I was thinking about Night in the Woods for no reason, just unbidden to my mind, and I appreciate my memory of that game is greater than my memory of my appreciation of it at the time. And I put it in my top 10 of that year.

Ever submit legal documentation, but sign in the wrong place. In my defense, I followed the sample's instruction and signed exactly where it pointed. Just, the sample was a generic sample and not specific to my situation where I had to sign on a different signature line.

At some point we stopped treating our representatives in congress as our employees and it's fucked us ever since. They're not God annointed aristocrats, they're temps.

Title mailed off to the insurance company. Keys turned in to the body shop. The car is dead. Long live the car.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Well this kid is just winning at life and it's self-inflicted.

The word from all parties on my car came. It's a total write off. It's worth about $3300. And I was told by my mechanic, it's not even worth it after one of the itemized parts was the oil cooler.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

The last couple of years has been me trying not to give into my shittier impulses thar social media actively encourages. The best I can do today is think, Dick Cheney is with Henry Kissenger now.

Voted.

I got a rental car yesterday only for it to announce it needed maitenece on the oil filter and the oil changed. Now back at the place to see what I've got to do about it.

Autobody shop says the car is totaled. Going to have to get a rental and wait for the insurance gears to turn.

Hit a deer on the way to work. Front of my car is demolished. Bumper hanging off, light covers gone, turn signal smashed, fram around driver side door bent in a way that holds it closed unless I muscle it.

I pulled off the craziest upset at commander tonight. Guy had eliminated the rest of the pod and shot me down to one life. The step by step I clawed my way back with incidental life gain and a recurring 7 mana artifact to destroy his threats. Damn.

You never think you'd miss ads for Me Undies or Squarespace until every podcast ad is for AI.

FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI.

Hey look what arrived on the same day. @ckunzelman.bsky.social @bossfightbooks.com

The end part of a single slat of my blinds broke off last night. All I did was touch it to readjust and it fell off. Now looking up to see if its possible to buy a replacement for a single slat and replace it. My gut says no, but checking anyway.

In any case, if you want to watch a true masterpiece of a Michael Mann heist movie, watch Thief.

A great many of the (wonderful) stories about Ireland's (wonderful) UBI plan for artists tend to bury if not duck completely the hard cold fact that it was funded largely by Google's billion-euro settlement of tax-evasion charges. TAX BILLIONAIRES RUN THEM DOWN LOOT THEM IT WORKS

So we're doing the the video game price discourse again. I was on a podcast over a decade ago, (it no longer exists as far as I know) where I asked about the then price hike to $60. I said no game was worth $60. I was unmovable on this and it stunned the hosts.

as this goes on while i grow older, i am very much feeling like a creature of another time. obviously things have always been more or less this way my entire life but as the last vestiges of truth, shared obligations, a loose moral framework get sheared away, i feel increasingly out of place

Your Hold is Ready by Laura Duerr; I audible sobbed in the car coming home from work while listening to this. It's a kind of hope we all need nowadays. www.castofwonders.org/2025/10/cast...

I listened to an NPR interview with former Senator Joe Manchin promoting his new book at work this week. And god he's such a weasel. He's desperate to rewrite his legacy as something other than being a rat fink. And because its only like 8 minutes long, NPR can't push back on anything he's saying.

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

TradeMoviePodcast using Zero Dark Thirty to explain why Aaron Sokin's Liberalism failed the psyche of America. Great movie thinker, great video essay. www.tiktok.com/@trademovies...

@critdistance.bsky.social for #TWIVGB www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgng...

James Buchanan is considered one of the worst presidents, consistently ranked in the bottom five because of what happened after he was out of office. I got curious and checked to see where Biden is ranked. The few surveys we have put in the top 20, barely. I feel that's going to drop like a stone.

Some books that get banned may see bumps in sales, yes But the majority? This is what happens to them. Especially when books are being banned by the thousands

I published two skeets the contained images of an old comic strip. When I loaded them into the box, a prompt appeared to add alt-text. I thought, 'ah what the hell.' Turns out, it was a fun little creative exercise. I don't see what all the fuss is about.

Decided to look up the word milquetoast for reasons that have no escaped me. Did you know it only goes back to like the 1930s? And that it was named after a comic strip character you've never heard of? Meet Casper Milquetoast.

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.

I'm reminded of the German invasion of Belgium at the beginning of WWI. The Belgians resisted, sabotaged supply lines, engaged in firefights. The Germans were infuriated and rounded up the priests and executed them. Why? Because in their minds people don't act on their own, they follow orders.

I was wondering how we were going to do this. All the talk of flipping the house next year and next to nothing about primaries to make the flip in anyway effective.

Oh finally. I feel like a functioning human being again and not warmed over half soggy chicken nugs.

I hate getting sick, but I really hate getting sick on a Thursday and having two more days of work instead of on a Saturday where I can just burrito myself for three days safely.

All day I've had trouble with my internet. Finally when I got screwed out of playing Traveller tonight, I did a full restart of every electronic in the apartment. Waited 10 minutes, then turned everything back on. It's fixed.

This whole section really.

My representative, Mike Sherrill, has somehow pissed away a 10+ point lead in the NJ governor's race over the past three months.

Home Sweet Home

Back is US. Waiting for luggage.

This is the same pattern as Brexit. We have to take seriously a slight plurality of a low turnout referendum as a sacrosanct end of policy direction despite most having immediate buyers remorse and all sane indicators telling us to change course. Steer right into those rocks man.

Being Anti-Fascist is important but we need to also be aware about Fascism's root causes.

At the airport, headed for the next stop of my vacation.

dudes rock

In light of the new hysteria about tomorrow's supposed rapture, I'm remembering the last time it happened and the reports of people killing their pets since they couldn't come with.

I have the entire run of PopMatters Moving Pixels Podcast saved on a hard drive, none of which is online anymore. Wonder if this is a method to make them available again.

I'm on vacation right now, so I don't have access to a lot of things. Using this as a reminder to cancel Hulu when I get back home and sign up for Post Games' patreon.

Saw graffiti today: "Viva Palestinia Libera" Tried to take a picture, but Taxi drove by too fast.