wild to be living in a world with live-streamed state executions and legal daylight kidnappings, but every time you turn around some loser is saying, hey man, what if art were completely frictionless? what if we killed even the possibility of human connection??

My target demo 💕

EJ Feddes@ejfeddes.bsky.social · 8h ago

The part where Lily said she’s mostly famous among “husky guys with beards” really made me glad there was nobody around to look directly at me.

My new free interactive guide on #Godot Control Nodes and #UI is out!! qaqelol.itch.io/gui My free #Tween guide also gets a new update! qaqelol.itch.io/tweens AND You can now get the All-in-One version, that regroups all my guides + extra features to support me!! qaqelol.itch.io/guides #GameDev

Christophe is making Prerolled!@qaqelol.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My interactive tween guide for Godot is out ! If you have trouble using tweens, adding "Juice" or picking the right transition, it should hopefully help! The guide is free and will always be 🩵 qaqelol.itch.io/tweens #Godot #GameDev #Animation #Tutorial #Guide #Tweens

a thing about carrie, the novel, is that carrie *is* weird and judgmental and unpleasant to deal with. characters have to suppress their irritation with her, and this is important because it's easy to reach out to someone who conforms to social norms. it's harder to do that to a girl who doesn't.

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

People freaked out over this take, but I was absolutely correct. What I should have added is that they’d also be doing weird anti-abortion dog whistles like this

Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · 2y ago

My current prediction for the second Trump term is that we won’t see lots of big, overt attacks on abortion rights—at least not right away. But behind the scenes, small rule changes and increased enforcement of existing laws will whittle what access we have to a toothpick.

I’m about to do the penultimate performance of this play where I’ve gotten to perform several puppets. I am going to figure out how to do puppetry for the rest of my life!!! IT IS THE MOST FUN

it’s what the People WANT

The thing I think we all understand but don't talk about explicitly is that the main thing all of these AI freaks have in common is their nuclear-level praise kinks

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h ago

There are a lot of details in here about Zuck releasing a half-baked product, but one thing that really stands out is just how weird these folks are. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

brain, i understand that you'd rather do Preferred Activity, but right now we have to do Task. if we finish task we can do Preferred Activity WITHOUT feeling weighed down by the need to do Task. do you see how that works ah it's biting me my brain is biting me

"Weapons and equipment OSP" makes perfect sense for gameplay reasons obviously, but narratively are you telling me Snake couldn't toss a sidearm into a plastic bag and stuff it in his wetsuit? They couldn't give my man a Zipgloc?

Something I think about often is how the reward for promptly responding to emails is receiving more emails.

Always here for good Tortoise news!

Evan May@gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 2d ago

Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New boleros preorder starts tomorrow at 10 AM PT! 🤎🐦‍⬛🌸 meyocostudio.com

It is okay to let people dislike things. It is also okay to let them vent their dislike in public and on social media. It is okay to dislike things without having a moral and political reason for doing so. I need you all to please stop tying your entire identities up in the things you consume.

"Adult Human Female" has never been the definition of a woman - despite what anti-feminists like J. K. Rowling and Donald Trump might claim. So why have TERFs decided to change the dictionary definition of woman? 🤔📖 youtu.be/UshXbhOuIL8

here's mine: trains are cool and you knew it when you were 5, why are you lying to yourself now

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 18h ago

Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.

It's also worth noting that both those groups believe that Trump's voters need to be coddled and pandered to. That's not necessarily true: they're responding to the aesthetics of strength (as sold in fascism). I would bet Ossoff's strident authority is probably more effective at drawing them in

Dante Atkins@danteatkins.bsky.social · 17h ago

It's not hard. Both Yglesias moderates and Khanna leftists give MAGA politicians legitimacy because they want MAGA's base. Ossoff simply does not give a shit about the MAGA base, which allows him to speak with fierce clarity about MAGA politicians. He is willing to bet on an anti-MAGA majority.

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

I mean I consume media by myself all the time, especially before I had access to the internet and had no nerd friends - the difference is when you consume media made by other humans you feel less alone, when you consume artificial media made only for you, that's when you're going to lose your mind

This. And there seems to be a strange desire to leapfrog human experience like empathy and instead assert that a “model” of pain, which, I guess, is an artificial reflection or representation of pain, not a lived experience or event, is humanity’s achievement of “understanding” pain? How odd.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 24h ago

If inanimate objects which show patterns of pain (whatever that means) have a claim to suffering isn't that just serving companies? My laptop can run a weather model and display patterns of rain, but it's not going to have water damage. There's an ontological difference between model & phenomenon.

My favorite part of @josie.zone’s #beckbook. I started this book about the life and music of Beck wanting to know “what happened” at the turn of the century that made his music simultaneously more personal but less expressive. I ended this book wanting him (and all of us) to be okay.

fyi i managed to find a way to synthesize my theory and the alternative presented in this episode into one theory: treebeard mentions trolls were made in mockery of ents (form) from stone (material) so it seems plausible morgoth made dragons in mockery of eagles (form) from boats (material)

michael lutz@ztul.bsky.social · 2d ago

What do you think dragons are? This episode contains my exciting theory: dragons are the devil's version of boats.

Not to take away from celebrating Carson, but she's a "former professor" here in large part because the university shut down her department and cancelled its classes. What pride does the institution claim now—years later—when austerity is forcing other scholars out? What does that 'pride' do?

McGill University@mcgill.ca · 3d ago

Former McGill professor Anne Carson has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. 🏆 Awarded “for her bold and inventive oeuvre", she has helped redefine contemporary literature through poetry, essays, translation and criticism. Congratulations! ➡️ mcgill.ca/x/5HS

Vote in the midterms.

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.