Rather than play Portable Ops next as part of our continuing Metal Gear Solid LP series, we decided to watch a 2 hour movie of it youtu.be/0Dib5qW1XlA

Kind of want to put this bit on a billboard somewhere (or, idk, replace every web ad everywhere with this text) bsky.app/profile/edzi...

Them: So what have y'all been up to? Me: Haha, you know. The usual. The Usual:

There is so much in the news cycle these days that the complete dismantling of the Forest Service -- so *our* forests can be auctioned off to Big TImber -- is unfortunately getting little air play. But if this happens, US landscapes may be almost unrecognizable in a decade, and never coming back. 🌍

Photographs of injured soldiers created by Reed B. Bontecou, a New York surgeon who documented the casualties of the Civil War battlefields (so the soldiers could get their postwar pensions). The red arrows trace projectile trajectories. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/r...

Every weird little pervert is my friend and comrade and I will champion their weird little fetish as if it were my own weird little fetish o7

holy shit a cure for HIV at $40 per patient

"You can watch a million TikToks, but to engage, you still need to go to the hot bakery. You still need to actually make the ramen you saw on YouTube. You still need to get the reservation, and then your taste buds have to wrap themselves around a chutney pizza.... No one else can taste it for you."

Just got a great set of emails from the FBI.

welcome to The Resistance, *checks notes* *sighs* *weeps gently* ...michael eisner

This is a Rule 8 dismissal, which is not common when you’re represented by a lawyer, but is very common when you’re a sovereign citizen suing without a lawyer. This judge is treating the president of the United States as a pro se litigant.

LMAO immediately no “Judge Steven Merryday ruled that Trump's 85-page lawsuit was overly long and full of "tedious and burdensome" language that had no bearing on the legal case. "A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations or a podium for a passionate oration at a political rally”

The first of our anniversary stream VODs is up on YouTube! Dre, Jack, Art and Austin step into WikiArena and pit random kings nobody's heard of against entire nations railway systems youtu.be/hxJiCRHg3l0 Anniversary VODs* will be going up once a day! *minus the REPO multi-cam.

Surely a 68-year-old director who has made two movies in the past 42 years is well-suited to reboot his own movie about a trans teenager on a killing spree in a way that adapts the material to meet the challenges of an age saturated in anti-trans propaganda

We asked and Chicoblue from the discord delivered. We present this for you to witness:

This article makes a very salient point: The fash -- like, the real brownshirts, Proud Boys and the like -- don't have deep popular support /anywhere/. Nobody really /likes/ them, not even white people in Springfield, Ohio. They're just bullies, and people are scared of drawing their attention.

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Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

The authors also are clear that they're not claiming AI *cannot ever* improve coding productivity - but the point they make, which is really important, is that everyone they asked thought it already did, even the study participants after they did the tasks with AI assistance!

Pretty interesting study! This result is going to get misinterpreted in a bunch of different ways over the next few days, so I thought I'd share a few thoughts with you now to contextualise some of the stuff in the paper.

How organizers in California's Central Valley are putting their bodies on the line to fight ICE raids and deportations. Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/organi...

Hey all! The next Perpetua episode will be out later this evening 🫶

The first treatise on bedbugs from 1730 — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/treatise-of-buggs Written by an exterminator, it wanders into a surprising mode: one inflected not by disgust, but rather coy wonder and begrudging awe.

Do not lead the goats.

‘Buddo’ - a rare representation of a human figure from the Neolithic, dating to around 2900-2400 BC. Discovered at Skara Brae in the mid-C19th, it was re-discovered amongst the archaeological collections at Stromness Museum in 2016. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #Prehistory #Orkney

this has a dedicated section in the article about "The Giving Tree"

For years, Prime Day has exacerbated worker injuries. Instead of cutting back, Amazon doubled the number of Prime Days this month. One warehouse worker told us, “I’m tired of there being an ambulance at my job site almost every night."

had a really fun time making this one, some of my dumbest transitions yet. huge, huge thanks to the legendary @jonbois.bsky.social who graciously contributed some amazing graphics work on this

Obviously the third bed is for food

"Today. Tomorrow." A Superman fan comic about Clark Kent, Lois Lane and relationships 🚏 (1/4) #Art #Comics #DCcomics #Superman #Artsky

Return of raccoon pot

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

SCOOP www.importantcontext.news/p/national-s...

"It doesn’t matter if you live in a state where abortion is protected. Nearly 200 Planned Parenthood clinics and all of the invaluable services these facilities provide could soon be lost." Read the full op-ed here: www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...

Twice the shifts, twice the microfiche 📄💪 Democracy’s Library scanning livestream now runs from 7:30 AM to midnight PT. Tune in & watch public records from across the country preserved in real time: 📡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPg2... #GovernmentDocs #LiveNow #Livestream

FYI Bookshop.org has anti-prime free shipping rn!

eastern continent party :) #friendsatthetable

ugh ugh ugh ok i just got this email from Patreon and i opted out SO fast but if you start getting bizarre notifications or emails from other creator accounts, please please please don't penalize the creators. we didn't ask for this, and a lot of folks will forget to opt out.

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kinda cool how the judicial system is just corporations appealing until they get the ruling they want

jack and i are doing a 21-day subscription drive over at twitch.tv/katbamkapow and it’s SO MUCH FUN!! every weds-sat at 6.30pmET we’ll be playing a different game and i hope you come out to hang :)

Just a bit of enjoyable charity shop miscellaniary: a German guide to Alpine Flowers ("Alpen Flora") written by one Dr C. Schöter. This book is an 1890 edition sso currently 135yrs old and still a gorgeous book.

i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Buddy, an art student and illustrator based out of PNW. I'm most interested in working on TTRPGs and board games, but also take commissions for all kinds of art! portfolio: pewterbee.weebly.com links: linktr.ee/pewterbee

I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op

Some of the fine illustrations by Edward Julius Detmold featured in Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921). More on the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fabres-book-of-insects-1921

The ABC asked for details of concerns raised about children being detained in adult prisons — and got more in return than it expected.