I asked around in some discords and decided to take the plunge, I’ll be turning this post into a first impressions post once I’m able to play (that will be a while so be sure to bookmark if you’re interested)

my kingdom for a future “DeTrumpification” Wikipedia entry with a cover photo of the gold trump statue being toppled

Do any of my followers play Path of Exile 2? What are your thoughts on it? I bounced off of 1 but am considering picking up 2 since I’d heard it was more approachable, so I’m curious what other’s experiences are with it

You go all in on Texas if you think you have a chance to reverse slippage in the RGV while cementing gains in the suburbs

SCOOP --> I talked to Paulina Mangubat, who was doxed by Stephen Miller's wife over the "ugly f--k" tweet. She stands by the tweet 100 percent. “What he’s doing is ugly—siccing federal agents on civilians, applauding when families are separated," she tells me: newrepublic.com/article/2111...

Why video games cost so much to make www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvhm...

I'm going to state clearly on this, but this is entirely incorrect conspiracist horseshit. If I was not having a shit night, I'd go into actually responding to this in detail over the misleading nature of it, but its just all horseshit.

interracial cuck porn theory of the right

the funniest part of this is that gooners are, with probably like 100% frequency, stealing the labor of sex workers how’s that for cursed discourse you bastards

the part about them building an alt vote.gov is interesting

they're just fucking at war with us

this too tho

this, somewhat counterintuitively, makes me think this is even *less* likely to happen now because once you start talking through it out loud, the average person — even the average fox news viewer — understands how fucking stupid it is

Hey gamers! My partner's brother is leading a team building out a new rougelite looter shooter that's muppets shooting monsters with funny guns. Check it out...looks like a blast!

It's Texas, it would be dishonoring the memory of LBJ not to run this campaign

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

we finally got a pro-trans opinion piece in the mainstream uk media (by @transsolidarity.bsky.social's alexandra parmar-yee) worth sharing www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Which way, liberal?

i kind of want to find out what would happen to the polls if he just decked him

Building Moon Towers *everywhere* (properly spaced and aesthetically located so the lighting remains moody)

Didn't get the job I was deeply hoping for, unfortunately. Need a remote TypeScript senior/staff-level position as soon as possible.

Excellent analysis from Greg as always (and Liberal Currents Mentioned)

it’s worth noting that your average voter probably has no idea what the fuck this is supposed to mean. This is knee deep in the too online swamp..

Really can’t recommend this one enough. It says everything that needs to be said about our deranged way of talking about Israel

I've added a link on the 48-66 military rule since that seems to have been a thing people jumped on to say did not happen www.adalah.org/en/content/v...

“It is a simple, factual claim, that since 1948, a defining feature of the Israeli state has been its rule over a large subject population, distinguished from the Jewish majority ethnically and religiously, and governed by military law outside the constraints of civil protection.”

Truth:

I’m not a vegetarian and I take him at his word that he isn’t either but I hate how any left of Pinochet candidate has to do this ridiculous song and dance as if a man eating an above average amount of cauliflower would be a valid excuse to vote for the pedo coddling fascist enabling crook.

There's an underdiscussed archetype On Here that's "brand that has a Bluesky and doesn't post at all, doesn't even repost what it tweets" and I think that's a shame because I think the strategic posting choices of brands reveals a lot about their internal alignment and values.

alright this guy absolutely has scrambled eggs for brains

I interview Ludovic Mbock, the famed competitive fighting game player who was detained by ICE after a routine check in. I learned how someone initially shy and in a new world connected with a community who refused to let him disappear. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

"idk man it seems like a stretch that all of right-wing politics could just be porn-brained masculinity anxiety" they're gonna call him a sissy or a cuck on national TV within a month i PROMISE

thank you to James Talarico for being a lightning rod to prove me correct on a national stage

In the Biden interregnum I was going back to basics, looking at the literature on ethnic conflict as a prism for understanding our own immigration and racial politics. Most people really don’t understand just how bad *in a horrifyingly commonplace kind of way* things get

Just curious, is this guy still the darling of the Center for New Liberalism?

Yeah see this is why I think people are being unduly pessimistic.

"In terms of the NCR’s system, they are the only faction that can be said to even make a superficial attempt at grounding their legitimacy through a political compact that goes beyond narrow interests."

this is that liberal currents essay

What’s more embarrassing: unfollowing Ian Miles Cheong because he mocks your babymama lusting after Hasan Piker, or making it public that you followed Ian Miles Cheong in the first place? It’s like announcing you’ve stopped masturbating in the aquarium because you’re scared of eels.

we really have to end the idea of the smol bean congress

The thing that always annoys me about these pieces is it always shirks the responsibility of civilian politicians and thus the public at large

This may be overly cynical, but honestly any internet famous activist organization feels like it has better than even odds of being a foreign influence astroturf operation

(bringing out my PZ beating-stick) Project Zomboid suffers from this because it went for an isometric TPP perspective like the Sims and it makes combat just awful.

there is just no media opposition—we need a british liberal currents & bulwark stat

This pleases me

he is a cynical, malicious, monstrous black hole of a human being and we’ve been caught in his event horizon for ten years, *of course* we are feeling the effects of that, making everyone feel awful is his superpower

at the risk of oversimplifying, i do not find it especially surprising that a full ten years into the era of donald trump dominating our politics, americans find ourselves angry, bitter, cynical and resentful no matter our material conditions.

it’s true that trump has given far too many people license to be their absolute worst selves, but i think a lot of people who have taken him up on that have not been made happier for the effort. for most people, most of the time, behaving like an asshole makes you feel awful over time.

Friction is good, it give the player something to push off of and strategize around. That said, the method of friction has to both match the structure of the game (this didn’t) and provide an interesting complication to gameplay (this didn’t). Friction for friction’s sake is just filler.