Read/watch/play a wider variety of things. You want to have the biggest possible toolkit to draw from you can, both in terms of literary devices, narrative techniques, ways of acting characters, and ideas for exploiting and interacting with mechanics. Also, include non-fiction - especially history

This. Everything. This sentiment was raw but articulate, as well as completely correct. I really hope these words echo for generations!!

Everything old is new again

It takes you 58 minutes to drink you coffee? Your coffee must *suck* bro.

I'm not going to hold your hand when I say this, please be kinder to people. Some of you are determined to be irredeemable assholes and there is so much more to life. And I say that as a pretty determined asshole. It's so easy to be kind.

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings: How some have been depos’d, some slain in war, Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed, Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping kill’d,

Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.

We need to repossess all giant black trucks in North America and reuse them for this purpose, and no other.

It’s impossible to reconcile footage of this event alongside footage of the enormous No Kings protests and not come to the firm conclusion that the American political system is beyond broken.

*ABOLISH ICE* new pixel piece and free-only phone/banner sets (links below)

When Tim Walz became Kamala Harris's running mate, progressives highlighted policies passed. It could not have been possible without Melissa Hortman. -Free school breakfast and lunch -Restoring voting rights for felons -Paid leave Great piece by @gracepanetta.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/06/rep-...

The protests are breaking down so many barriers. So many old people who love their trans grandkids. So many voters who get gerrymandered out of relevance. So many *people* who probably thought there weren't many like them

Law enforcement officers unload tear gas on crowds in Los Angeles, in addition to large amounts of flash-bangs. NBC News’ David Noriega reports from the ground.

I’ve seen a lot of hand wringing about the dangers of going to No Kings protests and gently, I want to tell people to chill a little. These are permitted marches and the point is to be out there and seen en masse. Please don’t scare off people who are maybe going to their very first protest

"I had not touched a cat in 15 yrs when an orange kitten wandered over to sit w/me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive. It instilled in me a raw, unbridled happiness that I had never felt before, not even as a child."

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

No Kings! Go New York! Honestly it is moving and I am so pleased with us. We need to do more, but this is good.

It's SO humid in D.C. today, too, and he's out there in a suit. God. I bet he *reeks* of stress sweat. I bet he smells like a gas fire, and Ivanka can't smell it because she's used to it but Pete is just *soaking* in it and wishing like he were anywhere else. Sad ass stinky birthday boy.

Aw man, you guys. It's his *birthday*. And nobody cares. What a fucking loser. What a fucking-burger-where-the-patties-slid-out-of-the-buns of a man he is. What a mopey little dingus. People voted for this guy? Anybody voted for this guy. God damn. What a sac wrinkle.

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God bless our troops though, right?

This man is Deford Bailey. One of the original Grand Ol Opry stars from its inception in the 1920s, until 1941. I’d like to know what the Recording Academy means by “traditional” country.

The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT

just a reminder that only water goes in your eyes, don’t wear contacts to a protest if you can help it, hot showers will hurt like hell if you have mace or gas residue on your skin. turn off face ID on your phone. pick a buddy & never leave their side. if detained, ask for a lawyer & then shut up.

Bluesky when something funny happens

Internet 2: The Webbening The mid '90s web buckles under the strain as the late '90s dawn and millions of free AOL hours CDs make their way into the world. 📖: GameFan, March 1997

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

learn your history, besties

How one soberly concludes from me saying “we can have a space program without musk” means I don’t support having a space program is beyond my wildest dreams tbh

I am so unbelievably cute is the thing Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I just wish I had endless time to do everything I wanted. I'd love to add yet another project to the roster. But ehn, so it goes.

Reminder that Calvin's Dad is, by the author's own admission, maybe two inches short of a self-insert

"To understand who is in control, observe who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire

Oh, just saw this. Chirp discounted the audio book of THE SEVENTH VEIL OF SALOME down to $5.99 US. If you're looking for Golden Age Hollywood drama, check it out. www.chirpbooks.com/audiobooks/t...

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

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Reminder! The easiest way to help the small businesses you love survive whatever is coming next that doesn't cost you more than you were planning on spending is PAYING IN CASH. And if you're using a debit card, make sure to put in your PIN. That's usually cheaper than running it as a credit card

Utter tragedy as a second child dies from measles in the Texas outbreak. Now over 600 cases nationally that have been reported (ie underestimated). The gall of RFKjr to plan to attend funeral- a man who has & continues to do more to cause this outbreak by repeatedly sharing vaccine disinformation

if you’re an artist who ever thought “what’s the point? The world is Hell and I should do something that matters instead” even in an ICE detention center people will treat art as sacred, seek it out, and find joy and comfort in it. You aren’t making art, you’re making hope.

I still don't understand the need for companies like Microsoft to spend tons of hours massaging AI prompts to produce some shitty 10 fps Quake demo and pretend AI made it easy. AI isn't profitable! It never will be, it costs too much! Growing it is just growing your god damn losses you idiots!

Insane turnout for the #HandsOff2025 in NYC. And I have to lift up the over 90% of Black Women (once again) and almost 80% of Black Men who did everything they could to prevent this twilight zone episode in the first place.

USians. Good work today. I hope you know you might have to do this way more than once.

not to be That guy but please stop letting your cats outdoors! they are detrimental to the environment and it greatly reduces their life span

Hey gang. Could do with a bit of distraction. Give me an excuse to take my mind off shit?