FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!!!

I met my new years resolution, managed to reduce my letterboxd watchlist down to a single page. highlights: The Handmaiden, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The World of Tomorrow, One Battle After Another lowlights: Fantastic Planet, Battleship Potemkin, Gladiator, The Road to El Dorado, Kill Bill Vol 1

The movie referenced Emiliano Zapata and I clapped. I'm really no different than a Star Wars lore fan.

The history teaching they experience as demanding 'apologies for being white' is just 'factual descriptions of trans-Atlantic slavery' or 'factual descriptions for how the United States ended up with so much territory.' No one is actually asking you to apologize for that, but they don't care.

Happy Labor Day! Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work... Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

Once in a century political opportunity here, if only there were a party to claim it

i know it's a huge cliché to say this, but being in korea and japan for a month gliding around on public transit and then coming back and almost immediately needing to travel for 2 hours in LA car traffic for industry events is freakin annoying!!!!

the game awards: french cultural victory

When these guys talk about the country taking a 'wrong turn' they mean in the 1860s, not the 1960s.

We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games. Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏

The new most important political issue is that the USA must adopt Atkinson Hyperlegible for all official communication. Give the graphic designers and layout artists a blank check to see this done.

Again, apologizing to all videogame environment artists who knocked up satirical posters for their games, I should not have rolled my eyes, yes, even you Cyberpunk billboard team, I am sorry

I've released a pack of 60 Martial Adversaries for #daggerheart heartofdaggers.com/products/mar...

Every pastry I eat now just makes me reminisce about waking up in Reykjavik and walking down to Brauð & Co in the morning.

I could peel you like a pear and God himself would call it justice!

bread 👍

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

"You want to play Uno?" <glancing over at Twilight Imperium, the only board game on my shelf, and assuming all board games work just like that> "Nah. I don't want to have to learn a whole new system."

Had a very @jesawyer.bsky.social coded movie month

It's maddening that it's considered smart politics to meekly mumble these idiotic slogans in response to being called Socialist instead of saying "Yeah asshole it's good when people have enough to live on and it's bad when billionaire sociopaths abuse us all"

tfw u need seven samurai

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

The mad king is falling asleep at court, making nonsense pronouncements, ordering palace renovations while the people starve. Truly the greatest republic ever to grace the earth.

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

'we need to expand the tent!' 'to the left also, to include socialists?' 'no no, exclusively rightwards tent-expansion, thankyou'

Debs mentioned

The words of @mikeduncan.bsky.social keep resounding in my head

New awareness campaign

every couple of days the official white house website says "we want to kill you. we want to destroy everything you love. we are the living incarnation of death and we shall sweep life from this earth like an unstoppable whirlwind" and its like oh. ok. do i still have to pay taxes

historically, racism has been weaponized by ruling classes to drive wedges between workers of different nationalities/ethnicities/religions and align a favored group with the ruling class against everyone else. e.g. impoverished white yeomen vs. black slaves in antebellum south carolina

Fushimi Inari Taisha at midnight is like stepping into the fey realm

We've hit the point where a lot of our dystopian sci fi now feels hopelessly optimistic

Imagine living with the debilitating condition of not being able to enjoy Heat (1995).

more like Halo: Infinite Remakes

This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived. How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died. acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Today marks 15 years since the release of Fallout: New Vegas. Since 2010, players have explored the Mojave Wasteland where countless Couriers have walked the same road—each carving their own story. Thank you for keeping the spirit of the game alive all these years. Viva New Vegas. 🎲

The situation we’re in is not a choice between something with a low cost and barrier of entry like No Kings and something like this. We need both. We have to do both. And some people will be suited for one who are less suited for the other, and that’s neither a bad nor an unusual thing

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

real

The United States is the 1st Edition AD&D of representative republics.