So the question is: when you look at Mexican politics, are you on the side of the friends and families of the disappeared who bravely attacked a military base? Or are you on the side of those who want to give officers responsible for these disappearances control over the country's infrastructure?

I trust my local studio when they say their client base typically heals better with rings and curves but boy howdy am I THE exception. Had a gnarly bump on the forward helix, got the starter curve swapped to a labret, 72h later you’d think nothing was ever wrong

Action is the antidote to despair and sometimes action is just meeting people who are nowhere near numerous enough to Do Stuff In That One Way but who are Doing Stuff In Other Ways and that is good

before you say “well losing EA is no big loss” 1. shut the fuck up 2. people have families to feed 3. games such as hades only exist because the studio cofounders met while they were at EA. studios that make games you don’t like are still enormous institutions of gamedev experience and knowledge

Louder for the people in the back, people would rather spin conspiracy theories about the internet making autistic “girls” stray off the path than remember human rights are a 20th century innovation for uncomfortably large amounts of people (And still far from a given in too many areas of society)

Last repost: if you can get mad at Bluesky for anything around age verification it’s bad comms that fail to redirect anger at the culprits (though their hands might be more tied than you know). Also possibly not being part of the groups fighting this but I dunno whether that’s even true

I love how people are acting like this is Bluesky's idea when once again, every website on the internet is going to either be doing this or geoblocking the state by next month because THE STATE PASSED A FUCKING LAW SAYING THEY HAVE TO

Glad I’m keeping my hair long ‘cause they sure as fuck haven’t turned the heating back on yet and I can trivially tank 2-5C fewer if I don’t tie it up, heh

D'après les retours mail de personnes malades chroniques cherchant à se protéger, une majorité de pharmacies ne vendent plus de masque FFP2 et refusent d'en commander. #Shame

Question : pourquoi ce travail n'est pas réalisé par les autorités sanitaires et le ministère de la santé ?

Thread outlining the misinformation in a recent Pink News article.

The problem with being me is that I’ll come up with shit like “What’s a French unionist’s favorite cheese? Grevé!” and it’s incomprehensible if you don’t know French AND Swedish cheeses. Narrow audience

Since there’s chatter about fleeing the US of A again: if you’re trans and white fleeing due to transness specifically, this is your regular reminder to do some actual fucking research about the Nordics before making a huge mistake

*tunes out of the Let’s Play for thirty seconds* “I don’t have to put that potato through college!” (Had to rewind three times to figure out what the hell kind of train of thought ended up there)

Me: posts this Also me: puts down the phone to go weigh a package of Auras for another mask bloc, a package with CO2 monitors for a different town, grabs the phone back to coordinate a pickup to have FFP2s at a thing I’ll be at later this week- *Adam Jensen voice* I never asked for this

Hey, if some of you are Wikipedia-editing-literate, could you go assist with this? It’s preposterous that what is likely to be this era’s Act Up is not deemed objective enough

For all the hate constantly being lobbed at EA for reasons good and bad, this will only result in brutal bloodletting and a lot of good people losing their jobs

Today's article is about a form of bad-faith speech somewhat akin to bullshit, which I'm calling (because why not) wank. I don't quite think I've focused the ideas down as much as I can, but I think it says some interesting things regardless:

Today I learned about GulfOfMexico, a normal programming language you can use to write normal programs with github.com/TodePond/Gul...

Pour le fun, le “les mask blocs n’ont pas de connaissance techniques” c’est probablement à propos de moi spécifiquement. Il a utilisé exactement cette formulation quand j’ai dit un truc qui va à l’encontre de son marketing sur les capteurs de particules PM2.5

Seeing a (very correct) post about PBR/HDR workflows just Making Sense, I really wonder whether I should (get permission to) write up some of the HDR UI hell I’ve had to figure out because guess what, we’re weirdoes about that too. Our tools don’t do linear and we need perceptual gradients

My brain decided it wanted Bara Bada Bastu on repeat and jesus FUCK that post-chorus before the key change is a hell of a tongue twister at the pace they’re going at, differentiating a rolled ‘r’ from a ‘d’ is frikkin hard

Today’s fresh and exciting meme is a false sensitive content warning causing Bluesky’s automated moderation tools to flag the post as Misleading. The result is a quality lesson in how credulous online leftists can be, because they’d rather assume the worst of Bluesky than go 🤨 at the meme’s phrasing

they actually saw that building and thought "this would be a great skateboard ramp" and then DID IT

TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit

France 3’s latest garbage hinging on doctors being full of shit reminded me that we can’t get out of this without questioning power, and so of course that reminded me of a music video. What? I promise it makes sense. Here goes nothing (for free) lia-sae.net/articles/202...

France 3’s latest garbage hinging on doctors being full of shit reminded me that we can’t get out of this without questioning power, and so of course that reminded me of a music video. What? I promise it makes sense. Here goes nothing (for free) lia-sae.net/articles/202...

I’m starting to think that writing’s a practice-based skill and doing more of it is resulting in me getting better at it, y’all

(To The Guardian and their “Covid-era evidence” phrasing, not Rami)

Good morning! A promo offer for the weekend: Wild Inks & Paints is out of stock, so I've opened pre-orders to fund its re-printing in late November. As thanks for waiting, anyone who pre-orders by Nov. 30 will receive the e-book for free by return email. #inks #dyes See here: payhip.com/b/4a9we

No SED diagnosis but I am nonetheless a learning opportunity for the local piercer apprentice (They default to rings because their experience on the ground says that typically heals better, I am extremely an exception and we’re all game to experiment and figure out what works best)

i wrote a blog post about ID cards. kind of about ID cards. blog.vbuckenham.com/i-think-ther...

“At some point, catastrophe stops being catastrophe and it becomes normal, becomes normalized. And that ends up changing the ways in which we consider different possible futures. ANYWAY” - @austinwalker.bsky.social, “Waypoints 34: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Episodes 8-13”, July 3rd 2019

… oops this is giving me an idea for yet another blog post

So wait, am I getting this right, people are memeing about Magic cards because there’s an actual, real, official, weirdly horny The Office tie-in set?

I keep my speakers at reasonable volume but I still dread that some day a neighbor is gonna come ask why I routinely loop the same thing 50 times in a row. I suppose you could call it a form of stimming, were you to insist on medical language. Hi-Fi Rush felt weirdly… accurate that way

The anglos: this is so heartwarming! Me: hey so the most important sentence in the piece is “At first, La Poste was happy to do the check-ins for free. Soon afterward, though, it proposed a paid version of the program”. THE POSTAL SYSTEM SHOULD NOT NEED TO BE PROFITABLE IT’S A FUCKING PUBLIC UTILITY

Local textile history exhibit apparently failed to consult a handspinner when setting up an old spinning wheel for exhibiting. Looks like a double drive to me - there’s no braking mechanism in sight - so the band should do two circuits, one over the flyer and one over the bobbin

French anarchists need to do a lot better lest I be forced to hand it to RP and I NEVER WANT TO HAVE TO HAND IT TO RP (That’s Révolution Permanente, not roleplay, though there would be easy jokes to crack)

Meanwhile public health is still pondering the “Hm maybe mid-October might be a bit late for booster shots” orb

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It's difficult to overstate the influence Recettear's surprise hit of a digital English release was in terms of getting the Japanese games industry to turn their heads towards PC as a viable release platform. We all owe a lot to Andrew and his work and I'm so sad to hear this.

This is excellent and important. But. (Of course) But. There’s something else that is killing young people “suddenly of apparently natural or accidental causes” and we have to, urgently, stop ignoring it in the very care work we do for each other. Otherwise the Reaper’s gonna keep on reaping

Something very satisfying to improving the exact bit of tech that made you go “HOW THE FUCK DID THEY DO THAT” when looking at the studio’s previous work (The answer being, of course, a pile of clever hacks which are now my problem, this is why I love gamedev)

So we're going to discuss about how this fantasy of samurai has long been embraced by conservatives both in and outside of Japan in these reviews of the game by the studio that just terminated an employee for personal speech because of conservative outrage? No? Not even a mention? Ok. Good job gang.

Y’know, it’s funny, I am not much of a poetry person but I am a *lot* more receptive to it in Swedish, turns out

Okay, okay, the TRON Ares soundtrack is far from amazing and I’m definitely a Reznor fan by any stretch BUT: the “Yes everything is fine, fine, FINE, FINE” in the final ‘Shadow Over Me’ chorus packs an extremely relatable amount of gritted teeth in just a few beats

I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month

Of the gut-deep pain of seeing a very good article about a Gamecube game commit the classic Crime of setting it to 16:9 for some godforsaken reason so all the screenshots look awful