learning that Oprah's real name is Orpah is one of those wedge factoids that will permanently destroy your ability to speak normally about her ever again. it alters your brain chemistry. "Do you mean Orpah?" you'll say, every time. if you're reading this it's already too late

Did you know i cooked a LOT for Venba? I also had access to Indian jewelry, silverware (stainless steel!) which made it even more realistic I was also quite broke. Didnt have real recording gear so used whatev i had. Binders as mic stands, colanders, even melted one on the stove!

you KNOW this picture killed in 1875. people were busting the fuck up at a dog with a pipe. dogs don’t smoke

Seinfeld Except A Lot More Bad Stuff Has Happened

Once again: DST doesn’t solve the problem of going to/from work in the dark. Instead, when days get shorter in the fall, we should just shorten the workday by an hour. Then in spring, when we start getting more daylight again, we can shorten the workday by another hour.

Feeling grateful that I was preparing for a Trump victory this summer and wrote a toolkit for a way we could start organizing something new from the ground up. Going to try and take some of my own advice. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

would you like a different type of depressing news as a side to your depressing news?

One of the most ominous and dystopian things that felt different this time was how the billionaires all knew, and one by one they told us straight-faced that they knew, and how compliant they'd be; some of them pulling critiques from their papers, some of them sitting by his side on election night.

I can give you something right now, at least: All those media outlets who kept publishing the dogshit takes and pretending Trump was normal? Unfollow them. Block them. If you subscribe, cancel. They'll be no help where we're going. Find better voices.

During trump 1.0, we had to pull down all of the climate change pages off the EPA website. Start archiving shit now, document, backup, photograph, whatever you need to do.

anyway i'm going to bed but the last thing i will say is DO NOT COMPLY IN ADVANCE

Bluesky is shameless. Just mowing down these accounts.

important heterosexual moments in the lord of the rings trilogy - this is a job for nine dudes - everyone always having their sword out - aragorn spurning the romantic advances of every woman in middle earth bc he's so devoted to his duties or w/e - sam talking to frodo about sharing big loads

Expressions studies

The most annoying thing about starting on a new platform is finding all the people you followed elsewhere. So lets get an #artshare going. Please post 4 artworks in the replies here so others can find you!

big fan of this person just 3D modeling their meals and releasing them into public domain... fernet and coke sounds good too opengameart.org/content/chic...

I've been practicing cutting things out/selection in photoshop. Getting better but not perfect. Now I can just drop him in things..

[Wednesday, 3pm] BOSS: can we all turn on our cameras for this meeting? ME:

TBF this is what it sounded like in my house during Thanksgiving when I was growing up

why is bluesky appearing to scale up images on download 🤔

artists taking reference photos be like

really feel like my next game could be No Man's Guy

with a wine mom and a public school dad on the ticket you can really think of this year's democratic ballot as the ultimate triumph of resistance libs

Altman, as usual, fundamentally misunderstands the purpose and process of writing. It’s not merely to produce a text. It’s to work through your thinking and commit to it. Or as Jane Rosenweig (Director of the Writing Center at Harvard College) put it: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

And if you need some context here: California is the 5th largest economy in the world. Its electrical grid seems to be on a very short path to being 100% renewable. If they can do it—adding grid stability also!—others can too. If you're a climate doomer, let this brighten your sky today, just a bit

Larry Hama basically created GI Joe, providing not only the names and character bios for Hasbro, but nearly all of the truly great stories for the characters. In a just world that would have paid his way for life 😔

There are plenty of stories about Larry to point out his impact on the industry but this one from Christopher Priest really shows the environment he faced head on and how cool he was while doing it. One of those guys who deserves more than the comic industry has given them and just hope he can relax

do you want to see a tumblr post that changed me as a person

You know, the two big events.

i thought it was warm enough to open the windows this morning so i opened a window and now it’s too cold inside. and would you like to know why i’m choosing to post this here? because it’s all your fault

god damn i miss roger ebert

NEWS: My friends and I now own and run The Onion. I’ll be the CEO. We’re keeping the entire staff, bringing back The Onion News Network, and will share the wealth with staff. Basically, we’re going to let them do whatever they want. Get excited.

“Training an AI model on terabytes of data as well as feeding it prompts are data-dense processes that use much more power than, say, an equivalent Google search. One study in Joule projected that, globally, AI applications could use as much power as the entire nation of the Netherlands by 2027.”

Strangened Narratives returns March 29th! This is a unique course on interactive story-telling focusing on experimental and unorthodox applications of narrative design. Link to sign up and breakdown in the thread:

once i was having a dinner party and someone asked what the music was and i said "oh, edith piaf" but they heard "oh, eat your pilaf" and i coincidentally had served pilaf so they just kind of obediently tucked in like "okay maybe i can ask questions later" this makes me laugh every time i remember

“I’m an Amazon patient now” is one of the darkest sentences to ever come from the Amazonification of our society. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

hey not for nothing but since Tumblr is handing over all user data to AI companies, if enough artists on tumblr wiped all their work currently uploaded, then began reuploading having applied Nightshade to their work, we could fuck some shit up

Strangened Narratives is still happening and will start on March 29th! all-worms.notion.site

I have retired the Dialogue Design Advanced course. However, it isn't going into trash. I published all lessons from it on itch, all ~80 pages. First lesson is free, the rest is 20 bucks. Please share, as even the free lesson has a lot of good stuff. all-worms.itch.io/ddl

Not every insurance will cover the blood test, so it's common for doctors to just say screw it and give you the extra booster (which is covered) instead. Either way, the US population is under herd immunity thresholds in 100% of the country. Protect yourself and check your immunity!

They literally have these listening devices planted wherever Black people live in NYC. Basically all of Brooklyn (where I now live), Harlem, all of the Bronx, Far Rockaway, and South Jamaica Queens (where I grew up). I've wanted to see this data for a long time.

Yeah! I'm playing RPGs from over a decade ago bc my brain's bad and it makes me spend a little less time doom scrolling

The paucity of imagination and solipsism behind every synthetic text and image booster is something to behold. They want to create the world they think should exist, where everyone not them is an NPC. “You’ll be able tailor all media to your precise tastes!!” Sounds boring as shit, bro.