oh. oh no

I had an intrusive thought I had to act on.

If it's not regime change, and it's certainly not "law enforcement," let's just call it a nuclear-armed oil heist.

The lesson isn't meant to be "oh wow, those hard-headed Athenians really kick ass". It's "dude, if you keep shoving people around like that, someone's going to shove you back".

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

IBM's "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision" was from 1979. That was 47 years ago. That was before AOL, the Macarena, and Google. Half a century ago it was considered obvious that CEO's would deflect blame from themselves onto "AI"

bsky.app/profile/pook... In 1964, 15 years earlier, Vance Packard wrote a book all about how computers would in a capitalist society inevitably be used to create a panopticon surveilling everyone, with no one in charge being held accountable for its actions.

The Stranger Thing fans who think a secret real ending is going to drop today have not considered that an extra episode could be worse. Or even if it’s good, that’s bad because the Duffers will have wasted everyone’s time even more.

Sometimes I check the steam reviews for Fallen Hero: Retribution, and sometimes they make me laugh because they sup up the game so well:

mtmte fic on ao3 that's just about ultra magnus having a breakdown trying to deal with the paperwork for all the OCs on the Lost Light

The news is mostly irritating me because if I tried to run plots like these, I'd be accused of being a heavy-handed hack.

Some people have told me they missed the design of Nimufu's tower, which I understand, because the screen is zoomed in and only you see about 20% of it at a time. Here's the full map.

'Data from hundreds of public bodies in England shows only four complaints about transgender women in women’s single-sex spaces over a period of three years' Sounds like a non-issue being spun to stoke hate against a minority by bad faith 'feminists'. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

omg just found out saber scorpion is still doing custom minifigs. i remember being obsessed with his instructions for building halo vehicles out of lego in like, 2004

Commissioners and artists, be aware of this if you use the PayPal

i do think establishing a baseline rule of "block anyone posting about articles they have not read" has improved my experience on social media significantly

been drawing nayuta like this do u like her

i've been at conventions that got sadder and shitter and emptier year over year run by people who had no idea why nobody wanted to keep showing up and the reason was entirely always "yeah we just didn't think it was worth escalating to banning him" about at most 20 regulars

In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers. "A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it.

I call this the 10:1 Rule, but that is purely an estimate. The mathematical reality is of course more complicated.

Synopsis: You need to kick more people out. You will actually have a larger base of customers/attendees if you kick more people out. You will make more money. I am dead serious.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

that splitgate guy will forever live in my head as the guy who said "i'm sick of playing the same FPS every year. we're releasing a free-to-play battle royale live-service shooter today."

Not good

If you have a discord for documentation or research, whether for software or whatever, please please put some effort into backing up info somewhere else. So many entire communities efforts will just implode if something happens to discord

im glad outsiders shows us that george karizaki follows this noble tradition

what u have to understand is that working on my novel, answering dms, and answering emails all cost 1 spell slot but posting? Posting is a cantrip

still trying to figure out how to stop big lovekov from falling over

hm.

That shit was so beautiful

special birthday wishes to the herlock sholmes tsum i lost at drag brunch last pride. I hope you're serving cunt out there somewhere

no you're right and they shouldn't have yelled at you

well that went well

I can't believe it's been 6 years since I posted this and it made people so angry that they told me to eat medical waste

ten gokaiger

Zohran just went out and fixed the Williamsburg Bridge bike entrance. Just did it. No faffing, no nonsense. Bam. Fixed.

In an era where support for trans rights and LGBTQ+ in general was more tepid and understated, because people were afraid to upset bigots, GDQ decided they were going to be loudly, unapologetically inclusive. The result is one of the greatest communities in video games.

jesus, yes Lettering is the first and easiest way to distinguish whether the editor (or team) is actually fluent in comics.

cyclops and wolverine's first on-panel argument in comic book history is over in two seconds because cyclops floors him in one shot and then walks away to cool off ...also wolverine is more terrified of storm, which is the best part

32gb ram recommended. are you kidding me. have you looked at the market. are you insane.

When Elon changed the name of Twitter to X everyone was like "what the fuck, that sounds like the name of a website for extremely illegal pornography made by and for nazis" And behold what it became. Nominative determinism go ew

"tim sweeny is mad at a taco because he's never had one before" was not on my bingo card for 2026

MIRA LO QUE ME TRAJERON LOS REYES MAGOS

LRP, this was one of the guest star Number Ones rather than main cast. But as it involves a man rather than a teenage girl, his career is no doubt perfectly safe.