Any and all scientists and engineers that built the running robot: I curse you. May the bread you eat taste as ashes in your mouths

Random thought. If you're going to mount your time machine in a vehicle, I would suggest that you forego the DeLorean in favour of a submarine. Think about it. Up until very recently, you're essentially invisible and untouchable. You can steal ashore at night and vanish away when you're ready.

An AI slop image showing the '12 steps to masterful game directing", including 'Connectiarg' and 'Porkon Cows'

People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s.

Let's go through them one by one and learn together.

Okay FINE

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y'all should give money to venmo.com/u/mercuryal they work so hard and deserve a fucking break!

Seriously, thank you SO MUCH to everyone who spoke up for IT WAS HER HOUSE FIRST - I had no idea this was coming; and I am surprised/delighted/honored beyond measure ❤️

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I get this argument in my replies a lot online, and it makes me so so so tired.

The world is vaster that you can conceive, and people can have very different experiences of queerness and faith to you, and that doesn't invalidate your experience - but it's also not any less real and valid.

Also, this is why I have absolutely no time for people online who say you can't be queer and Religious/Christian.

This is the kind of thing that rhetoric enables, and it's actively harming vulnerable people in real life. Just because you can't be queer and religious, doesn't mean other people can't

I honestly do think that "words mean things" as a cliche has given people permanent ontological damage. it is an appeal to authority, ceding our collective responsibility to construct meaning to a class of people who do not share your interests

words don't mean things
people mean things
start there

a language is a living, breathing organism that we keep, collectively, inside our bodies. a dictionary is a stack of paper with squiggles on it. maybe some bodies can use those squiggles to settle a disagreement, but language exists prior to those squiggles, and will, in all likelihood, outlive them

A Biblical scholar on YouTube that I like frequently and emphatically reminds viewers that “the Bible has no inherent meaning.” Not a shocking claim if you know how language works but I always imagine the rage and confusion that must generate in most people.

I personally am unfamiliar with Stella’s work in games but this is a strong pitch.

The scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where, after Jones asks who the “top men” are that the government tasked with studying the Ark, the agent replies “Top…men.”

A woman who habitually references old things finally goes back in time to an era when she’ll feel welcome, and accidentally winds up romancing a younger version of herself.

Coming next Valentine’s Day: WAY TO DATE YOURSELF.

LEO: And they're called "sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance," they're the absolute worst ones.
ROGAN: I've heard of those.
LEO: Yeah.
ROGAN: Like making a fuckin homunculus.
LEO: I don't think that's in there.
ROGAN: I thought it was.

Let's have a pope who's strong on nuclear weapons. Full 40k, a gilded baroque nuke in St. Peters. Replace that obelisk with an ICBM launcher, and call it the Holy Sword of Azrael. Jesuits with rangefinders.

"Transubstantiate this," mutters Leo as he turns the Key of St. Peter. "Fiat fucking lux."

today we learn whether my theory is correct and it really does take exactly one (1) dopesmoker door to door from my apartment to laguardia airport

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

The Kinks’ “Shangri-La” at the 3:33 mark, where the song switches from blunt-instrument hard rock to a lilting “la-la-la”.

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“This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle—broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older Pope, I surely would. But I'm a man of thirty—of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism.”

I have repeatedly proposed a Eurovision But All Heavy Metal. However, I should also examine pitfalls

1. Germany, Austria and Switzerland proposing an Official Language Only rule to protect their advantage

2. Unexpected dominance by Vatican City

3. The UK still inexplicably sending mid pop

Josephine Baker's remains were moved to the Panthéon in 2021 - effectively declaring her a hero of France. Do you know how few people have been granted that honour? It is Not A Lot Of People

Mayor Zohran Mamdani behind the counter of a bodega in The Bronx, flanked by various people. A journalist with a microphone labeled “Shop Cats” is standing in front of the sales counter, and holding the mic up to a black and white cat sitting on the counter next to bananas. The cat has an expression like in the famous “Sir, are you aware that you are a cat” meme

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

popping in only to share this, the best email I've ever gotten, with you guys:

In so many ways we’re seeing how “we just have to get tougher” is the solution for people who have no idea of what they’re talking about.

Orban's defeat has me in a good mood, so here are 10 US #KindleBookGiveaway copies of Terry Pratchett's Small Gods, which has an ending that makes me feel the same way. This is a fantastic book, and was the first pterry book I read that I *loved*.

#GNUTerryPratchett

Thank you!

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.