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Some little indie rag wrote about #iHunt? NBD but you should check this out.

Sorry but my box has already been spoken for so is no longer "on the market."

Bluesky has four kinds of users:

one of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!

Just want to add to this that, although an unusual choice, commissioning a custom software development project would also bring great merit to the donor. DMs are open! 🫶

In my opinion, if you are doing a fun event for children with balloons, "the fatality was almost certainly not a direct result" is not a sentence fragment you want to have to say

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

btw telling transphobic dems to fuck off in the midterms, and being loud about why you're telling them to fuck off, is the way to ensure dems don't adopt that position in '28.

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

a green new deal president and they redecorate the white house like rainforest cafe

Nancy 10/13/26

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

There is hope for some of the newer voices in the Democratic Party like AOC and AES because they realize you have to actually stand for something to build a movement and draw people toward you. The old guard must all be overthrown. Their laziness and cowardliness can never defeat fascism.

Popularism has been a total failure. It does not work. Since it became the unquestioned gospel creed of Democratic elites in the latter half of Obama II, they have only had victories after titanic Republican screwups. They were not earned by Democrats. They were cries for help from the public.

Every time I come across competitive badminton, I can’t help but think of Mary Carillo’s rant back during the Athens games. youtu.be/cZDn0U0w78k?...

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A lot of us GenXers and early Millennials got irony poisoning in the 90s & learnt a brand of "Doing The Thing But Ironically," and had to unlearn that behaviour. And some folks never seemed to get the memo.

There are reasons to be optimistic about the outcome of this year’s election. But I am extremely pessimistic about the days and years after it.

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

I know hundreds of great devs who can code or animate or level design or any other thing you can imagine, and if any of them were working at a studio that had strong creative leadership and biz guys who understood "stable, regular releases with a stable team = profit" we'd all be better off

This is actually hilarious 😂 🤣 The man makes some valid points, tho Shark, at home just minding its business, then here comes this stranger

"It is important for the liberal to see that the oppressed person who agitates for his rights is not the creator of tension. He merely brings out the hidden tension that is already alive."—Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?", 1967.

the video game industry was a 40 year long sociological experiment conducted by Harvard University. the study is now complete. thank you for your time

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

Wish someone would release patches for my vulnerabilities

Bad day to launch my PHP based certificate authority

the rich people just owe other rich people money and in the end the rich people keep the stuff, it's just a control game, and much worse people that the current controls are ultimately going to control it, and they're much smarter, since you don't even know their names

people are thinking when the ai companies eat shit their models vanish for some reason but what actually happens is the people with claims on their assets (their models) get their assets for free and their debts go away, welcome to capitalism

I'm no Carry Nation, but if you want a better world, a good place to start fast would be ending this nascent age of network-partnered, league-endorsed online sportsbooks

Remember kids, a rich bigot torturing her economic inferiors to death is fine because there's no rule against it, but if a poor mouths off at her that's worse than ten holocausts

3. Then civilian data centers need to contractually refuse all “military use” and _enforce that._ Seriously. Someone uses a “military use” technology in your data center, you gotta kick them out and turn down that sweet revenue. And data centers cleared for military use need to invest in defense.

this is the reason these questions are asked. it doesn't matter how well el-sayed answers, the media get to write a headline with his name and the muslim brotherhood in it. heated, islamist, implications, criticize, disavow, dual loyalty, scary man bad

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This is also why I think it is so important to include the crimes of Italian fascists and Japanese militarists (and even of the Soviets) because the lesson is not 'the Nazis were uniquely bad' but rather 'if you let authoritarians take and hold power in *any* country, this is what they will do.'

Getting this painted on my living room wall in the 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓵𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 font.

Octopus is the easiest thing to cut out of your diet on moral grounds because it’s basically never around, probably has dreams and emotions and tastes like a tire.