From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

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Have you been waiting for me to upload my slides for my talk at GDC, 'Pacific Drive' Under the Hood: Survival Fundamentals, Systems Design and Speeding Past Tropes? Well, here they are!

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How To Ban Conversion Therapy YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

The latest episode of Philosophy Tube is about conversion therapy, why it’s still legal in the UK, and the ways the British government is implicated in it making it NHS policy.
Proud to expose this stuff ✊

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extremely burdened by what has been

Hurt

it's honesty a little weird to me to see people who are hostile to ai in art and writing, but openly advocating it for things like code

it kinda feels like a value judgement, "this isn't worth my time" or maybe perhaps "it's cool to exploit people writing code but art is where i draw the line"

Abi as sir Nigel piss with the caption [silent sound of British institutions experiencing a crisis of legitimacy]

Why chasing twitter's approval doesn't work The opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question:

"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"

It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.

loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

I wonder if we will see alternate networking tools pop up and used by the mainstream. I know I haven't bothered with reddit verification, I just don't use it in a way anymore, that needs it. As many have said, it's probably the point, to control our use of the Internet.

But I wanna win tho

Cool, so the internet sucks now. Guess I better go outside or something.

He really thinks he's the big boss, and he just keeps getting dog walked by people that know how to play into that.

I accidentally watched it all in a single sitting. Before I knew it I was 2 and half hours in! Bravo!

UK National Trans memorial destroyed by fire during Manchester Pride The memorial was declared “irreparably damaged” and "structurally unsound" by national Trans charity, Sparkle, on Facebook.

The UK press is upset by a statue with a bit of graffiti. Why does my mind go back to this?
gcn.ie/uk-national-...
"security weren’t aware of the memorial and the importance it holds with trans, non-binary and gender expansive communities and were allowing visitors to... to urinate against it"

The fast and the Fondue

That's cool af