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submitted 149 days ago • 148 comments

They've still got it!

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What men want vs what women want as courting gifts

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I made a new zine! It's full of advice on how allies can work alongside trans people to take action in the current moment, lovingly cut-and-pasted over the words of my enemies. Plus lots of nice pictures and memes. Available as a free PDF! Read online or print your own copy! Share with everyone!

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

The longest running zine in roleplaying history has come to an end. Thank you, Lee Gold, for Alarums & Excursions. Here's an article with a number of good links. attronarch.com/goodbye-to-a...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

In recent weeks, video game publishers Take-Two and EA both warned investors about potential "reputational" risks to the use of gen-AI in games. It's a problem that all game companies will soon need to confront: Players hate genAI. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

submitted 11 days ago • 96 comments

"I don't have a microwave oven, but I do have a clock that occasionally cooks shit."

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Reads Maria Headley's translation of Beowulf once: bro, do you even epic verse?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Dog.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza

submitted 13 days ago • 37 comments

"Very few buildings exist without a door." Strap in fellas, this textbook on the history of doors & preservation techniques is covering everything you wanted to know about doors, but were afraid to ask.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Fourteen Thousand. The long campaign to dehumanize Palestinians is, fundamentally, about this. To provide cover for the annihilation of a people and their culture, from the youngest to the oldest, to shrugs from the most powerful nations in the world.

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

submitted 19 days ago • 80 comments

please pray for birdland www.404media.co/the-simulati...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Very cool book for the tabletop RPG fans out there.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

submitted 25 days ago • 55 comments

I think the Catholic Church is bad, but if they are saying ketchup on hot dogs is a cardinal sin, well, maybe not about the other stuff, but in this case they probably know what they're talking about.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"Chicago Pope" is like a 1994 SNL sketch. Airs at 12:20am, the only gag is that Chris Farley has a mustache and is doing a big accent. David Spade and the guest host (Joe Mantegna) keep breaking during it.

submitted 26 days ago • 146 comments

The world is ready for a pope with vocal fry

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submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments

My takeaway? What we really need is a giant octopus.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

All the guys who run media went from shitheads who used to throw elaborate and expensive parties to fill a void inside of them to guys with headlines about them like "Meet The Startup King Who Invented Slavery 2"

submitted 33 days ago • 17 comments

Contrary to the pundit class’ insistence, someone talking to you on public transit has been so reviled for so long there was a painting about it 150 years ago

submitted 36 days ago • 72 comments

BALTIMORE FRIENDS

submitted 39 days ago • 4 comments

i think that generally giving people tv shows where they spend the whole time just talking to the camera about politics was a really bad idea and we should get rid of all of them

submitted 40 days ago • 14 comments

I'm going through user-made tilesets for an old DOS mahjong solitaire game and I found what's possibly the most evil one

submitted 40 days ago • 89 comments

this song is a delight for the reasons Al says, but also because the drums sound like church to me. this song sounds like what happens when the choir director gets to do an original composition. but yeah, that sax solo is harder than a Spanish test.

submitted 40 days ago • 5 comments

Anything from Hot Doug's

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

One of the wilder political things in recent history is that Project 2025 publicly released a 900 page document laying out their plans to roll back 100 years of human progress and then during the campaign Republicans just said "no we're not :)" and then they won and now they're doing it all.

submitted 41 days ago • 281 comments

The Norton Library edition of my translation of the Iliad, with stylish red cover, is now available. It has complete text, maps, notes, introduction and translator's note, and it's yours for under $10 (as are many other tempting Norton Library volumes). wwnorton.com/books/978132...

submitted 43 days ago • 176 comments