what's funny is that i completely missed the whole 'indie games: the movie' era of indie games due to babies. @simonparkin.bsky.social re-running his phil fish interview this week sent me down a heck of a rabbit hole

Like the old saying goes, when you have your opponent on the ropes you make a deal to give him 1-2 weeks to recover

ICYDK, publishing is in a decline. Many authors who have had dependable contracts in the past are now scrambling to make ends meet and seeing lower advances and fewer sales than ever. If you see lots of book publicity posts, it's because we're scared and trying to keep our jobs during The Horrors.

these people only know two moves

There's a reason why "famous writer schedules" tend to recycle the same twelve routines. Because 99% of the time, being able to do this requires SO much support from a partner (or even a parent.) And it breaks the escapism when you say stuff like "Abruptly stopped my sentence to take kid to school."

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

just finished the second season and daaaaaaaaaang

these people only know two moves

Using alt text is a way to be kind that you can start doing right now. It’s right there in your accessibility settings. Turn on require alt text before posting to help yourself remember (worth checking because this app sometimes flips it off for no reason).

When the Angels renamed themselves “The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim,” the Dodgers were so perplexed by this that they made shirts reading “The Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles,” and I think about this about once a month, and this conversation has caused me to hit my quota for January

this is my seventh-favorite jimi hendrix song

Tom Homan looks like a guy whose sole thing is getting impotently angry at two of the Marx brothers torturing him at his lemonade stand

i am now accepting apologies from everyone who dogpiled me for suggesting voters might make aaron rodgers wait a year or two for vibes reasons

Hey this is a lot of fun

do you guys ever think this might be a bit much

GOOOOOOOOOD FUNFACTOR MORNING!!! Just in time for the new Amazon Tomb Raider series starring Sophie Turner, the December 1997 issue of NEXT Generation declares Lara Croft "the most popular woman in the world!" ...well, just in time for our show, at least: youtu.be/MHeiYJIpPP8

thought to be a fast riser very recently. interesting that glenn brought engstrand in with him, and is letting him go at *this* point in the cycle

man, the “let’s pretend this enormous, longstanding organization with a long history and publicly traded shares is actually a small, scrappy startup” approach literally *never* works, it’s a fundamental misunderstanding of how organizations and businesses work

she's not wrong that that's where the heart of her audience is, or at least will be in/for the forseeable future. what she's wrong about is that audience being big enough to sustain her paycheck

It's FunFactor Fuuuuuuuuuesday! @funfactorpod.com 22 just hit podcast feeds, and the YouTube version (which I'm pretty proud of) is up, too! Join @tyschalter.com and I as we explore the origins of Lara Croft, the genius of Gunpei Yokoi, and the failure of the Sega Saturn in Next Generation #34.

great that they’re supporting a local queer charity, but if i was Rachel Reid and her agent I’d be pissed off. they may not be making money off her IP, but they sure as shit are using it to further their brand and business without permission

it is actually very telling to me who RT'd this and whose replies I QT'd in where no one said a damn thing to me after most white people at baseball analytics sites will be loud about fighting racism unless it's their own

Ahhhhh this quote. This is what I keep saying and I’ll say it til the day I die. A pebble starts an avalanche. Do the small thing you can. No effort is too small. You never know.

it is quite striking how white people attracted to white supremacy are almost to a person dipshit failures. and of course it makes perfect sense, they couldn't hack it in a fair competition so they demand reverse affirmative action

i am feasting. feasting!!!

your must-read for the day. exactly the kind of world-changing journalism that requires real money, editorial commitment, and legal resources to pull off

Might just be the best WIRED article I've read in years and is a stark reminder that even good innocent people can be forced to do horrible things. The true evil is the money and greed that pollutes human souls to create such a system. Heroism is risking everything to stand up to it.

oh what???

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

If you missed it, I wrote about attending the AFCON final and why I hope African football can finally shed certain stereotypes because it really is a tremendous tournament www.whereisfootball.com/where-africa...

what's highguard?

this is so fucking beautiful, I'm crying again

this isn't a defense of highguard but i'm not sure why people STILL post screenshots of a new steam game being Overwhelmingly Negative as if it's a self-explanatory red flag anymore when steam users will mass-reviewbomb games if a woman is wearing pants in them

I have numerous complaints about Ro Khanna, but he took his ass to Minneapolis and seems genuinely pissed off and that’s what I want to see from every Democrat in Congress right now

this is unironically what you look like if you're trying to kneel to the algorithm too aggressively

Young man it’s time to get into real estate

reports showing Greg Bovino driving that tiny red Stuart Little convertible out of the city

Weird that hiring away a few checked-out Tory alcoholics from British dailies and emphasizing op eds about Why Your Boss Deserves A Tax Cut didn't deliver better results but what can you do? What, at the end of the day, can you do?

FWIW, a district I worked with this week had tried using AI for their minutes. They are now having to redo months of minutes due to missing and incorrect information.

* watched ** movie

The Surprising Physics behind Mommy

rahm emanuel’s combination of being nakedly valueless, apparently corrupt, and appealing to anti-wokes while offering zero good ideas shows impressive ability to convince beltway weirdoes he should be pulled out of history’s dustbin

Practice good media hygiene! Don't just post screenshots. Include the link to the news source and use alt text for images. Sharing where the information comes from is paramount when it's easier than ever to just make stuff up. Supporting trustworthy media means including story links!

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

whew, this was an awesome discussion! i was honored to get asked; @drubie.bsky.social does incredibly thorough and thoughtful work, and i tried really hard to match his mojo on a game i have serious misgivings about

@dirtbagqueer.rocks victoria you deleted a good post i was doing research for

I got fooled by someone who is famous for being a conman until it was too late. Here’s why that’s actually smarter than seeing it coming: