@arcdreampublishing.bsky.social I don't know how much attention y'all pay to the YouTube channel, but this video could use some moderation re: the weird sexism and queerphobia that's so pervasive throughout the comments. Definitely made me uncomfortable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEZQ...

I understand and support the point being made, but there is an ambiguity between "require" and "are capped at" that's important. Being an engineer requires more training to get started than a janitor, but having a master-class janitor rather than a teen is life changing for a work group.

May Day ✊

Everyone is saying "die," but I would invent the Cartesian plane, and then die.

the plot of Metal Gear Solid becomes more believable as you get older and realize that yeah, your boss probably would spend millions of dollars cloning one lightly insane but reasonably competent employee rather than try to hire and train someone new

This kind of mixed use urban planning is illegal in America

Early depictions of the Devilfish, the demonic and monstrous representation of octopuses, were almost always negative and used for political demonologies. One of my favorite exceptions is from Stalin's obituary for Lenin.

Trump is not doing degrowth. Degrowth is an intentionally planned scaling down of production and consumption in the interest of human well-being, justice, and sustainability. Line go down is not degrowth. Imperialist oil price shock is not degrowth. Trump's decisions are (bad) growth strategies.

So when you see a historian such as myself criticize TPUSA's efforts to "educate" young Americans about their nation's history and politics, it's this kind of completely batshit stuff that informs those criticisms. It's like letting a flat earther teach your kid physics.

When the Teams call ends without you embarrassing yourself.

This creator gave careful attention to a singular mission in MGS 5 and traced several fascinating threads on what Kojima Productions was doing with this game. It's a testament to close reading as a method ❤️ youtu.be/W2BtNuuZ7Bg?...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

A 3,400 year-old Mycenaean amphora with a spectacular octopus inspired by the ‘Marine Style’ of Minoan Crete. Mycenaean cemetery of Prosymna. National Archaeological Museum, Athens 📷 by me #Archaeology

Has anyone tried getting Donald Trump to read the Phenomenology of Spirit?

Humor about Mormonism is indiscernible between 1874 and today, this style of joke could be found today on r/Exmormon or in a Post-Mo meetup in Salt Lake.

if you’re not paying attention to minor news cycles in british politics fist of all congratulations second of all you’re missing the entire media and political class defend day drinking on the job right now

Oh god, Horse Armor is within the Ask Historians 20 year rule for historical content 💀

William Jennings Bryan's 1900 presidential campaign represented corporate trusts as a Devilfish wrapping itself around key American industries, with Lady Democracy wielding an axe against it.

Alain Badiou claims that theater is the "most complete of the arts," but has this so-called philosopher ever played Metal Gear Solid???

The Irish Devil-Fish is a recreation of Gilliatt's battle with the octopus in Victor Hugo's Toilers of the Sea. The Irish Land League becomes The Monster, Prime Minister William Gladstone becomes The Hero. Published in the magazine Punch, the image mimicked other representations of the book.

The earliest Russian Octopus was a direct update of the "threat of the Russian bear," with early records including Austro-Hungarian newspapers and this map most likely printed in Haarlem. The "tentacles" of the octopus threaten to subsume European nations, an expression of Tsarist power.

your toxic trait is trying to merge three joke formats into one wolf in this economy

The LDS Church trying to censor criticism: the first time a tragedy (Nauvoo, IL), the second, a farce (The Mormon Stories Podcast). www.deseret.com/faith/2026/0...

Mangaka disguises, ranked: aftermath.site/my-favorite-ma...

If there's ever a new edition of Delta Green, I reckon it would benefit from the approach used by @austinwalker.bsky.social in Realis, where the game is written in a metafictional context.

Exploring @publicdomainrev.bsky.social for pictures to promote this term's demonology reading/research group, this image of a witch feeding blood to her familiars is so adorable. publicdomainreview.org/essay/woodcu...

I have to smear mustard on my face before saying this because it's taking a joke Very Seriously, but attributing normlessness to the people one disagrees with is a form of political demonology going back to the tradition's roots, with attributions of normlessness against the Gnostics.

I just came across the crowdfunding campaign for Nostos, a post apocalyptic fantasy game drawing heavily on Classical themes. It looks really cool! www.kickstarter.com/projects/hon...

My 1st EP 'Philosophie du Soi' is out everywhere! scarletmoon.to/philosophied... With all my heart, I hope that you will love this EP because it is the soul of a lost imaginary world that is now entering the reality of yours. Ready for the 🦚 ? #jazzfusion #avantgardemusic

The face of true evil

Oh you think it's "cool" to do a heist? To assemble a crew of specialists, each with a unique backstory, to create a beautiful ballet of theft? You think it's "cool" to purloin beautiful treasures under several redundant layers of security? You people sicken me. Next you're gonna say you use drugs.

The panic and moralizing about this is giving me a mystical experience, "stumbling, like putting a foot wrong and... paradoxically, beginning to plummet upwards. There is no confirmation of any prior certainty, only astonishment and rapture; no satiation, no possible satisfaction."

Paging Dr. Bataille!

now even my dish sponge looks demonic

My gming style? Always framing myself as the victim of PC antics because people who play TTRPGs are all sadists.

A 3,500 year-old Minoan jar with a cartoon-like octopus under the spout! 🐙 From Kommos, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

I think this is a good question. I would define a "leftist" as a person who recognizes the historical and literary canon that informed the French Revolution, and developed from that time period forward.

I wonder what it would take to make a power fantasy that: 1) has its head on straight politically, 2) leaves space for the radical ambiguity that is entailed by *all* expressions of power. (1) is achievable, there are some TTRPGs that do this, but (2) may be strictly incompatible with the fantasy.

Solo Leveling is not a good show and its strongman ethic is religiously poisonous. I was super interested in its indebtedness to Hunter X Hunter, with the creators seemingly having the exact wrong response to HXH and what makes it great.

Does Satanism count as part of the Abrahamic tradition? It would be very interesting to flesh out the case for/against.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Liam

Making myself a latte in the morning, the sound of the ice clinking against the metal of the thermos, slow sips while reading about the nature of Evil Itself, birds singing in the cool morning. It's a good life!

Do you enjoy Side Story? Why not tell a friend about it? Why not tell a friend about it on Reddit Dot Com, or in the place where games criticism thrives, that warm cavern with the pellucid sapphire pool that we are all trying to reach. Are you in that cavern? Tell the people there about Side Story.

The gofundme for Helen de Cruz’s children is $900 from its goal. Please donate in honour of her memory

A Handmaid's Tale sequel that expands the book's epilogue by following a historian trying to research the events of the book's plot could be a fascinating story to process how post-fascist societies (fail to) deal with their own histories. This ain't that!

this isn't correct. a no true scotsman fallacy, suggesting Vance is play-acting his religion (Leo is "actual Christian") because Vance is a fascist (that part's right) but Christianity & empire have always been entangled. Vance is pulling on a different thread in the tradition, that's all