@nerdskull.bsky.social Dawntrail was at pax last year but I am having the food that inspired xibruq pibil this year, they also had big fat tacos
@nerdskull.bsky.social Dawntrail was at pax last year but I am having the food that inspired xibruq pibil this year, they also had big fat tacos
The core role of the university in society is the generational transmission of knowledge and rare skills. This has been already long forgotten by administrators who have prioritised rebranding universities as publicly-funded job-training centres in recent decades.
why bother trying to create the perfect slogan if people will just blame democrats for stuff people unrelated to the party say
a bunch of people with grievances wanted things from politicians that they could not give them, they wanted random people on podcasts to no longer state their pronouns and shit like that, the reason 2024 surprised me was every year besides 2016 was good
@nerdskull.bsky.social the democratic party won in 2020, the year of the huge protests when people said defund the police (because even if city governments couldn't effectively fire police or make them follow the law their money could be taken away) and the protests probably helped
they could have done something useful
I think another thing that's just so bad about Starmerism is just the raw poverty of ambition. It's honestly shocking, he has a supermajority and strong party system to enforce compliance and they've gone for uh yeah
that was a really good comic, it is too bad it didn't last that long
Jake Tapper even did a full on media blitz about a book after Biden wasnât even president anymore, arguing it was more important than reporting on anything Trump was doing while in power. He said it was necessary to restore trust. What about now? Is it necessary for trust now?
One thing I really hope we can leave behind in the 2010s/early 2020s is the idea that being cynical = being wise. If you want to have an impact on the world, that involves being sincere. Yes people will sneer, but sneering has no impact. Genuine sincerity breaks barriers and moves mountains.
went to pax west, wore respiratory protection, maybe i should have worn hearing protection at the concerts (not too loud but still loud)
the pax pox is specifically from 2009
Oh god, someone on a thread invoked âLight of the Worldâ aka the Piss Christ and I am really tired and just got off a plane but my impassioned screed on it was on Twitter and as some of you know, I have FEELINGS ON THIS TOPIC.
society will never be well until they finally #ReleaseTheButtholeCut www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/20...
@eleanor.lockhart.contact ChatGPT can say what games are most resonant to the covid era and can also make an argument that among us is more resonant then death stranding
i have run up the stairs and been very winded
Thankfully, highly valued companies today all have viable, concrete business models and are honest about their outlooks with investors.
Also it falls on its face as an argument because the height of the calls to defund the police were in 2020, a year in which we elected Joe Biden... A fact that I suspect is one of the reasons that the OP locked replying or quoting to that post.
The anthem of our times: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYXh...
@seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social i we are going to be similar to a latin american country i am going to need trump to get hospitalized a few more times
âpeople that I find personally annoying are the reason the other side wins electionsâ is the laziest possible form of political analysis
"It Would Be A Terrible Mistake For Democrats To Listen To People On The Bluesky App," by Guy Who Was Hounded Off Of The Bluesky App
Housing being the theory of everything is so spot on, when many of my friends who want families, want to start that business, want to make art, want to get a pet, but they can't because they're worried about rent or where or how they'd live because finding housing is that difficult.
why fine tune your slogan if the media is just going to misrepresent it
No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.
Honestly, there is sort of a morose humor to the authoritarian backsliding. Imagine getting sent to Gitmo, your cell mate is like âwatcha in for, bub?â and when youâre like âchalk,â heâs like âno shit? I did 9/11.â
this is the ur- falsehood of our political era and everything from "schools shouldn't have locked down during covid" to "trans women in sports is a national crisis" are downstream of it and the through line of all of them is national media's willfull ignorance and complicity
at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!
People keep saying this is world salad but to me heâs just saying journalism and social media are destroying the government(s) and that thatâs good
@mike10010100.com I also think an LLM being able to lucid dream about the game doom is very interesting
Ooh we have one for this
Well Tom tomorrow specifically said anything and didn't say a computer tech.
Google Deepmind is part of Google which is part of big tech and they were instrumental in making deepfold which won a Nobel prize. That is pretty big
Important to remember that during COVID a lot of people primarily experienced the world online and so when you hear them resurrecting their gripes itâs actually just them getting mad again about the things they saw *on social media*
More framing like this, please www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
that we appear to be on the cusp of like a general theory of statistical linguistics is really interesting and i think a lot of people got negatively polarized by the first batch of shitty stablediff images (different thing) and havent considered anything else since because It's All AI
look Iâm wrong about lots of shit but if your strongest held principles are âdragons goodâ and âjournalists badâ youâve got a pretty good batting average imo
I was hoping to see the archive of that comic, I liked it at the time
Im hoping weâve gotten under his skin enough that he gets pumped full of drugs and rambles on camera to prove how fine he is
Messaging Is not as important if people won't spread it or if people keep associating stuff they never said with democratic politicians
no, radical Black activists are not going to stop talking about the way that cities starve their communities because Nate Silver thinks it doesn't go over well in rural iowa or whatever. (Ds are doing great currently in rural Iowa!)
This stuff is why even if i think I personally should have said something else it doesn't matter because sone people would complain about stuff anyways.
they are threatened by anyone who lives in reality instead of the algorithmicly-curated simulacrum they've constructed for themselves.
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
The United States had one of the worst COVID outcomes in the entire world from a body count standpoint. Anyone who argues with a straight face we were TOO cautious is an unserious imbecile.
Within this context, "Hot Fuzz" is actually one of the few good cop movies because the guy is really good at dealing with the bureaucratic side of things and his peers send him to the countryside because they find it annoying where he continues to be good at his job
Also, âenlightenedâ opinion being that we need less procedure and more vibes when the opposite is true. The problem isnât that rules exist, itâs that an internal affairs guy who follows the rules is treated like Judas way too often.
see, thatâs how you do it
From QWOP to Baby Steps, Bennett Foddy has spent nearly two decades making physical comedies about the human body. Why does he keep circling back to walking? To understand his design philosophy, I asked him to take a long walk with me. www.polygon.com/bennett-fodd...
Yeah that probably is a little too shallow for diving
this morning we got to the bit about the phones in the airport ringing just once apiece as Case walks past them. tech anachronisms are hardwired into Neuromancer, they've *got* to go cassette futurism with the production, shirley?
âbone-petiteâ - title of your sex tape
ngl social media egging trump to do a "i am not dead" tour that ends up making him sick tired and miserable would be really funny
It's also that they agree with the salt of the earth bigots on a lot of things & see those as opportunities to bring the country together. Those things just so happen to be an appalling general statistical illiteracy & a bunch of self-serving sexist & racist nonsense in particular
There's a specific moment in 2008, when McCain campaign flack Nancy Pfotenhauer basically said Republicans win votes from the less urban, and this more "real" parts of the country, and WHCA reporter Kevin Corke just moved on. www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27255...
Nobody likes an ultra processed food like a wellness grifter telling us the dangers of ultra processed foods. I'm sorry but your protein powder, and vital greens, and whatever the fuck bloom is did not come out of the earth looking like that.
... which is hilarious to me because right-wing 501(c)(4) groups violate that law *for a living.*
I had this exact same conversation when my kids were little. âNo, you do not have to say this. You can absolutely think it insteadâ.
1/11 russiaâs 2025 summer offensive failed spectacularly. No major cities taken. Massive losses. Still stuck fighting for towns it promised to capture YEARS AGO. Another season, another disaster
If there is one thing I have come to understand, it is very hard to explain to someone who has not read real history of this country, real history of how deep the wells of white supremacy delusion and neo confederacy run why all our institutions are failing. Especially when the ppl in ? 1/
if you thought the gdpr minigame you have to play on every website was bad this is going to be worse
I do think you can credibly argue that the collective credibility of the profession is a common pool resource that many academics have been poor stewards of, which has made it a softer target for attacks. But thatâs not the same thing.
If we had measures of: A) how much someone agrees with these sentiments B) how much right wing media they consume C)how much they trust universities And you were betting money on what C would be for someone and could know only A or B about them, which info would you rather have? Clearly B!
Aside from how Obama is remembered, it's striking that Obamacare is basically the last serious presidential legislative agenda that wasn't just trying to contort an annual budget bill to fit in everything you can crowbar into it.
Michelle Obama: "please I'm begging you feed kids just one (1) vegetable" RFK: "some children deserve to die. there's a healthy way to eat deep fried burgers" Media: "these are the same, to me"
Canada avoided being ruled by conservatives at least twice by being lucky
i have a theory about being really annoying with symbols and it's specifically to dare anyone and everyone to tell you to fuck off, and to demonstrate that they cannot do so
"We need to reform zoning codes in order to increase housing supply" and "we don't want to step into the business of local government" and "dense cities are dangerous hellholes that we must pacify militarily" are three propositions that don't hang together at all
This is one of the most explicit examples you'll ever see of "the people who annoy me the most, personally, also happen to be the nation's biggest political problem." The quintessential reactionary centrist maneuver.
yeah âgiving a shit about real problems that are actually occurringâ being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. youâre incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because thereâs no upside at all politically.
He so clearly loves people and wants them to have nice lives. Thatâs so damn endearing. He could be bald and chubby and the vibes would still be immaculate. Itâs not the physical look that makes him look great, itâs the embodied self.
This is about Mamdani and it is true because it extends to Brad Lander too
Kidnapped and rescued by what show you last watched: star wars the clone wars, Asuka is going to light saber some people, anakin will foreshadow his future and some clones will come along just to be safe, im going to be ok
You know when you have no clear expectations yet something STILL surprises you? Anyway, Bubsy saves the day! Page 3 of 3 #Bubsy #BubsyBobcat #BubsyOC #comic
In which Lindsey's friend just straight up ditches her at the convention center and she performs one of her Special Moves: Complete Anxiety Attack. Bubsy hesitates but offers to step in. Class act. Page 2 of 3 #Bubsy #BubsyBobcat #BubsyOC #comic
I drew a 3 page Bubsy comic!! Been working on this for like 2 weeks off and on. In which Lindsey Lynx attends a retro gaming convention and bumps into her hero... "hero" is another word for celebrity crush right? Page 1 of 3 - the rest to follow in the replies! #Bubsy #BubsyBobcat #BubsyOC #comic
It's kind of funny how the most obvious explanation for why Ashkenazi Jews are successful is "be very educated for milennia and have a lot of networking opportunities"
I donât disagree with any of these but I think that thinking they will fix anything re:public trust in universities fundamentally misunderstands the cause of loss of faith in them.
@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com imagining a world where international conflicts are decided by giant robot battles, war without tons of people dying and nukes going off
this is funnily enough what i had happen in DVTL, a 2024 South China Sea gone hot conflict where neither Beijing nor Washington actually really wants to go the mat
Watching Regular Show and realized Mordecai and Rigby would be 37 today.
Who doesn't miss the obama years
I Dislike Joe Lieberman first for video game moral panic then for lots of other shit
@mike10010100.com got the dish that xibruk pibil in dawntrail was based on, they also have big fat tacos. all you can eat brunch tacos should make drop their gender related issues with brunch, all you can eat should be easy to justify as a progressive thing (progressively more full)
Genuinely one of the only ways to truly make sense of these types of sentiments is âI donât care how many kids die as long as things are as nice as possible for the ones who survive.â
Bringing back the new classics
Itâs weird how literally 1.5 million people died and most discourse centers if we went too far.
much like January 6th no one died that the media considered important
This should never have happened and itâs clearly a flaw with venture capital doing research into actual novel tech
Launching the NES - PAX West panel www.twitch.tv/videos/25533...
It's the last day of PAX West and the replenishment for the Indiepocalypse booth (back entrance of the Arch, booth 1417) is here! (not pictured, currently working on) Stop by and bring home some cool and unique indie games so I can bring home an empty checked luggage bag!
That is a car made of polygons that looks good
I was so impressed by this curator at PAX West - indie/small studio games on a USB Drive in a cassete box. a return to "physical" media is in the future for many game creators: your payment processor may block you for buying "vampire tiddy suckers from the sex dimension" but not "Indiepocalypse 83"
ok sorry i misunderstood: this person was handed a chocolate, didnât eat it, found the twitter of the chef that made it, found out they smoke weed sometimes based off their twitter, and then started baselessly accusing them of a serious crime lmao
Itâs the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine) , Lenny Bruce is not afraid