the fediverse is more decentralized than email is. whatever you think of fedi (plenty to hate about it), it's genuinely impressive.

arewedecentralizedyet.online

I have no real ill will towards bluesky but it's worth saying that "mastodon.social is being DDOS'd, so much for your ~true~ decentralization" fails to land when, in cases like this, 75% of the fediverse remains operational, vs. -1.4%- of bluesky. mastodon.social and bsky.app are not comparable.

Millennials will be like "I just want to move into the country and share a plot of land with my friends", not knowing that what they actually want is a cottage court in a walkable city with decent espresso nearby

it's a way libs will call internet socialists immature & childish

Good for you, man. Tysm for everything you've done.

I'm super happy to ally with yimbys case-by-case on local politics tho! lots of good people in that fight. let's absolutely upzone the hell out of our cities. Just don't come out swinging if u don't want a fight ya know.

I am open to debating a version of free market economics that does not involve coercing people outside of your line of sight into debt slavery. would probably require the end of interest-bearing debt and also discrediting & demolishing & replacing roman property law.

this meme format always makes me laugh because when you actually look at it it kind of looks hellish. whats that lawn doing there.

The problem with "wise practical yimby liberals can deliver Prosperity For All while anti-bedtime socialists complain" is that it quietly elides liberalism's dependency on the pillaging of the global south.

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

TTRPG about me

First game: D&D 3e beginner box
Last game: Blades in the Dark
Longest game: Apocalypse World
Favorite game: Under Hollow Hills
Favorite mechanics: meeting sword-to-sword in Firebrands et all
Favorite setting: a homebrew sword-and-planet thing (or UHH again)
Favorite art: Mothership

does the consumer price index account for the quality of the items

yeah the people who close ranks to protect predators aren't gonna do that for people in the out-group

I've found so many uses for simulating springs in Jumper. UI wiggle? Spring. Screen shake? Spring. Camera movement? Stiff spring. Wobbly platform? Springy spring. I'm spring-pilled. I'm springsmaxxing.

springs >>>> tweens

I'm gonna start shortening it to 'sphere.

I love this for you

ppl still out here saying "games are the only interactive medium" like they haven't heard of "sheet music" or "scripts". a hint might be that we use the word "play" for all of these.

That's all a very fair response, thanks for taking the time

If you have the time, can you answer how you feel about the sitting DSA-backed city council members (in and outside of D3) and whether you see yourself alongside them, opposed to them, or something else?

Tom has definitely said enough here to get ranked over Novick.

read witch hat

5 panels from Witch Hat Atelier. The character is trying to work on something, decides it's not right and starts something new. He then gets intimidated by the blank page and goes back to the old work. The cycle repeats.

literally me

maybe the shift of "POV" from first-person perspective shots to third-person perspective reflects that our self-conception has moved from the body to its image in the selfie cam

Thrilled that the anime will be introducing it to new audiences.

Witch Hat Atelier is probably the most interesting science fiction story I've ever read.

"Don't you mean fantasy?" no

Earth and Moon from DSCOVR NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured this unique view of the Moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. This view shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth. Ian Regan processed this version of the image to account for the Moon's motion. NASA / NOAA / Ian Regan

I hadn't seen this before. This is pretty remarkable.

Earth and Moon in one NASA photo.

ht @astrokatie.com

I made a program that generates a 7x7 grid and deletes 7 nodes from it at random as a first pass for testing some graph-based game design ideas and it's honestly fascinating how this simple algo makes such evocative layouts. I feel like these could be FPS maps or something.

i watched the first mario movie on an airplane tv over someone's shoulder in the row in front of me and tbh the thing they did to Peach (turning her into the standard "cool girl" archetype a la Lego Movie) was by far the most insulting part

so glad they captured my favorite character's personalities, such as Mario's smug condescension and Princess Peach's love of physical violence