to be clear: it is NOT an iconic line, Hamlet does NOT say it, that is NOT the line number, that is NOT what "a little more than kin" means, he is NOT talking about his father's appearance, it is NEVER cited that way because two different characters speak those lines. google. hey google. you suck

no bc it is actually GENUINELY amazing how bad AI is. gobsmacked

Haven't been checking socials because I've been so hyperfocused on my research. I've been gaining a ton of insight into the specific historical events RDR2 draws on; can't wait to share with you all!!

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

How the map research is going: just thought, without a trace of irony, "it is difficult to take this rock very seriously"

We're primarying John Fetterman. Last week, Fetterman again sold out working Pennsylvanians. He was the deciding vote for a Republican budget bill that will strip healthcare from over 400,000 Pennsylvanians. We deserve real working class leadership in the Senate, not a Trump-enabling Democrat.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

oh my CHRIST he's a bad writer. just awful. lmao

just read the line "why be serious about a game?" (Chaucer). the universe is just trolling me now

me when I illegally fire employees for union membership and then remember the employees make the actual product

@enwright.bsky.social something tells me you're exactly as surprised as I am by Rockstar's latest shenanigans ...

lol

Figured out one of the last allusions I really wanted to identify last night while researching something on the map apparently totally unrelated. RDR2 is such a web

Love Scrivener, but its inability to format a simple outline is about to launch me into the crashout of the century

I ain't watching all that

Dan Houser (co-founder and former Head Writer and VP of Creativity at Rockstar) acknowledges the critical role workers have had in the success of Rockstar’s titles, yet Rockstar is engaging in one of the most ruthless acts of union-busting in UK video game history. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

The biggest choice on today's ballots in PA is whether to retain 3 Democratic supreme court justices. The push to remake the court has been driven by billionaire Jeff Yass. In 2022, @propublica.org detailed how Yass had avoided paying $1B in taxes and funneled that money to right-wing causes:

the feminine art of typing "[whatsitcalled]" in your draft because if you tab out to look up the name your focus is cooked

In the quest for "biological truth," the Trump admin discounts the very real biological truth that some men do get breast cancer Now it'll be harder for male veterans diagnosed w/the rare but deadly cancer to get VA coverage always read @ericumansky.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/vete...

RIP to Dr. Greg Newby. I used Project Gutenberg a lot writing this project, and I'll forever be grateful that that resource exists.

Once again, I smile politely and refrain from writing "YOU'D THINK SOMEONE WHO STUDIED GEOGRAPHY AT OXFORD WOULD KNOW THIS BTW" in an essay

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’ grist.org/oceans/coral... #Ocean #Coral #Climate #Heat #Reefs #Environment

"Around here, they don't even like men voting"

Working on site updates, but they're gonna take a while because WordPress block theme editor is so, so indescribably bad.

I’m over here trying to enjoy PSLF and this comes across my screen. Sigh. IGN claims his classes are “a world first.” FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, EVERYONE!!!! NEVER BEEN DONE BY ANYONE EVER!!!! Meanwhile, I and many others have been doing this for a decade or more.

just got an email warning me, amongst other things, that "long paragraphs" may be hurting the site's "AI Search Health." regret to announce all paragraph breaks on Read Dead will be deleted forthwith

found a basic grammatical error in one of these essays. I will take the only reasonable course of action: firing the whole site into the sun

I'm working on fine-tuning my interpretation of RDR2's map in real-world equivalents, and the more I do, the weirder it becomes to me that someone with a geography degree did this

going over RDR2 cutscenes is both beautiful and painful, because there are so many little details I want to point out, and I can only cram so many gifs/photos in one post

just had the thought "Dutch is kind of giving manic pixie dream girl" so!!! edits are going well

oh, JUST $620!! thank god groceries are so affordable rn, too, right?

you know, it's amazing that Alien: Romulus was the first genuinely good entry in the franchise since 1979, and now we're doing Alien: Earth, which is *deeply* committed to being mid and boring

Mario Guevara has been detained by ICE for more than 100 days in retaliation for his reporting — even though a judge ordered his release on bond. An immigration court just ruled Mario could be deported at any moment. ICE must free him now.

Once again, I am annoying myself with the "what would actually change, plotwise, if you took all the women out of RDR2" thought experiment (the answer is: very nearly nothing).

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

"light editing," she said. "this should take a week or so," she thought, the blithe, cheerful, little dolt

Doing some light editing to earlier pieces on the site because good lord, being medicated for ADHD makes a huge difference in my ability to sort out my thoughts.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

That speed raises red flags, and reduces public input. It could set precedent for Indigenous rights and federal oversight across the American West. As one tribal leader summed up his concerns: “After the fact doesn’t count.” Read more @grist.org : grist.org/indigenous/i...

Trying to decide if I should put the major influences on the Works page in bold, or ... something. (opinions are welcome)

I'm writing this down somewhere because it so precisely nails what I hate about big-D Democrats

wait, I just realized I should've called this "Red Dead Redemption? More like PED Dead Punishment" gdi

Just skimmed my notes to try and get organized for all the info I still have to share and quickly became Overwhelmed.

This is the fishiest shit I've ever seen. We're supposed to believe the shooter wrote "Anti-ICE" in pen on a bullet and then shot detainees but not ICE officers?

open bluesky, "et tu, brute?" @ npr, close bluesky

Genuinely shocking levels of institutional rot going on in the US. The push to 'both sides' every question has left fucking National Public Radio to say "hey maybe tylenol really does cause autism, many people are asking questions"

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

The federal government’s reported plans to link pregnant people’s use of acetaminophen — the pain-relief drug sold under the brand name Tylenol — as a cause of autism could worsen their health and stigmatize one of the few treatments pregnant people have for reducing pain and fever, doctors warn.

Thanks to everyone who checked out Read Dead's wrap-up! I'm going to be working on site improvements and thinking about how to present the rest of my research, so keep an eye out.