i think about this all the time

Discovered a cursed photo subgenre: "grift hands"

Unfathomable

Got a spare $10? Net yourself almost 150 games and help support laid off game devs with the game industry hardship fund bundle. https://bit.ly/4wGDzDk

The @grogpod.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy crew (minus one) did a stellar job on this 2-part series about the origins of the roguelike video game genre. If I were giving a course on this at uni, it would be on the reading list for sure. #indiegames #roguelikedev grogpod.zone/2026-07-22-E...

Episode 100 Part 1 - Rogue and its Predecessors

The road to Rogue was paved with ascii, teletype, thousand-pound mainframes, and a hacker spirit only highschoolers and college kids and eminate. For our big 100th episode, we have for you a 3-part de...

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My personal rule is that if a person’s foremost issue with any given community is “division,” what follows is typically a defense of the status quo and a call to concede to its demands.

Holly Lyn Walrath@hollylynwalrath.bsky.social · 18h ago

There is a lengthy pro-AI screed in the latest HWA newsletter and it is . . . a mood.

A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.

60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals

Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity

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Early COVID mitigations showed us the power of collective action. The environment began to heal. People with disabilities were accommodated. An entire flu strain was eradicated. Folks reconnected with their local communities. We worked together & saved lives.

Never forget that he saved someone from killing themself because they recognized his voice in a suicide prevention hotline. 🥹

Ghostbusters News@ghostbustersnews.bsky.social · yesterday

Remembering Lorenzo Music, the iconic voice of Garfield and the original Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters, who passed away on this day in 2001. A true multi-talent, he was also a key creative force behind The Bob Newhart Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, and more.

the cool thing about higher taxes is, it solves so many problems that we’re currently suffering under, all with one simple trick

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · yesterday

I think on the whole it’s totally fine in principle to urge people to be cautious in how they talk about AIPAC et al but some people really do need to get it thru to themselves that it is actually exceptional for one organization to spend >30M on a single primary like it’s nothing.

I am starting to think, _maybe_ we could finish six more issues of Loadstar, the C64 magazine-on-disk, and bring it to an even (in binary) 256?

Obligatory.

In baseball, there was no explicit rule against women playing until an exhibition match in which a woman struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Not only were women banned from playing baseball with men after that; they were banned from playing baseball altogether.

I heard that WNBA teams scrimmage against teams of male ex-college players, since there's plenty of guys who can't make a living playing ball who but at least want to make a buck. And the scrimmage teams have terrible rollover because they get consistently beaten and the players don't take it well

ok here we go Funder Thorce V: Serfect Pystem

that’s what public services are, that’s how they work, no one person takes advantage of every single public service, it just has to service people ya fuckin dipshit low-rent dentist office ass newspaper

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

All cookbooks now are either called GIRL, SALT THAT RICE! or THE TEASPOON'S RECKONING.

This is my favorite shirt that I can't wear to work.

Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀@reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 2d ago

"The Boss Needs You..." prints are restocked in all sizes! I have t-shirts, tank tops, and stickers too. willburrows.art/shop Also - I have an 18"x24" copy with a 1/4" tear at the top edge that I'll sell for 25% off. The tear would be completely concealed if you plan to frame it.

I hate this blanket narrative of “all journalists are bad.” You’re wrong. Journalists are quietly saving your ass.

Seattle has its own vigilante group that will help you recover your stolen bike and I promise they were 100x more effective than the police and also sometimes the head lady tells you about her farm.

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

They will be talking about Fauci in 2036 btw, its never going to stop. George Soros is 95 years old and he's still a boogeyman buzz word.

NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3d ago

Caitlin Flanagan was a prominent Atlantic staff writer for 25 years. Explain to me again how the Atlantic is a serious-minded, left-center publication.

I didn't end up doing a full review of The Amazing Digital Circus, but in place of that here's a Ponett Gazette post archiving some thoughts on the show and its finale that I shared elsewhere ponett.dog/blog/tadc

Quick thoughts on The Amazing Digital Circus and its finale

Scattered thoughts compiled from elsewhere on TADC and its associated fandom discourse, largely in defense of its controversial ending.

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It's been REALLY funny watching all the op-eds coming out like, "Um, actually, have you considered that feeding the poor is bad???"

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Well, actually, kinda, yeah, close to what happened. It's not for nothing that Jack Dorsey, who started the place and was on its board, basically ran away when the trans folks and furries scared off all the crypto bros he assumed would be the natural demographic here (they went to Nostr instead).

jack@jackalltogether.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bluesky often seems like a project run by tech people who place great value on its architectural differences from Twitter, which nobody cares about, while not understanding how they walked ass-backwards into having a userbase (whomst they fear and despise)

A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.

Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now

The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.

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Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

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