If you want to say there should be more narrowly specific anti-war protests right now, I will agree with you. But if you use your position of national punditry to say that Americans have abandoned any sense of meaningful dissent, I will ask you to fucking look around for five seconds.

I understand the impulse to be frustrated with the state of the world but also I live in Minneapolis and...What the fuck do you think we've been doing for the last few months? Genuinely: Nothing has made me more connected to *and directly involved with* my community IRL than the ICE surge

This piece is so emblematic of a recent genre of essays. The focus is entirely the No Kings protests, framed as purely performative. I disagree but if you want more direct action and organizing, there's also campus protests re Gaza or ALL OF THE ICE-RELATED resistance, none of which get mentioned.

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im a lifelong mediocrity with bylines in the New York Times and The Atlantic. here's 5,000 words about the time god spoke to me in a dream

Thank you to the Inquirer’s Elizabeth Robertson for a real photo of the Philly crowd

L was at No Kings today while I had our newly dead water heater replaced. Plumbers did an excellent job, but oof that was several thousand dollars I wasn’t looking to spend.

If you’re looking for people for your gamedev team, this website of former Epic employees is a goldmine of brilliant folks awesomepeoplelist.replit.app

Tonight’s Drag Race elimination was bullshit. WTF!

It has been a truly lousy week, but tonight we drink espresso martinis, listen to the finest disco Tidal had to offer and celebrate Calvin’s sixth birthday.

real strong claim here that the AMA lied about reaching out to them for a correction. I would be surprised if that were the case!

Realized Resident Evil : Requiem was written by the wonderful Haris Orkin, who wrote Command & Conquer : Kane's Wrath. So great to see him out there, doing the work and achieving real success.

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Besides the point, his framing of what Alejandra actually says in the screenshot is pretty misleading. The "suicides and ruined lives" line is specifically referring to women who end up failing the DNA test after not knowing they had an intersex condition.

i'm not a comic head but i've seen this make the rounds before and i find it unbelievably charming

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Vax preventable: Diphtheria

If you want a copy of The Art of Psychonauts 2 (sold out online!), it will be available at our PAX East booth all weekend and priced to ⚠️ SELL ⚠️ I'll even sign it for you! 🧡

Sometimes you set yourself arbitrary goals, one of mine was to hit level 999 in Ring Fit Adventure and, six years on, I have. Feel weirdly accomplished, that’s a lot of squats and planks.

Damn. A recruiter told me I have a real chance to work for Minecraft again, but Mojang changed the position at the last minute. I haven't had work in months and that would have been job security. I'm a good art director, illustrator and 2D animator for games. Hire me please

Man I didn't know you were just allowed to say "Can I be on your podcast" but! I have two books coming out this year! I can be on your podcast to talk about them! :D Qualifications: - I write books - I have a charming Canadian accent* *charm not guaranteed

I’m rarely on social media these days, but it’s worth saying that while I’m still at Epic, a lot of extremely talented friends and colleagues are not. Any ex-Epic dev is worth their weight in gold and would be a credit to whomever hires them, so if you get a chance snap them up.

Sam Kieth has passed. There are so many great comics creators I love, but Sam is on my Mount Rushmore. The Maxx was a revelation when I first read it. What a sad loss. What a great creator. I will miss your light in this world intensely.

Sam Kieth was so cool, man. He was one of the first cartoonists whose art I was obsessed with, at a time when it was kind of hard to actually get your hands on. RIP.

Like I been saying.

Sitting in Auckland airport nursing a glass of wine while we wait for our plane home. New Zealand was a wonderful experience, honestly had no idea what to expect but the South Island was genuinely magical.

My wife shares a Facebook link with me via Facebook Messenger and I can’t open it 90% of the time. It’s amazing to me that the FB tech stack is so utterly broken.

The Department of Justice has sent a letter to NY AG Letitia James regarding her order to NYU Langone to resume provision of gender affimring care to trans youth. DOJ says they will defend NYU Langone if the AG takes action against the hospital

“I woke up this morning and thought: ‘No, please no…this has always been my Armageddon scenario, the one I didn’t want to happen.”

The new season of The Terror being a Dan Stevens starring adaptation of Victor Lavalle’s The Devil in Silver is not something I’d have seen coming, but I’m down. Read the book last year and found it to be pretty great.

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Being a "professional cage fighter" is core to Markwayne Mullin's brand. He says he has a 5-0 record. I found documentation of 3 wins. Two came against a man who almost always lost. I dug up video of his opponent and the guy just got knocked out repeatedly. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/markway...

DiCaprio looks significantly more hot with a mustache. Kind of an inverse Chalamet.

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Beyond the DLSS5 thing feeling like AI booster overreach, it’s visually unpleasant on a fundamental level. Been interesting watching the backlash to the Digital Foundry coverage, as I guess I’m not alone in finding it odd to see those focused on graphics tech be so aesthetically impoverished.

haha... oh no

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While playing Clair Obscur it really felt like the devs used the Unreal Engine to the fullest, and it was nice to see this discussion of how they depended on a lot of the tools I worked on personally. Glad they went into some detail!

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Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Thoughts from a 13 hour airplane flight… finally caught the Edgar Wright Running Man and it was absolute hot garbage. Far worse than I expected and my expectations were low. Michael Cera was great, Coleman Domingo is as ever a font of pure charisma but the film, the film was very very bad.

I travel a lot for work and I have to say, hanging out at LAX with my lovely wife before we head to New Zealand is definitely preferable to solo travel. A glass of wine is much better if you’re with someone you adore

Wong Kar Wai‘s Far From The Madding Crowd would be something.

Police break the arm of Former Marine Sergeant Brian McGuiness for opposing the war against Iran in Congress.

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