you have to understand that when Richard Dawkins says really dumb things it's because Oxford dons have no natural predators.

into the stancilverse (2026)

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

I can’t stand this garbage. No, kiwifarms was never just “annoying mean trolls”. They were an active hate community that physically harassed and terrorized people. They sent swat, they harassed coworkers, friends, and family. They sent bomb threats to hospitals. No one is doing that to Will.

cis fragility bsky.app/profile/mady...

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

"this game seems interesting but I'm bad at rhythm games/shmups/fighting games/whatever" you deny your own curiosity out of a fear of not living up to a standard that does not exist to an audience that isn't even watching. you must overcome this to live a full and true life.

true anti-Stancilism (refusing to be made insane by social media) has yet to be attempted

my very favorite Richard Dawkins headline of all time remains “British scientists don't like Richard Dawkins, finds study that didn't even ask questions about Richard Dawkins”

The New York Times is really pushing the Newer Nicer Nazi angle today

Dear people who make video games, Please stop making your games so damn dark. No, I don't mean thematically. I mean visually. Way too many games are so poorly lit that I need to turn the brightness all the way up to see any damn thing. It's kinda annoying after a point.

<guy who still hasn't installed any of the games from the last bundle he bought> oh hey a new bundle

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

chatbots seem built for dudes who think the stripper actually likes them

I'm a fan of Parker's work, but this take feels divorced from reality to me. It’s the same mindset that treats SA allegations as a personal flaw, not an electoral one. I understand she’s being hypothetical and exaggerating here, but this falsely separates the personal and the political.

A few years ago I was watching some plastic surgery show where a trans woman was getting implants and as they slipped the cup in, her nipple went from regular to blurred

just saying the number of indie games coming out this spring is intense and you can have excellent website-elevating criticism on them with one simple trick (hiring me and my friends to write freelance articles for you)

Games criticism owes so much to Garrett Martin. Quietly one of the most influential people in the space, a guy who was happy to publish anyone that had something interesting to say. A shame AV Club is shuttering its games coverage. End of an era, long live Paste Games

Loved this recent video game essay by Lex Joy @aeneas-nin.bsky.social It’s about a strange, existential edge case in an otherwise cozy RPG. Soft-locking as accidental storytelling. But my favorite part is that you can just feel the kindness in its DNA. [Vol. 2 of @deletedsavesmag.bsky.social ]

I hope @nickjudin.bsky.social doesn’t mind me saying this, but I got a peek behind the scenes this week and can tell you he put his whole heart—and his considerable reporting chops—into helping this family tell the world what ICE did to them. NYT repeated his work w/o care or credit. Infuriating.

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An Atlanta suburb learned Flock was using livestreams from a children's gymnastics studio, a pool, and a playground in sales pitches to other cities. Residents are furious but the city renewed its contract with Flock anyway: www.404media.co/city-learns-...

Once again: If we are to beat the Republican fascist movement, we all must view the Supreme Court as it is presently constituted to be completely illegitimate and all of its findings similarly illegitimate, and we should expect our elected leaders to hold the same view.

i think it is good and fulfilling to sometimes do difficult, challenging, frustrating things with the goal of making something worthy, or bettering yourself. some people, it seems, believe that we should strive for a future where nothing is ever hard for anyone they consider people.

Seeing Michael Tracey and Matt Taibbi gang up on smearing Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she can no longer even defend herself is truly sickening. Their little routine of denying that Jeffrey Epstein did anything that bad may make them money from fellow freaks but it’s harmful to victims everywhere

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

this would fix the website

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

The original concept of DARVO relates to sexual violence, but it’s extremely helpful for understanding the Trump administration. They kill and harm people and then they blame those who correctly identified their violence as the ones inciting violence. Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender

i’ve come to believe that 90% of a solid longterm relationship is adoring the sound of your other puttering in the background. whatever they’re up to, even if you don’t interact: there they are puttering, a whole contained world just futzing—so lovely. i do not love the other humans in this hotel.

Gang, it’s 2026 can we please not do “Trump fat” insults anymore? Just saw a post where someone called him a pedophile and “obese” in the same breath as if those are both serious moral flaws. There’s no excuse to be dehumanizing fat people on the internet anymore, fix your heart or [REDACTED].

Opening a shoe shop exclusively for detectives called The Game is a Foot

Yeah that didn't take long

Friendly reminder: Leftism doesn’t automatically immunize you to conspiratorial thinking. This isn’t me trying to debunk particular ideas about what transpired at the WHCD. This is admin is characterized by fascism, deception, and showmanship. It’s healthy to distrust them.

lots of us are already threatened by this administration 24/7; we're aware of the violence and the potential for more violence. media types who wanted to kiss his ring but not be touched by the violence, that's called delusion. other random media types defending the latter are extremely clueless.

We’ve become way too inured to the constant violence because of all of the people in power who revel in it. What a joyless, artless, sexless, rudderless country we became so fast.

guys that was not quite what i had in mind but OK

Okay guys that’s it I’ve changed my take from “no one should attend the WHCD” to “one journalist gets the pass to attend BUT they must pants every single other journalist there they see.” Any takers?

Fair to say our D&D game got a bit derailed this afternoon.

we need a new slur for people who attend the white house correspondents dinner

new corollary of “touch grass” just dropped: make shit with your hands. it doesn’t have to be good, or cute, or useful, but to be human is to make shit. make shit with your hands!!!!

Can’t even imagine the battle royale in the Atlantic offices over who got to write the article about Hasan Piker endorsing shoplifting. Chairs flying. Bloody noses. Fine, fine, the editor cries, two of you can do it. Everybody else, we need some more genocide apologia. It’s been an hour, let’s go.

we wouldn't have to hear about "hasan piker" if lena dunham's book was either 50% more annoying or less annoying. the media people would have been busy all writing the same thing about lena dunham instead of hasan piker

you can't fool me, i don't need an opinion on hasan piker

Anyway, enough about that, we need to get serious about Hasan Piker. He’s antisemitic and racist and he’s bad for the brand image of any media outlet and politician that associates with him.

Might be a long shot, but if you or someone you know is an immigration attorney familiar with student visa law, I’d love to get in touch. I’m trying to understand a couple basic facts of the process for a local ICE story.

Trying to imagine what it must be to have so little self-respect and so much need for attention to be a journalist attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight celebrating an administration that routinely attacks and assaults the press in every way imaginable.

I never post stuff like this, but if you have a couple bucks to spare, my friends Danny and Nathalie (and their cat) could really use some help making rent this month. They’re good people, and they’ve been going through it. Much love.

Go check out my debut on Mothership! This one was such a labor of love for me — Disco Elysium’s one of my favorite games, so getting to write about its bizarre, messy world was kind of a dream come true. Special thanks to @midimyers.com for the great edits. <3