nevin.playsmith.net
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Journalist Linda Tirado, who is still somewhat active on this platform and was vocal on Twitter, was shot in the face with a rubber bullet. This resulted in her losing an eye, and has since led to progressive brain damage that has certainly shortened her life and left her effectively disabled.
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Irish eyes are smiling.
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…mean-spirited toward whom?
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Also reminds me of @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social’s observation that “I’m attracted to men and women because I just kind of turned out that way; but I’m queer because fuck you, that’s why.”
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I saw someone say once that the opposite of “punk” is “cop.”
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They’re apparently geniuses at convincing people that they deserve our money more than we do.
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Because they don’t know.
The development model has always been, “keep throwing money at this until some unknown awesomeness occurs.”
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Trying to remember whether he was the “why does your son smoke a dollar cigar” guy.
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It took me an instant to realize that this post was not from @gailsimone.bsky.social.
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You look soft and happy.
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I’æ-mnek’é 😢
I got to meet him at a small con at Harvard many years ago; I don’t know his work as well but given how much Trek stuff you worked on respectively, I’m not at all surprised you knew each other.
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So often the question—plan for the world we want, or the one we have?
I’ve never heard anyone look forward to a shift cashiering. In general, I’d rather see tech free them up to do richer work. But since for now our society demands hours from “all”…well, can we at least get them some dang stools?
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On Geocities.
(I also maintain a couple small, self-hosted informative sites which are just minimal XHTML4+CSS. So much simpler.)
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There was a design floating around the ‘Net a few years ago amid the NFT craze, for a bunch of crypto bros to buy up a little island and turn it into a tech haven for wannabe oligarchs.
Look at it for more than 30s and it became acutely clear no-one had asked “where will the 💩 go?” They never do.
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The “remain bloodless” quote is really telling and I remember when it was published.
A polite-sounding way of saying, “If the left wing capitulates and lets the right wing rule the country, the right wing won’t have to murder them.”
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I’m ambivalent about self-checkout. I recognize that stores install it mostly to cut payroll. But the argument against it often seems like arguing that jobs have to be reserved for people so we can justify paying them. I wonder how we’d talk about it if there were UBI.
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So more like this:
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It’s very slow-paced for an action-laden sport.
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Trying to imagine where the knees/thighs would go then.
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Something like this?
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This reminds me a bit of segments, mostly on The Late Show, where they will showcase some accident in a humorous light, and always prep it with, “and just so you know, before we show this, EVERYONE’S FINE.”
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I read that while I was in Japan, someone left an English copy in the apartment I was given.
It’s been over 25 years at this point but what I remember is much of the book being a sort of meditation on inconsequential narrative (a term which sounds more critical than I really intend).
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This looks like the story breakdown to Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David.
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I thought it sounds amazing, if a bit spicy for my taste.
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Would the front tires end up at the shoulders, or the forearms?
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That’s not quite how Long Haul worked, but the legs are the same.
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Oh no! I was not as familiar with him or his work, but he was dear to you, so I am very sorry. 💔
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To me it highlights the division of a space into zones and rules about moving things between those zones.
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Why did he come out looking so much like Thundarr the Barbarian?
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I keep telling every section of my Games History class that fit a long time the entire industry was microtransaction-based.
And Gauntlet was the original pay-to-win.
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My uncle did make a claim many years ago about the Bat-bat, but I think he also made it up.
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Contempt of Congress at the absolute minimum.
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I…
…she looks like a department store mannequin.
What on earth is wrong with the warmly smiling woman in the cozy bomber jacket?
Like, at least it’s clear that the extra 570 developers didn’t go to waste.
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Oh no!
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I thought this was an Onion headline at first.
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… “For mine will have the spark of greatness in them, while yours will live for conformity, worship mediocrity, and take their carefully modulated delight in predigested dreams.”
— loosely quoted from This Alien Shore by C. S. Friedman
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“Give me a hundred people speaking different tongues, worshipping different gods, and dreaming different dreams, and I will build of them a greater nation than you can with ten thousand of your genegineered duplicates. \⤵️
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Jim Davis probably spends about three hours a week actually contributing to the Garfield strip, and most of that is consulting meetings about other people’s suggestions.
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Triscuits remain my favorite but the Wheat Thin is actually quite charmingly savory.
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I mean, so do I. Neither cisness nor womanhood is necessary for any of this.
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Io sono prigione~e~era~a~
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Well, there is a thing called the doctrine of Unclean Hands, which basically says that you can’t use the courts to advance your criminal intent. And if a court said that a party couldn’t bring suit until it was at least cooperating with previous rulings, it might not stand, but it would take time.
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Shutting*