@polyphonic.nebula.tv My respect levels for ELO went up (and my bafflement at certain nutbars reached new heights) watching the latest video on Nebula. Maybe I need to get into ELO at some point.

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.

Mental health acceptance. There is still a LONG way to go but dear gods - the difference between the 80s (I don’t remember the 70s) and now is astounding.

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 2d ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 2d ago

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

I got manga, I got comics, I got action figures, I got light novels and Mardi Gras doubloons and video games from multiple systems, I'm a goddamn emporium of wonders

There Is No Dayna Only ZUUL@queenanthai.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anyone wanna buy my stuff on eBay? www.ebay.com/usr/queen_7551

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

Shook the rest of the frustration with this work week out of my soul by finishing up my combo Turbofuel-and-Computers project in my #Satisfactory random-nodes solo save. Next up? Heavy Modular Frames! (Yes, it needs aesthetic finishing. That's a post-Hoverpack project.)

Yesterday's #Satisfactory co-op session, in which we finally turn parts of the nuclear power plant on, is now archived on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfCc...

Satisfactory 1.2 Co-op #35 - Partial Activation

YouTube video by Newbiespud

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Worth noting that the new #MST3K installment, "Deathsport," should come with a "strobing lights sequence" warning. Also possibly a "Carradine's junk" warning, but I was already averting my eyes so I can't be sure on that one.

Right off the bat, a near-callback to the "Brain Guy, in the interests of peace... smell yourself" bit. Ah, the classics. This should perk my day right up!

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · 3d ago

MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments ep. 2 is DEATHSPORT and it'll be available for purchase tomorrow, Friday Oct. 23! IF you're a Kickstarter backer, you (hopefully) just got it. Check your mail! Hope you enjoy.

It's been a few weeks, but we're giving some co-op family #Satisfactory a go... hopefully. Come watch if you wanna!

Newbieblook@newbiespud.bsky.social · 3d ago

Fingers crossed, we're going live with more Satisfactory co-op! twitch.tv/newbiespud

need people to stop reposting things that pissed them off on the bird site to here i stopped using that site for a damn reason!

Oh hey, @alepresser.com I have a visitor! Well, new resident really.

Michael's last opus

Purple Queen Publishing 📚💜@purplequeenpub.bsky.social · 3d ago

Summer Realm Book 1: $2.99/£1.99 “Oh, & one more thing!” called Wren. He turned his head. “What attacked? What are you running away from?” He leaned towards her, careful not to speak too loud as his group joined him. “Cockatrices. Hundreds of them!” mybook.to/SummerRealm #BookSky #Fantasy 💙📚👀🪐

10.22 today is the 15th anniversary of my first drawing of 88, can't believe that was 2011 time gotta slow down

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

I wouldn't go on BBC and proudly state that I'm incompetent at my job, but I also don't have the unearned self confidence of a mediocre white dude. If you're working in tech press and you don't know what PHP is, you should be fired, full stop.

John O’Donnell@jodami.bsky.social · 3d ago

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

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

If you're a Ubuntu webserver admin like myself (not that myself is someone you should strive to be like, I suppose) you will probably want to follow the linked README and also do a 'sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ondrej/php' once you're on the new Sury repo. Then get your updated PHP packages.

#c0ffee 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️@caffeinated-dev.bsky.social · 4d ago

Launchpad PPAs very slow at the moment. I wonder what's going on?😶‍🌫️ But if you're on ppa:ondrej/php and waiting for the patches, see packages.sury.org/php/README.txt for migrating to the merged PPA.

I imagine that it's a rough morning to be the PHP repository serving Ubuntu updates. Wait, I don't have to imagine: Neither of my servers can reliably get data from it yet. (As of this timestamp all the builds aren't done, so... hang in there, fellow Ubuntu server admins.)

I am deeply concerned that corporate vibe coding is going to destroy the quality and security of programs being sold and leave us with a workforce in 5 to 20 years that do not have the base skill sets to fix the slop they put out. We're not there YET.

Diminish an anime: Recovery of an MMO Casual

Tsun. All Tsun.@alltsunnodere.bsky.social · 5d ago

Diminish an anime Ranma 1/3

So many of us are struggling emotionally, financially, mentally… You cant help everyone — to try would drive you mad — but also Man Everything is a lot for everybody all over. Give yourself some grace, okay? Do your best. You are loved.

Thread. Please, PLEASE, if you support artists on Patreon, use the Patreon WEBSITE to manage your subs, *NEVER* the app.

reapersun@reapersun.bsky.social · 7d ago

If you pledge to my patreon through the ios app you will pay an additional 30% fee (Apple's fee, they keep all that!) AND your pledge is held by Apple for 75 days. So if you pledge to me in March maybe I will get that money for rent in June.

Specifically if internet accessible and running 1.43.2 or earlier, if you've updated to 1.43.3 it should be fine :)

ceej@ceej.online · 7d ago

rare non-shitpost from your pal ceej: if you self-host plex you’re gonna wanna update asap. crypto miner malware started hitting installs yesterday, it got me and I’m usually pretty up on this stuff

Whatever you make today is the best version that you could have made today. Tomorrow you'll be better, but if you wait to make something on that level you'll never get anything made at all. This has been a very important maxim for overcoming a lot of my writer's block.

One of the problems with "indies will save games/animation/<insert medium here>" is no one has any fucking money Most people who would want to fund an interesting project do not have the resources to sustain the money faucet needed for any long term projects

One of the rare downsides to light rail transit? When someone blocks the tracks.

Ah. Good. New anxiety source arrived a few minutes ago: Somebody thought it would be amusing to button-mash our doorbell at quarter past 7 in the evening and then scamper off. Hello unwanted adrenaline surge, hello unwanted new thing to be anxious about in my own home.

I am full of tasty curry, I am no longer on-call, this week is finally winding down. Deep sigh of relief.