I'm watching a(nother) Let's Play play through of Silksong and it's a relief to see people who are actually good at video games still struggle but also it's STRESSING ME OUT that this guy has never realized he has a lava protection charm that would cut his damage in half.
You are a cool person and a good friend, among many other attributes, which are great things to show for it. <3
(For me, when I turned 40, I really thought of it as an escape from the crap of my 30s, which helped a lot.)
This is already great, but if you want to feel *really* good, think about Mamdani in the debate telling Cuomo to learn how to pronounce his name, then listen to all the little kids scream it.
That would explain a lot, tbh.
No one said it had to be a high stakes conspiracy.
Disney had not paid attention during Newsies' development process, didn't realize it was a movie about the power of unions until it was basically done. When execs realized, they intentionally did no marketing for it and pulled it from the theater after only a couple of weeks so it would tank.
Wow!
Yeah OP's take that isolation was popular is, uh, wild.
Ahhh!!!! Congrats, that's so exciting!!!
Hey @akaharriet.bsky.social , we have an Onion subscription now.
I did not actually know about Snake Backwards!
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I wrote a little bit about this personal playground a couple of years ago, why I started noodling like this, and why it's so much fun: www.beckyallenbooks.com/2025/01/01/o...
Uhhh lemme check the length of my personal playground scrivener file real quick... yeah that's 280,000 words just for me in the last two years. I wouldn't mind getting paid to add another 100k to it and no one's ever gonna see it anyway 😂
Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.”
America’s Mayor can’t miss.
It was up by Columbia, maybe 114 or so?
...the final block was a JAPANESE FOOD FESTIVAL so I was rewarded for going outside in the nice weather with onigiri and fresh taiyaki for lunch!!!! Not to brag but I'm winning Saturday!!!
Ahhhh!! So I walked a couple miles in the park and it was LOVELY, then cut over to Broadway to walk home because I had to run an errand, and discovered a massive street fair. Always fun but I rarely get anything, BUT...
It is an actual perfect day out today in NYC.
I think some of it is the flattering and wanting more money but a lot of it is also backing a government that won't investigate them, break up their monopolies, or tax them. Convenient that all fits in the with the sychophants. 😬
New Yorkers do love giving directions!
😂😂😂
My building's workers are part of this union and one reason I love my co-op is that our message board is full of "go support them!!! let's go, unions!!" messages.
let's fucking gooooo
And to be clear, I don't blame indie authors for this at all! You go where the sales are, and if it costs more to publish wide than you make on it, of course you stop doing that. It just suuuuucks.
I'm bummed about the draft2digital news because I *am* the extremely rare reader who does not buy ebooks from Amazon but does actually purchase them elsewhere when I can. Your one random sale on B&N? That was me, baby. And now I will miss out on *more* books as authors pull from d2d, SIGH.
Oh also we're hitting the time of year when you can run the a/c, *or* you can have the window open, but I'm not paying to cool the outdoors!!
At brunch with friends a few weeks ago: "Oh I haven't been here since before the pandemic! ... was it always so LOUD? It's so loud in restaurants these days."
