Just you wait, The Cheat. Someday it’ll be ME tearin’ tickets and telling peoples “forty twans will be on their lest!”
Austin Lee Matthews 🐭@amtrax.bsky.social · 9h agoIt’s wild how much Homestar Runner still holds up
Ed Near
@ed-near.bsky.social
Writer who writes whatever he finds interesting to write and / or people he finds interesting. Will talk of his work when he's willing or able. Professional Account (for if and when I'm a professional): https://bsky.app/profile/edj-nier.bsky.social
Austin Lee Matthews 🐭@amtrax.bsky.social · 9h ago
I prefer liking things to disliking things which is why I wish there were less things I dislike so I could spend all My time liking things
On the one hand yes this is funny On the other hand if you accept the premise (particularly "Silent Hill as the Sewage Treatment Plant of the Soul"), a trans Silent Hill would be nightmarish for us in morbidly fascinating ways
BiblicallyAccurateMoth@bibleaccuratemoth.bsky.social · 10h ago
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
If AI disappeared tomorrow, me and people like me wouldn’t struggle for money anymore or worry about our work getting plagiarized, or worse, accused of being the thing we hate most. Literally in the blink of an eye. Sign me up!!
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but are you asking for a CHALLEEEEENGE?"
Austin Lee Matthews 🐭@amtrax.bsky.social · 9h agoIt’s wild how much Homestar Runner still holds up
"nun named anatolia living in an early modern era setting uses a sci fi handgun called salamander" is something that would make for a good standalone game on its own beyond fire emblem tbf
"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo
![The firm is fully owned by Jared Kushner and has a staff of approximately 20 people.[2][5] By 2024, the firm had returned no profits to its investors.[6] The firm has been controversial due to conflicts of interests arising from Kushner soliciting funds from Middle Eastern governments while also working as an envoy having direct and indirect dealings with those governments in his role in the second Trump administration.[7] According to reporting by Bloomberg News, investors in the firm do so with the expectation of influencing the Trump administration.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2jjromh55tf7pp7s4hsvurf4/bafkreihebdzjog2hp37o2q3enjyrsi46btqktev76ogpneczsrrzl55fo4)
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterdayEA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
If you're part of the BioWare or Sims community and want to talk about how those studios' queer characters and themes have impacted you and your fears for those series moving forward after this sale, I'd love to chat with you for a Kotaku story. Can be reached here or email kshepard@kotaku.com
Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterdayWell, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
Well, I guess Electronic Arts belongs to Saudi Arabia, private equity, and Jared Kushner now. https://kotaku.com/electronic-arts-officially-belongs-saudi-arabia-jared-kushner-now-2000721666
Electronic Arts Officially Sold For $55 Billion
With the closing of the market today comes the second-biggest acquisition in gaming history
kotaku.com
No Ender's Game, no Dragonlance (iirc), no Twilight, probably more I'm forgetting offhand, but Mormons have a huge foothold in SFF publishing and have been entrenched for quite some time and 10% of every dollar goes right into funding the genocide church (look up what they did to Hawaii for starters
Caffeinated Otter@caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · yesterdayand Mormonism unfortunately develops writers by encouraging daily writing as a self-development practise! Which is to say if you want to be principled about "I am not paying him any money for him to fund that", you've also got to not-buy e.g. any Schlock Mercenary books
Don Hertzfeldt’s full catalog of films has found a new streaming home. Dropout has acquired a collection that includes ‘Rejected,’ ‘World of Tomorrow,’ ‘It’s Such a Beautiful Day,’ and more, with Annecy winner ‘Paper Trail’ arriving September 1. www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/don-h...
Don Hertzfeldt Film Collection Is Coming To Dropout
Dropout has acquired a collection of Don Hertzfeldt films, including 'Rejected' and 'World of Tomorrow,' with Annecy-winner 'Paper Trail' arriving September 1.
cartoonbrew.com
Well, break before my next draft, I'm going to hit an old side project to stretch and relax my creative muscles I'm thinking: a shared setting for a collection of stories #writing
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...
There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury
The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…
short-stories.co
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
THANKS to everyone who is being sharing!!! I'm still looking to fill more slots for students since my summer break starts next month!! If you are interested lmk 🩵🩵🫶🏼🫶🏼
Gaby Pulcinelli💮 COMMISSIONS OPEN@gabyponpoko.bsky.social · last yr.HIIII I'M OPENING SLOTS FOR 1 to 1 GUITAR LESSONS :33 Feel free to DM me or send me an email if you're interested!! Would love to take more students! ^^ 🩵 pulcinelli.gabriel@gmail.com
oh damn
Hertzfeldt: Silly Hats Only
Alt: Don Hertzfeldt animation 4 characters standing around exchanging glaces by sign reading: Silly Hats Only. One character has a serious top hat others have goofy rabbit ear hat, pin feather outdated hat, clown cone puffy point hat.
static.klipy.com
Dropout@dropout.tv · yesterdayLet Sam explain how Dropout got The Don Hertzfeldt Collection... 🍌 @donhertzfeldtfilms.bsky.social
Downplay a book or movie "Lukewarm Fuzz" "Shaun of the Near-Dead" "World's Slow Stop"
M John Harrison Viriconium is a timeline of his developing skill as a writer
aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · yesterdaythis is about gene wolfe and I am hijacking it to suggest sharing your own favourite texts that are so thick, so viscous
idk if this is a lukewarm take out not but it's weird to me that fandoms from shows like TADC and Steven Universe get blanketed with such bad reputations but star wars fans can be a pillar of the fascism culture wars and ppl are just like "yeah some of them are trolls"
