My son kept talking about “Miss America” and I thought he was living some sort of rich queeny fantasy life until I realized he just has a new daycare teacher named “America.”

A picture of a majestic humpback whale leaping from the seas with the caption “humpback whales are forming super-groups”, rather than simply admire the wonder of nature I am making a poor quality music gag

This is why whale punk had to happen

As I recall, he was (almost) a whistleblower about the Fort Bragg drug-running, though he didn't live long enough to be one of those modern Fort Bragg guys, the spec ops serial killer drug kingpins. Incidentally, for a look at that, I recommend Seth Harp's The Fort Bragg Cartel.

Aberration in the Heartland of the Real is a wild, wild ride

This is not to ascribe old-timey-hypnotist powers to McVeigh; in my experience with police/FBI/military types, they're very credulous and easily led, prone to disassociation and "just sort of following along." Through intention or accident, McVeigh got them into that kind of state for months.

Oh wait I do have a real one of these: Tim McVeigh was supposed to be a useful dupe for the FBI, but he basically took over his "handlers" and ran the show. They followed along like lost dogs, then sat there like hypnotized chickens while he and Fortier blew up the Murrah Building.

I'm a JFK docetist. He never had a physical body, he was just a projection onto television. The technology disappeared after the moon landing, not sure how, I think Nixon ruined it somehow

When I die make sure they burn my brain all the way

"why don't people like AI?"

hmm a real poser...maybe because AI proponents are a collection of the worst people alive bragging about how badly it's going to fuck everything up, which is fine with them because they'll be rich?

that's one possibility

Save 30% on Chronicon Apocalyptica on Steam Battle Norse raiders, ghosts, and changelings to save medieval England! But beware, if the elves can capture the Book you hold, the world will end.

The Steam Medieval sale is on for Choice of Games and the (in my opinion, criminally underrated) weird-scholastic mystery adventure Chronicon Apocalyptica is 30% off

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

When the then best-selling novelist Jay McInerney visited Paul Bowles in Tangier, 1985, for Vanity Fair, one of his most intriguing observations was that, "Bowles makes his way around town in a bronze 1967 Mustang."

Photos by Mary Ellen Mark

www.maryellenmark.com/bibliography...

Do you think they treated the guy who came up with the idea for horseshoes like he was crazy. Or do you think his community was like, "Finally"

Also, "this tech kills the market for entry level jobs but doesn't make the need for people who were trained through the entry level jobs go away" is a clusterfuck for the industry.

Color illustration of the Guardian Angel, a character from the game.

I had the pleasure of drawing a piece about one of my favorite games, Baroque, for the latest @revistaloop.bsky.social issue <3

I do this a lot too, sometimes for bad stories with good ideas, sometimes for good stories written by someone whose Lunatic Obsessions are so different from mine that I still have room to work

Winter is back baby. It's good again. (wolf howl, Fenrir awakens to swallow the sun and moon and bring about Fimbulwinter)

Lou Zocchi was a true legend - a word that’s so often overused. But in this case, none other fits.

The first true SF game I played was STAR FLEET BATTLES. I have such fond memories of 14-year old me pulling strings across the floor in ship-to-ship battles…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Fl...

They said it belonged to a great man. A man who had settled into his fame and could own such luxuries. Though he did not sustain his family well the auctioneer said he did see the value in a turbocharged inline four. Though he did not sustain the car either. The auctioneer spit. It will not start.

tbh that pic of the Israeli soldier walloping Jesus right in his papier-mâché face is the first time I've laughed about this hideous war

Could Swamp Thing defeat the eyeball spaceship from Angel's Egg? This game…probably doesn't try to answer that question, but maybe it does, I dunno

The AI inflicted on us (stolen nonsense from the pollution machine) is also devouring all the resources that could've gone into useful machine learning. Why am I still typing in alt text? Isn't AI good enough for that now? We've been clicking on pictures of motorcycles for twenty years!

In the last game I wrote, there's a scene with an AI-powered text analysis, and when I discussed that, the interviewer mentioned his AI-powered sound cleanup software. 2-3 years later I don't think either of us would say "AI" because AI is only for stolen nonsense from the pollution machine.

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

The Nissan President has been abducted by Nissan Rogues and taken to the Nissan Frontier. His daughter, Nissan Fairlady asks you, Nissan Cedric, a humble Nissan Civilian, to join the Nissan Patrol and use your Nissan Kicks and Nissan Juke to rescue him before he is put inside the Nissan Cube

Staying indoors today (marijuana berzerker day) for my safety. Suggest you do the same.

Contemplating the expanding-and-contracting temporal effect of nostalgia by noting that "Thunder Road" references "Only the Lonely," a song only fifteen years old at the time. You are welcome to search the music hits of 2011 if you want to be depressed.

Man, that Nine Inch Noize Coachella set is so strangely life affirming, hearing someone screaming God is a virus over industrial beats and smiling, "yes, you can keep pushing yourself and make interesting work, there is no reason to slip into the lotus eating of nostalgia."

the use case for this is drone cops that can chase you where cars can't go, while the meat cops eat donuts and play it like a videogame

"i should text her" no squeak!