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Today is Victor Hugo’s birthday! 🎂 His 1831 novel THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME helped spark efforts to preserve Paris’s iconic cathedral. Illustrated edition ➡️ https://archive.org/details/cu31924008126900/ #VictorHugo #PublicDomain #InternetArchive #LetReadersRead #NotreDame #literature

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“Together, these actions will make people in the United States and around the world less prosperous and more vulnerable.” “We at Nature denounce this assault on science. And we encourage the global research community, wherever they can, to voice their opposition.”

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Our Early Access Patch 8 for Hades II is out now on Steam and the Epic Games Store!!🌒 Following last week's Warsong Update, it should make your battles to the final confrontation go a bit better. Thank you for playing!⚔️ 🔗Full Patch Notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/114...

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if you needed one more reason to cancel your Prime

submitted 9 hours ago • 29 comments

medieval times accurate animals

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Keep it up. ❤️👊

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Hemingway, evergreen

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"When a civilization is limited to work that produces profit... we distance ourselves from the values of care and generosity—and the simple but profound belief that what happens to one of us affects all of us." A marvelous piece by @annehelen.bsky.social.

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Rotted today 🙂‍↕️

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Pisses me off that we’re stardust with the gift of conscious existence and having to spend our time on all this bullshit.

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Back to killing time with books and attempting to pay off debts I guess

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I hope you're all doing okay. Don't forget to take a moment to breathe. Take in beauty with your in breath. Share beauty with your out breath. Make art. Hug someone wonderful. Sit in the sunshine. Drink water. Read a good book. Don't forget to have some lunch. Love yourself. Love the world.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

playing hades 2 on god mode blissfully button mashing with 0 skill so i can flirt with everyone instead

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

Balatro launched one year ago today I often say I made this game for myself and friends, but seeing so many people connect with Balatro has filled this past year with joy. Thank you players, your love and support have kept Balatro thriving! I appreciate you all naneinf! 🍌

submitted 6 days ago • 228 comments

I feel like studios and executives need to be blacklisted in the gaming industry whenever they pull a mass layoff even when the game is successful. The marvel rivals situation is so incredibly fucked.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

hey did you know you can usually buy basically any book ever printed secondhand from a seller on ebay and never have to deal with amazon ever again

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Banned/challenged books are often difficult reads with jarring content, but we can't shield ourselves nor our children from the realities of the world forever - it's better to build empathy and understanding through books, especially by reading books by/about marginalized people.

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

The WARSONG UPDATE for HADES II is here!!⚔️ Face the final confrontation, meet Ares, and more in our second Major Update in Early Access! 🩸Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrpG... 📝Patch notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/114... 🌒Play it today on Steam and the Epic Games Store!

submitted 7 days ago • 97 comments

In 3 days, ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories [ @romchip.bsky.social ] is gonna try and raise $7K-11K w/ a 12-hour Twitch fundraiser. I'm the Managing Editor of this journal, and one of its cofounders. Here's a 🧵 on why ROMchip matters, what it stands for, & how u can help. donate.romchip.org

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📣 Software preservation fans 👀🧵⬇️

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decided to play Stardew Valley again loads last save cannot remember what I was doing or why my farm is an industrial nightmare starts new game spends 60 hours building my farm to an industrial nightmare quits playing The cycle continues

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it.

submitted 8 days ago • 616 comments

the only way forward for video games is self-published games made by properly-organised studios corporate ownership will fire all of you in the end.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

Surreal House is on sale on Steam right now! Get it while it is 30% off! store.steampowered.com/app/2503900/... #indiedev #indiegame #escaperoon #puzzlegame

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This video kicks ass: youtu.be/o2jzKo1RqWU?...

submitted 8 days ago • 120 comments

annoying

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from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 10 days ago • 386 comments

#BannedBookSkyClub Don't forget, March 2025's book is #ParableOfTheSower Schedule: Feb 2025: The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin March 2025: Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler April 2025: Banned Book Club, Kim Hyun Sook, et al. May 2025: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Stephen King #BookSky

submitted 11 days ago • 117 comments

is today a “loop the same song over and over again”, “listen to a reality tv marathon” or “8 hour long video essay” kind of work day

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Rush hour series! Based on jobs I worked before I was a full time illustrator

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submitted 13 days ago • 426 comments

Never say one individual can't make a difference 😂

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

A bit of good news: Thomson Reuters just had the first big copyright win against an AI company.

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Mr Rogers and Sesame Street taught me love, kindness, compassion, and empathy. Star Trek taught me to dream of and aspire to help create a better and more diverse world. Star Wars and Tolkien taught me to fight for freedom, even in the face of overwhelming odds and great evil.

submitted 16 days ago • 150 comments

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

submitted 15 days ago • 460 comments

Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, will join this conversation ⬇️

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I’d just like to shout out humans for at least seeing through NFTs as the most idiotic idea possible.

submitted 15 days ago • 889 comments

Friends I’m gonna need all of you to go buy Eve Ewing’s new book “Original Sins/ The (Mis)education of Black and Native children and the Construction of American Racism” when it releases officially tomorrow. Truly an incredible and all too timely book

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Okay, but like... This shelf is just so COOL now.

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

I think this is some of the coolest book mail that I've ever gotten. This is the original cover and the 6th printing from 1977. Paid $20 for the lot 💙📚🪐

submitted 15 days ago • 108 comments

Would really love if Green Day would just re-release American Idiot like it's a new album. So many people have memory holed it or didn't pay attention and we really need that energy right now.

submitted 16 days ago • 187 comments

Yes, it’s good acting, but is it as good as Bruce Willis’s silent reaction shots in The Fifth Element as his wiseass brute character is genuinely moved by the tentacled opera singer Plavalaguna

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I suppose it sorta makes sense that early humans traded off fur coats and physical strength for big brains that allowed us to create clothes and tools and now we’re apparently trading off those big brains for the ability to use hallucinatory auto-complete to write reports for us.

submitted 16 days ago • 34 comments

flowers. something to have or to give.

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Did an annual physical exam today and they asked how many tattoos I have Meanwhile, contemplating my next tattoos (several) lol

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This is really extremely bad: withholding urgent public health studies because they’re not convenient for the president’s political narrative.

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments

The horrors persist but so do-- wait, is that another horror? there are more horrors? Anyhow like i was saying, the horrors persist but HOLY SHIT MORE HORRORS? WTF MAN

submitted 17 days ago • 44 comments

February about to fly by with all these Life Events 🙂‍↕️ Hang in there, stay hydrated, take naps 🫶🏼

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🕳️ #VanishingCulture ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/

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