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A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
2025's cyberpunk future is getting your ankles obliterated in the produce aisle by the del monte banana robot at ramming speed
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
"Citizen Sleeper 2 made me live with my choices. That’s what made the journey unforgettable." - Cande Maldonado, Bonus Action Pick up Starward Vector to go on your own unforgettable journey 👇 💫
Hey, remember when Putin and the Russians landed in Alaska and after they met with the GOP all the red hats walked out of the meeting pale and scared? My bet: he gave them the window for Trump kicking the bucket, and it's closing fast. "Next time in Moscow." *chuckles*
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.
This was almost certainly a rejected class in West of Loathing
If there's anyone who could take my cats, or even just one, in western MD please let me know. I don't want to have to leave them at a shelter, they'd be so scared and sad.
Super Hexagon is a certified all-timer and I think we should spend more time talking about it.
Today's Popeye ( @comicskingdom.bsky.social) that I spent way too much time drawing & coloring. comicskingdom.com/popeye/2025-...
Hola, sí, yo venía a enseñaros el vestido armadura de Frieda Lepold (o "Knightgown", como lo llama ella) porque TREMENDA FANTASÍA.
I think games like Cooking Mama and Venba indicate that there's a real opportunity to teach and simulate real, mechanical processes of life skills in a way that's concrete enough to transfer into learned knowledge. I think more fashion games should try sewing and patterning minigames for this.
Here's a prototype for a dressmaker game, incudes pattern cutting and sowing:: elyaradine.itch.io/dressmaker
Instagram influencer Adventorin goes viral after demonstrating how simple it is to climb over the U.S. Border Wall.
Here’s a link to his adoption profile: 24petconnect.com/SacramentoCo...
In summary, the average child sexual predator’s profile is: married, male, white, heterosexual, religious, surrounded by friends and family, and a parent.
Mark Wahlberg with band Lustra, in the movie Eurotrip youtu.be/jhbOb6fYvLc?... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotty_...
Dave Grohl as... SATAN! youtu.be/y8-LH_VUROk?...
Jonathan Davis from Korn as "Succulentus" the leader of the Kactus Krew, in "OK K.O." youtu.be/N98r3hjEd8U?...
Lemmy Kilmeister as narrator for "Tromeo and Juliet"
It’s baffling to me that so much of the U.S. (and the world) has decided that letting their kids get sick at school all the time (and spread illness to their parents and everyone else) is preferable to just … adequately cleaning indoor air
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
I read the book ages ago, it was incredibly good. Didn't know they made a show?!
When the clock hits four digits, it's time to get horizontal.
"What causes homelessness, in the 1980s as now, is a lack of access to housing that poor & working-class people can afford." "It’s an engineered abandonment of not thousands, not hundreds of thousands, but millions of families.”
Display of beautiful New York Review books at NYRB offices at East 32nd Street & Second Avenue
"I cannot tell you the unbridled joy I felt in booting up Dark Souls 1, while lying in bed relaxing with a green tea, and The Summer I Turned Pretty playing in the background." So I got a Steam Deck, let's dive into it from a "Souls" Perspective! huggablehipster.wixsite.com/huggablehips...
Social Security’s chief data officer, Charles Borges, submitted a whistle-blower complaint this week detailing how DOGE uploaded the confidential personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an insecure cloud server (NYT story below). Today Borges resigned, citing his persecution.
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
This afternoon I cosplayed as Desi and live-streamed with @bradguigar.com and we talked about his new book that's on kickstarter right now. I may or may not have seduced some people to pledge to his campaign. 😈 newevilbook.com
Slain2 teaser trailer. The beast Within youtu.be/49vWaQGx53M
conveniently ratio'd for either legal or half letter size, so you conveniently can just print it out on any printer if you like, whose going to stop you (not me)
Does anyone remember the meltdown over Republican made-up “death panels” in the ACA? I guess the AI overlord version is fine with this same crowd.
What they actually want is to make life here impossible for many of us, so they can steal any assets we leave behind, and then suck up any earned benefits we had contributed. They want disease, and they want despair, and people choosing to end their lives voluntarily, just to escape this shit show.
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
This is an incredible service that all Americans need and should have access to. Your feedback as a user (or non-user) can help improve the product and experience. It will also be a clear sign that the program MUST remain as a critical service. They will shut it down if they get the chance to.
Hell yeah you melted Virtual Hitler!
gorgeous
What?!?!
And yet, Dr Daskalakis said being shot at didn't factor into his decision. THAT's how bad RFK Jr is trying to subvert CDC
This line is incredible: "I reject his and his colleagues' thoughts and prayers, and advise they direct those to people that they have not actively harmed."
Finally! A new R-Type Tactics trailer! Unfortunately, no news or dates, but they're going to be announcing details in 'late september'.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
No amount of honors will ever make her anything but a laughing stock. She died for a con man and I take tremendous glee in knowing it was such a worthless and pitiful death.
There's like 5 cosplay bounty hunters there, any well-regulated militia with more than 2 people could just run into the woods and start taking potshots at them until they leave. 🤷♂️ Or with more accuracy....
The director of PG: Psycho Goreman has rebooted the classic Roger Corman‘s cult sword & sorcery film Deathstalker. Watch the exclusive (and ludicrous) red band trailer here:
Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.
Great for ladies on their period who say it's "shark week" 😎🦈
@ursulakleguin.com I laughed OUT LOUD at this post
its prosperity is powered by the perpetual misery of one small child saved u a click
Oh baby, it looks like a beautiful Etrian Odyssey! I'm sold! I am a sucker for any game with map mechanics.
Book a 30- or 60-minute session, and we'll sit down and discuss the best ways to improve your comic, its publishing, and promotion. Doing a Kickstarter? We'll do a pre-flight, and you can add the cost of the session into your goal so it pays for itself!
re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.
I'm going to be real: it's his worst game. 🤮 Could we get a Popeye game that's not as old and nasty as me?
@comicskingdom.bsky.social what's up comic book nerds, why aren't there any Popeye video games?!
seconding the Smash TV reboot, with streaming options and full Twitch integration and announcer mode.
I really enjoyed drawing today's Olive & Popeye (at @comicskingdom.bsky.social) : comicskingdom.com/olive-popeye...
I'll be honest, if you all want to see any Popeye merch with me, Emi, and/or Shadia, the best way to get it is to go to @comicskingdom.bsky.social directly and tell them so.
I was today years old when I learned that you can add [CanBeNull] to [SerializeField]s to help you avoid relying on Inspector fields being set (if they are optional) (Maybe you could even configure it to where you need to add [NotNull] for even stricter safety!)
My daughter’s Adventure Time BMO costume’s finally finished. In time for @factsconvention.bsky.social. 🙂 #cosplay #adventuretime
Remember when COVID vaccines were first available? Remember how they saved lives and helped us move toward normalcy? Remember how relieved and grateful we were? Remember how amazing our healthcare workers were? Remember how science rescued us?
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
This photo is amazing. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Once again advertising my "reverse popular" feed for #gamedev. It ONLY shows Bsky posts that gained fewer than 3 likes <3, random order. Lets you find smaller accounts: bsky.app/profile/did:...
The Toxic Avenger is clearing medical debt as marketing for the movie.
I would like (to make) a 4p co-op Popeye beat-em-up like Castle Crashers, the Simpsons, Xmen, or TMNT arcade games. Hand drawn art, animated to 60 fps, like Cuphead.
We make video games with clay! HOW do we do it? 🎮✨🚀 #clay #indiegames #PlatypusReclayed
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
This is a hell of a letter. “The intentional eroding of trust in low-risk vaccines…will bring us to a pre-vaccine era where only the strong will survive and many if not all will suffer….Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated…”
Arkady Strugatsky (1925-1991) was born on this day. Bibliography: www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.c... L, Richard Powers, 1978; R, Alan Magee, 1982 #scifi #sciencefiction #books
You asked so I made it! A Shader Glass tutorial so you too can get awesome filters on your games whether #PCGaming or even via capture card now! They just nailed it with the 1.2 update youtu.be/FrLSxdAcd_c #gaming #gamingnews #gaming_news
Don't think this is still going on, but I highly recommend if you like the series but haven't played this one. Strider 2014 was a blessing and I thank Tony Barnes for making one of the best games evar. It still goes on sale for very cheap often, so nab it then
It’s gotten to the point that I don’t even like sending my kids to school anymore. We don’t have to live like this.
a huge point that decorum-obsessed Democrats are missing is that everyone I know is literally boiling with rage 24/7 watching their country fall to fascism and desperately want to hear a politician acknowledge that and say "I am also angry"
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Harumi Fujita (藤田 晴美) is a Japanese composer with an amazing track record known for her work at Capcom and other projects. Retro shmups like 1943 Kai, Pulstar, Blazing Star and also Final Fight, Strider, Ghosts 'n Goblins, and more recently SoR 4 and Windjammers 2.
"Devilgirl Desi in the Dark Dimension" that's your title for the first Evil Inc. video game. 😈
"just a little cough doc" 😎🚬
This would do a tremendous amount to remove the current incentives around some of the most ill-suited use cases for this technology while preserving things that actually are useful (protein folding, ancient language text prediction, etc).
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 7th episode of Dirty Pair, "愛こそすべて命賭けます逃避行!!" or "Love Is Everything, Betting Their Lives on Elopement", one of the most overtly trans-positive episodes of anime of its era. This was the future they predicted for us in 1985. We can still get there.
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
5/5 review for RELICS (1985). really good reference point for scifi or horror games i think.. backloggd.com/u/MelosHanTa...
Here are two Highland cows from Inverness to brighten your day.
this is still one of the best games ever made, a must play imo
2002 Red Dragon Ralph Feinnes minus the serial killer part he was pretty ripped for the role. 🤔
anyone in my SF networks play piano and would like / have room for one? let me know 👀
If the recent Itch.io fiasco drove home anything, it’s this: You need a website. uncensoredartists.beehiiv.com/p/why-every-...
Giant Squid doing layoffs after SoTS released to glowing reviews is a prime example of how the industry is currently broken.
Pretty rare (and awesome) opportunity here. Come work with me!
My landlord knows I got laid off, they know our situation, they know we have no money. Absolutely fucked here.
Jonathan 
Specific Allie 🏳️⚧️🇦🇺 