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Clown shit. People in 100 years are going to learn about this moment in history in disbelief.

This is Pebble. She may be the reason you're late, but wants to remind you she's also your reason for living. 13/10 (IG: pebbletherottie)

Let’s wake it up

A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.

The economy *must* be doing well because we’re throwing all of our coins into the Zoltar machine and it keeps talking.

The promotional campaign for Wicked 2 is getting out of control

Ok this season’s LEGO Botanicals are S-tier

The Princess Bride Blade Runner The Labyrinth Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

A LEGO designer posted their MOC using 2 Horse Knight Castles on rebrickable, and I’m sorry to everyone who wants to come over and not see LEGO castles on every surface.

He is a very powerful wizard....

There's been a lot of very sophisticated, compelling social commentary on declines in cultural literacy in recent years, but honestly it is very reasonable to just boil it down to "people no longer understand that things mean stuff"

I’ll be at Motor City Comic Con today! I’m cosplaying Dr. Ian Malcom, and I’ll be with John Hammond and Robert Muldoon… and also Freddy Krueger! 🦕 🦖

As a huge fan of drag and a fan of bodybuilding, every time AEW is trending on Bluesky, I’m reminded that I really, really need to get into wrestling.

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The promotional campaign for Wicked 2 is getting out of control

Star Maker. I read it at a time when I was in a very dark place, and its massive scope & theme of collectivism made me feel small but important. I read it when I needed it. And I re-read it every few years with no less wonder.

Oh no! My printer is otter paper!

Been thinking a lot lately about the Kingdom of Conscience from Disco Elysium, and how it’s an allegory for the failures of centrism. Hm. Wonder why.

My occasional coworker likes to get the jump on me when I sit at my desk

Joyce Carol Oates absolutely smoked Elon Musk, but Mary Shelley precognitively wrote an entire book about Musk in Frankenstein: Rich dude has to build himself a friend, only to crash out when he realizes his friend hates him because he’s a loser.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Behold 🫴✨ Kiwi | Female | 10 years old | 4 lbs

Congratulations to Mary Sheffield on her historic win to become Detroit’s next mayor, and the FIRST woman to ever lead the city. Mary’s leadership in Detroit and commitment to our community is inspiring. So proud to celebrate this moment for Detroit, for women, and for the future of Michigan.

In Detroit, we’re built different. Like the Mother from Barbarian.

Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, and probably Baldur’s Gate 3 if I beat it a few more times

I need to get out of tech

Madlad Steve doing madlad things

Sometimes you make a game for accumulating victory points and people are like “but what’s the point if there’s no story where I can play a character in that story?”

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I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

i think you need a baby sea otter swimming with mom right about now...

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

Sorry, Gale. We need to save the world. Now if you’ll excuse me, Halsin and I are going over here.

Making fake images of things happening in the world right now for real is just so insane. Trading actual humanity and resistance for a smooth disneyfied consumer friendly fascimile. Just reducing reality into slop as it is happening

Everyone should have a friend like Sylvia

Saving for when I finally succumb to my midlife crisis and become a witch of the wilds

My brother bought the Star Trek tabletop RPG, and I’m probably going to be the alien Doctor with weird biological quirks and a pet dog that he’s fascinated by.

When someone asks why I’m a dog person and not a cat person, my response is usually some form of “because dogs are adorable dummies”

“People are in a grotesque amount of Teams meetings, so they must love talking to their computers” is a such a weird but unsurprising conclusion.

This little peanut turned 7

Robin, I swear to god

Care for a game of Gwent?

This otter just wants you to know how you can pet him, and now I’m crying so thanks

Do all the good you can By all the means you can In all the places you can In all the ways you can For as long as you can To all the people you can 🎨 1924us

“Later” 📸 sin.xline Where have you been for so long? I was too careful with my time. Thought I could preserve it by waiting for a better moment. Did it come? No.

Now an old book, but the first time I read it, I was a young man. “A person who believes that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part… such a person has no desire whatsoever to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.” —The Lathe of Heaven