Bene Gesserit Pro-tip: In a pinch, you can use your father-in-law’s solo stove pizza oven to administer a gom jabbar test

If you think “No Kings” is not anti-imperial enough, take note. I took a Palestine sign to the first one and while I saw others, I got a lot of engagement from folks. Even if they’re organized by lib normies, these events need NOT be a ceiling. They’re a floor. Go raise the roof at them.

Hot take: Unless it's Archduke Ferdinand or something, I truly never need a push notification about a famous person dying. Maybe the textbook definition of "it can wait!"

Making the global leader in language-learning apps as a backdoor pilot for your animated series

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

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If your D&D adventurers aren't playing hacky sack during rests, your setting is unrealistic. I don't make the rules

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

“My name is Kid Koala and I’m here to play some records very incorrectly.”

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

My spooky almost-5yo loved the classic Skeleton Dance short. Recs on similar things to show her next?

jewish flaming lips fans, watching the sun set: The fast begins... nowowowowowowowow

Seeing them on Friday and could not be more hyped

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Oh hell yeah. Gonna buy myself an AriZona iced tea

Couple days ago I saw a shouting match between two guys over a parking spot and while it was pretty stressful tbh, I can't stop thinking about how the one guy said, "What's with your haircut, man? You're bald! You're so bald I can see your thoughts!"

Need a new audiobook. Thinking maybe I’ll pick something spooky. Anyone have a rec?

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

Absolutely shameful false equivalency from the president of Barnard College.

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

Great evaluation of nostalgia — it's dangerous, yes, but there's value in it, too, especially right now.

One of the critiques I see of a board game as art is "If you remove the theme, it isn't about anything." I simply cannot imagine disregarding elements of an art piece that the designer considered and gifted to me so casually. If I remove the colors from a painting, it's just brushstrokes. 1/4

just so we're clear--israel admits they killed TWENTY PEOPLE including FIVE JOURNALISTS to destroy a CAMERA. not a person holding a camera. just a camera.

there is a folk myth of the Mamdani campaign on this website, even as it is literally still ongoing, that it wasn't one of the most disciplined operations we've seen in a while, with a relentless focus on pocketbook issues as a way of selling a socialist as the man to take the city forward

Notes from a Burner Phone 101 workshop. Participants learned about “phone-related risk modeling, privacy-protective smartphone practices, the full spectrum of burner phone options, and when to leave phones behind entirely”. [rebeccawilliams.info]

Once you see this you see it everywhere

put street trees everywhere you can in a neighborhood, make curb cuts so that their roots can absorb storm water from the street, grow native plants around their base, check back in five years and count how many welfare and health measures have improved

Overheard a zoomer wedding and I’m here to report Pink Pony Club is gunning hard for Don’t Stop Believing’s spot. To which I say, yes please.

Does everyone else have an existential crisis whenever it's time to update their homepage or is that just me?

Been thinking about this since I read Robin's newsletter yesterday. Real wisdom here.

Increase a band: Jefferson Starship

gutting septa is gonna singlehandedly devestate philadelphia and i cannot believe those bastards in harrisburg think its a good idea please write in to tell them how awful this is: savesepta.com

Internet Explorer 8 with 16 toolbars :-) #InternetHistory

"We committed the largest copyright violation crime ever and now we're being faced with the largest copyright class action ever?!? WHAT THE HELL?!?"

Everything about this rules, from the writing to the design, to the punchline at the bottom.

I already thought this pencil portrait Jack Kirby did of his wife Roz was great but then I read the caption: "A drawing of Mrs. Kirby done, from memory, on the back of a piece of German stationery picked up off a dead enemy soldier." DAAAAMMMMNNN!

At the local toy store with my 4yo and they are playing Paper Thin Walls by Modest Mouse

continue to think we are in the very early stages of thermostatic opinion on this and they are already not prepared to handle young blonde white woman screaming get a real fucking job

Fiiiine, apparently half my readers enjoy an info dump, so here we go! Grasslands Sequester Carbon Too or “Why trees are not the be-all and end-all.” Ahem. *takes a sip of water*

credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think

Pic of our dinorama playing Escape From Dino Island last night. Courtesy @chritical.bsky.social .

I don’t even know what to say about Columbia anymore

A reminder that as messily as this is being handled, Itch aren't to blame for this wave of bans. They're probably direct takedown orders from corporate payment processors like Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, etc forwarded on from anti-porn organizations. They're trying to do damage as fast as they can.

payment processor censorship is one reason we must resist the idea of a cashless all-digital society

Ttrpg friends: What’s your favorite non-teen “normal” supers game? Ie, if someone handed you a systemless supers module, what would you use to run it? (Only looking for games you actively like, not a listing of what’s out there.)

A cool thing about Ozzy was that he would write a straightforward “war is evil” song and then sing it like a goddamn god of war