Jasper 'Lope

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

sad news to start the week: layoffs have hit sucker punch

Kavanaugh stops in action: ICE tackled a non-verbal kid near his school, left him with injuries requiring surgery, and then left the scene when they realized he wasn't the person they were looking for www.independent.com/2026/10/23/i...

“Unfortunately, finding a stray tabby under a car and gently tying your ballot to its tail with a ribbon almost certainly ensures your vote will miss the deadline for counting.” — Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State

If they manage to cram in every feature that the store page promises, this free community-made remaster could be better than 90% of official, professional attempts. Fingers crossed for both this project and Arkane. They're going through it right now.

This isn't hyperbole or a joke. Parents actually called the cops and got the black boy and his family removed and the league claimed they were trespassing because he was "putting on a show" and wasn't playing "fair."

You know, most cult members have to be lied to in order to believe in their chosen sex creep messiah figure. Republicans are a rare gift. You can tell them they are being ruthlessly fucked over right to their stupid faces and they love that shit.

Chemists Announce Upgraded Periodic Table With Dozens Of New Elements For Just $4 A Month https://theonion.com/chemists-announce-upgraded-periodic-table-with-dozens-o-1839288701/

BRAZIL YOU HAVE SHOCKED THE WORLD

The fact that billionaires can just buy an entire film distribution company that has been running and respected for over a decade to kill a documentary about their billionaire friend and nothing can be done about it is just Fuck man

Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

When losing a job means losing a career: what comes next for laid off games journalists? aftermath.site/aftermath-game...

Layoffs hit Ghost Of Yotei developer Sucker Punch aftermath.site/sucker-punch-l...

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

Had a wonderful season of the Ohio Renaissance Festival with yall this year. Sorry I wasn't able to be at more weekends this year (car problems). I hope we will get to meet at another event or ORF next year. #OhioRenaissanceFestival #ORF #Cosplay #Renfaire #Crows

In the same way that participating in any boycott is privileged, yes. That doesn't mean the boycott is wrong.

Politics hits different when you're an "issue" instead of a citizen

I'm genuinely shocked that this game is free. It's polished, beefy, seems well designed, and the demo did relatively well on Steam. Sign of the times? Overwhelming competition? Either way, grab it. It's kinda like Darkest Dungeon/Griftlands with Borderlands' setting and sense of humor.

Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

“At a moment when many doubted Lula could reverse the result, a WhatsApp channel called Lula's Army emerged, and rapidly grew to 10.8 million followers. Led by Congressman André Janones, the operation encouraged supporters to share videos, promote hashtags and recruit new voters.” 1/

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

WE DID IT. I CANT FUCKING BELIEVED WE DEFEATED USA WE DEFEATED A COUP WE DEFEATED META WE DEFEATED EVERYONE WHO TRIED TO SILENCE BRAZILIA PEOPLE LULA WON GUYS. THE PEOPLE WON.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Every Democrat politician who runs an ad targeting trans people forces us to consider whether they need to lose in order to make it clear that human rights are not negotiable. Nobody running those ads opposes fascism, they simply want their party to be doing it.

cool, cool

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

Here’s the editor of the Intercept Brazil as Lula tells the press that “something abominable is happening”

Using AI to take her out of her hijab (and then pretending she’s bald) is fucking sending me to a level of molten rage I never knew existed

You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame. Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.

The recent story about all the Needle in a Haystack clones that suddenly popped up is very instructive of the kind of slop I complain about clogging up my inboxes all the time; clones of something else. For all the talk of enabling creativity, all I ever see from AI "devs" is someone else's idea.

The show became a success because of the crew involved and they get rewarded by all being fired/not renewed as production moves to Canada, where Canadians get cursed by being paid dirt and being yelled at to deliver the same quality for less money and most likely less time.

It‘s crucial that we vote in overwhelming numbers to help make these tactics difficult & dangerous. But it’s also very important that we commit now to exerting maximal pressure on the regime when (not if) it attempts to subvert the results.

No :3

Trump: I'm not a senior. I'm in my 40s. I feel the same way. I'm the only person who's taken 3 cognitive tests. And I aced all of them. I think everyone running for President should be forced to take cognitive tests. How many presidents have taken them? None.

The moral rot is top-to-bottom in the GOP. But let’s focus on the more specific issue here: Trump and his party like rape. Whether it’s child abuse or campus sexual assault, they think rape is ok. Maybe they even think it’s funny.

This afternoon, we toured the infrastructure of occupation in the West Bank: Settler outposts that uproot groves full of olive trees & steal Palestinian land. Gates arbitrarily closed by Israeli forces, forcing Palestinian villages to transfer construction supplies and bulk goods by hand.