After about 6 months of fiddle playing I understand the mechanics well enough that I can reliably practice with a metronome, which means it's gonna be over for y'all in another 6-18 months when my tone is good enough maybe

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

What are games that evoke a powerful sense of place for you? Games like Kentucky Route Zero (central appalachia), Night in the Woods (northern appalachia), Norco (greater new orleans), 1000xresist (post-protest hong kong), etc - I'm curious what these are for you!

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What are games that evoke a powerful sense of place for you? Games like Kentucky Route Zero (central appalachia), Night in the Woods (northern appalachia), Norco (greater new orleans), 1000xresist (post-protest hong kong), etc - I'm curious what these are for you!

i’ve been seeing too many people have difficulty sourcing my 1000xRESIST article ever since cohost collapsed and websites/podcasts are linking to the wayback archive page. here’s the stable site version if you’d like to read and cite my work: mimidoshima.neocities.org/main/posts/o...

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

I totally sympathize, but if I ctrl+f a take on how students are checked out and don't find the word 'climate' then I know there's some distancing happening. I myself am only posting about it so I don't scream.

This is what we log on for.

I'm sorry I'm supposed to believe in the intelligence and vision of people who keep blowing up entire businesses whose products had become verbs

Can't believe I got through an entire turkey discourse season without seeing the word "spatchcock" even once

so uh, announcement time?! got scooped up by the @iii-initiative.bsky.social to help produce their next showcase! 🎉 if you have anything ✨ cool ✨ happening for ya in 2026, reach out! 👀

I forget who is chronicling images of scanners’ hands in digitized records, but I came across a beautiful one while looking through the Jefferson County WV County Records from 1844-1847

Every day I appreciate more and more the anthropology professor I had at university who'd immediately stop anybody who started making a point about "society"

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

please share and join us tomorrow to see what we've been up to for the last few years. It's the future of KO_OP 🥺

I'm deeply honored that I am once again nominated for the Best Journalism Award for GA Conf! Especially honored that the story chosen was my AbleGamers report, a difficult investigative piece. Feel free to vote below, as well as read the nominated story: www.ign.com/articles/for...

I recommend checking out www.gamesur.com & the associated Discord if you want to get into Games UX Research, but I also want to point out that if you are already in the industry (even if you have been there for years) there is still immense value in networking & talking with others in your field!

I'm perpetually annoyed that searching ideas returns results for products, and the various ways that brands colonize language, but page 1 of google results for 'samsara' is really an all-timer

Sadly, all the Learn Blender people were right. You couldn't pay me to go back to Maya or 3Ds Max. And I couldn't pay me either, because their license costs are insane Support Blender today!!!

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???) These are all the same! As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist. Here's how to get out of that racket.

Chicken and waffles! No, the other chicken and waffles.

Okay, I'm making my case for the only Muppet I want to see on Broadway right now...

so I think this is going to cost $500-$600 $200 for appointment, buses, lyfts $350 for progressive lenses and cheap frames if you wanted to help a girl out Venmo: @qstarshine

this survey format makes some sense when asking how the connection of a call was I'm uh not sure it makes sense as a way to ask about the entire experiencing of 'blocking'

"What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?" One of the defining sounds of my teenage years. Catch me blasting this one from one of the stereo assemblages we pieced together at the back of the Goodwill donation center I worked for a few summers.

The socially anxious cowboy #funny #comedy #reels #tiktok

In my observation this is a big motivator for cross-border regional identity, eg emerging pan-appalachianism. People look for cultural surface area old and new to build on natural solidarities, and reliance on the mason-dixon as a hard map of a hard territory simply makes less and less sense.

Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.

Priesthood of all app downloaders

when the NYT reporter shows up to profile me I’ll have 12”x12” reprints of Cow Tools stacked around the house so that they’ll know something about me

This woman, Florence Reese, wrote the protest song "Which Side Are You On?" on the back of the calendar off the kitchen wall after seeing her husband, union organizer Sam Reece, dragged away by sheriff JH Blair's mercenaries during the Harlan War in 1931

Above all else, these people have absolutely NO moral standing to lecture the rest of us about the art we enjoy, the books we read, the relationships we have, or what we do with our bodies.

Megan is awesome, smart, AND cool and you should be learning music from her tbh

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.

We built a team of young Black, Asian, queer, and trans staffers at Teen Vogue, and they deserve the world. They are passionate, whip smart, and incredibly talented. Many of them are now without jobs — please consider donating to their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-laido...

the very nasty people of Avalanche have been very unfair and hurt our beautiful mako reactors which are so green, so beautiful, we love them, we're all going to see mother

Trying to explain how Ambrosia Sky is Powerwash Simulator meets Donkey Kong Bananza but about being wistful for a home you can't go back to and leaving the midwest and grief for lost people & endeavors alike and also there's a grapple hook

Today's portraits of the day are my friend @stuthefarmer.bsky.social's Icelandic sheep looking metal as hell in black and white for #MonochromeMonday.

Trying to make my whimsical apocalypse job one step closer to possible by making a website to support it www.natedavismusic.com

I'm so goddamn tired of living an entire life where I just get told to eat shit, forever

It's the fiftieth anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot's song. Here's the haunting bluegrass version by the Punch Brothers.

Is there an explainer for why the economy is fine, actually that's not just a man stabbing a chart with his finger and calling me stupid

a parade of sickos preternaturally perhaps inevitably interested in whatever it is I'm sellin

A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

Sorry to politics post, but I've depended on food stamps and food banks plenty before in my life and thinking about the stress people are being tortured with makes me sick

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

The WPA is my roman empire