stand with them.

🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani to require all NYC students to carry a 3DS.

I'm now co-ordinating with 20 different AP producers to start an AP collection on the Internet Archive 🤩 Step 1: get the list of contacts ✅ Step 2: get everyone to make accounts at archive.org and send me their handles Step 3: start building records!

when it becomes universally agreed that GPT-based neural networks absolutely cannot ever have anything like intelligence, all the world's smartest babies will just decide they're inventing Intelligence 2

Spread the word around

If you've never watched a @lily-is.online video essay, firstly you are missing out. Secondly, this is a very good (and very relatable) one to start with.

lmao

first los campesinos album: Wow The Mid 2000s Are So Colorful; Twee Will Never Die every other LC! album since: if I have one more bad date I'm really going to do it this time