they should make a star wars 2. how about one more trip around the galaxy for old times’ sake. come on

I didn’t paint and attach thousands of individual popcorns to model trees just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”

Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 6d ago

Jim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.

Wow, that's a complex sequence of events their father set up for them

Maxwell Yezpitelok@mrmxy.bsky.social · 6d ago

TIL Rube Goldberg told his kids to change their surnames and one picked George and so the other, already named George, also adopted it to keep the family together, ending up as George George. I now believe Luigi Mario and Mario Mario came to be under the exact same circumstances.

I have quite literally been told by like 3 publishers that they want "the next balatro" in those exact words.

Aura/Moom@moomanibe.bsky.social · 2w ago

oh don't worry from what I hear publishers are absolutely out there right now demanding "the next balatro" in the form of gambling adjacent roguelikes with zero budget and expecting tens of millions of dollars in revenue

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

Laid off again. No notice, no severance. What a time to be alive and suddenly unemployed again. So long, and thanks for all the crunch.

Animal Farm by George Orwell but now you can aim at body parts and wrestle

This might sound elitist, but I don’t think the people liking the Peanuts slop posts should have rights

Barbara Longley Author (no DMs) 📎@blongley.bsky.social · 2w ago

*gently stroking my monitor* oh my god what are we doing Verizon Agent

My horrible little dog, whom I love more than my life, has decided he will only eat the most expensive prescription food on the market. I'm trying to explain the economy to him and he doesn't care

Look, I don't know much about this issue, but according to the media I consume which is carefully engineered to piss me off,

cashier today told me he knew me from twitter and said him and his partner still use “the butter’s penthouse” 😭

So as the NYTimes is blocked from AI scraping, Meta will now be getting news from Newsmax. What could possibly go wrong?

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w ago

AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...

After laying off Battlefield 6 devs, EA boss Andrew Wilson's bonus rose $8m to $38m last year, thanks to the game's success across "all milestones" www.eurogamer.net/ea-boss-38-m...

Mr. Gorbachev, turn down for what

throwing a heal to an imperiled player as you pass by and getting a brief /thanks in return is pure delight, to me. that's society

Boatsim Boosterism@beasmeeply.bsky.social · 2w ago

just because I don't want to talk doesn't mean I want to be alone. I want to toss a buff or a heal on the guy who's about to get killed by a beetle. that's a story!!!

Layoffs hit Double Fine today, and I'm sorry to report that I was one of the ones hit. If you need a game designer with tech chops and 2+ decades of experience, here I am.

Foundation by Isaac Asimov but now you can battle alongside your friends in a new PvE mode

LMFAO

Was just talking with a friend about how jeans, a red checked button down shirt and a newspaper from that day is an easy dead Mitch McConnell Halloween costume and now she sends me this:

It's such a great policy.

DEF CON@defcon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friendly #DEFCON34 reminder: Meta-style glasses with recording capabilities are prohibited at DEF CON. There is no exception for recording glasses with prescription lenses. Be sure to pack non-violating eyewear if you need them. Please see our Photo policies for more. defcon.org/html/links/d...

To get casual fans caught up, the new Avengers movie should start with all the characters doing a rap where they say who they are and what their deal is

Over a year ago, a Dutch frog science magazine emailed me asking if they could include my comic in their upcoming issue about dart frogs. They were interviewing the scientist who first described the blue poison dart frog; he had seen and liked the comic. They mailed me a copy, which just arrived:

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

i love the oxford comma because i would never have solved the diabolical riddle that these were three different people from context clues

Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

Finally I’ll be able to open an indoor skate park/arcade where I train teen hoodlums to be ninjas

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

NYC’s small business owners have said it over and over: endless paperwork and uncertainty has made getting their stores up and running too difficult. So we’re cutting red tape, eliminating redundant permits (did you know you need a permit just to serve some ice cream?), and speeding up inspections.

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

How To Win Friends And Influence People is still a banger. Well worth reading the full book, and this bullet summary is a pretty good overview.