that's craig, this is his town

New town every hour@townsusa.bsky.social · yesterday

Craig, Missouri Pop: 223 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig,_Missouri Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110282345 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=192823809 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=130792183

this week's #backloggdweekly is 2/3 outdated, as i spent the last week exclusively playing Helix by the estimable @smestorp.bsky.social. it's incredible, quickly becoming my favorite of his.

Backloggd@backloggd.com · 2d ago

What have you been up to this past week? #BackloggdWeekly

People can give their recs in the replies. Anything Entry Grade is good: they're the cheapest and simpliest (idk that they ever come with stickers). I believe this was the literal one I did. You don't even need nippers for something like this though you can use them if you'd like.

Noa 🪻@noahbogart.com · 2d ago

after listening to @gameonysus.bsky.social praise gunpla on @remapradio.bsky.social, i'm ready to jump in. what's everyone think is a good starter set? for reference, i did a bunch of model airplanes 30 years ago

after listening to @gameonysus.bsky.social praise gunpla on @remapradio.bsky.social, i'm ready to jump in. what's everyone think is a good starter set? for reference, i did a bunch of model airplanes 30 years ago

It’s results day! Kids: I performed massively under expectations on my A-levels, took a year out to work two jobs, cry in the toilets, and save no money because I drank and smoked it all, then went to uni so i could drop out, move in with a couple of transsexuals, and transition. You can, too!

there's sort of an impasse w/r/t female-oriented literary smut where it is pretty much just porn, but misogynists think that's disgusting and shameful because they hate women, and the women who read it think that it's so much more than porn because they hate porn.

nothing better than blocking a shitty big-name poster i frequently see in the replies of popular posts. shut the fuck up forever, please and thank you.

i took the kids to skyline for dinner and someone paid for our meal because they thought i raised the kids well i'm gonna miss this when i'm a woman

"digital tulpa" gotta remember that one

jason grinblat@jfg.land · last wk.

when software interrupts my interaction flow with an unexpected popup — often to introduce a new digital tulpa named Krolo or some such — I rejoice in the small but rebellious act of hitting Esc rather than Okay

isn't it fucked up that you can't own a domain name but merely lease it?

idiot alert: i only registered my domain for one year at a time instead of 10 years at a time

i know it's very "high school weeb" of me, but princess mononoke is maybe the greatest movie of all time

my wife said, "I just want to read contemporary lit fic with incredible prose and compelling plots at a rate of 2 books a week and never have a lull or a dud IS THAT REALLY SO MUCH TO ASK"

i love tiktok, some of the worst brain worms available (i think this is the first transphobia directed at me lol)

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rascal is as good a site as @aftermath.site or @404media.co or any of the other indie sites, and deserves better than a slow decline. their coverage of ttrpgs is unparalleled and their writing top notch. i'm begging y'all to support them.

Rascal News@rascal.news · 2w ago

State of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...

Being the finance lead for rascal the last year has been a gradually worsening job, only because I have to be the bearer of bad news each month as the global economy gets worse and worse. If you want Rascal to continue to exist for years to come, we need your support

Rascal News@rascal.news · 2w ago

State of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...

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2 Mello@2mello.net · 2w ago

rhythm pools 02 - effervesce is on its way this week. "effervesce", to show liveliness or exhilaration. This is one last party for the summer. No pre-order or singles. Ten tracks at once, August 7 at midnight. And they hit. Plus a Bandcamp listening party, August 7 at 7PM EST. Don't miss it.

Some radical transparency: we may only have a year left at our current pace. If you'd like to help us survive to reach our full potential, consider subscribing, donating, or buying a gift subscription.

Rascal News@rascal.news · 2w ago

State of the Rascal: August 2026 www.rascal.news/state-of-the...

i've been using "hey.com" as my email provider, but i'm tired of the UX and i'm tired of supporting DHH. however, it seems like all of the other non-gmail providers are some level of evil too. what do y'all use? i'm good to keep paying $100 a year if the service is worthwhile.

"Alright but IF you hadn't eaten breakfast...." “It is profitless to speculate on error.”

the perfect game length, the perfect aftermath article

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2w ago

All games should be 15 hours long (or less): aftermath.site/how-long-to-be...

I want to see more @puzzmo.com accounts when I'm on Bluesky! Help me juke my stats, if you've hooked it up and got the label, but don't have a paid account; DM me your profile link over the next week and I'll gift you a year's sub (The link is in the dropdown when you click on your nav avatar)

so when the 404 media folks subscribe to aftermath, and the aftermath folks subscribe to 404 media, do you think they're using a group discount, or do they all share one account? just a big game of passing a handful of $100 bills back and forth?

you need to subscribe to @404media.co immediately, if you're not already. some of the finest journalism in the biz, consistently causing bad actors to clean up their behavior.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w ago

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

every day i'm vindicated for picking up super mario 3d all-stars in 2020. sunshine was and is and will continue to be the best 3d mario

Nintendo of America [Twitter/X Mirror]@nintendousa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dark days loom over Isle Delfino! Clean up a polluted island with FLUDD at your side in Super Mario Sunshine, coming to Nintendo GameCube – Nintendo Classics on Nintendo Switch 2 for #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members on Aug 13!

Even ostensibly pro-porn folks often talk like it's the presence of NARRATIVE that makes porn an art form, as though the erotic must be justified in order to elevate it from the mere mechanical production of arousal, and it always makes me feel like maybe we're not quite as "pro" as we think we are.

i'd open a 2-room museum to programming books. a little section on the early research papers (john mccarthy's lisp paper), a section on K&R's C, a section on O'Reilly, a section of "first book written for each major language", all of knuth's TAOCP, samples of "Dummy's Guide to" would be fun i think

feels silly to put the zachtronics solitaire collection on here, but i played roughly 6 hours of it this week, so how could i not? dead space 2023 is good fun, idk if i like isaac's voice acting beatdown city survivors is disappointing. maybe even bad? hard to dislike indies, but sometimes...

Backloggd@backloggd.com · 2w ago

Back for another #BackloggdWeekly, post your last played!