New anthem just dropped. Take heart friends. "I had lost sight of it, lost sight of hope because innocent people were killed by people in masks, hiding their faces, their shame parading as providence, their weakness posing as policy."

Blizzard is redoing the D4 skill trees, and there's some interesting stuff there. But I still prefer the elegance of Diablo 3's system. Wish they would have innovated on it instead of regressing to point spending.

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

Been playing the hell out of Deeprock Galactic Survivors, and I think it's my favorite one of these. The fact that positionality is actually important adds a whole new level of strategy. (Though the lovely 3D models mean that on Steamdeck you can get some occasional chugging).

This is a post about American politics

Come work with us, theater nerd. careers.csustan.edu/st/en-us/job...

404 Media has published a free zine (in English & Spanish) detailing ICE & Fed surveillance tech (and the companies that build them), and includes tips for evading and confusing them. Spread it around. www.404media.co/icezine/?ref...

We can build a better world.

You can tell when Get Up has transitioned into First Take because of all the yelling.

Reading Update! Now Reading: *The Night Circus* Just Finished: *One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This* (please, please read this) Next: Probably *The Victorian City*, and I just scored all of the *Southern Reach Trilogy* on audiobook.

Reading Update! Just finished: Itch! (I loved this) Previously: Strange Pictures/Strange Houses Next: The Night Circus

Where are the betting markets on whether the US will make it to its 250th birthday? Looking like a tossup right now

what it says on the tin

When you can't truthfully say 'major motion picture.'

The current TBH.

I've applied for 7 jobs the last two weeks, by far the most in such short a span since I was on the market a decade ago. Maybe things are turning around...?

Let's write these companies letters, tag their socials, and just publicly give them hell: Dell, UPS, FedEx, Motorola, Comcast, AT&T, LexisNexis, Lowe's, Home Depot, Amazon, Palantir. (The last three are run by fascists and might be difficult to persuade, but are still worth boycotting.)

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

Truth

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

The Morose Doctrine

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

also also I'm moving from Goodreads to Storygraph. Find/friend me here: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/a5bd...

READING UPDATE Currently: We (1921) Previously: The Authority Book 1 Pre-Previously: The Willows

Dragons, Vampires, and Love Songs: My Favorite Culture of 2025.

Gettt ready for a Things Stranger...!

Reading Update! Just Finished: *The Buffalo Hunter Hunter* Previously: *Good Boy* [McRobert] Next: *The Willows* and *Into the Unbeing* (vol 1) Nothing like the winter creeps....

I hope he makes these forever.

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

Lmao

My sweetie got me a Kobo for X-Mas. I just created an account, added three books I want to my cart, and a few more (mostly horror) to my wishlist. Now, let's see what their recommendation engine has for me....

Happy 250th to Jane Austen. She didn't invent the novel, but she made it art.

Why we are doomed, part 58.

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

Terrible.

Cronenberg watch continues with a flashback to his first decade.

One of the coolest things I've received from a student. Crocheted bat.

Sometimes when I'm not feeling great I just binge The Elephant Graveyard videos until the world makes sense again.

Rogan's character on News Radio was pretty funny because he was a dumb guy who thought he was smart. As it turns out, in his real life Rogan is also a dumb guy who thinks he's smart, and yet he's never funny. That show had some great writers.

You should watch this, it is really very good. How we broke America.

Play something.

The Wikipedia app has a 'wrappped'-ed like feature now, and yeah, got me.

Original link: www.thetimes.com/comment/lett...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Stoppard are dead. :(

Read Something.

And now I learn that Cronenberg was *also* offered the director's chair for Return of the Jedi...?!

Cronenberg mega watch continues. Today it's Viggo Mortensen: world's sexiest gangster day. "History" was the most recent DC film I'd seen before today, so its all new from here on out.