Here's a thing that's probably right up your Straße, you big mad oddball.x

Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it

"why does restaurant food taste better than food cooked at home" The cook does not care if you live or die and uses salt and butter accordingly

Oh there she is, shouting about how you can run gigs with fairness & decency, paying your diverse array of performers promptly for their work and generally looking after everyone in the room. IMAGINE IF THAT CAUGHT ON.

I've always wondered if the discussion around these games reflects the quality of the work or the fact that I happened to write lot about them. It's really a core insecurity I have the games that I've worked on. Would they speak without this critical framing (the designer diaries, etc)? 🧵

to celebrate the arrival of the british, I thought I'd try my hand at making a traditional full english breakfast. how'd I do?

Here's a news story covering Sean's comments & the subsequent retaliation. Judge for yourself, but to me, this is our LA public transit showing how, bit by bit, institutions let fascism take hold. This is a matter of democracy, not just a job. Please share widely: lapublicpress.org/2025/08/la-m...

Doctor Who characters as Dril tweets, a thread

The fact that he felt the need to preface a cursory condemnation with “of course this is all coming from a good place” says a lot about Labour these days.

they’re kidnapping trans women and forcing them to choose between male detention centers, where theyll be tortured, sexually abused and forcibly detransitioned, and leaving her whole life behind via self-deportation. but please go on with your “reasonable concerns” about trans rights

I thought the cashier asked if I wanted a spork with my sandwich and I said yes bc I know it’s messy … sparkler she asked if I wanted a sparkler in my sandwich this was amazing

More relatable, vital content from the Telegraph.

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NO MORE MISTER NIGHT SKY.

kind of remarkable to tie your reasonably respected brand to "big toilet" but congrats i hope it's magical as fuck or whatever

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a film fail point 3 of the Bechdel test harder than Irrational Man

I hope Tom Lehrer got a room with a view of Henry Kissinger.

SUSAN RICHARDS: well I guess “Invisible Girl” is good for me. Does what it days on the tin BEN GRIMM: goin with “The Thing.” it’s giving monster JOHNNY BLAZE: hell yes now I’m “the human torch.” beat that REED RICHARDS: I hope you’re all sitting down

it's fucking insanely bad that google puts a bunch of shit you can't trust up at the top of the search results and you have to scroll down like 4 times to find an actual reputable website. sundar pichai turn your location on

Y-you- you’re thinking about this all wrong, as if I had the Epstein files back in a safe. The Epstein files aren’t here — the Epstein files are in Joe’s house, and Mrs. Menklin’s house, and a hundred others

Awww I just saw someone refer to it as "Section 29 and 3/4" and that's too perfect.

turnip n tater n beetroot deeper n ever pie

“just off to the harry potter and luggage store to pick up some essentials!”

Interviewer: “can you explain the gap in your resume between 2023 and 2025?” Linda Yaccarino: “…” Interviewer: “…” Linda Yaccarino: “I was at a pornography store. I was buying pornography.”

Financial advisor: of course, borrowers need to be aware of the risk of- Me, nodding: roombas

What’s the odds on “a major social network has an antisemitic AI built into it” being raised by lobby with PM’s spokesperson today? A special DCMS committee? Ofcom launching an emergency investigation? Seems it’s so hard to comprehend that people will just focus on more manageable screaming at BBC.

I have sent this email to my Director of Comms at KCL and would encourage others to do likewise.

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

faramir: i met a halfling denethor: boromir would have met a whole ling.

Watching news reports on the Post Office scandal, and seeing nobody be held accountable in a situation where the computer code CAN be forensically examined at every level, it does seem to me that we urgently need legislation regarding liability for when the AI wedged into important systems fails.

Well this is grim

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“Check out the ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ merch available from Dachau.”

The Wikipedia page for Knock Down Ginger really has a lot to tell us about the role of gun culture in the US vs other countries

oh no the site has lost billy binion

People are slamming Mamdani for “trying to do too much at the age of 33” and frankly they have a point because we have zero examples from history of a 33-year-old brown immigrant who opposed the elites & condemned greed while demanding access to food, healthcare, housing, & loving all thy neighbors.

Tech Guy: I have attained immortality! Me: Wow, you figured out how to stop aging? Tech Guy: No, I trained an AI on my emails to create a perfect copy of my personality. Then I uploaded it into a robot dog with M3GAN’s face. It will live forever Robot: As a businessman I often schedule meetings

How Are You? — Yutaka Murakami watercolor

I have no idea if this can or will work, but I think it's absolutely the thing to try.

*bursts into mamdani discourse 3 days late red faced streaked with sweat briefcase hanging open* m-m-marx and spencer! *collapses, dies, conversation resumes*

Any game dev folks who studied history? Someone I know is looking to interview someone — let me know if so!

Two of the most popular dems have good ideas and are very fuckable. See a theme here?

one more election thing this morning: because New York is large, people might lose sight of the Mamdani victory being local politics. but it is, and it points up the potential of local politics to reshape direction, to inspire broadly, to change the story