While Portland's freeway expansion plans are collapsing, let's talk about reviving the campaign to bury I-5 on the east side. This should be a big wonderful waterfront park full of legally sanctioned hot dog vendors!!

Today I scared Earl Blumenhauer in a meeting when I suggested we add baskets of bricks at unsafe intersections for pedestrians and cyclists to carry as they crossed lmfao It would get drivers to act right!! Just sayin’ 😌✨

hi from brooklyn

man there's not a lot of great stuff from 1942. I wonder if anything was going on at the time.

I wrote a post about pressing letters and going slow

and yet people keep saying we should fund the police in order to reduce traffic fatalities 🫠

I'm developing a theory of game mechanics where there's a spectrum between "upgrades" and "options". Contrast, say, clicker games (pure upgrade) with something like deckbuilding in a TCG.

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

Imagining an alternate universe where Dark Souls had a "parry" with generous iframes as a low-risk/low-reward choice, and a "dodge" with a narrow window that triggers a chance for a free critical hit backstab.

once again: there is no reason that "parrying" needs to be more difficult/time-intensive than "dodging" and it's weird to me that games have calcified into overly-specific definitions of these ideas

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

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more comments should have diagrams imo

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"The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious." - Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History

420 blazing fast written in rust

Introducing #sdfiddle , an SDF renderer that allows you to download SDFs as .pngs. I use this for example to generate 2D light textures for my games. https://bitbra.in/sdfiddle

the fact that cuomo used mamdani's own graphic design to attempt to parody him was maybe the strongest sign that he was losing.

I think it's neat how many english-speaking people use "🙏" in their online speech in a way that is very clearly based on japanese cultural norms (implies bowing, used for both "please" and "thank you") without actually knowing why they are doing that

If I could only play one TTRPG for the rest of my life, it'd be Apocalypse World. The kickstarter for the third edition launched today. Worth your money many times over imo. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

type of guy who winks and says “you can keep it” when the server tries to hand him back his credit card

Can a leftist (progressive) position on #genai be held? I think it's complicated.

i don’t care what the kids are saying, iron your damn trans flag. I promise you’ll feel better about both it and yourself when you’re done

i don’t care what the kids are saying, iron your damn trans flag. I promise you’ll feel better about both it and yourself when you’re done

Valkyrie sketch

If you fancy giving @chequered.ink a look we have 1200+ fonts and really affordable license options especially for smaller teams!

There are other foundries with good licensing! Some even with Pay what you want bsky.app/profile/did:...

font licensing is so fucking toxic to small-scale projects. I literally have only ever bought fonts from mbtype.com/ because he's the only person who just lets me pay for the damn thing without jumping through seventeen hoops.

this sounds like an "everyone clapped" story but once at a rest stop I had the driver of one of these personally get out of the truck and thank me for actually following at a safe distance where he could see me in his mirrors instead of tailgating. feels like such an indictment of drivers as a whole

in case you were wondering why this whole town would brawl for Angelita

a lot of asinine European thought going around on both sides of this "is it okay to be mean to a chatbot" discourse and it's all really reaffirming the thesis in Graeber's Debt that the western philosophy of property is fundamentally rooted in justifying and comprehending slavery

everyone always talking about how a good thing “rules” or “owns” but u never hear about good things “sharing” 😔 really makes u think

The way John Wick feels about his dog is how I feel about Portland Oregon

Get you a girl who plays Chopin.

Imagine thinking you're gonna fix social media when you literally don't even pay for a community manager.

so many people with strong opinions about AI and so few have them have read Walter Benjamin's "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

I really liked Silksong. Much more than I expected to, and I liked Hollow Knight quite a bit.

woke up this morning with the pitch for an official Waluigi video game lodged in my brain and the feeling that this was very important

PC creatures

I really get why Silksong is very much not for everyone but now, deep into the secret post-credits act III, I’m emphatic that I’m very glad that they made the game that they wanted to make and not the game that everyone else wanted

consistently find that "urban" vs. "suburban" vs. "rural" is a greater determining factor in how much space for meaningful political alliance there is with someone than what party or ideology they profess to. how you choose to live your day-to-day life says a lot about your values in practice.

no matter what cause you stand for there'll always be some fucker accusing you of "infighting" and while yes, solidarity is important, it's also important to make sure you know who is actually interested in solidarity and who is interested in putting you in your place. who the fuck is "we"

so I wear a bike helmet because Shit Happens but the times I've ridden without one I've noticed that drivers treat me with noticeably more caution and respect

discover timeline on bluesky keeps getting worse somehow

As soon as I got the airdash in silksong i remembered how cool I was on hollow knight until that same moment. The only thing I care about doing in video games is chaining together highly commital unique movement options until I fall off a cliff and die.

way too many people who speak only english and maybe took a couple semesters of spanish or whatever out here having very strong opinions about the english language

“condemning political violence” is wild to me. it’s like condemning “bleeding from a stab wound” – sure yeah I agree it’s bad and we don’t want it to continue but maybe there some other questions to be asking about the sitaution.

yall hear about this nepal stuff

unserious candidates are so fun tho. they add important variety to my candidate ranking powerpoint presentation. important indicator species in the ecosystem