No hyperbole allowed on Bluesky! No gallows humor! No idioms WE deem inappropriate! You may only say NICE things & NICE jokes about bad people! (we will not disclose the definition of 'Nice' & we hold the right to change it at any time we choose for any reason. which we also will not disclose)

This country is so damn broken.

Bluesky moderation has uncovered the source of this idiom, a song entitled 'Folsom Prison Blues' by one Johnny Cash, who will now be posthumously banned from the platform as it was discovered he is known as 'The Man in Black' & performed a genre known as 'Outlaw Country'. WE DO NOT SUPPORT OUTLAWS

I didn't think Elon could say anything, even the 18 words, that would surprise me tbh. But you let him call it Optimus. & now he's telling you Optimus can Fight Crime. This is verbatim the convo you have with a child explaining their toys to you. But he said this to a Board & he's CEO.

is he so culturally illiterate & fucking toy-brained that he can only come up with 'Optimus' but not 'Robocop'? i'm not the most well-read but 'Robot Solves Crime' is certainly something thought of in Victorian times & even the Brits decided, 'Bit far over the line, old chap.'

The reason why I'm so angry has a lot to do with the lives that will be lost — people are absolutely going to die as a direct result of Senate Democrats folding on health care. It also has a lot to do with the suffering that was endured — people were struggling to get by without food assistance. 🧵

low polyamory

still fleshing out this theory (pun intended, I guess?) but there is so much magical and symbolic thinking going on when people talk about "nutrition" people seem to food as a source of not just potential biological contagion, but social, and, even weirder, symbolic contagion via sympathetic magic

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

but no for real, we're all seeing the pattern of how democrats fight when there's someone to the left they hate but fold immediately for republican daddy right?

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Finally, this beast is complete!

It's Friday fucking night. Nothing that normally happens on a weekday will get solved by your anxious feelings between now and Monday. So howl at the moon. Fly a midnight kite. Eat some ice cream, or cake. Pet a cat. I love you. We're going to find a way through this.

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“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

Russian Jews no less! escaping the pogroms! like, in terms of 'controversial' political bullshit, it's got it all! fucking sad state of affairs.

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「something somewhere inside you just isn't getting the memo」 it sucks to be us is a Twine game about feminism and trans people who suck at being lesbians, made in two weeks for #TransMLMJam2025. Cover art by @nommedeploom.itch.io, 11k+ words long with 5 endings. tofurocks.itch.io/it-sucks-to-...

For this Whelan Wednesday, we have a large charcoal study for ARRIVAL from Passage to Sanctuary. This original will be available in our shop Nov 5 at 11am ET. A preview is now available for our paid supporters on Substack: theartofmichaelwhelan.substack.com/p/passage-to...

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

My new show, ARMOR, is now up online for purchase! I'll post some additional views of the sculptures(and their titles) in this thread. www.circusposterus.com/product-cate...

The short version: Despite layoffs, buying the game still puts money in the pockets of the developers who worked on it. Which is doubly important because they're out of a job. Boycotting the game in solidarity with them by screwing them out of money won't help anyone!

he should've indulged more mindfully

haha ok, whatever, go ahead man

my webcomic The Nameless Prisoner is coming soon...! fantasy adventure (gay) romance.. It's about a cursed knight who's deserted his order, and now he's been blackmailed into delivering the head of a recently executed prisoner to the queen... but when he shows up the guy is unfortunately very alive

“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business

this is where the previous shut-down end, btw. it was the richy-rich types finally getting the squeeze. not the workers, sadly. tho they desperately deserve a union. what kind of disaster will prove we NEED the FAA?

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks! But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!! This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free. MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

they don't fuck around on the wonderswan

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

Here we go, after waiting a year to talk about it fully Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut... youtu.be/X0PcNsMaPLs

I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.

tepid traveler animal

A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see

My fiancée is playing Breath of the Wild for the first time so these (100% on-model) airport doodles of Hyrulean Arms & Armor are some of the last doodles I’ll do in LA. #Zelda #BreathoftheWild #TearsoftheKingdom #Linktober

Mar Awa III, patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, also born in Chicago, gave Pope Leo a Cubs jersey.

Hollowbody is great, and hits a lot of those classic Silent Hill notes, but this is a great excuse to go a little off the beaten path and play 10 Dead Doves. It is the rarest of things for a game to really capture a bit of that David Lynch magic. Surreal and Too Real, fragmented, funny and grim.

SIGNALIS was released 3 years ago today. It still feels like a dream that people still play, discuss and create fanart of our game today ✨ Thank you for your support throughout the years!

A very important game; remember my first launch of it as if it was yesterday🙏🏻

are these people stupid? by the same token, calling someone a slur in court is not allowed. is that restricting your free speech? yeah? but that's what decorum & respect are, what polite society is & these are GENERALLY neutral concepts. you wouldn't call the judge 'Big Dawg' or 'Hot Babe' either.

jesus I gotta get outta bed & lookin at racist nonsense & fucking practice if I gotta all this energy

somebody needs to edit Stephen Miller into these. or just any ole trump cabinet member, appointee, etc. they don't look like this. America has never looked like this. even Hegseth doesn't look like this, my dudes. apart from racists & The Elders, who is this for?

I don't think I shared Horath's masquerade fit! For the Decardia game he is in Fun fact, the BBEG also has a fox mask.... there can be only one #drow #horath

Oh dang, Zeekerss (creator of Lethal Company) just released a new game for spooky season, free. This is one he's been working on for a VERY long time, on and off. A text-and-audio based adventure. Very curious how it plays out.

That infamous fake screenshot of final fantasy tactics is so disappointing because the actual script in matsuno’s games already goes there so explicitly