Oh so fuck this game, actually.

And this, people, is why we have media studies. And may be why it has fallen out of favour by some.

Tech and private equity have hollowed out and destroyed industry after industry. Watching the damage inflicted on hundreds of thousands of people in TV and film while a few rapacious idiots—truly, idiots—made generational wealth has been infuriating.

When I was working at meta, the first time someone suggested to me I could use ai to format a document, I told them that me learning to format the document was the whole point and asked that they never suggest it to me again. Easy.

Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic

They already made an Odyssey movie and it was called O Brother Where Art Thou and it was perfect.

Whenever your membership is about to run out, the ROM sends a Little Guy to your house to stare at you.

[lying to myself]: i bet some of those grey hairs were on the haircutting cloak when i got here. maybe even most of them.

the episode where hank died, I remember that one

Dems chasing a mythical Great White Hope and refusing to take the South seriously even when Black women like Stacey Abrams delivered proof of concept and because IT IS THE RIGHT AND JUST THING TO DO are two sides of the same problem www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Seeing as how the only horse I can draw is a stick horse (example pictured), I did my best front-facing version

Neil The Seal Killed In Shootout With Authorities https://theonion.com/neil-the-seal-killed-in-shootout-with-authorities/

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

"why do you live in LA? isnt it hot all the time?" i left this:

i hate that ai doesn't mean the same things it did 5 years ago

If you're not outraged, you should be

Garffeld Pt 4

games industry television industry handshake meme

If anyone is getting smacked with this - just use deer.social or another alternate client. Bsky is just an AT Protocol Client, and your Bsky account is an AT Protocol account - you can use your same Bsky account thru another AT Protocol Client, no migration or loss necessary. Could not be easier.

Texas Democrat vows to investigate SpaceX if elected state attorney general www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Come forward, patron saint of Bluesky!!

Introducing 868-BACK Megacorps with only their pop-up ads: 📢 Megatron Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in computer-hacking strategy roguelike 868-BACK! Available now on Steam!

kinda wild that i'm gonna be driving ~5000 miles in two weeks. for reference, that's six times the distance from venus to the sun.

MAYOR MAMDANI HELP

nic cage has incredible range. he can play both short- and long-haired men.

In case anyone is wondering how I "clocked" Platner, it was the fact that he is a literal mercenary with a Nazi tattoo. Maybe keep that in your back pocket

Uhhh these things are not equivalent ? Internet sex work has a lot more in common with gig economy jobs or creating/selling media online than it does gambling, crypto or lottery Gambling et al are purely extractive industries praying on addiction, transferring wealth from victims to billionaires

Commentary: One Day I Woke Up And There Were Two Of Me

we laid off the people who develop the games, we laid off the journalists who cover the games, everyone is freelance and there’s no freelance budget. It’s probably fine though

We owe you an apology

its crazy that people heard "has a nazi tattoo" (not "had a nazi tattoo") were still behind that guy. literally everything i've learned about him since then has been worse.

a rebuttal to ken’s bullshit:

Oh, huh. This tool says that there are "dogfights in spacecraft" in Radiant Star. There are none. It also says that "Requiem for Murder" by me, a book that does not exist, contains explicit sex and lots of swears. & gender fuckery. I'll give them the gender stuff. But that was a gimme anyway.

The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti

This doesn’t so much “raise questions,” but rather answers them. He’s totally transparent about this!

"it was the best of times" [ section missing ] "it was the worst of times" [ united states, present day ]

As someone who lost a staff writing job last year and has been desperately trying to find full time work again, I cannot overstate the rage it fills me with to see writers and publications that just get caught using the plagiarism machine and it’s no big deal. Whoopsie, we left an AI prompt.

the company tells me that they're basically having to get into the real estate business because landlords have decided it's more profitable to have a big box store than a used bookstore. so they do a lot of shuffling and are very careful about how they expand:

New InfoWars theme song! Better than the first maybe? Tune in tonight at 8 p.m. ET!

I truly don’t see how this country can go on if we don’t ban online sports betting. This story is stomach-turning.

i think on a moral scale this is almost on par with just killing the guy

if you give Shaymin the 'gun' item it will evolve into shadow the hedgehog #pokemontips

more like scatner. because he was a piece of shit. get it.

sometimes a news photo is also a Far Side cartoon

the @trending.bsky.app algorithm is so shit istg. some vibecoded nonsense? or just normal llms being trash to source the terms? hard to say.

In case you missed it, here's Count Binface's appearance on the BBC this morning.

Can’t believe they still don’t grasp that letting people make screenshots and gifs is literally free advertising.