'The "uncle" who Frodo said got rich by adventuring with Dwarves is actually a distant cousin, he clarified on Monday.' - Lobelia Sackville-Baggins, The Shire Post

What do you mean they're in the SIXTEENTH inning?

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

If anyone ever wants to know what driving in Dhaka looks like, my brother has started a series on YouTube No commentary www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEdf...

Prom is judging ou for not giving her belly-rubs

Today is my last day at Blizzard! Working with the World of Warcraft team has been such a fun, positive experience. I can't wait for players to see what we made together. Now I'm looking for my next role in games, full time or contract, indie or AAA. You can check out my portfolio on my website! 🖤

It's pretty wild that Ben Starr is in two GoTY candidates this year.

So how long is it going to be until they start calling Tylenol 'woke'?

The last time I was at a studio with a layoff, a meeting was derailed because the director asked, with increasing irritation, which engineer was supposed to design a feature that underpinned the whole game. That engineer had been laid off 2 days prior, and no one else knew how to do it.

Hi! I was laid off from Firaxis this morning. I wrote leaders and civs for Civilization VII (NDA for now) and Deadpool and Storm for Marvel's Midnight Suns. I also wrote the award-nominated Hindsight. I'm available for full time, remote work starting ASAP. DMs are open: emmkid.info

It's a sign of the times that a writer/narrative designer as talented as Emma is looking for work, but it also means your team has an excellent opportunity to scoop her up. Deadpool was one of the best parts of Midnight Suns & Hindsight is a moving exploration of memory & grief. Seriously, hire her.

This sums up this payment NSFW fiasco pretty well.

NEW: A federal judge in Miami has ruled that operations at the controversial detention facility Alligator Alcatraz must begin to wind down, ordering state and federal officials to stop transferring detainees there and relocate current detainees within 60 days.

Blood Elf Paladin Expansion - let's gooooooooooooooooooooooo

this is andrew cuomos current campaign strategist, this is revealing in real time just how much vote blue no matter who is a statement centrists use as a weapon to get the left in line

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I've only ever bought one movie as soon as it became available digitally, and that is Superman (2025)

What we actually need is a full-throated defense of cities—and that means a full-throated defense of a pluralistic society. Because you will never get those specific voters on board as long as they believe lies simply because the people they’re telling them about have darker skin

This is probably as far as I've ever seen the NYT move towards acknowledging that there are tons of Jewish New Yorkers who don't always back Israel or vote on an Israel litmus test www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/n...

Kotaku reverted to its old CMS and with that restored a bunch of old news articles, including what I think was the first one of my career on a major website not focused on indie games. I remember running around the building yelling excitedly at people. That's almost 15 years ago.

My team is hiring again! We've got two jobs posted: EXPERT and SENIOR writer. In our org chart, Expert is a click above Senior and focused on craft. Senior owns big parts of the game and could eventually be promoted to a direction- or craft-focused role. lnkd.in/gpYpu3QZ lnkd.in/gppUzFmj

Being kind is, indeed, the real punk rock

Person who comes up with puns in ads

Hey, everyone who is calling Mastercard and Visa about the age verification BS. I think you should start aiming at YouTube as well.

I don't normally like rewatching movies, and I only go to the cinemas for movies I really want to watch because of my neck issues. I've rewatched Superman twice now, and the neck pain is absolutely worth it.

Fox News website doesn't highlight that an NYPD officer was killed in the Manhattan shooting. Could it be because the hero is a Muslim immigrant from Bangladesh?

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There's no anomaly here. People, globally, volunteer their time to powerful public goods the moment they're not actively terrified that they'll lose their home, their food, and their freedom. Which means that capitalism requires us all to live in fear, always - because it can't compete with free.

"But this is just about porn games!" Yes, and weird religious fascists regularly mischaracterize queer people and queer art as inherently pornographic, they shouldn't be given an inch because there's no line for them, no cut-off point, they'll never be satisfied. Do you think they'll stop at porn?

AstroTERFing

This is nothing to do with what the truth is. Straightforwardly capital (in the form of a "free speech absolutist") using its power to shut down critical voices. Anyone who is visible is vulnerable.

we are going to need to keep up this 'yelling at payment processors' energy for more than just today Ideally, we will need to keep up this pressure over a span of a few weeks As many people as possible, each making 2-4 calls a day, for a few weeks, is going to make the biggest impact

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France will recognize Palestine as a state, amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza.

Hello to all my fellow boring file and rank leftists on the phone with Visa right now, calmly and politely telling their CS representative we won’t be emailing instead and logging our complaints. It’s how the conservatives pressure, and it works for them! Let’s try it. Visa’s number: 1-800-847-2911

Mini desk vacuum for cleaning keyboards, and pill bottle caps with timers on them

The current head of the DOJ's Civil Rights division who brokered this Columbia deal, Harmeet Dhillon, was mentored at Dartmouth in the 1980s by Prof. Jeffrey Hart. In 1977 Hart had written a newspaper Op-Ed entitled "Roots [the TV series] was a Racist Attack on White People."

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

this clip perfectly illustrates how Republicans *successfully* flood the zone with conspiracy theories 1. Ron Johnson is asked about Epstein 2. He immediately changes the topic to Obama 3. The host chases the shiny object and asks about Obama. Johnson never has to weigh in on the Epstein coverup.

Waypoint writers quit over removal of articles related to new Steam policy aftermath.site/waypoint-quit-...

My easiest litmus test for whether or not someone is a racist is whether or not they emphasize the "Hussein" in Barack Obama's name.

More natural disasters are hitting the U.S. than ever before. But too often, our crisis warning systems depend on Facebook and Twitter/X, social media platforms that are fading in popularity and have been engineered to hide vital information from people when they need it most. This needs to end:

also fun fact: megan ellison, sibling of skydance owner david ellison, is the founder of annapurna and essentially orchestrated the implosion of annapurna interactive last year. all goes back to the fortune built on The Worst Enterprise Software You've Ever Used

The NYT story on the Colbert firing doesn't even mention the fact that CBS is now owned by the right wing billionaire Ellison family, a very close political ally to Trump. Kind of relevant, yeah?

Because of DOGE, the Trump Administration is going to spend $130,000 to burn $800,000 of food that USAID intended for starving children overseas but couldn't deliver due to the massive cuts to staff and services. DOGE isn't eliminating waste; they're literally creating it.