A Couple of Rogues 🔴⚫

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Edgerunners

“Enshittification” was a term coined by Cory Doctorow, in 2022, to describe how the technologies that dominated our daily lives seemed to be all getting worse at the same time. Now, in a new book, he expands on the word that has become bleakly relevant.

No they fucking didn’t—they said another manufacturer can make generic mifepristone, the same drug that’s been on the market for 25 years

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Okay, I needed to see this. Feels good.

tried to dig into OTGW in this messy essay last year. it grasps beneath the contemporary signs for good and bad with a long history of American folklore, drawing on images of colonization, plantation, suburbanization, at a moment when all the rhetorical shorthands for evil have been discarded.

Happy Spooky Season! #Pathfinder2e #PathfinderRPG #PathfinderArt #KnowDirectionNetwork

“Flashy ads don’t convert nearly as well as genuine conversation” - Don’t Starve: The Board Game guns for biggest Kickstarter tabletop raise of the year after topping $1m within hours of launch: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

SECOND OFFICIAL TRAILER for LIMINAL POINT, our Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Signalis inspired survival horror game. Wishlist now on Steam, PS5, Xbox or GOG. 🎮 #indiedev #indiegame

New #TTRPG! Spirit Box is a spooky LARP that emulates YouTube ghost hunting videos and Found Footage horror movies. Can your group of ghost hunters work out how to put the spirits to rest? Or will they be possessed by a less-than-friendly spirit? starshinescribbles.itch.io/spirit-box

This always seems to happen lol

We did it!!!! Funded with 42 hours on the clock to try and get a stretch goal or two! Thanks again, everyone! It means a lot!

wrote about how the saudi govt is buying its way into games, sports, and everything else you like so that holding them to account becomes that much more costly www.vanityfair.com/news/story/j...

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

Dr. Seuss, 1941. library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb...

it took us decades but we did it, we turned machines that can accurately solve complex problems in microseconds into energy eager drunk parrots that produce bad prose and statiscally likely lies to please us

academy award contending tiktok

The new deluxe edition Revenge of the Sith novelization is stunning 😮 more pics below 👇 (out October 14th)

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Hard Drive Has Been Sold to Shinra Electric Power Company in 100 Trillion Gil Deal

So tucking back into Hades II and wow, the polish really shows, especially in the early game. The Umbral Flames feel a lot meatier to use as well. Now if I can just get past the Sirens…

Well into the final 72 hours we go! Got 136 backers so 15 hort of beating Abbadon as my most backed campaign. and still a chunk from funding but not to far! So lets go #ttrpg folks!

Change a movie by adding a word Glass Bloomin’ Onion.

"Religious fanatics keep attacking you."

lets go ghouls

its tough out there but so am i

Skies Above is a TTRPG inspired by your favourite Japanese RPGs like Final Fantasy and Secret of Mana. Check out my Kickstarter for the full 220 page hardback, live right now! www.kickstarter.com/... #SkiesAbove #ttrpg

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting: Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial 100%

jc denton: word on the street is people can get anything from you. vaccines. drugs. even bofa. deus ex npc: what's bofa? jc denton, pulling out gun: i'm asking the questions here.

I’m part of Hasbro’s #WomenInnovatorsOfPlay event again. Learn more and register here: spark.hasbro.com/womeninnovat... Also launching that day is their WIP Design Challenge. Winners get $10,000, mentorship, and a trip to Hasbro HQ. (but this year they're esp looking for mass-market toy ideas.)

Okay, maybe for Toku sticker sheet #tokusatsu #kamenrider #supersentai #ultraman

Let this timeline be cleansed. Bless.

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

I'm looking for experts on the history of video game creepypasta. They can be streamers, YouTube essayists, academics, historians, journalists, anything. All recs are appreciated!

Crack in an egg. You can’t make a tasty strudel without breaking some eggs. Form the dough. Knead until it’s as elastic as the truth. Set the dough out of sight and out of mind.

Super Mario World.

Let this be a lesson. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

One of my favorite tweets ever

I'm busy y'all... No new art. Please enjoy this Morrigan I made a while ago that I enjoy. I've got a fun little Darkstalkers treat for everyone for spooky season though. Stay tuned. 🦇

There have been plenty of foolish reactions from congressional Republicans to Trump corrupting the Justice Department, but Sen. Mike Rounds’ argument — this is none of Congress’ business and lawmakers should stay in their “lane” — stands out as uniquely ridiculous. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

NEW: There are big problems with the Comey indictment. It is vague and based on an obvious misquoting of Comey’s testimony. Moreover, the case could fall apart over just one word. Check out my latest article. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

December 2025 Final Fantasy products! #MagicCon #mtg #magicthegathering

April 2026 #MagicCon #mtg #magicthegathering

Fuuuuuck --and I cannot emphasise this enough-- off. The context here is this is a parent whose daughter works in the arts.

Yesterday, Meta unveiled a new "feed" on its platforms that will exclusively feature AI-generated videos. This overshadowed another big announcement... On Tuesday, Meta launched a super new PAC geared towards electing politicians that will block any AI regulation. Hello?

Spider-Man is officially canon in the DCU. He was referenced as a fictional character in the latest episode of ‘Peacemaker’

“Wow, this song is half decent.” Platform: it’s AI Generated! Would you like to hear more? *blocks song, blocks Artist, uninstalls app, rips ears off, throws phone into the sea.*