More of this, please. This is absolutely brilliant.

I truly despise Picard because "200 years in the future and we still haven't figured out how to not be a misstep or two from democratic backsliding" is fucking depressing.

Would, but only because I want to watch the world burn.

One indie game I'm looking forward to in the new year is The Last Salvage Squad - a Japanese indie FPS that's doing a lot of stuff differently. You play as a team of big robot friends (like 5-15m - lots of variance) fighting off gigantic alien invaders and rescuing survivors. Looks cute & arcadey.

I need a good way of quantifying my bet. The biggest opposition to Mamdani getting the policies he campaigned for is opposition from the state, the banks (raising money as a city is weird because it's not a state), or the cops. That said, barring criminal ratfucking, things will be normal to good!

Made some Yukgaejang! It's pretty good! This might be my preferred way to have briscuit now.

I have just acquired a new #deathgoal

if you prefer to listen to the album on cassette by a fire we also have you covered because this video is exactly that

Update on below post: Today, the County Legislature passed my request to provide @feedmorewny.org $1,000,000 to purchase food for area food pantries due to the federal government's halting of SNAP payments. Thank you to the members of the legislature for supporting this important measure.

Ahh, that's the stuff!

My restock of Trekkies Against Fascism shirts arrived today! If you have an outstanding backorder, I'll be getting those packed and shipped over the next couple of days. If you haven't placed an order, I have most sizes available without the wait. willburrows.art/shop

I appreciate how Picard (series) changed my thoughts on Picard from The Space Dad I Grew Up With to the helpless advocate of a broken system that I love to yell at. And by appreciate I mean thanks Sir Patrick, I LOATHE that characterization.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Since it’s apparently been forgotten substack platforms Nazis I will never follow a link from there an if you’ve built a following there you should find a way to go somewhere else

This is a good thread, and the second point is why I believe it's time to go for something new. There's no way in hell Larry Ellison's company, the company that cancelled SNW and bribed Trump this year, can meet the moment in any way that matters.

Sos Pwa Na and Haitian legume. No idea how well I did, but it's pretty damned tasty.

Welp, don't stick your Tupperware in the air fryer, kids.

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Success in capitalism is a joke, any high score beyond taking care of your needs and a couple nice things is kinda sad, go out and talk to your neighbors and see if they need anything or some shit.

What we know, final edition of the night: [Now in 3 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS —Dems defend NJ-Gov —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win state supreme court —ME anti-mail voting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

CLEAN SWEEP, FUCKOS! THE GOOD VIBES ENGINE RUNS ON THE CRUSHED DREAMS AND BITTER TEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD OPPRESS US! FULL FUCKING STEAM AHEAD!

THEY'RE PLAYING NOT LIKE US AT THE MAMDANI CAMPAIGN RALLY

The vibes here trend bad, because times are bad and we are people who give a shit about that. But damn do I love this hellsite after a victory.

CLEAN SWEEP, FUCKOS! THE GOOD VIBES ENGINE RUNS ON THE CRUSHED DREAMS AND BITTER TEARS OF THOSE WHO WOULD OPPRESS US! FULL FUCKING STEAM AHEAD!

Yes, this would also be a nice option for Bluesky labelers and filters.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Today in #vtm: Tremere Cammies, to my Anarch: We can't let anything get out about this meeting, we may make you sign a Blood Contract to keep it quiet. Me, an intellectual: I tip off the local Hunters to let them know that every last person who walks into this meeting, INCLUDING ME, is a target.

I want to see sandwich forensics. I want the state to argue the lethality of a sandwich. I want to ask lawmakers to address the fact that Subway are handing out lethal weapons on our city streets, completely devoid of regulation. I want footlong control to be a defining issue of our era.

Is it a great day to log the fuck off sometime this evening and not obsessively refresh BlueSky Will I do it? Hell no.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

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It's also pretty straightforward capitalist metaphor. From the first-edition setting of the hollowed-out American Rust Belt to the fifth edition's omnipresent authoritarian Second Inquisition, the vampire is something that takes but does not create and the player character coming to terms with that.

They're going to bring this post back for 2036 when Ella turns her legendary shitposting career into a presidential run.

Make tools for people to curate their app experience if they choose to. Make tools for communities to self moderate, because humans can apply context that AI will get wrong or can be manipulated around. Work together, not apart, because people problems require people solutions.

In regards to this: pfrazee.leaflet.pub/3m4qqzatka22... I got some thoughts. First, BlueSky Team, I am BEGGING YOU to stop posting under your dev names, get an anonymous account for who you want to follow, and stop reading the comments.

Just listened to the It Could Happen Here folks running Pathfinder. Full points, you lovable rogues gallery of fuckups, that was one of the most entertaining let's plays I've listened to, and I've listened/played in my fair share! pca.st/episode/2f42...

If you cannot successfully persuade the public to go along with you in a democracy, what the fuck use are you?

If you are supporting immigrant neighbors at this critical time in any way, thank you! Also, please read this thread and mentally rehearse how you will handle this situation. We keep us safe.

It's the "old people" part that is perfect.

Chemistry is a science that makes accurate predictions...just as long as I'm not the one running the process.

Any chance anyone knows of a senior web developer opening? My wife's bestie got hit with fed government cuts and AI art wombo combo, and is job hunting.

Props to @zachweinersmith.bsky.social and @weinersmith.bsky.social for A City On Mars, where I took 1 million as minimum population for our current tech level, which stuck with me and I need to find the source for.

honestly, the single most valuable skill from my liberal arts education is the ability to do research close runner-up is the ability to take an L when a room full of people tells you your ideas are dumb

The Senate Democratic Party Leader is under the thrall of a tulpa of a NYC Irish stereotype (the kind that gets pulled out to blame the rest of the Irish for being too left!), that is pro cop to the point of maybe being cops. It reads like pulp horror, but...explains a lot.

Sam and Dean are called back to action for one last hunt, to save America

Any chance anyone knows of a senior web developer opening? My wife's bestie got hit with fed government cuts and AI art wombo combo, and is job hunting.

This week: Going to try making Sos Pwa Na, Haitian legume, and Yukgaejang, to make sure my kitchen has an appropriate amount of variety.

Double frying Southern fried chicken is the greatest scientific breakthrough of the modern era. I believe it won the Nobel prize for chicken, or it should have. Not since the invention of toast transformed bread forever, have the words, "Shall we cook it again?" yielded such bountiful results.