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Today’s light reading : www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Loot that drops after defeating me: art supplies so efficiently organized they give +1 equipment slot d12 amt animal skulls, morbid anatomy-patterned accessories (12=ancient human vertebra) gloss leggings, ⬆️Move/⬇️Sneak keys to ELO spaceship Szechuan food🔥 Minerals (see random d100 table) The Device

Loot that drops after defeating me: Giant Bose noise canceling headphones (roll d6 to see if they are fully charged) & a podcasting mic Drawing Pencils in grades HB-B4 (there is hair stuck on them) 20 vintage neckerchiefs & cravats Advil Babybel individually wrapped cheeses Comics (two per bag)

Oh you want to train the jackboots better? How interesting! Certainly no one has done extensive research into the internal, second-order blowback effects of security reform - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It’s reaaally low down on the pole of importance but I am still so salty Meta removed the ski chalet lounge starting portal for my ancient quest headset and replaced it with a floating giant shopping mall blocking the virtual sky Went from a Neil Stevenson to a Cory Doctorow universe in one update

CC @spectralhouse.bsky.social @hollowearths.bsky.social

As someone who has studied visual neurosci extensively enough to have created novel optical illusions: full time VR use is a doomed 💵🔥 fire. At ground lvl a % of pop lacks binocular vision. At higher lvl human perception of relevant enviro input is partially symbolic and —DOESNT NEED FULL IMMERSION—

🧚 Our next Weird Wednesday open game is The Sometimes Kingdom with the creator @spectralhouse.bsky.social! Of course, first timers are welcome! Here is the event link: discord.gg/U9pDwK8h?eve... #rpg #opengames #discordcommunity #scififantasy

Wait, wait wait wait: so the going idea is to give the people who actively signed up for this —more— tactical training?

Twitter/X’s fall is a catastrophe. The amount of information on it has been unparalleled across academia, lit, art & sciences from citizen scientists & indie writers to experts in innumerable fields, its loss the work of a toadying legal environment for monopoly & pols abetting technogarch power

Florida man...

wow i take back anything i said about Foundation S3 being ham-handed about the current era, no Guignol is too Grand for the moment

‘AI hallucination’? That must be Latin for ‘software error’

my typing and mouse speed was high enough to trigger a facebook temporary block on password reset. Kind of proud of that, thanks point-and-click adventures

if you push the buttons on a vending machine and it spits out a coke, that doesn't mean the vending machine understood thirst

This is the chair Lynne Thigpen and Greg Lee sit shoulder to shoulder in to teach agents international heist geography at FUNTERPOL

“It’s cold enough to freeze your Winnebago! AhAahh” #sketchbook #muppets #pencilart #muppetfamilychristmas

“My new comedy partner’s a snow man!” “The heck you say.”

Some sketches from the annual family viewing of A Muppet Family Christmas #sketchbook #muppets #pencilart

The Danse Macabre Rulebook update: The book has been written, edited, and laid out. It’s looking amazing! Here are some draft spreads—thanks to the game’s graphic designer, @oddgobgrasso.bsky.social! cc @timespace.place #rpg #graphicdesign #kickstarter #update #tabletop

why aren't they throwing bread at me. what do the ducks have that i do not

If you really think about it.. lamps in video games use real electricity

and Llewelyn Moss, who was NOT dead,

If this moved you in any way, please call your reps and demand they reject the KOSA and SCREEN Acts plus the other bills bundled into the Online Safety package! It's going to make it exponentially harder for sex workers and nsfw artists like myself to earn a living. bsky.app/profile/dies...

RED ALERT The House Energy & Commerce committee is moving full steam ahead for several age verification bills including KOSA this Thursday We need to spread mass opposition now. We cannot allow this to pass. We have to drive mass calls into congress NOW Call 202-224-3121 www.badinternetbills.com

Swords and sandals prehistoric epic but game loop is mostly getting the gang together to separate out mastadon bone grease for the lipids

Boardwalk goers feel Zoltar Machine gives -too- good fortunes to be non sentient. Scientists say it’s time to consider witchcraft.

It’s Chuck Scarsdale! Hide, or we’ll be on the news!

:Slow Horses themesong: Mick Jagger: …and run, with the big boys aggain 🎶 Joel Godard: Slow Horses is filmed in front of a live studio audience!

Tonally, 70’s is when ship warm Alien cold, 80’s when ship cold Alien warm, 90’s when ship REM album Alien trapper keeper/resin coffee table, 2000’s when didididi jow jow blam kaboom, 2010’s when ship jamiroquai Alien translucent, 2020’s when past is menu select era vibes for next lvl press continue

The human imaginary contains within its two million year shoal all of death and loss and memory and no warehoused network of rapidly devaluing chips can ever supplant even a grain of sand’s worth of meaning from the beachhead of forever’s unknown

Don’t let corpos brick your grandma simulacrum, & don’t deal with the digital devil

Loving the rank-up with each act of Aliens. In a just world the Alien franchise would have followed Ripley’s rise in the ranks, Horatio Hornblower style, as she gained increasing authority to stop xenomorphs and increasing opposition from political enemies in the W-Y Corp.

Me every time I log back on to social media after a hiatus:

See, yep, here’s your problem right there, you watched dungeon Meishi and then felt compelled to spend the morning experimenting with savory congees

:wandering around endless mechanical corridors: I didn’t even know The Nostromo -had- a Russian District

I'll be at PAX Unplugged with the homies from @stillfleet.bsky.social where I'll be running games of Danse Macabre at Games on Demand!

Ghostly projection of Miss Moneypenny, Dante/Beatrice style, floating over the wreckage: Get up james this is…no time to die- THEMESONG

The Apple Music app hissed & writhed in irritation, twisting & worming in the small black lozenge. “You use Librarrry, why not subscribe to apple Muusic? Don’t you seee? Apple Mussic free three months, library??!” It spit in disgust as the listener put on the same Liz Phair Album they had since HS

This is the greatest thing to ever happen

The DNC’s NYC voter pitch

Contact your congress-critter today & oppose OpenAI & other such outfits being federally backstopped ie becoming too big to fail so tax dollars flow to the worst people in the country. Don’t let the money hose be hooked up to snake oil factories, who to add insult to perjury, stole all their snakes

OpenAI: We heard you like middlemen so we middled the middlemen and then middled the middle middlemen to make a new kind of middlemiddlemiddleman now make us the federally backstopped company store for rentier Earth no backsies thanks

The wind just picked up the sound of a single stray piece of trash rolling down the street then a dog barked and then a harmonica played?? I think I accidentally stepped into a movie scene’s establishing shot. In a moment Takashi Shimura is going to look out intently over some chiaroscuro paperwork

Hey @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social while you’re assembling your transition team, my awesome husband @edidin.bsky.social is available and has worked with women and gender-expansive people, advocating for ATIs, supportive housing, and other resources for folks impacted by the carceral system.

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