Was delighted to hear friend of the podcast, and Patron Saint of Groundhog Day, @richsommer.bsky.social on this week’s @thisamericanlife.org. Great job Rich!

there is a lot of awful shit happening, but in other news: i wish every point & click game ever was remastered with the control scheme from THE DRIFTER and an art refresh of all of those games in THE DRIFTER’s style would be welcomed, too anyway, thx @barney.powerhoof.com and @dave.powerhoof.com

Instead of watching an execution, you can: Give money to people in Minnesota doing the work: www.standwithminnesota.com Give $ to people in YOUR AREA doing the work, for me it's a group like CASA: wearecasa.org Organize or join a candlelight vigil. Give to a foodbank. Talk to your neighbors.

“verbal assaults,” heh you fucking babies. any of you goons been shot four times in the face while unarmed, then VERBALLY ASSAULTED with “fucking bitch” as you die with your horrified wife next to you because your murderers also denied you medical care? anything like that? speak up!

YES! I will add a puke machine operator to your MMY avatar if you ask for it

This is nice.

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

It’s a Holiday Weekend, which means it’s the perfect time to catch up on the Star Wars live reads! Here’s a clip from the Return of the Jedi reading with Jack Quaid as Han, @richsommer.pizza as Luke, Jon Cryer as 3P0 and Eric Edelstein as Chewie. Watch em all at swliveread.com for free!!

I’m kind of excited about this

one of the types of people i will never “get” is the type that goes to the local bar of a football team and loudly roots for the opposing team I watched a Dolphins dickhead get kicked out of a Browns bar in NYC once it was great I wish someone would kick this dickhead outta this Vikings bar

A clip from the RETURN OF THE JEDI live reading with Clancy Brown as Darth Vader and @richsommer.pizza as Luke Skywalker. You can watch the full thing for FREE on YouTube at swliveread.com!

When a game has so many house rules and variants, sometimes you need a little help figuring out the correct way to play - thankfully I had @richsommer.pizza's help as we tackled this tutorial video for UNO. Join us both here, and let's learn how to play! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVHk...

GOD hegseth is a dork

Interesting

“Disney is run by human beings. Some of those human beings are cowards. Those cowards don’t want to be named and shamed, and if you do that effectively, they will shift their behavior.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Cancel fascism and reinstate Kimmel: indivisible.org/government-c...

YES JEFF HILLER YES

I'm sorry, but this may be the funniest Facebook AI slop I have ever seen. Bury me sideways in my coffin, brother. Let my dog see

Rich was the sole reason I ended up working for #MadMen. He played Harry Crane who almost jumped out a window after Don Draper's Carousel speech at the end of Season 1 but his character was too good, so he was saved by a rewrite. (BTS TRIVIA!) I loved drawing him looking goofy every season.

this is my friend Dyna, and she makes very cool things

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

MAY EVERY DAY BE ANOTHER WONDERFUL SECRET

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

The Dork Party The Skeeze Party The Douchebag Party The Decrepit Party The Out-Of-Touch Party btw all of these *easily* get Bill Clinton’s endorsement again

he’s a dipshit, and he knows fewer words than the average person, but he definitely knows 100% of the racist words that’s a guarantee so if he ever pretends he didn’t know a word he used was racist, it’s just one more Big Honkin Lie™️

trying to think of a career with more chickenshit cowards per capita, and I just don’t think you can beat politicians

*Republicans* did this. Republicans.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

haha great stuff we are so profoundly fucked

Seriously man nothing just immediately makes me sever ties with someone and their work like using genAI, even in a a small way. Like actually fuck off with that shit.

yes yes a thousand times yes

first nyc, now this i’m too excited to sleep

Remember in 2014 when the new U2 album was automatically installed in everyone's iTunes and everyone got really annoyed? Imagine if they'd installed it on every other programme you ever used. And it also somehow meant Bono could interrupt what you were doing and take over That's modern AI, that is

BREAKING: codebreakers have finally solved the Zodiac’s final cypher. After years of studying and many (MANY) attempts, experts have agreed that the decoded message reflects Zodiac’s last will and testament. it reads: ANDREW CUOMO FOR NYC MAYOR 2025

BREAKING: Francis Buxton has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for NYC Mayor

grandpa gets confused a lot so sometimes the kids need to trick him into going to his doctor's appointments. brains leaking out his ears

With the United States watching secret military attacks in Iran, it’s a good thing that American military communications are so private and secure.

I mean jfc

subscribe to @theonion.com it’s fun to get the paper in your hands again, and they’re doing good things

A good guess.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

There's a weird left-QAnon thing starting up centered around dubious claims about the 2024 results popping up at the periphery of the internet. I feel like we're gonna hear more and more about this so just laying down my understanding of it now. I think its basically a hoax. 1/a lot

a 🧵 of yep

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse