credit where due: this is real good from pete the thing i'm instantly in high dudgeon about (and the thing that pete is surely responding to as the clip ends) is the interviewer/moderator responding with "radical stuff" my good bitch if adding a state is so radical why have we done it 37 times

certainly didn't think this is what those scans would be used for but i did refuse to help niantic build this dataset out of principle because what were those scans ever going to enable in-game?

i find the best way to engage with criticism (of pop culture, specifically) is to find a handful of folks whose writing you enjoy reading and stick with them as you get to know them and how their tastes diverge from or overlap with yours, you figure out your relation to the things being critiqued

if you're making changes to ocarina in 2026 do you make it so half the sages aren't trying to get with link or do you make it so the other half also wants to take a ride

super excited for rhythm heaven next month and fire emblem in september, of course and forgot about switch sports resort, which is neat but yeah, xenoblade and then the zelda remake were kind of it for big new things

so new xenoblade... is that the only big new title from nintendo this far?

ooooooooooh this hd-2d final fantasy looks very cool

THUMB WRESTLING fantastic

xenoblade: three houses? sounds good, sign me up lol

just remembered i had aldi cheese in the fridge and whispered "camembeeeeeeeert" like i was in a perfume commercial

let's not lose sight of this: typhoid mary's is feeding many people safely every single day. judge the food, not the people... no, i actually am going to avoid the restaurant run by the sick lady. screening for quality is part of their job, and their refusal to do it does not make it my problem

yeah let's be clear-eyed that the respected-journalists' industry-standard notion of objectivity here results in the childlike idea that the bully's victim is half of the problem "they screamed in their faces!!!" haha yeah i guess that justifies a public servant beating the shit out of them then

that's all they want! they want to be on the teevee and have people know them and talk about them because they are important and powerful what they do with that important power is just a fringe bonus to the jet-set lifestyle, practically

i mean it'll probably be every single claimed victory, won't it? there is just not that much fraud and waste in the systems they attacked, and cutting random wires because of their colors was never going to be the way to correctly defuse that particular bomb if it existed

idaho health officials are investigating how nearly 60 people got injured after stabbing themselves with knives in the past two weeks

cc: @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social you're the nominee now, it's time to do better on this. don't ever validate their hateful framing again

given that bari thinks all the actual journalists are beneath her, i'm very confused about how this mutual respect thing is supposed to work

did oz just admit they're giving trump a version of the dementia test on a daily basis? fantastic, no notes

i haven't voted yet and am still torn because they both seem solid, and this was an incredibly fair look at the state of the campaign! it's pleasing to see that most of the worst pearl-clutching has not been coming directly from the candidates. maybe we could just stop it altogether though?

"ai iS iNeViTaBLe" then at least PUT IT BACK IN THE OVEN UNTIL IT'S DONE and then get back to me you know, finish the product before you sell it, like 99% of previous products in human history

currently having a discussion at work about social media posts and what just "checks the boxes" you can make an argument that simple courtesies like saying hello and thank you are just checking the boxes, but it turns out that those things are the lubricant that keeps society functioning

My latest is up! 🧪🔭 A bold hypothesis links an African volcano to mysterious features on Mercury known as "hollows", which could help explain a lot about why Mercury is so weird.

if there's anything right-wing politics reveals, it's the usefulness of a villain in your politics (i mean it's like literally all they have) will some babies get tossed out with the bathwater here? sure, but worth the price of hindering the tech oligarchs who are aligned against you!

this is such a stupid, short-sighted complaint the people making it are either truly upset about it and dumber than i thought or it's a proxy for anxiety about the future of the platform, which is not going to be assuaged by a change here

are the toxic dudebros camp, just the worst possible version of it? or does camp have to be self-aware/intentional?

nine straight paragraphs of attacks on talarico, lovingly curated and presented without pushback, with a story about politics appended somewhere further down

What was the last video game single-player campaign that you have replayed? Criteria: - You must have beaten it once - Replaying it means you have every intention of beating it again - Arcade-mode runs don't count

bottoms without the bubble looking in the mirror like

what the fuck is a vegan campaign it's so exhausting that right-wing politics operate like that family guy joke about murphy brown "blah bla-bla-blah vegan transgender" *audience laughs* "blah blah george soros blah blah" *audience laughs* "hunter biden blah bla-blah blah" *audience laughs*

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

"we're all excited about america's 250th celebrations" is something i heard recently from the good local radio show, and i get that's the sort of nonpartisan thing a radio dj is normally supposed to say but no we're not, not with the state of civics and the fact that this shit is just sad 👇

they passed a law raising the speed limit on two-lane highways from 55 to 60 here because we love death

part of the fight/don't fight axis in dem politics: centrists think you win by not t turning people off. they want a message that offends the least people which is why the party is often so uninspiring! getting people fired up is going to cut in both directions and centrists abhor the notion

this is like the closest we can get to an acknowledgement these people are just totally full of shit, but it still tricks us into thinking we can persuade our way out of this "here are the exact facts you need to refute these claims" no no no, point and laugh. they're not open to debate

i want the next ffxiv expansion to have a part where you're suddenly teleported away to an eight-player raid you have zero explanation for your wol is always doing it to their soulmates, i want to experience it from the other side

if you were going to run for president, you could do worse than spending the next year and a half doing this all around the country

My fellow cis folks, The FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to trans/gender content. Time to be an ally and tell the FCC absolutely the fuck not. It takes five minutes to do.

"parents need to be at the center because that is the key to every child's success" is some psychotic shit the child. the child should be at the center. he thinks if he can just give his kids all the right orders, they'll turn out right they are their own people! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO*GUIDE* THEM

they're impressed. they look at the insane things he does and they're impressed turns out every president could have been making themselves rich, the rest were just too stupid or too chicken, but this guy's got the stones

near as i can tell they announced this by dropping the video on the nintendo today app, which is interesting -- or at least that's how i first saw it interesting that it's totally warioware without any of the warioware trappings?

dude put his name on steaks, one of the biggest foreseeable risks of his presidency was the rush of bribery and corruption as everyone tried to become the unofficial official desktop computer, etc., of the usgov

"the dramatic cost declines in batteries have now made 'firm renewables' — solar or wind paired with batteries — cheaper than fossil fuels in many parts of the world." This is game changing.

who cares? the only reason to put somebody on this list is so we can savvy-style evaluate their every move through that lens "well he's throwing trans folk under the bus because he's preparing f--" hey no actually gonna stop you right there, don't need any more info

been playing ffxiv the last few days and just popped into pokopia to do the dailies wanted to travel to one of the other areas and reflexively hit my button combo for teleport lol

HAHA WOW the thinnest-skinned people you can imagine work in the highest, agenda-settingest echelons of our media and i want to slap every single one of them

cannot stress enough that the keystone to modern politics is having values and hiring people with values many of our current practitioners have to look back at the audience for guidance because they need jiminy cricket giving them direction on "should you defend this persecuted minority"

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

the times' actual audience, the one they write for, is people who may one day be invited to speak at a commencement or similar and the idea that you could lose a high-paying, prestigious speaking gig just because you suck shit is really quite threatening to them!

mixtape feels like one of the least likely targets of misinformation campaigns and video game culture war ire yet, but that's kind of the point: this can happen to any game now, and indeed, platforms and content creators demand it. nothing will ever be enough to sate the beast