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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Cordeville thatched roofs in Auvers-sur Oise, 1890. oil on canvas.

Obligatory China Trip Photos

Join us in congratulating our poetry selection contributors for the 2026 Best of the Net issue. #bestofthenet #poetry

Don’t look at this and then google ‘China high speed rail’ it’ll break your spirit

I’m sorry but be serious www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I had a good time getting an emergency 3am appendectomy recently so probably that. I went to Presby tho as opposed to the north side television zone.

theres a bunch of really cool pokemon designs in gen 5 but patrat/watchog are an unforgivable sin

Wrote a piece on the rise of increasingly sophisticated photo modes, and chatted with the photo mode consultant - and several virtual photographers - on this trend. For the Verge:

getting absolutely freaking bodied by this piece Nintendo, Nostalgia and Gaming as Accumulation: artreview.com/nintendo-nos...

made a fun poster for friend's house party lol

they should make a rum and coke that's less fantastic

“you have to accept the future of games! it’s inevitable” man when’s the last time you used a kinect

bf hates Morrissey's voice and he's so valid

Sometimes you agree with a thesis and like the writing but find the example doesn't fit. In those times, you respond. bloomedwings.com/2026/03/19/o...

Somehow missed this DLSS 5 comparison where they make an NPC into the old lady no one has wished happy birthday to on Facebook

this is what I wrote about the same trend a couple years ago while reviewing Metaphor

in my fiction debut I wrote a short story about the small violence of children for @burialmagazine.bsky.social (CW, obvs) burialmagazine.neocities.org/thesandbox

This is my favorite part of this piece. The mormon part at the beginning line made me laugh but McKay is kind of the perfect person for this story because his life is arranged so that he can't become a gambling addict. What happens when you introduce phone gambling into that equation?

Pokopia is crack

Saw on the train today, Fukushima prefecture is doing a tourism campaign in partnership with Square-Enix, promoting Final Fantasy-like landscapes & touristic spots. Cute stuff, I only found the 1st one in good quality.

You'd think a movie like Zootopia 2, the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time, would have a huge blu-ray release day just based on the volume of interest this movie has. If this was 15 years ago you'd see ads "own it today" but no. They don't want you to own anything anymore.

ofc, Eco called it.

that one reviewer who said Pokopia was basically viva pinata singlehandedly convinced me to get the game, you don't know the chokehold viva pinata has on my conception of video games

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

they would hate backloggd reviews for games released before 2004 </3

Jetlag is real and evil

gamers love to write "now that the dust is settling" four days after a video game has released

Americans are a fearful, claustrophobic people because every food choice is a variation on "sandwich"

Pardon my obsession, but "auteur" doesn't go with "theory"; it's a "politique" that reflects an experience; here, a couple of words about what Truffaut and his critical cohort derived from the practice and the concept: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

every single article about a national writer visiting texas:

Insane, redditors find videos & audio hiding in plain sight in the DOJ’s online Epstein files due to .pdf files - congressional reps should check for the same ASAP before the DOJ scrubs them @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @reptedlieu.bsky.social

I’m kinda glad to see big companies finally getting more comfortable with handing the keys to their big franchises to cool indie devs with a proven track record. Castlevania by Motion Twin, God of War by Mega Cat. Smart! The New Hollywood games moment is perhaps here, baby!

It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site. aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...

"But I do think culturally we are back to brunch." This month in Dialogue, @austinwalker.bsky.social goes long on craft, industry, and doing the work.

Do you think Bad Bunny will announce Pikmin 5 during the Super Bowl Halftime Show later today?

Seeded within this incredibly bleak piece is the nefarious implication that romance novels are not books, but content. An indictment of the entire genre, really. The fact that this author is just overwhelmingly pleased with plagiarism content is another topic entirely.

In 1929, Rouben Mamoulian, man of the theatre, made the great theatre-centric Applause, with an effort at a distinctively cinematic aesthetic—and was recognized for it in @newyorker.com at the time; at 1pm at Film Forum in 35mm.: www.newyorker.com/goings-on-ab... www.newyorker.com/magazine/192...

“Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.”

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"

Folks can watch The Man Who Stole the Sun, with English subtitles, here: ok.ru/video/171135... 📽️ RIP Kazuhiko Hasegawa.

Very sad news about the passing of Kazuhiko Hasegawa, especially as he never got to make another Film after his masterpiece The Man who Stole the Sun. cinemadailyus.com/news/the-you...

they shot tear gas at people protesting the ICE facility where they're keeping a 5-year-old outside San Antonio news4sanantonio.com/news/local/p...

It's annoying how audience members treat musical theatre like opera instead of a fun vaudeville show

José R. Ralat, the Taco Editor of @texasmonthly.bsky.social, details being stopped 3x in one day: by a county cop, by ICE, and by DPS. "We were shaken, and angry at and afraid of what seemed like a coordinated effort between federal and state officials." www.texasmonthly.com/food/taco-ed...

Gamers should play the occasional awful game. It keeps your gamer opinions in check on what actual bad games are like

This is one of the things that I find is most shocking to people outside Minnesota who don’t realize it yet—the scale at which everyone who isn’t white has been forced into a spectrum of hiding. Very good article drawing out the Tahrir Square comparison.