This is great news. As with any business that exploits the avoidance of external costs, once it's required to pay those costs it either becomes legit, or it dies. I'm hoping for death, obviously. It's not that I hate robots. It's that I really love people. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Hey guys, if you've been bugged by your Google searches even once in the last year, I'm *begging* you, try a different search engine. You can do it. It's not that hard. Duck Duck Go, UDM14, just try a different one.

All the unused Lower Decks episode titles @bradwinters.bsky.social and I argued about can finally be realized.

New season opening episode of Game Changers is hilarious. We’re so blessed to have this show and Task Master.

"Okay, good, I should have just enough for groceries and incidentals left after paying those bills! It'll be a frugal two weeks until the next paycheck, but I can do it!" **Rifftrax MST3K Kickstarter pledge comes in with a steel chair!!**

Sturm UND drang?? In this economy?!

Hello STV, welcome to my zone.

Bluesky is my number one source for discussions about Bluesky

COMIC: MIddle Age

Add me to the chorus of people telling you to watch this...

this is our history

I'm sure there are more updates planned, but so far the software updates that were meant to help Marvel Snap become more stable has done the opposite Which is *impressive*

Look here’s the thing. Somehow I did not realize that the Sheep Detectives was going to be a children’s movie

Uh, I'm a little reluctant to do this, because I didn't do it for money, but some people have suggested I do it anyway... So, if you like the Trek Title Card Generator, feel free to throw me a buck or two, I guess... ko-fi.com/bean525

TODAY'S COMIC: Anatomy of a Giant

If you read them now, Killer Princesses, Clean Room and the Secret Six arc about a prison island all seem like they were specifically written about the Trump administration. But they weren’t, they were all warnings about political manipulation that destroys our moral center. 1/

Catching up on a few things, and was delighted to read this thoughtful #Animorphs essay by @samanthawrites.net. 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Someone at a convention once said to a friend who was working the booth with me that he liked my work but he wasn't going to buy anything because "Chris is successful enough and doesn't need my money". Anyway I'm no longer a full time game designer because I didn't make enough money to live.

Opting to install a big mirror maze instead of locking my front door was great at first. Huge gang of burglars followed me right into the maze, got trapped. But now I've called the police in to get them and *they're* lost and now the commissioner wants the floor plan and it's a whole thing...

I'm having the dawning realization that if I keep trying to make the Short-Cut cartoon, I'm going to have to contend with comparisons to Kit from Gameoverse re: having her home destroyed and living with the trauma It's not one to one but add in the goggles and pixel aesthetic and it's gonna come up

I'm going to my college reunion. But given my HORRIBLE memory for faces & the passage of decades, here's how it's going to go: ME: "And you are...?" CLASSMATE: "I saved your life from wolves! We biked around Ireland for two weeks together! I was in your wedding!" ME: "I wanna say...Jim?"

One of the great things about fighting Tenna in Deltarune is that I really got a sense that I was looking at some sort of physical manifestation of everything that makes TV awesome. It was fighting for survival, but also trying to make the case for its own existence, and there was a glory in that.

So in the wake of Google's full AI embrace on the search end, they've allowed Gemini to create Shorts from other people's videos, both horizontal and vertical. Here's how to disallow your videos from being used for it (for now) #YouTube #VSky #FuckAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3c8...

You know what? They were a team of devs whose entire wheelhouse was cinematic single player narrative titles, and they still managed to make a multiplayer title that lasted longer than Highguard and Concord That's at least some kind of impressive success in the world of 2026

Checking in on the count for the Iowa 2016 caucus vote, and they're closer than ever before

I think it's time to leave Windows.

I bring imagination to *life*. It's an art.

Google hasn't been particularly useful as a search engine in years, but it increasingly seems like they're dedicated to making it just absolutely 100% no-amount-of-effort-can-overcome-our-design unusable.

and also ME

I don't ask search engines for answers. I ask them for LINKS to answers. I'm okay with the link list being curated by algorithmic relevance (assuming [HAH] no malice in the algorithm's design) but I do NOT want the results digested and summarized for me. tl;dr - I guess I'm done Googling stuff.

This is not actually correct, what’s happening isn’t reactive, there have been hints since issue one. It just got pushed back a bit.

To celebrate the #DC x #Sonic crossover, some of our artists put together this awesome collaboration! Do you recognize all the heroes here?

I've just gotta say, I love how Matt Fraction is writing Batman. It's *so* nice. He's very good at extending grace to people, which is not a quality I often associate with Batman, but damn it's nice to see. It feels like a good synthesis of a lot of the versions of Batman I've loved since BTAS.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Welcome to season 8 of Game Changer - only on @dropout.tv

This monologue from Hannah Einbinder on the show “Hacks” perfectly encapsulates the frustration many people feel about AI. What are your thoughts?

ladies, gentlemen... it is my pleasure to introduce to you: your new craving www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

If there was no Superman, Lex Luther would have just been another rich asshole.

If you are following Shelved By Genre please note Spotify is automatically removing every episode where we read a certain amount of the text because they think we're trying to make an illegal audiobook. They've stopped letting us appeal! Consider an alternative to Spotify to ensure ease of listening

I get it, man, I get it, you wanna post that emoji of Walter Cronkite on your favorite Discord server, that Cronkite emoji is so choice man, but you gotta stay strong and avoid Nitro until they give us a hard confirmation that they're axing the age verification

What's the difference between a bank account and a bag of hair? One is a Cash Stash. The other is a 'Stash Cache.

Made a big mixed bag at the M&M store when I went to New York, and I'm learning that my favorite candy to pull out of the bag is Skittles

Chapter 5 of THE YOUNG OLD DERF CHRONICLES out now! Hold on to your zippers, space friends, because this is the installment you’ve been waiting for. That’s right, it’s the part where the ol’ Derfster finally gets LUCKY 😘 ! And then yes, gets quite unlucky, over and over again. Enjoy!

Okay, so I know what people mean when they say that Mixtape is an "industry plant", but reading the comments from people saying that really makes it come across as someone going "Wait a second... this company made a game ON PURPOSE!"

i’m not on tiktok anymore but

Usually pickin' up mobile orders from Chipotle works seamlessly, but whenever there's any need at all to talk to the folks behind the counter the fact that I'm actually picking up my own food and not a door dash delivery gal invariably causes an extra three minutes of Vaudevillian confusion

i love you grain weevil