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Annapurna Interactive announces 'Gone Home' extraction shooter sequel in which 30 players are parachuted into Rural Oregon and attempt to collect enough Angela Carter short story collections and Kate Bush LPs to realize they're a lesbian before anyone else

gf: honey please calm down...all the regents are in attendance me: oh so you agree with the jester? you think me a dandy? a peacock? a strutting fool of a bird?!? gf: i told you not to wear the Coat of Brilliance me (whispering harshly): i knew you hated my coat

Get thee behind the chopper if thou wantest to live deliciously

should you be more skeptical of my self-admitted keylogger than any other code a stranger gives you? I'm not so sure eieio.games/blog/be-skep...

In the absence of social media enabling them to find each other, form a movement, and seize political power, we'd recognize much of the far-right as just profoundly psychologically and emotionally unwell people, the way we can see that Kanye's Nazism is part of his acute mental illnesses.

Blog holds up

jesus christ just tell us if it’s maybelline

It's Friday afternoon, do you know where the bones of your ancestors are?

I'm a blacksmith in a video game. I make three little clinky taps every time you give me five bronze bars to upgrade your weapon. Good day to you

I bet doom scroll meant something way cooler in the middle ages.

"In the future, we will no longer have aspirational goals" is a masterstroke of Google corporate communications www.theverge.com/google/60701...

Study Finds Human Brain Contains Entire Spoon’s Worth Of Nanoplastics theonion.com/study-f...

People who ask questions like "is that allowed?" or "is that legal?" really misunderstand the spirit of Crime Season. Laws are just words decided via a public ceremony and what's allowed is whatever you can do if nothing stops you. Crime Season is all about learning whether anything will stop you.

Accidentally revealed too much about my journey of revenge to Confucius so now I'm going to have to dig three graves.

This is what I think of as a specific kind of ignorance that heavily affects young white guys who work in tech. It says “i don’t know about this, so I assume no one else does either.” It’s new to them, so it must be new to everybody!

Bij hun vrijlating werden Israëliërs ‘gijzelaars’ genoemd, maar Palestijnen ‘gevangenen’. Een groot deel van hen heeft alleen nooit een proces gehad. Waarom doet het ertoe welke woorden je gebruikt? ‘Als je de context niet benoemt, draag je bij aan dehumanisering van Palestijnen.’

i am on record as saying they despite having so many other notably bad cases and people, that in a few decades or more (assuming we get through this) that in legal circles it will be called the citizens united era

It was so easy to be wise two thousand years ago or whatever. Some doofus would go "When you seek revenge, dig two graves" and everyone would ooh and ahh. That's maybe 12 likes max in the modern poster's world

The American people spoke, and they wanted Elon Musk to be able to share Americans’ personal information from government databases to whatever 19 year old gamers he’s trying to impress on Discord

didn't realize their dev team was 3 permanent engineers. no doubt in my mind that's the highest positive impact per head of any software job in the world

The BMJ journal Archive of Disease in Childhood has just published the epidemiological study done by York university that was commissioned as part of the Cass review into gender clinics in the UK. It contains some STARTLING (and yet, unsurprising) revelations. 1/n

The delight in far right behaviour I see from so many hacks, the normalising from others, shows that yet again we don’t learn from history - history is something to look back at with a sad face while all around us we create new events for others to look back on sadly in the future

classic Loony Tunes have much to teach us about class solidarity

sorry man you have only yourself to blame for this

Boston Market recently changed their name to Boston MARKET, a move that increased their market capitalization by 500%

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

DeepSeek's most powerful capability is confirming in everyone's minds what they already believed about AI

i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life!

oh you 'just want to work?' you 'want to exchange the skills youve developed for housiung and food?" fuck you, dumbass. yuo should have learned how to do computer programs [coding gets taken over by ai] wlel,

Dr. Seuss struggling not to rhyme as he gives a description of his wife’s killer

To get a bit of an idea, check out ransomwatch.telemetry.ltd They aggregate data from ransomware gangs' web sites - the gangs usually don't announce every attack, but it's still *a lot*.