Kansas (!) elects its first D Senator in 94 years.
Ross Miller
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me rogan and elon are on an a jet to israel. Enjoy your unfunny circle jerk. do not try to contact us. We are safe
And on top of everything else tonight I just finished the first season of FX’s Adults oh wow this is so good
Pete Hegseth wanted people to watch a public execution, well they're seeing it tonight.
More history tonight!! Georgia didn’t just send Jon Ossoff back to the U.S. Senate. Voters elected Bentley Hudgins as the first trans, nonbinary lawmaker in the state legislature. www.advocate.com/politics/ele...
Bentley Hudgins wins Georgia Assembly seat as first out trans and nonbinary state lawmaker
The longtime organizer made history in the deep south.
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numbers coming out of The Castle are insane. this is a Dracula +25 district
You gotta Steel Ball Run to the polls and vote to put Donald in a Stone Ocean where the Latin kings will beat the Golden Wind out of him to teach him that Diamond is Unbreakable but his bones aren’t, you queer ass Stardust Crusaders gotta use your Battle Tendency and spill some Phantom Blood.
He got that shit wrapped up before Wheel of Fortune ended lol
Decision Desk HQ projects Jon Ossoff wins the GA US Senate General Election #DecisionMade: 7:18 PM EST Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/2026-1...
Tired: Nerds saying There's A Sportsball On Wired: Sports Nerds saying There's A Politics On
In 2003, I photographed Sir Patrick Stewart, then in Ibsen’s ‘The Master Builder’ at Malvern’s Festival Theatre in England. He was charming and patient, warning me not to shoot from below his eyeline as it would make his head look “slightly odd.” A national treasure and a thoroughly good man. RIP
This trailer is a masterclass is reading the moment and drawing out feels ❤ h/t @derek-lieu.com Wishlist here! store.steampowered.com/app/4045480/...
Drawquarium on Steam
Draw your very own fish and build a cozy little aquarium. And if you like, set it as your animated desktop wallpaper! Watch your drawings come to life. Feed them, raise them and collect golden scales ...
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I found another upload by the actual dev if you feel like raising this one's numbers instead
Hit Detection is pleased to announce our community partnership with The Games Forum Roma, a new international forum on the cultural, educational, social, and industrial future of games, organized by @structuraroma.bsky.social and @womeningames.bsky.social, taking place on November 12-13 in Rome.
missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
My hot goth summer with a 15-year-old TV show, a 15-year-old video game, and an 80-year-old novel: 'Game of Thrones', 'Dark Souls', and 'Titus Groan'. Three ancient buildings cut from the same stone, yet none of them feel old. Gothic fantasy is seriously my shit mbh4h.substack.com/p/dark-souls...
How Game of Thrones and Dark Souls echo eighty years of gothic decay
My hot goth summer.
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I visited the devs of Gears of War: E-Day, and its leadership team spoke about the importance of continuity in staffing. A week later, a handful of employees, including the story director, was laid off. I wrote for @nytimes.com about that uneasy balance as attached to a game about grief.
E-Day’s 6-Year Journey Inside the Rapidly Changing Xbox Industry
The pressure is on for the sci-fi game Gears of War: E-Day as an Xbox exclusive, with “blood, sweat, and tears” extending beyond its virtual battlefields.
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So thoughtful of your parents to put together their very own fall tv preview! Read it here: www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
It's also Insomniac's lowest-scoring new release since 2013's Fuse (excl. ports + VR) Wolverine (2026): 77 Spider-Man 2 (2023): 90 Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (2021): 88 Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020): 85 Spider-Man (2018): 87 Ratchet & Clank (2016): 85 Sunset Overdrive (2014): 81 Fuse (2013): 62
Marvel's Wolverine Is Currently Sony's Lowest Scoring PS5 Game https://kotaku.com/marvels-wolverine-reviews-ps5-playstation-sony-insomniac-metascore-2000733246
You can see the exact point where the Apple event went from talking about the iPhone 18 Pro and instead talked about the price plans
What does it look like when data centers move into town? That's what a lot of Americans are wondering these days, and this VA county gives a glimpse. My @theverge.com feature on Data Center Alley is out now, with amazing visuals by @stephenvoss.bsky.social. Gift link www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Your future is in Virginia
If you want to know what the data center occupation looks like, there’s one place where it already arrived — 20 years ago.
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This is correct but there’s also an interesting tension between the bet that ESPN is clearly making on this and the one that the NFL is making—actively courting female fans, spending huge money trying to get millions of girls onto flag football teams, etc.
the McAfee stuff is just a big neon sign saying who ESPN thinks football is for and where it thinks culture currently sits
Hi, we're a new video game oral histories site. Want to read the story of Shadow of the Colossus, as told by 11 people who worked on it? Or hear what Will Wright has to say about Spore in retrospect? Or see previously unreleased footage of Nintendo's Sound Fantasy? Check us out at designroom.site
george lucas had originally intended to make yoda be ska, but he simply lacked the techonolgy. here's what artists think his true vision would have looked like using modern techniques:
Rest in peace Yoda you would have loved ska music
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
You will pry my beloved em dashes from my cold dead fingers. :) More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’ www.wired.com/story/more-t...
More Typos, Fewer Em Dashes: Writers Are Creating an Anti-AI ‘Literary Counterculture’
Novelists, journalists, and power LinkedIn posters are embracing first-person narratives and idiosyncrasies to avoid being mistaken for chat bots.
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