the pact

Video games are great and I love them, but a huge share of their growth in popularity the last 15 to 20 years is due to the fact that everyone is too fucking poor for other forms of recreation, and that sucks ass.

urbanomnibus.net/2026/06/loca... oh man I heard about this essay about the Center for Brooklyn History's collection of location scout photographs when it was being edited and it's even better than I imagined, what a treat

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I think the idea of communities owning compute is cool but most communities don't actually have a ton of compute needs, they have capital needs, and siphoning off some of the b2b arbitrage money is one way to make longer term investments that outlast the bubble

gothamist.com/news/manhatt... this is Hamburglar coded

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure the Adeptus Mehcanicus voluntarily Yeet The Meat as soon as they're able.

i feel like if i was an admin at a university trying to advance the use of AI, i would try really really hard to make sure that all of my work was unassailable, even if it meant hiring an extraordinary team of editors & fact checkers that would be impossible for other university employees to employ.

I know I’m not doing huge numbers with these DVDs, but I want people to see that it’s possible to release your work into the world without the shackles of streaming or network TV. We can make and distribute our own work!

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.

The man did a mean medieval city too.

HK Either has police snakes, or snake prison.

A lot of news might be *worse* but I don't know if there's anything quite as *emblematic* for our current moment as the fuckin Candy Crush guy saying "science is for losers ya gotta listen to chatgpt"

Big up the wanking birds

One thing I quite miss about Facebook, even though it did them so badly, is photo albums. This one would be in my Bus-Related Optics album. It's a bus shelter in Western Scotland.

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my mom did this with me. it was awesome. and when the teacher read us a stork and baby story I protested “no, my mom had sex”

can report that this is still a beautiful desktop wallpaper. looks great centered on a higher resolution monitor, too.

You know Guillermo texted him, like, one word. "Really?" And that was all it took

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ohhhh i need a little babybel keyring so much

why do we not have lower case and upper case for numbers

If it's hot-hot where you are remember to have one drink of water on the side for each drink of water you have.

Game idea: you are a shopkeeper manager during the California Gold Rush. Thinking about this for no particular reason.

Graphic work for a new Portuguese label, coming soon.

(AI is the new electricity)

Sickos mode intensifying

💯💯💯💯💯

Awesome to see SARSVL (Support After Rape & Sexual Violence Leeds) speaking with authority at the Leeds Emergency Trans Demo about the real problems facing survivors of gender-based violence and the services trying to support them.

I don't know why women like me so much

found a website on a hard drive from 2011 but the images corrupted

watching @gameworkerscon.bsky.social (on a delay) at the viewing party here in Aotearoa New Zealand!! southern hemisphere best hemisphere!!

It’s been remarkable to be part of Charlotte’s amazing journey - so many field discoveries all packed together - from Woods Hole to Villfranche. Incredible creativity, tenacity & rigor - unraveling mysteries of Placozoans & more. Her thesis feels like a who’s who of marine biology.

I hate to be the one to point it out, but this whole thing smacks of gender.

what the terfs and the far right have done, as far as I can see as a non-lawyer, is eviscerate the Equality Act by reversing the whole direction of its impact.

handwriting is important because how else are today’s young people going to smuggle communiques out of the gulags of the future?

GenAI comes at media creation from an angle that seems to assume a lack of volume is the issue. IT NEVER HAS BEEN. EVER. No publisher, no studio has ever been like "Oh no, we're out of ideas." Things aren't perfect, but the issues w/the modern media landscape will never be solved by botsuckers.

Last night Set was wondering if a record he likes exists "in solid format". Which cracked me up at first, but he might be onto something. Cause a digital release *is* physical after all, so maybe we should start using "solid" instead.

Would read a dissertation sussing out the field of design before and after the popularization of the Post-It Note™

thinking about pivoting to being a god-tier AI hater on linkedin

Here’s the VHS dub I made today…. currently there is only this one in my house. Maybe tomorrow it will be headed to someone else’s house… ebay.us/m/f2oLA7

your AI use is breaking my heart

Nothing will make me scroll away faster than that plodding, condescending AI cadence and at this point I don’t even care if a human wrote it, it’s so boring and grating!!

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

walking in the woods with werner herzog, acting like i don't know about nature's cruel ambivalence just to piss him off

I’m an entry level siren.

what if there was a restaurant where you get to sit at a sink and you just eat over it? like just the messiest sauciest shit