I just read something about how the barrage of still images about halfway through The Parallax View is like 5 min long and I didn't believe it, cause it truly feels like 1. Wild stuff, I was hypnotized

Hey there Delilah I am writing the Quixote Adding hermeneutic weight to what Miguel wrought crude and floaty Vis-à-vis The work— attributed to me? Or only he?

Guy who has only read Moby Dick watching Guy Maddin's Sissy Boy Slap Party: This is giving me big Moby Dick vibes Guy who has read every book and seen every movie: Yeah, I agree

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

Strange Horticulture had great map puzzles and I'm excited to see the map in this one is a city, I'm curious to see what they do with that.

mass shooting at minneapolis homeless encampment days after a fox news host calls to kill all homeless people

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Glenn Beck’s media outlet The Blaze just gave an interview last month to the person who killed the politicians in Minnesota

This professional women's championship for one of the most popular sports in the US, which is broadcast on TV and has culturally recognizable superstar players has only about 5x the prize pool of INDISC, a large pinball tournament. What?

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Hi Bluesky! Polaris Game Design Retreat is an annual event where game designers tackle tough problems together, then write reports on their discoveries. If you're looking for our reports, start here: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/

Inspired by @nrennie.bsky.social excellent #TidyTuesday plot on the power of passports, I adapted the idea to look at refugee origins. This chart ranks countries of origin of refugees, asylum-seekers, and others in need of international protection, grouped by region. #RStats #ggplot2 #Refugees

So, I wrote a thing about my vase-fucking skeet and resulting thread with thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, @philistella.bsky.social, & @gothicbodies.bsky.social for inspiration PLUS a shout out to a very old *undergraduate* essay by @joanpassey.bsky.social

The value of a baby is based on the events of its simulated life! So each trading day, the number is going down and up based on their miseries and victories!! Buy low (when they’ve been hit by a hover car) and sell high (when they get promoted at work)!!! i fucking hate it here

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

jc denton: paul. what's your favorite number. paul denton, immediately: 36. jc: why? paul: 36 neatly divides into 3 12s, and 12 neatly divides into 3 4s. it feels like a 'tidy' number to me, is all. what about you? jc: 100 trillion. paul: because it's big? jc: because it's big.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Interesting detail from Empire of AI - data training firms fired Kenyan workers for incorporating ChatGPT into their work tasks.

The Big Map is up in the Kent Free Library! This is a project highlighting the history of our South End, a neighborhood of immigrants, Black southern migrants, and railroad workers. communitygeography.kent.edu/index.php/20...

When I think about the fact that universities are ALSO supposed to be repositories of knowledge and expertise you can't get elsewhere (and not just job training or even educational enterprises) I immediately go to ancient languages. I don't think ppl realize you can just lose them

There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

Fran Lebowitz talks about this, not just the artists but the connoisseurs of art that help keep the standards high.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

I've been thinking about this poem frequently over the last year web.mit.edu/cordelia/www...

I can't say enough good things about the William Hootkins reading of Moby Dick.

I've been casually designing a House M.D. pinball machine in the spirit of the late 2000s Stern games I love like 24, CSI, and Avatar, and the idea that makes me want to actually homebrew it more than anything is a 'mouse bites madness' mode.

CDC wastewater data is delayed. Convenient, during a surge when schools around the country are starting back up again 😒 And access to Covid vaccines is very likely going to be much more limited than it already was. Mask up, folks. 😷 From @michael-hoerger.bsky.social on IG:

I just wanted to know where to go to touch grass and now they have me doing dirt hermeneutics

surprised that THE INCIDENT PIT has not been memed yet DO NOT FALL IN commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11...

at dinner we decided that “may you have as many cups of water as you have hands to carry them” is probably a really good Caves of Qud blessing

My best tweet ever was “Let’s put the cialis in socialism” and I’m still mad it didn’t go wildly viral

Today's Amberspire design diary is written by @hollynielsen.bsky.social, going into different scales of 'history' and how those are used to construct a fictional world. It's very much worth a read: lunardivision.net/micro-and-ma...

Outer Wilds is the only game where death has made me feel not just frustration or loss, but "I'm not ready to die." One of my favorite memories in a game was learning how to break the loop and going around to say goodbye to all the Hearthians (especially letting Galena win hide and seek again).

What's your favourite piece of classic TSR DnD art? It's not the most exciting but mine will forever be Erol Otus' painting of the Keep on the Borderlands. Everything about this image made me fall completely in love with medieval fantasy roleplaying.

Miraculously, he didn’t hit a single CDC employee! But he did kill David Rose, the police officer who responded, who leaves behind two children and a pregnant wife. I can't help but imagine the vast attention this case would have received if the race of the shooter and the victim were reversed.

I've also encountered *so many developers* who have tried to pitch all-ages titles--and found publishers don't see it as worth pursuing. The Backyard Sports of the world, the Zoombinis and Freddi Fishes of tomorrow, don't get cash, and so, don't get made. It sucks, man.

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

sometimes when you're very overdue on doing laundry, your only shirts available are your worst shirt, for obvious reasons, and your favorite shirt, which you have reserved in case of emergency. this is known as the Launderer's Paradox and may result in you wearing your favorite shirt to walgreens

my game came out btw

In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.

when thinking about how we relate to famous works i like to consider the distinction between “monument” and “document”. different scholars use these terms in different ways & my usage is a little idiosyncratic, but imo it’s important to the understanding of art as conversation

Possibly the highest ratio of excitement to fanfare a post could have for me.

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh