Nice try. Our organization doesn't technically kill anyone. We just open a portal under them that leads to the meat grinder dimension. And we shut our eyes really tight while we do it. So we don't even know where they go
Even eldritch horrors can be queer (it/its)
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Nice try. Our organization doesn't technically kill anyone. We just open a portal under them that leads to the meat grinder dimension. And we shut our eyes really tight while we do it. So we don't even know where they go
Rejected advances
The French don't WHAT
From the Onion, in 2013: theonion.com/when-youre-f...
sands plaza club, atlantic city, new jersey, 1985
"Street Cars" - my oil painting, 24x30 cm
Wow: 78 year old congressman Jerry Nadler decides not to seek reelection, saying Biden fiasco showed need for "generational change." “Watching the Biden thing really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that."
oh everybody is learning about chuck schumer's tulpas today huh
wanna say hello to my little friend? 😈
reading this felt like discovering one of those tribes of people who have had no contact with the outside world
Amazing commitment to the bit, a poorly programmed bot, or the most blissfully ignorant person in all of a reality. Taking all bets!
you must understand, laura, the maid uniform is an essential part of the gundam's systems
What Is Going On
Bored of steampunk, so I'm inventing technobilly
It's amazing how Google took one of the most powerful research tools in human history and decided they needed to ruin it for the sake of a useless toy.
Some 15th-century rainbow-coloured beasts to brighten your Monday: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/rainbow-coloured-beasts-from-15th-century-book-of-hours?utm_content=bufferec024&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
An interesting thing I learned recently, reading the great muckraker Wayne Barrett: the only reason we have those images of Giuliani covered in Ground Zero soot is because he was making his way to the command center he had brilliantly had built at WTC 7, then fled panicked bsky.app/profile/dave...
Hey, why are we organizing society based on what makes the most money for the people who already own everything? That seems like it'd lead to a bunch of easily foreseen problems.
it is funny that file replicability is probably one of the earliest potentially postcapitalist technologies to emerge but the entirety of the internet eventually became structured around being a privatized system of enclosures to constrain and prevent file "piracy" and free information access
still don't get why anyone would want an ML model that writes code for them; the hard part of this job isn't writing code, it's *reading* code and understanding how its components all fit together! a robot that spits out a pile of code I don't understand doesn't solve any problem I have ever had
i wonder if the rich and powerful notice how many people avidly look for any clue that they're gonna die and, like, consider it a sign or something
i think more tgirls would have a lot of fun getting into niche fashion subcultures and cosplay
mobility aids gave me freedom💙 . . #illust #illustration #disability #mobilityaid #art #ocsky #astrabeart #walker #cane
btw, my big joker take, if you're curious? he should kill, like, 90% fewer people. almost all of the current issues with all joker stories is that he's just way, way, way, way, WAY too fucking murderous
the Forever War's best bit, imo, is how the main character is sent to the HARDCORE training school for SUPER SOLDIERS that KILLS 50% of the students because it's so HARD and TOUGH and then the first battle he's in is in a completely different environment so every bit of training is totally useless
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
I do think it's very funny how giuliani's people 1. thought it was necessary to call attention to what giuliani was doing in the area rather than just saying the car he was in was struck 2. concocted a story that specifically looks incredibly suspicious
To all the aspiring game writers on here, know that you'll never write a combat bark as descriptive and thrilling as "pocket sand!"
unironic use of the phrase "purity test" is the best way to signal to everyone that you're a selfish amoral piece of shit who would eagerly sacrifice any marginalized community you aren't part of in order to preserve your own comfort
I like my politicians like I like my water: purity tested to make sure it won't kill me.
We blame cats for screaming at humans but honestly have you ever tried to get a human to do something for you? The cats are in the right
I think this is actually very wrong in a very, very important way which is that the thing that actually drove all of these people completely over the edge were the two Black Lives Matter uprisings in 2014 and 2020 Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
i know many beautiful women who self-identify as rabbits and i know in my heart that they do that bunny stomp thing when they get cranky
Sometimes I donate to the local aquarium. Sometimes, they ask me for more money. But 90% of their communications are like "Thanks to your generosity, we were able to upgrade the Happy Flipper Fish exhibit! Thanks to you, these adorable fish are flipping happily!" This message is for the DNC.
Busy today so here's a recolour + addition of a sleeveless surcote to the sword lady
This is literally a NationStates Issue. One of the classics, in fact. If I recall correctly, O’Neill’s solution is not the recommended one.
Just Orange Boys
"Not a significant source of Vitamin D" What? Why am I drinking this? "Same Great Flavor!" Ah... Now I remember. "Can you solve the maze? ⤵️" A test of wits, eh? I believe you will find me the equal of Theseus.
This is seriously the nucleus of the whole present era of transphobia in which we find ourselves: in order for any of it to make sense, we must suppose that the idea of being transgender popped into existence 10 years ago (and it's a rolling 10 years, like Bart Simpson's date of birth).
Maintaining a diversity of ongoing personal projects is important because it enables you to procrastinate on one by aimlessly tinkering with another, thereby creating the possibility that you'll finish one of them by accident.
We need to shut down Star Trek until we can figure out what the fuck is going on
Nothin but love for my Bog, Bayou, and Fen folks but for my money? Saltwater Marsh / tidal estuary. Just a real classic high water table set of biomes. Got it where it counts.
LMAO Jesus Fucking Christ.
High profile murders always seem to get repurposed by the state to avoid accountability. Just like how Brianna Ghey's murder has been used to justify internet censorship because admitting it was a transphobic hate crime would mean the state would have to admit its complicity in transphobia.
Root Market
Trump's contribution to our politics was exposing that conservatives don't care about any of the principles they've said are sacrosanct for 100 years, and all they wanted was to be openly evil instead of circuitously evil. The Democrats who win will be the ones who understand this and act like it
Selection of illustrations from Variae Architecturae Formae (1636), a series of architectural studies after the works of Hans Vredeman de Vries, a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer: publicdomainreview.org/collection/v...
A friend of mine has pointed out something pretty insightful. Code of Honor is one of the most racist TNG episodes ever made, like...nakedly, blatantly racist and terrible. It being produced led to the director AND writer being fired. SNW makes a Code of Honor every week.
Microsoft Windows Task Bar from 1995-2022
Gonna be releasing a simple Space Jam mashup in a few days hope you look forward to it. :)
We bring back so much stuff, why not Art Deco? I've wanted an art deco PC case for decades. Is it really so much to ask? Come on.
Fevered speculation about whether a political leader is dying seems to be part and parcel of authoritarian regimes. When you lose confidence in voting the bastard out, the fantasy that he's about to drop dead become extremely appealing.
part of the appeal of hard games, arcade games, unfair games etc. is you get to play alone and co-operatively at the same time, playing with people is kind of annoying to me, but sharing strategies, commiserating, researching are all essential to success and bring a strong social aspect
I wonder how many billions of human hours are wasted because of interfaces trying to be friendly instead of effective? Because some designer only thought of initial users and not long-term users? Users who would like to accomplish effective work in as few clicks and presses as rapidly as possible?
When the part of my brain that wants to draw gentle tender things and the part that wants to write spooks/horror actually work togeher, I feel very satisfied with the comic. If only I could get them to team up more often.
God, so, the thing about vaccines and debates around them is, I...I genuinely have a hard time picking which infuriates me more. "I want to kill millions, even billions of people, so that my child doesn't have autism" You should be lined up against a wall and immediately shot, man
My most Not Stock Leftist take is that I'm a transhumanist. Granted, I think we should have equality of access to human transcendence technologies when they come about, if they ever do. But one of my non-optional goals going forward is maximising each person's capacity to self-realise
oh so synchronised swimming gets to be an olympic sport, but the creature which mimics your every movement as you make it and you first mistook for a mirror image before its horrible, twisted features began to emerge is "not funny" and "stop it right now, i mean it"? typical 🙄
RKF is a fucking horseman of the apocalypse. He is a direct threat to hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives. He is poised to be one of the biggest mass murderers in human history. None of this is an exaggeration.
i need everyone who misgenders me to look stupid as fuck we're going whole hog on this bitch
It's remarkable how the NYT will just outright lie about stuff that's very visible and a matter of public record essentially trusting that the only people left reading the NYT are stupid enough to only read the NYT's absurdly biased accounting of events
Like I get the reaction of "oh no, by putting this into the game, we've accidentally made the game all about pushing people off cliffs now" but I feel you gotta embrace that, remove it entirely, or change it in an elegant way. An obvious rules "patch" feels like desperation rather than good design.
TTRPG hot take: Every game that has forced movement and goes, "forced movement cannot knock you off cliffs" and "forced movements does not provoke attacks of opportunity" that's coward shit written by FOOLS, half the fun is airpunting fools off of cliffs! that's why we PLAY roleplaying games!
watching the film 100 Monsters and this guy is real, and powerful, and my friend
can't say on this website what I think should happen to people deploying these systems
Loving life should not hurt this much.
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
PROBLEM: A divisive argument has been raised. The group has split into three factions: those who agree, those who disagree, and those who think it's distracting from the Real Issues. SOLUTION: Accuse the person who raised the argument of being a cop. RESULT: The group has split into five factions.
My Gaslight Gatekeep Guillotine shirts are debuting at Megaplex this weekend! 🩷🖤🤍
I think when he croaks a lot of people in his immediate circle are going to produce a lot of conflicting documents with a lot of copy-pasted images of his signature taken from wikipedia
none of this will matter in an hour
unending walkies
Donkey Boye
We have, as a species, never been more able to provide for all. Genuinely, the only thing standing between us and a significantly better world is just very bad organization.
Chatbots killing their users suggests that big tech has transitioned from simple parasite to parasitoid, indicating that keeping the host alive is no longer essential for their evolutionary strategy
In the Light of a Setting Sun is a rules-lite game of bigger-than-life cowpokes on an unforgiving frontier. It it, you can play as cowherds on a long cattle drive, gunslingers solving problems in dusty border towns, or no-good outlaws on the run from a bloodthirsty sheriff. (1/?)
then players wouldn't be tempted into taking deals with literal demons. If your players are tempted into doing it, then the story should write itself from there.
There's a similar story with one of the White Wolf books, I believe, which gave an optional system for demonic temptations. People complained to the writer that the powers offered were too good. And the writer's reply was essentially, yeah, they're supposed to be tempting. If they weren't good
So, in Avowed, Kai is like, "i'll bet you 600 pires that Thirdborn's smith can work starmetal" and if you take him up on that offer, he WILL give you the money when you find out that that's not the case, and I am genuinely tickled pink
A fun thing about Star Wars is that every background character not only has an expanded universe book written about them but since Disney declared stuff non-canon every background character now has two distinct histories (legends and new EU) and yes absolutely I need this for the werewolf in the bar
Zohran Mamdani is the happiest politician in America, his whole campaign is about how New York is awesome and can be even awesomer. Meanwhile, there has never been a politician in history who talked as much about what a shithole he thinks America is as Donald Trump does.
A thread about the time someone tried to use ChatGPT to police me in my museum tour guide job:
My dear friend was visiting from the US. I mentioned how many people I know in our area with Covid this summer and she gasped. "You have Covid here still? I can't believe you still have Covid!" I checked her city wastewater report. They definitely still have Covid. They just don't know it. 😬
i don’t like the idea of the president missing. he could be anywhere. i am suddenly aware how little i appreciated opening my shower curtain knowing the president would not be standing there
Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) meets his fate in Roger Corman's THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964). #FilmSky
Deeply funny article here www.businessinsider.com/ai-career-pl...
Caturday Pew Pew Kitty Pissed Off Smelly Cat Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue Rehab
If there is 'a widespread perception among much of the public' that egg-stealing goblins hide in their attic you don't address their 'legitimate concerns' by declaring a war on attic goblins, you point out loudly & confidently the truth: that their beliefs are insane, propagated by nasty crackpots.
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
Basilisk 2000 is pretty cool. Not really a "game" and the sorta ARG community around it is long since passed, but for 2 bucks it's such a fun weird thing to poke around at before going to the wiki for some closure. Some... freaky graphical effects at a few points.
Dungeons could be leisure attractions. People picnic outside the old ruins, pop in for a quick monster hunt, buy something from the various hawkers outside. Boards outside with rough maps and the history of the dungeon. Guided tours
What the fuck is going on
"Vivian why do you keep dressing up as a femboy" god forbid a woman have hobbies
i fear people underestimate, sometimes, how terribly fascist the world has become and how horrifying it is that there is no internationalist political vehicle to counteract the "every framework of politics is structurally operating like an ultranationalism" situation
There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life
This gets weaponized outside of creative fields too! My partner works in healthcare. Despite handling the labor of 3 other employees, they barely ever saw a pay raise. At the same time, they felt that they couldn't just do the minimum work or outright quit, because then patients would be at risk.
is there any interest at all on a blog post about how I do my most rarefied Stupid Writer Trick – writing Shakesperean-ish iambic pentameter verse for video games on a deadline?