"If this World Cup has taught us anything, it's that we are not nearly as divided as we are made to believe. As some world leaders would like us to believe. We have far more in common — a love of soccer and chaos — and any reminder of that now is worth celebrating."

The oldest known instance of the "Cool S", a symbol of unknown origin, on a tenth century Viking runestone. This sigil has persisted through the centuries and is still found today. Scholars believe its origin is unrelated to the letter S, and that it may have originally been part of a ritual.

Runo L The last one! We meet Marjatta, whose introduction is that she's so prissy she won't handle farm animals that aren't virgins. Sort of a reverse of the unicorn thing about not liking humans who aren't virgins

Runo XLVIII They continue with their efforts to catch the fire

Kalevala runo XLVI Väinämöinen hunts a bear that Louhi sent to eat his herds, sweet-talking it the whole time. Then the village he hauls the corpse to welcomes it like an honored guest before skinning and butchering it

Parseword #149 ⚡️ 30s 💎 Perfect I'm always excited when I get these hard ones quickly

I especially love this diagram.

Do it in order of when they qualified, but in reverse. (Because remember, kittens, Mexic3-0 qualified first.)

idk how you unfuck the economics of game dev, but big studios constantly going "we just can't afford all these developers who we pay like 60% the market rate for engineering roles w/ comparable experience at comparable non-game-dev companies" doesn't reflect well on studio execs' basic competence

US pundits love saying "the American experiment" to give the US a sense of youth and innovation. but the US is an experiment in how long you can keep running a govt around doing biblical literalism to an almost unchanged provisional constitution without the political system completely collapsing

Every time someone plays a truly true role-playing game—whether that is at the table or online or in larp or while hiking along a mountain ridge throwing sticks at trees—they are playing with a collection of explicit and implicit rules. It's a simple formula: e+i=r

I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?

I was raised on these streets

THEY'RE SPENDING SO MUCH ON CONVERTING PDFS TO PRESENTATION SLIDES TO MARKDOWN

Parseword #146 ⚡️ 25s 💎 Perfect

they're playing post-2001 country in the gay store. why are they playing post-2001 country in the gay store

Sports Commentary xkcd.com/3262/

we can put star wars in it, and turning into a weird little ball for some reason, but no kissing!!!!

Many of these private utilities in the West should have been investing more of their record profits in wildfire prevention over the last few decades, rather than hiking rates in haste following 2020 wake up call and asking ratepayers to urgently shoulder the burden.

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

This is actually the specific shape of corporate workplace disaster I’ve been waiting for. The era of safely typing anything is probably over.

I'll take any opportunity to share this real lesbian sword

I actually think it’s kind of uncommon precisely because of this sort of critique: feminism is only seen as credible when it functions to reconcile women to heterosexuality, and therefore for feminists being straight acts as a kind of professional credential.

Excuse me what? We're banning disappearing messages? What? Wow they really want to arrest everyone they can for wrong think the second they sneak anti speech laws in.

Obligatory:

I did some rudimentary research and discovered a stork cannot carry a seven-pound newborn but a pelican absolutely can. Please update your birthing myths accordingly.

Parseword #145 ⚡️ 18s 💎 Perfect

qui-gon: i presume negotiations with the trade federation will begin shortly the trade federation:

"A solar farm on a rewetted peatland is home to more types of bird than drained agricultural fields nearby, suggesting that land used for renewable energy can make money for landowners, lock away carbon and boost biodiversity at the same time."

so shall eyes socialize social lies

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

Um, ok. Last minute greeting cards, y'all.

We, as a nation, are collectively missing a great opportunity to get RFK Jr to drink from the reflecting pool.

Living at the end of an empire during its Avaricious Mad King phase is actually really funny because now all the fuckups are visible in public satellite imagery

i think we all know the answer is Dracula

god it would be so funny if unlocking the secrets of consciousness and becoming as gods really were a matter of hoarding video game graphic cards

Runo XXXVII Ilmarinen mourns his dead wife, not working for some months. She still doesn't get a name

Library Cards–The New Landscape of Public Library Censorship. This is a really important–and incredibly well-done–piece from award-winning leader on the topic of library card registration, Amy Mikel at Brooklyn Public Library. bookriot.com/library-card...

Curry Barker Disney Corporation 🤝 Fuck you got mine RIP Daveigh you were an amazing talent and you didn't deserve this. Nobody does.

the way heroes in Kalevala shift between being these major godlike beings and being men with families and fields and stuff like that has me thinking

the thing about reverse chrono feeds is that maybe I'd like some algorithmic culling. I think if some academic says something misogynist about women in his demographic I don't need to see 100 different short-form takes on it rebleeted, for instance

fertilising

I'm not sure how widely known this is, but Bungie made the entire original trilogy of Marathon games (developed for Macintosh) available as open source, and a group of fan developers created an engine called Aleph One to run them in. They are free on Steam: store.steampowered.com/developer/al...

And one more goody, just because.

i have got to stop falling in love with people i can't talk with at length

After a couple days off to read my library book since my hold came up, I'm back to reading Kalevala, with the start of the Kullervo arc

Against my better judgement and on something of a dare, I ran a fantasy adventure 3-shot for visiting friends last week. Is fantasy adventure Good, Actually now? Read on! My new favorite frankengame from two of my favorite creators: @fuseboy.bsky.social and @gruefodder.bsky.social .

Sure, I'll try this Anthropeum.com · Jun 18 2026 🟩🟦🟨🟨🟨🟩🟥🟨🟨🟩 62,742

my face when I googled something about my game darkwebSTREAMER and the genAI response declared that a man designed the pioneering language system that I, a woman, designed we were talking about erasure of women's achievements by LLMs YESTERDAY and today i see this? goddamn.

This is what I mean when I say a megadungeon is just five dungeons in a trenchcoat. This is what the Underworld in HIS MAJESTY THE WORM looks like. By the excellent pathspeculiar.bsky.social