I am not a serious person because I am fully sold on the Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake just because they let you have a ship's cat now

people always roll their eyes at "It's bad for the environment" like the environment isn't where we live

You’re gonna see a lot of “the ai companies are finally trying to control costs” stories coming soon that will be written with an air of surprise and confusion. Remember that this was all obvious two years ago!

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

Waiting on Hank Green to tell me that this doesn't matter somehow

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it.

Anyway: fund basic research.

please read witch hat

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics.

The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

a proportionate *and necessary* response, without which the current extremely illegitimate Republican Supreme Court will thwart other such responses.

"An Ignorant Population Is Easier to Control" The cascading consequences of the terror campaign against children's literature

Way too important to paywall. Please share with reporters you know in the national media. Children's book authors now have to sign into hotels under assumed names. Two book imprints have gone under, partially from the hit they took from censorship.

rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignoran...

didn't you put your phone in the pool because it was too hot or something?

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

Me when I tell Gen Z kids I used to be cool on the internet because I was an "SA goon" and they start calling the cops on me

one required, but sadly enormous, shift in the way americans view things: recovering an understanding that a democratic government is a collective enterprise that should deliver tangible services and benefits to people

IYKYK

Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

Love making gamers angry on Reddit with the "controversial" take that I don't think MMOs should rely on fansites or blogposts to explain their confusing systems.

Something in-game should be telling me how Special Weekly Item Bonus works, not a graphic made by a fan posted to Reddit using MS Paint.

As it turns out, NASA has to code the rocket as a hat that the astronauts all equip in their inventory's head slot in order to ride it

I will be rotating Danny Kaye Columbo in my mind well into the foreseeable future

Why is this video not censored? YouTube video by Etymology Nerd

Oh! On Algospeak! you probably don't need to use it now. If you ever actually did. youtube.com/shorts/Z5fvm...

Why is it all you bean souping mother fuckers will hold a grudge forever if someone accidentally misgenders a cartoon alien, but wanna welcome every neo nazi into the fold if they bat their eyelashes at you?

I... I can't believe I have to say this, but we cannot rehabilitate Tucker Carlson.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.

The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."

My story:

Oh daaaaaaaang. Kris Straub, creator of Local 58, aka The Guy Who Basically Defined Modern Analog Horror.

thtrsr.ch

Also the creator of Candle Cove - that gave us Channel Zero.

Penguin Colony has joined the Fellow Traveller family!

From @origamedigital.bsky.social, the creator of Umurangi Generation, this Lovecraftian adventure told from the perspective of a colony of penguins is coming to Steam and Nintendo Switch 2 later this year.

🐧 bit.ly/PenguinColon...

A shimmering circle of light surrounds the upraised arms of a woman who weaves light from the battlements of a castle. She wears an elegant dress of black and purple, and even in small detail it's obvious she's dripping in gold jewelry. Below an orange dragon with a yellow scaled belly blasts a stream of flame into the air. The gout isn't aimed at the armed men below who run in terror as their shield their eyes and bodies. A wall of white flames climbs the castle wall behind the dragon bathing the foreground in intense light. None of the flame consumes the surrounding bare trees or tents—evidence of a siege in progress but now broken.

Detail from STRONGHOLD featuring a Sunrunner weaving light from the top of castle battlements. Below an orange dragon cracks its maw to send a line of fire into the sky.

lose detail from STRONGHOLD featuring a woman with arms upraised as she weaves a shimmering circle of light. She wears an elegant dress of black and purple, and even in small detail it’s obvious she’s dripping in gold jewelry

STRONGHOLD (1990)
Acrylic - 30” x 20”

The magic in Melanie Rawn's Sunrunner trilogies involves weaving light, but just what is that faradhi on the battlements casting? There are clues to what's going on in the illustration. 1/2

#booksky #art