My man looks like Mel Gibson headbutted a wasps' nest

For @aftermath.site, we're in a boom period for fan translations of unique games that we never made it to the west. I focused on four: Kamaitachi no Yoru, Kowloon's Gate, London Spirit Detectives, and Innocent Tears, and spoke to the people behind the projects. aftermath.site/kamaitachi-n...

Fan Translations Still Are Being Done The Hard Way

Kamaitachi no Yoru, London Spirit Detectives, Kowloon’s Gate and Innocent Tears are getting their spotlight in the west thanks to fan-translations done without AI.

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There it is.

Shhh I’m relaxing

> [U]ntil you’ve built a thing for everyone, you will not appreciate that the last 10% of the work: * Takes most of the time. * Contains an endless list of small decisions that feel unimportant, but collectively make the difference between acceptable and fucking amazing.

The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing

Appreciating typography is a study in paradox. The primary goal of well-designed typography is to help you read the words, not appreciate how the words are comp

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Don't be like Trump #eclipse

A huge collection of eclipse glasses and viewers, some of them dating back to 1793. [kottke.org]

A Collection of Eclipse Glasses (1793-2019)

Oh wow, Williams College’s Hopkins Observatory has a huge collection of eclipse glasses & viewers (and other eclipse ephemera), some of them dating back to 1793. Here are a few of my favorites:

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Here’s @vermontgmg.bsky.social, who among other things wrote definitive accounts of 9/11 and Watergate, on Air Farce One. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal

Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption

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Latest Bluesky update still missing the big red button that allows us to notify every user that their chairs are trying to kill them.

This!

Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 10h ago

I don't care if Bluesky's numbers are down. I use it to follow a few hundred weirdos who post too much. If this place folds they'll move someplace else and I'll follow them. You don't have to care if your baseball team makes money and you don't have to care if your social media platform is growing.

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune

Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault

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Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org

Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

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Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.– Dick Brandon

If you aren't angry then you aren't paying attention.

The DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee voted to block state parties from using ranked-choice voting in their 2028 presidential primaries—a decision that is both deeply unpopular among its voters and bad for a party seeking to uphold voting rights and identify a unifying nominee.

A Decade After Hillary Clinton's Historic Presidential Run, the DNC Is Fighting Over Ranked-Choice Voting

Decade After Hillary Clinton, Women Wait for Parity; Debate Over Ranked-Choice Voting Heads to the DNC; New Book on Democracy

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Getting irrationally pissed off because I read a paper that gendered one of my favorite moons

A clip from my interview with Randy Winston, The Black List's Creative Dir of Fiction, the site that connects filmmakers with authors & screenwriters. Go to www.SallyWienerGrotta.Substack.com for the full interview, incl. a bunch of advice for authors and screenwriters on catching Hollywood’s eye.

British filmmaker Percy Stow used his experience in making "trick films" in his 1908 version of The Tempest, which is believed to be the second adaptation of the Shakespeare play into a film

You're nodding, aren't you?

Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers You'll laugh.

Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers

there will never be another outage again // featuring Alexis Gay: https://www.instagram.com/yayalexisgay // more krazam scenes: https://www.patreon.com/KRAZAM // https://instagram.com/krazam.tv // https://twitter.com/krazamtv

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Are you interested in pursuing a career in the antiquarian book trade? Apply to the @abaararebooks.bsky.social Diversity Initiative Discovery Program! 📚 You’ll gain insights from ABAA members, get in-depth tours of the Boston fair, a $2500 stipend, and more: www.abaa.org/general-cont...

@Retrosheet "is pleased to announce its first semi-annual release of 2026 ... box scores for the 1897 NL, play-by-play for the 1908 and 1909 AL/NL, and the 1933 and 1934 Negro League seasons. Thanks to Joe Callahan, Rob Wood, and others for their assistance." retrosheet.org/summer2026re...

Remember this beauty? Two independent experts have confirmed a date of 825-850 and a provenance of Lorsch/SW Germany. A Carolingian codex - rather than a fragment! - is practically unheard of on the market, and if you'd like a look, come find me with it at Rare Books Week Berlin, 18-20 September!

Call me old-fashioned, but I do think we could be losing our sense of proportion. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

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Phone: Your storage is full. Me: (looks at 11,235 identical pictures of my cat) No, I need all of these.

Sheila Williams, the editor who ran Asimov's magazine for decades and nurtured countless new talent, needs our help. Thread: www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...

Donate to Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care, organized by Irene Bruce

Hi - This is Irene and Juliet, the daughters of Sheila and David. As many of… Irene Bruce needs your support for Help Irene's Parents Get Skilled Nursing Care

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BlueSky is one of the best places to connect to experts who work on climate change. Honest-to-god scientists, engineers, policy wonks, journalists, investors, and more who know their stuff and generously share their work with the world for free. Here are some of my favorites: go.bsky.app/Q4Uo8vV