Cole

What's that, Alison? You're going to be onstage again? Yes!

Book Club is BACK, this time guesting in NOT ANOTHER ISEKAI! It's exactly what you think it is! Yes! The Book Club gals get isekai'd into a fantasy world!

www.jetcityimprov.org/isekai.html

A bsky post in all caps: “[louder as if that will improve reception] the bluesky devs would be very upset by your jokes about vibe coding if they could load your posts. Below this the comments have NOT loaded 🤷🏻‍♀️

@brunodias.bsky.social your receipt, sir

i love living in the first village of an rpg man. friendly neighbors, music is chill af, we even got that one kid we adopted into the village of whom the ancient prophecy was written about. anyway there’s a big ceremony tomorrow can't wait to still be alive after it

not now, kitten. the walls are closing in on mommy

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

we all know I have no life, so:

It's a good day for Magic Story--no fewer than THREE current or previous authors for Magic: the Gathering have been nominated for Hugos. Congratulations @seananmcguire.bsky.social, @valerievaldes.bsky.social, and @marthawells.com !

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

mirror’s edge

To Fight Heat, NYC Sets 2040 Tree Canopy Deadline, With Riskiest Areas First How the plan will be funded is unclear. The Mamdani administration has not earmarked money for its tree-expansion initiative.

trees as cooling infrastructure! this is a fascinating story from @smaldo.bsky.social:

what the hell was every previous mayor even doing?

RFK Jr. is a guy who was meant to commit a series of themed animal crimes in Gotham City with the ultimate goal to “eat the Bat” before being subdued and returned to Arkham.

Very happy to reveal that Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector has been nominated for a 🚀Hugo! 🚀

I grew up reading Hugo winners and nominees, and many previously nominated and awarded books are among my biggest inspirations! www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history...

I DELETED THE STARBUCKS APP #DeleteTheApp to show Starbucks that you stand with baristas, not billion-dollar companies.

We want our coffee brewed by UNION baristas.

Today, we are in solidarity with @sbworkersunited.org on their Day of Action and call on everyone to refuse to patronize non-union standalone Starbucks stores, and to delete the Starbucks app on your phone.

No Contract. No Coffee. No app. #DeleteTheApp

The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest and deadliest battle for U.S. troops in WWI, resulted in approximately 26,277 American deaths. In comparison, the flu killed roughly 30,000 American soldiers in stateside training camps before they even reached Europe

I'M STUCK IN A LOOP

Best Game or Interactive Work Blue Prince, developed by Dogubomb, published by Raw Fury Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, developed by Jump Over the Age, published by Fellow Traveller Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, developed by Sandfall Interactive, published by Kepler Interactive Dispatch, developed and published AdHoc Studio Hades II, developed and published by Supergiant Games Hollow Knight: Silksong, developed and published by Team Cherry 357 ballots cast for 159 nominees. Finalists range 29-110. (924 raw noms)

(26/55) Best Game or Interactive Work (cont. 2) 🚀
Hades II, developed and published by @supergiantgames.bsky.social
Hollow Knight: Silksong, developed and published by Team Cherry

It looks like a (stolen or gifted) favour from Carmen SanDiego 🔥

manifesting:
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🕯 🕯
🪄 good news 🪄

🕯 and good times 🕯

✨ holy fuck ✨
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texture on the Misriah casing that reads “KILL FOR MOMMY…”

good morning this is a real texture in Marathon

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.

Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)

Distributed physical copies matter.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

I’m on a train full of mariners fans and miku cosplayers

this is the seattle experience

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

(coworkers reacting with laughing emojis to my slack messages) This is great. I am going to get a good grade in being a coworker, something that is normal to want and possible to achieve,

Yeah I believe in the holy trinity*

* Knight girl, squire girl and their liege lady

Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Elections have consequences

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?