“Why one small American town won’t stop stoning its residents to death,” an AO3 fic in which Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, is astounding. archiveofourown.org/works/73396436

i know it's 90% off but a warning to potential customers not to buy the steam version of heavy rain. it is not safe. it installs heavy rain on your computer

I've set up a little yu-gi-oh progression group for my friends and I'm so excited about it fhdsfshgdf

like I said, never doubted the bears for a second

the 'its so over' 'we're so back' oscillation reached critical levels

never doubted the bears for a second

green bay packers after tonight

she vintage my story til I [loud midi harmonica scream]

Do not post shit that will get you on watch list Do not sign up for protests- just go Wear a mask if you are protesting No matter how mad you are: Stay safe and stay smart

Watch more weird old OVAs. Even the ones people tell you are bad. Some of them just got that soul you can't find anywhere else.

zeon soldier, laughing: hey, char - i went to the dicksucking factory and- char aznable, immediately: and i was employee of the month every goddamn month. zeon soldier: char: you think you can suck a dick as good as me, soldier? zeon soldier: no sir. char: that's right.

Mia Fey send post

I must not post a take. Takes are the mind-killer. Takes are the little-discourse that brings total obliteration. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the take has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

magical

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

I grew up in the kind of impoverished rural county where the US military recruits their cannon fodder, and I gotta say there's no reason to have any sympathy for anyone who enlists, nor has there ever been. Poor people still have agency and moral culpability. We aren't just lumpen NPCs.

'americans didnt vote for this!!!' i just. i dont care. can we please fucking center venezuelans. colombians, cubans, mexicans, who are all next on the chopping block. please. im asking.

if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live

Well fuck. Death to America I guess. Attack the war machine. Celebrate every dead US soldier. Sabotage empire whereever and however you can. These motherfuckers may have the guns and the power but they aren't the only ones who can act.

anyone in the US who has any passing thought for the US's "reputation" right now needs to shut the fuck up lmao. we're the bad guys. we've *been* the bad guys but the mask is off. there's nothing to salvage. the rest of the world will be entirely justified in whatever they do next.

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Hey y'all, please stop being racist as hell and saying the bombing of Venezuela is a distraction from the Epstein Files. People are suffering, you absolute fucking ghouls.

This! There is no difference between what Putin did in Ukraine and what Trump is doing in Venezuela. The entire international community needs to sanction the fuck out of the US. Destroy our economy. Ban Americans from international travel. Make us a pariah state.

The moderate position is indeed The Hague

check out daft punk's new single "get lucky" if you get the chance. sound of the summer.

Legal Fireworks Sold Here! sign right across the state border ass light display

I think something that gets lost in the "just emulate old games" vs "not everyone knows how to use emulators, old games need infinite ports and remakes to run on new hardware" discussion is that until relatively recently the best way to play old games was to buy used games

heads up that bluesky doesnt show posts from other languages by default on your timeline, and its cutting you off from a lot of the community go to bsky.app/settings/lan... and deselect any language from this setting, or else you might not see any of the new japanese users at all!

The new preface to this great and depressing scholarly book gets into the explosion of sports betting and “prediction markets” since 2012’s 1st edition, plus well-meaning games-for-change types trying to harness dark patterns for good. Everyone within 30 feet of gamedev should read it.

Maya

Merry Christmas from Japan! 日本からメリークリスマス！！

Word of advice for new Bluesky users: Try taking a large cut of pork (shoulder or butt work best), toss that in a slow cooker with a little bit of stock, some BBQ sauce, and a whole can of dr pepper. Cook that shit on low for about 8 hours for some truly delicious pulled pork

final fantasy xiv players read a single nonfiction book challenge (impossible)

the easiest way to tell if someone was born between 1988 and 1998 is if they add an e to the end of Santa Claus, because they had the Tim Allen movie The Santa Clause on video when they were little

I haven't seen a single MCU movie since Endgame but I'm calling it now, Chris Evans is back because some cosmic cube bullshit brought Steve back as hydra Cap, which is also why Dr Doom looks like Tony Stark, the next Captain America movie will be woke Cap vs chud Cap

Laura Palmer's Theme

Hi does anyone know a good software for creating maps? Specifically like, large maps, of an entire world, not just battlemaps

the reason people "dismiss the Avatar movies" is because the first one is kinda boring and there was a 13 year gap between the first one and the second, like there's other reasons to dislike them of course but the main thing is some impressive visuals do not make up for them being dull lmao

It's Monday night! Let's head to Mt. Moon Square -- maybe we'll see the Clefairy dancing! ✨🌕✨

what do you mean "the near-complete source code to Princess Maker 1 and 2 was quietly uploaded to GitHub a few months ago and nobody noticed" github.com/ritsuro/Prin... github.com/ritsuro/Prin...

quick study before she is lost to the sands of time #artkari #ffxiv

i just had my clicker training set off by a hector hectorson guide fml man

Merry Christmas! It's the Hater's Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog! defector.com/the-2025-hat...

I have now had connection issues during both the dungeon and the trial lmao

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground