American and British Billionaires buying the colonial houses of former English Overlords in Ireland or US based Fash strong arming local councils into selling airports should be ringing alarm bells here in Ireland. Don't exchange one type of colonial Overlord for another.

Something to think about regarding recent incidents on Irish Motorways: A 2 ton car at 200kph has 1800 times more kinetic energy than a 5.56mm rifle bullet at 3300kph. That is an awful lot of energy that needs to go somewhere at a sudden stop and most cars can only dissipate so much.

Ah, this explains that other Trumpist buying Waterford airport in a secret deal.

Every city is a sum of small decisions that multiply over time. 

Getting lots of queries about @gilduran.com's book, we should be receiving copies tomorrow just after lunchtime.

Raven Books@ravenbooks.bsky.social · last mo.

Take a bow, book title tsar Out August 18th

Does anyone know of any solo games that are like...running a tavern or a shop? I am really in the mood to play/write something like that lately and everything I have that fits that theme is for group play

One of the joys of compiling this book is the diversity of the contributors, which has led to an extraordinary diversity and richness of unexpected film recommendations. Can’t wait to share them with you (it’s out November 2)! Pre-order exclusively at PlumeriaPics.Co.uk

Hell yeah! 💪

TG4@tg4.bsky.social · last wk.

MNÁSOME 🥈

i may be tired as fuck but at least my hair looks good 🪄❤️🖤

working more on the coppery textures

A couple of shots of totality. I'll have to wait until I get home before I start properly processing the shots

After the statement Saber's CEO put out, I'm giving very serious consideration to quit streaming Snowrunner; a game I have been regularly streaming for over 5 years. Those streams always got the most views, so this would negatively impact me, but I don't know how I can continue in good conscience.

Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · last wk.

Everything I said was true. Here’s more truth: that statement is remarkably pathetic for the CEO of any company to be making, and combined with the AI use it will do far more damage to Saber’s reputation than it ever could mine. This screed will be many people’s first exposure to the Saber brand.

Apparently this one's like if Prey 2017 and Powerwash Sim had a baby, I don't know, but I've been real curious about checking it out.

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · last wk.

LIVE NOW! 🔴 Hey folks, sorry for the delay, but we're gonna check out AMBROSIA SKY tonight, so please come join me, this looks like an extremely neat game, can't wait to sink my teeth in. As always, signal boosts hugely appreciated! www.twitch.tv/caseyexplosion

How about this: Instead of hyping up the piece of shit TERF queen and her exceedingly mid books, we point kids in the direction of K.A. Applegate and her fantastic, terrifying Animorphs series?

What is it about the broader English psyche that makes them (collectively) hate trans people so much? I don't really get this logic, beyond it being an extension of homophobia or classism. Is it some sort of bizarre legacy of colonialism? It's very irrational.

drawing your attention to the miserable handwashing rate among the Dutch, who infamously, even in restaurants!, charge to use the toilets, toilets which have a *shelf* for your poop to land on and flush in the *front* instead of the back. I am sincerely not making this up

Hanne with an e@morklang.nl · 2w ago

No.

It's be nice to Casey day again, but you know what'd be especially nice? If you were all to be nice to yourselves.

A new mural in Bangor by local artist Friz in collaboration with the Flip the Script girls group from YMCA North Down promoting the campaign to End Violence Against Women and Girls 📷 Connie Egan

I can do this, easily, every day and I am a Programmer/Software Engineer. I wrote code recently that I know an LLM would struggle to produce, it was hand optimised in a very specific way for extreme size efficiency that I think an LLM/GPT would struggle to see.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 2w ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

I will never let anyone framing transphobia as "the trans debate." go unchallenged and neither should you. The thing about debates is they start with a question, like "the trans question". Questions tend to demand solutions, usually final ones. We've seen this shit before.

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Saturn: Vast and Vivd - From Ian Regan - https://flic.kr/p/mFSZwV

I found a map in Anodyne I have never seen before

[eating olives] mmm, savoury grapes

"This does not spark joy," I say, as I put the universe into a trash can.

Hey folks, added The Mermaid Mask to my Steam Curator page. MAGNUS MORTUGA IS DEAD! His body found in a locked room, a mysterious cauldron lies open at his feet, its contents missing. Question the crew and passengers of his submarine, examine clues, find out who killed Mortuga. This game is a joy!

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An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humo...

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Tomorrow, Lord Walney, who was responsible in part for the proscription of Palestine Action, will publish an article in The Times arguing that BASH BACK be proscribed as a terrorist organisation. We will not be intimidated. Neither should you. xoxo BASH BACK

Mountie Mick's Death Ride. Reaktör Software, 1987. #C64 #Commodore

Just a little reminder to everyone: Algorithms are useless. It's very hard to find cool stuff without being shown it by someone else. So if you find something cool - a band, a game, a video essay or anything else - share it and tell people about it. And thanks to anyone who does! You're cool!