Saving this one for when It Happens.

Finally overcame the last hitch in the scoring system for a tabletop game I developed with a friend years ago. If I can figure out what to call it, I can have it up on Itch within the week!

Bees 🐝

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Ooh, I like this one!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

Introduce yourself with five data points that will make it easier to steal your identity.

Phantom 2040 was my favorite TV series as a kid, and its semi-Metroidvania SNES adaptation is, for my money, the best licensed title of all time. Go play it if you can.

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I have so many candidates for this from the classes I've taught! I think I've narrowed it down to Andre Dubus's "Killings," Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art," or Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz." But I need to ponder it more.

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

I wonder what the ROI would be if the government employed full-time peer reviewers. Basically, I envision a program where we pay a small army of unemployed Ph.D.s to go through the peer-review backlog in their various disciplines, and see what that yields.

Lost in the tragedy of the Super Bowl was this favorable review of STEVE JOBS MONOGRAPH! Makes me think (and hope) that @bcwallin.com should do another like it.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

some things transcend language

what do you mean the leader of your country will sometimes "resign" just because there's "a scandal"

Did Bad Bunny teach you nothing

Resting after a tough defeat.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Oh well. We never expected to be here, and finishing second in the league during a rebuild is still pretty impressive. Congrats to Darnold for being the only QB from the Class of 2018 to hoist a Lombardi!

Drake Maye is missing open receivers and completing passes into quintuple coverage, what is going on

Welp. Maye picked a terrible time to have the worst game of his career.

It's funny when the pressures aren't fully charted yet so the ratio is off, but this doesn't feel that wrong

Why does Cooper Kupp look like a long-lost Paul brother

posting is harmless provided you don't take it seriously- the second you start believing you're doing Important Work, that's when the madness takes hold

It's officially GAME DAY! Let's go, Pats!

I don't know, but when the time comes, I will make one of those fuckers.

gotta catch 'em all

woke 2 televised golf course obliteration channel

#Baturday 🦇: #Bat Pendant #AncientChina, Neolithic, Hongshan Culture (c. 4700-2900 BCE) 8 x 5.5 x 1.5 cm, 95.5g ID’d as “plum crystal,” presumably plum blossom jade www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2090285... ℹ️ bats are auspicious animals in Chinese culture - this little guy was likely a lucky charm 🥰

Man, even by Uel's high standards, this piece of speculative ecology earns top marks.

What a great idea. Going to do this with bug sketches once I resume that effort in earnest.

Studying pixel-perfect collision until it becomes second nature.

Can I write and perfect a 2,000-word horror story in time for an end-of-month deadline? Time will tell!

Idea for a new olympic sport: 5000 people are released into an abandoned quarry with no instructions on how to score points or win the game

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

I hate gerrymandering, we should just not let Republicans vote.

I'll never understand why the Boston Celtics, year after year, coach after coach, are incapable of responding to Spoelstra's zone defenses.

The lobster one of these has long been one of my favorite pictures of anything ever.

Bill Traylor (1853-1949), a former slave & Alabama sharecropper, first took up art as a self-taught amateur at age 85, drawing with a pencil stub on salvaged cardboard, & in 3 years did over 1500 drawings that are now recognized as pioneering works of folk & modern art, I mention for no reason.

I wonder whether Fly Fight could be good enough for the Wonderville cabinet... Let's submit it and see.

new reaction image drop

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

How late will I have to stay up to learn whether Maye is the MVP?

Mike Vrabel of the New England Patriots wins the AP NFL Coach of the Year award, becoming the seventh coach to win it with two different teams. bit.ly/4kh6Oae