another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Was talking to a kid and she’d never heard of cooties. What a lucky generation. All those cooties shots worked.

If this gets 1 Million RTs I'll wear this costume to our show.

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

@cbw94533.bsky.social excellent advice for taking medications your insurance doesn't approve easily. If you're willing to a little research, and write the justification letter for your doctor, they'll usually sign off on it to send to the shitty doctors the insurance Co employs.

Problems are systemic

@caanan.bsky.social hey found you! It's Canaan Grall! The Creator of Max Overacts, Celadore, Not on the Quest, and many other great comics and art! Please put some more info in your profile, and link to your Kofi, since that appears to be where most of your stuff is these days. Now searchable!

This. I’m not just a parent, I am a parent who has personally experienced in recent years what it’s like when a virus makes you its b*tch. Give them all the shots. For their own sake and for the sake of those around them.

patreon.com/slovenlytrulls 💋✨

We really need to focus more on the Nuremberg trials in our educational system, ideally from the perspective of the people who felt empowered under a corrupted regime to do evil things and how that feeling of power didn’t save them in the end.

This Way Madness Lies is a great game and barely anybody bought it. It should be played by more people. If everybody here on @bsky.app banded together and bought a Steam copy and played it, well, that'd be a miracle and I would be forever grateful. store.steampowered.com/app/1318970/...

"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."

Owning a bank would be a massive chunk of the security needed to give adult content a safe platform. Also massively hard to do because you're required to have 5 million in cash or investments. But I'm watching. Very informative article on what it takes to build a paypro voidfox.com/blog/payment...

@slovenlytrulls.com so, I know y'all aren't necessarily into horror games, but I was recently surprised to learn of an indie horror trend of "being a girl" simulators, that highlight the way women have to be so careful. This creator highlights them at 19:11 in this video youtu.be/wZFZfur2CXE

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

Bahahaha RFK: Tylenol causes autism. Tylenol: Do you have evidence? We can sue you. RFK: Tylenol doesn't cause autism. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

@waitingforthetrade.bsky.social Are you reading wilde life? Really fun webcomic I've recently caught up on. And you mentioned you've been catching up on webcomics recently. www.wildelifecomic.com

If anyone forwards me an email of a Wikipedia donation of $40+ I will ship you a blanket of your choice from my stock

@amandalafrenais.com so, one of my favorite art YouTubers drew a rat costume today, and I thought of you youtu.be/s13qCa6anXo

@thejenna.bsky.social you had a super busy summer, and I'm glad you had a good break... But any plans for when (or if) you're recording more eps for Big Game Hunger? Not every pod can last forever, and I'll eventually understand if you have to end it.

Maybe the Looney Tunes short most relevant to our times: 1956's TO HARE IS HUMAN, in which Wile E. Coyote creates a computer to think for him and slavishly obeys everything it tells him to do, no matter how self-destructive.

@authorrachelrener.bsky.social At your panel on "women writing men" at #FanX2025 and you're hilarious. Thanks for being a great panel host!

An antidote to despair and cynicism -- academics studying countries facing autocratic takeovers document that more than half of these episodes lead to "U-turns" and more than 90% result in strengthened democracies. Up to us to make it so! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@just-jack-1.bsky.social Did you ever see the 1998 movie Pleasantville? The big conflicts in it remind me of what we're facing now. Old white dudes trying to limit change, despite the whole world being more complicated than their views allow. youtu.be/XK64kR044bY?...

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

And I remembered I hate when people are intentionally cryptic, so the manga is Gleipnir. Goth girl wears her boyfriend, because he transforms into a mascot suit. It's Ecchi, and weird, but they have an interesting relationship, and I really enjoyed it. It goes to some dark places.

So, this is a topic I've seen scholars discuss. Talking about how over time man's brutality has decreased. We went from destroying whole kingdoms over petty shit, to public executions, to (mostly) valuing human life. Life sure feels bleak these days, until you look back a couple thousand years.

@tkingfisher.com so, in your excellent book "Hemlock & Silver" I wanted to ask why you chose Hemlock? MC finds antidote for something else, but not that one Because we still don't really have an antidote for it? Because it's the nature of things that childhood obsessions rarely have clear answers?

I'm absolutely loving it too. I've only just started, but this is already my favorite 2 panel joke:

@slovenlytrulls.com Okay so, not necessarily D&D related, but as a feminist, how do you feel about portrayals of 'girl-failures' in media? I came across this fascinating video on YT: youtu.be/UdLMcq--Xrg?... And I had a fun time pondering if we need more of them. Too much nuance for D&D NPC?

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

So, I've played this game. Ever played the old amateur surgeon games? I beat them all, amateur surgeon 1-4, and thoroughly enjoyed that every story beat is a thinly veiled excuse to save a life in the most gruesome way possible.

Well, I'll be damned. It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up. newatlas.com/infectious-d...

Thanks, I feel inspired: While trees rake carbon from the sky and lignify it 'til they die, eventually that heat's released by fire or rot or gnawing beast. But if you've got the clime to suit, and want to see less top, more root while storing carbon out the ass you cannot beat a prairie grass.

@aleemartinez.bsky.social I also just finished Superman. It was great. I'm coming to the conclusion I prefer superhero stories in movie form. For one, I won't get distracted by the long comic history. In movie form I get a great cliffnotes version of the things that matter.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the cure against feeling helpless is helping others. 🧵

matriarchy is more than its definition sure it's *technically* correct but think about how a society would look and act if ran by women it would NOT be a reverse patriarchy like many would lead you to believe according to experts it would be: 🟰 egalitarian 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 family-focused 🍃 eco-consious /1

Can Jordan correctly identify three of their friends' breast milk? Let's find out... 🤔🍼

I’d rather you just post the actual links and your own summirazation, you are the head of data journlism at the Enconomist and I’m really try not be rude but can’t even make a quick summary? Isn’t that kinda worrisome? Like if an actual journalist can’t/wont/doesn’t want to take the time to write

What I find fascinating about Chatgpt addiction is that it's already a well-established phenomena that our brains are quite willing to outsource our memory. If one starts writing things down, takes lots of notes, and gets that organized, their brain starts to rely on it, and instead of 1/3

As a recovering alcoholic, I am of two minds of this. On one hand, yes, absolutely, I can recognize that addiction is the desire for disassociation, and the locus of that disassociation can be a variety of things, including non chemical. I have compassion and understanding for process addiction. 1/2

Pleased to have contributed to a creation that will no doubt be prominent in our species’ postmortem assessment.

Turtle Mutual Aid:

Honeypot Ant embraces body positivity. Big and beautiful!

if you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering and ecological destruction, remember that a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn't work on you ✨

To the extent you feel people can still be reached with ideas, we wrote the pro-immigration, pre free movement case in a handy comic book form, available free at your local library: openlibrary.org/books/OL2824...

In my last session I had the typical hooded smoking tavern questgiver ask the party to pretend to be hooded smoking tavern questgivers, to lure an evil adventuring party into a trap. So my players are now convincing me, the GM, to go on a quest, while desperately trying to get their story straight.