jesus tapdancing christ dude. jesus, mary, and chain what are they doing over there

hey so guess what

I cannot stress this point enough; Make the thing. Even if it’s just for you. Make it because the act of creation and the process connects you to the history of humanity, our infinite curiosity and creativity. Make it because it won’t exist if you don’t try at all.

Heard some advice on doing artistic endeavors that really resonates: As you continue to engage with other works in the medium you’re working in, your tastes will change faster than your skills. That’s OKAY. Don’t scrap that short story, song, choral work, video game. Keep making it.

What is bringing you joy today? What made you laugh or smile today? Have you brought joy to someone else today?

For the first time since I was broken up with 9 months ago, I have a crush on someone. Taking the space, reflecting on what worked and didn't for me, then just finding myself again did a lot. And WAY faster than previous times.

Rewatching Game of Thrones for the first time since it ended. I'm tempted to end the rewatch with Season 6, just to see if it's a good way to end the series.

Happy Junteenth! None of us are free until all of us are free.

Big mood.

Why am I just now discovering this piece? www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLYr... Tagging @beebrookshire.bsky.social, because we occasionally geek out over choral music and this one is a doozy.

What is bringing you joy today? What made you laugh or smile today? Have you brought joy to someone else today?

Wild how they’re always up in arms when someone makes an obvious joking comparison or satirical remark and then their very next post is “WATCH US MURDER THIS BOAT OF FISHERMEN”

The GOP is LIVID about Scrooge McDuck comparisons.

someone should tell hegseth that disease has taken out more soldiers than any armament

Those fuckers have been going for Social Security for decades. It’s YOUR government saved retirement. You pay into it so you have a retirement. That’s the idea. They’re literally stealing from you.

I‘m all for rooting against Apple and Roblox where I can. But Epic makes me want to root against Epic more. Epic vs Microslop would be the matchup I want to see.

Obama: I am not immune to anger or doubt. But I do know this when we lose faith in each other, when we stop believing that voting matters… we open the door to the most ruthless or the most careless, or the most fearful among us who see some groups and some people as more equal than others

Precisely. What someone did does not mean they instantly deserve horrid things happening to them. Punitive justice can exist without state sanctioned violence towards the guilty.

Chuck Tingle Warhammer 40K book before GTA 6 is WILD.

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Pregnant mothers often wrote goodbye letters to their families in case they died in childbirth.

🦇 Y'all need to be calling your governors and AGs over this and you need to be doing it *NOW*! Ask them to intervene on behalf of WPATH, trans people, and the ability to provide any science backed healthcare for anything. I MEAN *ALL OF YOU*. All of you need to get on the phone *today*. /Thread

What is bringing you joy today? What made you laugh or smile today? Have you brought joy to someone else today?

Ursula K LeGuin was spot on with the commodification of fantasy. I'm so tired.

Video rental stores were so much better than streaming. Streaming may be more convenient. Rental stores required intentionality. You were stuck with the disc you got.

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

A 4th grader's clarinet playing isn't too bad when you exclude reeds.

Probably shouldn’t have made a Nazi a trillionaire.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.

A publisher would scoff at you for having an idiot wannabe dictator sign a treaty at Versailles for being too on the nose.

it has been officially released and the leak was correct, and also they signed it at *Versailles* You know Trump just thought it was a big nice fancy building but holy historical metaphor

He signed an unconditional surrender at Versailles? Come the fuck on.

Daveigh Chase.... Rest in power. Three iconic roles in short succession, Lilo & Stitch, Spirited Away, and The Ring.

Reshaping American cities to accommodate the automobile was bad, actually.

Quote with Alt text. Comparing AI to the loss of walkable cities and safe neighborhoods for children to play in because of cars is not the argument Huang thinks it is.

Great read

You could replace Xbox with EA and the headline would still be true. Buyouts and consolidation homogenize culture and are bad for gamers, developers, and society writ large.

BREAKING: Rockstar has been dealt a blow in its legal battle against workers who claim they were fired for unionising. A UK employment tribunal has upheld the right of union workers to bring blacklisting claims against the studio at the final trial, which will begin on September 10.

Eugenicist language from public health official needs to be impeachable and imprisonable offenses. "But freedom of speech" Freedom of speech has limits, and the head of DHHS spouting eugenicist bullshit definitely crosses that limit. His dad is frowning upon him from somewhere.

this is deeply, DEEPLY fucked up. putting special education in the hands of eugenicists is going to traumatize millions of children and restrict their access to actual services they need

Then you've got to bring in alligators to eat the cormorants, then jaguars to eat the alligators, then grizzly bears to eat the jaguars, and then what? Good luck finding something to eat the grizzlies! You could try some lions, maybe... Much easier: Just make Trump to clean it all up himself.

"Private equity firm LongRange Capital is buying Pizza Hut" And that will be the last we ever hear from Pizza Hut

Private Equity is a blight upon our society.

If politicians really want to “save childhood,” they can start by ensuring every child has three meals a day, a safe place to sleep, and safe access to education. Banning social media does nothing to help kids who don’t have basic resources.

Prediction: somehow, US conservatives will keep making jokes about the French surrendering despite all this

It’s 2026 everybody, I’m shooting for the absolute bottom of the barrel. Yes, studios should be able to make a good game without being golden goose’ed too, I agree.

A video game studio should be allowed to make a bad game and gain some institutional knowledge without being gutted, skinned, and melted it down into glue every fiscal year.

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.