So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run. 🧵 1/

I don't keep up on most columnists, can someone please develop a plug-in that tells me who is a sex pest or supports war crimes so I can ignore what they have to say?

Hey, that's on my arm!

World's on fire, but I have successfully darned an old pair of socks, so that's something.

Just fucking insane to see the absolute (intentional) collapse of full remote jobs available for AAA studios in so short a time. Why would I EVER move for a job again when I could be laid off weeks after moving my entire life across the globe??

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Heineman was an amazing talent in games. Here's an interview with Jeremy Parish from a couple years back that's full of fascinating stories. retronauts.com/article/1167...

My apologies, I used to complain about how New York was focused only on themselves and not the rest of the country, but now that the NYT is writing about Seattle I want them to stick to their fucking lane.

Nothing to see here

Guy with unlimited resources who could live anywhere in the world and chose Florida has opinions about Seattle civic politics. Hey, nobody gives a shit!

Barely even satire! bsky.app/profile/nytp...

I assume my entropy field will cause these to wear out sooner that they should, but dang is it nice to have a new pair of slippers.

If they really wanted to appeal to women they should have made a drink called Monster Fucker.

I think a lot about how Starlink satellites have changed the night sky for all humans for an unknown amount of time and one guy was just…allowed to do that. To our whole sky??

Lol yeah man all that panic over "a Big Mac will cost $15!" if we raise the minimum wage. Well we didn't raise the minimum wage but a Big Mac is $15 now.

one argument thats always struck me as funny is the one about people coming to america to drain the budget of our many social services. such as free university, free healthcare, UBI, etc. you know, all those things we dont have

i think a good example of Propaganda Works is the number of you who think that the national Democratic Party spent the years 2013 to 2020 denouncing Americans for insufficient Tumblr-speak

discovered the neighborhood yuletide spider and this is the kind of iconography that would finally get me excited about christmas again

I am making pie for a community event tomorrow and am very nervous about it. Also disappointed in myself for not doing the crust by hand, but I have limited brain today

You might recognize this art from the #Zelda 1 guide, Tips & Tactics, but a few years back the original artist, Sho Kobayashi / こばやし将, posted photos of the originals on twitter @show_kob & I love them because it shows the original art included neon pink: which doesn't usually scan or print well

KIRO 7 ran an article and two TV pieces on the theft of a box truck full of arcade PCBs, artwork, and machines from my workplace yesterday. If anyone in the Seattle area sees someone offloading a ton of CPS2/NAOMI/Neo Geo PCBs, stuff of that nature, please reach out. www.kiro7.com/news/local/g...

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

All this Metroid talk has me wanting to fire up Super Metroid again, so that's a plus at least.

Count of Monte Cristo & Dracula, Motherfucker! Bonus: All 40 volumes of 3x3 Eyes, tastefully arranged.

I don't mind if a site wants to have hold a firm line about death threats, even obviously joking ones. I do mind that every other bit of moderating here is biased and arbitrary by contrast.

in my house, we love the owl house. we love it even more now.

Nothing like our mayor's concession speech to confirm we were right to vote him out.

that's so weird like there wasn't a big interest in an inconvenience store

if I HAD been in town today I probably would have asked outgoing Mayor Harrell why his budget for next year sets up a huge fiscal cliff for incoming ,ayor Wilson, using one-time funding for long-term needs and assuming nine-figure deficits starting in next year's budget cycle

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

It’s a mirror of the national discourse about how progressives have gone too far, Harris was too woke etc. A corrective to liberal excesses that never happened.

Seattle has had a series of mayors who got elected promising to “finally” use police to crack down on homelessness — the existing policy that every previous mayor has deployed. Once they get into office they don’t deliver because it doesn’t work. We waste four years and the problem gets worse.

DO: Run as a progressive with an actionable agenda. DON’T: Pull a gun on a pregnant woman in a parking lot

We know from the snippets given in the novellas that Murderbot's beloved Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon is not a reference to the 2003 tokusatsu Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. But, hear me out, what if it was?

First thought that came to mind

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

he just turned 41—he's going to learn how "necessary" ibuprofen is pretty quickly

Switching from a 30-year to a 50-year mortgage would slightly lower my monthly payment, but massively increase the interest owed over the life of the loan. But, hear me out, switching from a 30-year mortgage to a 500-year mortgage …

Shout out to zinsters in Portland, the only* fucking people in that city to mask up. *Plus two bakery workers.

Yep.

Was not sure how I felt about more new characters being introduced this far into the Craft Wars series, but Arthurian Jeeves & Wooster and nepo baby Elle Woods are winning me over. And Abelard continues to be the best boy, even if he might be on fire sometimes.

On the one hand, this is *very* funny to me and I understand how they made that error. On the other, as someone who works in localization, a translator hired to work on a shonen manga really should have known this term.

the cauldron can be used for killing chronos AND making tasty snacks 😋✨ #hadesii

better paid developers who have work/life balance and no incentive or directive to engage in predatory tactics. kinder fan bases that acknowledge developer mistakes without resorting to threats of violence. a treasure of some kind behind every waterfall.

Columbo may have had Robert Culp as a killer, but only Furuhata Ninzaburo had Chairman Kaga.