If you only read one thing today, let it be this thread. My mind ENTIRELY changed on "right to die with dignity" laws when I saw the way it's being used in Canada to coercively kill poor, disabled people who WANT TO LIVE.

Having my cake and eating it too by getting a used Steam Deck and installing the Itch client on it

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!

New TV and stereo area in the living room, and GamerZone in the office... Oh yeah. It's all coming together

Marholland Drive

the person who coined the expression « content creator » to describe art and entertainment deserves to be in a specific circle of hell

Got a new fancy TV (used!! Fuck black Friday) and immediately turned on antiques roadshow

This driver killed my friend and got a traffic ticket for not slowing down - the same as you get if you love-tap someone at a red light. He didn't slow down and he ran into my friend, who was crossing the street on foot, and he killed him.

Nothing but voicemail on @durbin.senate.gov's Chicago office, no option to leave a message on his DC office, and his Springfield office doesn't even ring before starting the answering machine recording. Same as it ever was for proud collaborator Dick Durbin

You need to contact your representative and demand that Section 230 be protected, not repealed, NOW. www.congress.gov/members/find...

Instead of spectating soul-crushing cultural rot, I have simply been rotating early 90s Star Trek in my mind

Found out they made a feature length cut of The Best of Both Worlds on the Blu-ray, which is understandable but that also would deprive the viewer of one of the best cliffhangers in TV history

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Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda

I'm hoping for more articles on this situation, because we cannot stay quiet: www.gamesradar.com/games/simula...

Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam This is where we're at now.

Thinking of the intersections to this story. The woman killed was knocking on the bus trying to get on & slipped. We’ve all seen people run after a bus, knocking on its windows or door, knowing if you miss one you may wait a while. Sidewalks full of snow & slow infrequent buses. All connected.

TEA: the chicago department of streets & sanitation is responsible for cleaning streets. They thew a temper tantrum & refused to maintain bike lanes as a way to prevent bike lanes from being built. Cdot was then made responsible for cleaning bike lanes. This is not acceptable & needs to be fixed.

Every year CPD holds the city for a larger ransom

Libraries are far more valuable than CPD will ever be! I spent so much time in Chicago libraries (esp the Austin branch)they offered me a summer job as a teen! Brandon Chicago expects better than this!

The Mayor has budgeted $5 million for a ShotSpotter replacement for CPD. You really could not have a clearer illustration of the choices between community resources vs state surveillance, and so far, as usual, the choice is state surveillance.

Stray Children (2025)

Spyro the dragon

tfw when ventra will be unavailable including ticket vending machines

WERNER HERZOG: naeow.... zhe.... jingle-haupe.... has begaune

Star Trek Enterprise

I'll start, my first thought is the mine shaft in one of the desert levels. Maybe I'll make an anyaustin style video anye this

Why is games discourse always so boring. Why can't we debate something meaningful like which secret shortcut in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is the coziest

Why is games discourse always so boring. Why can't we debate something meaningful like which secret shortcut in Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is the coziest

Ian Cohost. Is this anything

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

I am a little disappointed when the conversation is focused around "it's art not porn!" because the adult games devs get very little support but have been dealing with this for far longer, and they've been sounding the alarm for that deplatforming coming for other games (such as LGBTQ+ content).

[guy reviewing first few hours of chess] interesting mechanics, not much content though!

it's insane to be online clutching your pearls at Diaper Sister Escapades 3 (let alone an art game like Horses) when someone built a machine for turning people's childhoods into shareholder value and they have a trillion dollars for it

the IT guys, they came to me they told me we’re going to have to install windows 11 i said no, no i don’t think so. every computer in the white house will be running bloat free open source software and it will work perfectly. we have the best audio drivers in the world folks. crisp, reliable, smooth

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

Dibs this, dibs that. The only solution is for every street parked car outside of transit deserts should descend into hell like the nazi car in Blues Brothers

Policing is defunding Chicago.

Don’t you know that the only thing that protects Chicagoans is paying a higher and higher ransom to CPD each year.

The proposed Chicago city budget has a $5 million line item for a ShotSpotter replacement. Abandoning this failed pursuit would free up the funds needed to maintain 2025 funding levels at our city libraries, which would still leave the libraries underfunded but would avoid disastrous proposed cuts.

I completed my final count. Out of 10,511 bus stops, I found that 4,360 (41%) of them could be removed to align with national best practices of 1/4 mile spacing. Long-form explainer article and an interactive map are forthcoming. Green dots are removed stops, black are kept stops.

The T’s dedication to slow zone removal has led to pretty dramatic ridership improvements. It’s a model that should be emulated elsewhere. Picture unrelated

✨ A few years back I stood outside Wells Cathedral for a full day and photographed the impact of the light on the front facade. I was amazed at the outcome - at how a single entity could morph and change under the changing light. 🌅 #thread

How many times can a ceasefire be ‘tested’ and fail before we admit there is no ceasefire, just propaganda messaging for one?

RT to scare a Chicago alderperson #PlowTheSidewalks

Five Games To Get To Know My Cat: -Feather and bells attached by string to wooden dowel -Felt mouse toss -Tap my closed hand with paw to open it and reveal a treat -Meow at door while I’m in bathroom -SSX 3

Anyone in city government who makes noises about "efficiencies" or "savings" while simultaneously pledging no reductions in CPD spending is either kidding themselves or kidding you. You cannot meaningfully shrink a budget without touching its largest operating expenses and debt drivers.