We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

I was just offered to be on a pilot TV show where people debate various "controversial" topics; they wanted me as an expert defending the reality of the moon landings. I turned them down flat. I will not elevate conspiracy bullshit into something debatable. Been down that road. It goes nowhere.

Also, this is not a second Gilded Age. The Gilded Age had less wealth disparity than today. This is fascist techno-feudalism. Actually that gives feudalism a worse reputation than it deserves. At least there were some reciprocal rights and obligations under feudalism.

I'm not clear on why Stripe decided to move from "a payment interface so frictionless it took over all of internet commerce" to "a vaguely-branded new thing that looks like a phishing attempt and most of the time says you can't buy anything here" but I'm no technology genius.

No its not. I actually curate what I am listening to.

Emulation and Piracy

I really want Pratt to experience the 'energy' in the ebola virus or small pox.

Also, he's the best Dem candidate we've got in that race.

let trans kids play sports let trans kids do things with their friends let trans kids participate normally in society

We can't have universal healthcare so billionaires can have vanity projects like putting the biggest dick into space. Well trying to put into space anyway...

Called this back in October

maybe don't try to be sassy two months after you fired 1000 people

Watch me, couchfucker.

It’s cool how every other week this regime does something that amounts to a de facto dissolution of the union and everyone keeps pretending that America is still a real country.

zeno's ceasefire

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

"Class Traitor" is what they called FDR www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's really funny that neighborhoods that were built in the pre-car era are basically the urbanist version of low-background steel except we could just choose to build new ones whenever we felt like it.

I mean if you're not hot for an eternal, reanimating robot emperor I don't know what's wrong with you.

it is very bad to have a society in which cheats and grifters *openly* prosper.

Astrology For Men is a perfect description and a book waiting to happen

What a fantastic idea! To have your platform spam users off of it.

"The Steam Deck is no longer the best deal in portable gaming systems" misses the much funnier, more important fact of "the entire moment of Affordable Enthusiast Gamer Hardware is over, you're buying a tablet or nothing"

Trump takes handheld gaming.

Apparently? That qualifier is unnecessary. We can also see how whacked these clinker lovers are.

finally, i can begin my life journey of using MS-DOS in 2026 unironically

Off to the Separate But Equal Docket

at least they’ll still have all the goodwill they accrued by firing a bunch of people for no reason

For people who think that AI is inevitable or worry it is, I made starter packs of game devs refusing to use AI, and in less than 24 hours had more than 200 devs ask to be included. Creatives don't want this and won't use it. You just need to support those who won't use it.

Gee! I wonder why that might be? Did someone sit down and write this to just deny the lived experience of 1000s of people? Maybe they're not 'willing to admit they are doing well' because they fucking aren't!

Lightning and Thunder in May is not normal for this time of year...

I do wonder when I will stop being shocked by the cruelty and mendacity of this administration.

So much of everything that is awful in the world is just people standing in the stream of Time and demanding that it not just stop for them but that it cater specifically to them.

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

Watching people I thought had some intelligence falling for the gambling with Itchy and Scratchy dollars scam has been kinda funny, honestly

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

The most tragic thing about the Pope's encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is that the vast majority of people will learn about it through a short news story or will have AI summarize it for them...

Joe Rogan now has the favorability distribution of a Fox News host. Remember all the 2024-2025 hot takes lmaoooo via @carlbeijer.bsky.social

These fuckers should literally be out riding circuit. If you can't handle the travel and work then retire.

I just can't figure out why the Iranians refuse to make a deal with the most illiterate and duplicitous regime on the planet.

I mean, it has a point

Welp, that might be the ugliest ladder stitch I've ever seen. And due to where the tear was I've got the seam hidden on the wrong side of the pants. But, the hole is gone. For now.

AI is going to turn us all into sociopaths. Lonely, angry, self-righteous asshole sociopaths.

This is evil.

Mending clothes today. Trying to figure out if and how I would repair collars... Probably need an iron for shaping...

The idea that emotions/affective states are some extraneous bolted on thing and not an essential information-carrying component of cognition is, like, the Big Lie of artificial intelligence.

Only 159 days until Halloween, everybody.

Might Guy IRL

Going to try and promote myself again. Feels weird. But that's the world we live in.