if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 16h ago

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

Holy crap that Deadpool gameplay trailer for Tokon. There’s… a lot there.

Banger

Wizards making the Hatsune Miku Commander deck a 24-hour ordering window is a welcome change to the Secret Lair ordering system. If you don’t get in the pre-allotment, you have to wait a year, but that just shows you how backed up printing is for TCGs right now. magic.wizards.com/en/news/anno...

Secret Lair Commander Deck: Hatsune Miku Decklist

Hatsune Miku takes the stage in Secret Lair's first Universes Beyond Commander deck coming August 10!

magic.wizards.com

Diablo IV’s buff/debuff iconography and design is among the worst experiences I think I have ever encountered in a video game. It’s inexplicable how hard it is to know what any of it means, *especially* when you play on pad.

Ok but also this is incredibly relatable to theater kids or anyone who's had to wrangle them

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · 2d ago

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

The remake of Battlestar Galactica may have had one of the strongest starts of any TV show ever, only to completely run out of steam around mid-S3 due to the writers clearly not having sketched out where things were going to go ahead of time. “33” is optimal television.

Tonight’s updates and opinions are brought to you by unemployment insomnia, I’m afraid. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have been working this evening at uninstalling a wire shelf the builder put in my extra bedroom (my office) closet when this house was built around 20 years ago. These mounting bits are SATANIC. There is no logical way to remove them without them taking chunks out of your drywall.

This is largely a reflection of what social media is like in general. Trolls and bad-faith operators simply *cannot* gain traction unless they are actively assisted by platform holders, either by switching to algorithm-based feeds by default (or alone), or softening self and group moderation tools.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

We were watching that silly new Tom Hiddleston reenactment of the disaster of Pompeii and he was like ‘we have amazing new tech that allows us to track people through this disaster’ and I was oh no he’s going to say it’s an AI brain or something and then he said…. ‘Its a spreadsheet’ and I CHEERED

ALL NEW! From the Do Anything Other Than Find Ways to Redistribute Wealth and Your Only Value to Society Is What You Produce Departments! With a bonus assist from the We Hate the Humanities Council! www.latimes.com/california/s...

If your degree doesn’t pay enough, you can’t borrow. Federal loans cut for low-wage programs

Students in low-paying college degree and certificate programs will no longer be eligible for federal student loans under a new rule.

latimes.com

It’s Monday of week three, and if you want to know how things are going for me, I just accidentally sent every email in my inbox to the trash in Thunderbird because I can’t type and hit the wrong shortcut.

This is not what I needed to see on Monday morning.

ⓓⓔⓔⓑ definitive edition nintendo switch 2 edition@deeb.bsky.social · 4d ago

I am 2,000 years old

You dont want players to be baffled and confused by your patch notes. If they can't see your intentions and you haven't bothered to explain them, trust can break down.

The music in FFVII Remake Intermission slaps so hard in a Cowboy Bebop kinda way.

Potentially overlooked aspect when I decided to go ultrawide:

[Says to self: “Self: you once thought it’d be a cool idea to go into business for yourself as a friendly local game store, right?”] [looks at prices of commercial real estate] [goes back to working on résumé instead] How does anyone actually start a business in this era?

Went to an arcade in Halifax that had a framed portrait of Shigeru Miyamoto looking like he's about to be at the center of a murder mystery in the pacific northwest

So… they’re working

@jchensor.bsky.social I don’t even use Twitter anymore for notifications, so I missed that you honored me with your 2025 awards (I’m amused by this). Thanks, James. I need to watch the show where you did this. I’m humbled. What a wild thing that means so much to me.

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

Contemporary thing I can’t stand: How many people think if you say something, and then circumstances change and you have to alter your plans to a different trajectory than what you previously said, you “lied.” Things change all the time.

One of the most important issues of our time is that the future of humanity is presently being authored by people who have nothing but total contempt for humanity and seek the erasure of everything that gives being a human meaning. It’s not just annoying. It doesn’t just suck. It’s existential.

hero

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 5d ago

K-pop star Momo is under fire after breaking open a vintage graded Pokémon card to stick it on her face and keep it in her phone case

The thing is: it isn’t fair that being employable hinges on 100 per centing all measures. failure is a part of everyone’s journey to getting good at anything

Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.

Train it *how*? And for *what*? I’m sure I’m not the only person who doesn’t see an actual point behind this kind of decision.

Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d ago

Twitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.

Screech eventually having top billing is maybe the biggest sign that Saved by the Bell went on for far too long.

Sitcom People@sitcompeople.bsky.social · 5d ago