I understand about Project 2025 and everything but most days it also feels like I'm back on the schoolyard watching the bullies picking on the weird kids. Like sometimes there really isn't any logic deeper than that.

The tentacles. The bat wings. The being raised into the air and screaming. Such a wonderful day. Happy rapture everybody.

You don't need to have the anger and drive of a neurodivergent person to build the tools that make building the cool stuff easier... ...but I find it helps!

Using Houdini to build SVGs feels kinda like eating noodles with pool cues.

Making the capitalists mad at the fascists, you say? Hmmmm.

Advil investors making a killing. (I don't know. I'm not checking.)

Industry: hey GDC, we need you to move out of San Francisco and the US at large because it's unsafe, deal with the still-too-common harassment issues, stop charging egregious for-profit fees, and for you to provide proper compensation for speakers GDC: we hear you but best we can do is rename it

Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru two pack, $55.94 at Walmart

when the pendulum swings back we’re going to make all media so trans and gay. no more repeating the mistakes of the past with even token cishets in the background.

Happy Autumn! For the season, here's a past Autumn landscape of mine called 'Autumnal Auras'. Colourful trees and mist lying low on the moorland edge 🍂 I would have done it a bit differently now (should I do another??) but it's still an aerial embroidery I'm very proud of!

Don't come to the US because ICE will kidnap you.

The CIA whenever any leftist movement gains popularity

anyway my takeaway is that I'm utterly baffled they wouldn't just come out and say "we're making GDC pricing more reasonable" instead of posting a UFO and causing people to speculate in blind terror

Gut reaction rescinded - for now. GDC using a genAI-looking teaser video DID NOT HELP my uptake there. Heh.

The photo of Joan with Debbie at the poolside party is outstanding.

Firefox. I have two hundred and fifty six gigabytes of the fast remembery bricks. You can cache the whole rendered PDF.

I want more about 8ug8ear and Petrochem. Or just the Triestes in general.

SLIMER! (And the real Mandalorian)

If it's worth doing, it's worth cripplingamountsofperfectionismthatdestroysyourrelationshipsandcausesyouphysicaldisfigurmentpainandmentalstressthatunravelsyoursenseofbothselfandselfworthbeforecrashingoutandachievingnothing.

gary

Ostranauts OST has no damn business being this good. HWAT the fuck?

Can we place a moratorium on those fucking websites that croll like a powerpoin presentation? I'm trying to figure out what the difference is between graphics cards and theres no like, physical specs sheet its just sliding windows and massive graphics saying MILITARY GRADE POWER

It's officially Harvester season.

Frostpunk with all the fixins is seven US dollars. But even still, I'm hesitant because of the recent genAI bullshit from 11bit. Gonna skip it. Anybody have a scifi city builder recommendation?

If you've been waiting for the perfect moment to try out some of Remedy's amazing games, this is the perfect time to do it. There's a humble bundle going on now where you can get them ALL for as little as $27! I highly recommend them! www.humblebundle.com/games/remedy...

Holy shit, proto-gg-incels did **NOT** like Serana, huh? Reading some old forums about Dawnguard and having a giggle at these weenies.

*quietly seething about consumer-level color spaces and codecs and floating point number representation and machines and math and people and companies and patents and DAMNIT*

Anybody have a blocklist for bluemaga AI-image bots?

I don't think I've posted this one

Slide potentiometers, why you gotta be so spensive.

watching even a few seconds of the kirk funeral makes it clear a large quantity of this country is ready for full on nazi authoritarianism and we have to really grapple with how much we need to put a stop to this as quickly as possible

Time to rip off the solvers-in-copernicus bandaid.

Right. "Don't speak ill of the dead" doesn't really mean "do not factually describe the dead and their life's work" and it is weird that it is being invoked to mean that.

DAMNIT. I bought the Tapatio instant ramen as a joke. (But it's actually good.)

Worldbuilding detail in a game captures my attention, sparks my imagination and curiosity... ...is never mentioned or explored again.

Yeah, holy shit. I just checked, mine and @shaxbert.bsky.social 's comments calling them out- which have 2.6k and 1.6k likes respectively, are just fucking GONE. Can't even find them by scrolling down anymore, they straight up 'hid' them. Fucking cowards. bsky.app/profile/did:...

@aaron.bsky.team If you guys are already removing posts it means you're already scared of the pushback, which tells us that it's working, and that we should make even MORE noise about it. You think you guys can hold out as long the paypros? Because I'm doubtful a team your size can.

Oh my gosh this is wild. Anyway, if anybody needs basic advice about switching over to Linux, I’m always happy to help

Dear The Coca-Cola Company, Send me one or two 55 gallon drums of Simply Limeade, please. Thank you.

Neighbor kids have been given amps and a microphone and I'm about to become the wrong kinda Joker.

if you are in a professional or personal situation where you cannot fully divest yourself from something being rightly boycotted, you've got an easy out: shut the fuck up. no one asked. you're free. i'm not your priest.

Today isn't Monday. And Other Useful Tidbits Recently Learned.

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

censorship produces the most grotesque and disturbing caricatures of reality. i can't speak for everyone but i get sick to my stomach every time people self-censor words like rape and assault (online and irl). it's a gut punch every time to be reminded that everyone Knows but no one Talks

Want to live in the Soul Cairn. (What can I say, muted purple Beksińskian gloom does it for me.)

i miss wires and physical hard drives and tactile things. i miss blowing into cartidges i miss hearing discs whirring up. i miss clear casing. i miss tech solving problems and being Fun.

Now that we’re deep in it, I hope nondisabled people are finally realizing that what disabled folks have been saying all along is correct. And that it affects you too. No matter how “healthy” you think you are. I hope that starts to shift nondisabled people’s actions, not just what they say online😷

Where is his condemnation of the endless amount of harassment Erika Ishii has received because they're playing the main character in Yotei?

Americans should take a polygraph to see if they think hypnosis is real.