Andromeda Yelton

Steam community requesting additional body types for added immersion.

A large block of sentient tofu

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?”

Me (indie dev in this economy):
“Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

NOT JUST THIS:

Two other Democratic lawmakers in North Carolina who sided with the GOP to overturn vetoes of major bills (e.g. anti-trans legislation) are also losing in their primaries so far to progressive challengers.

This could be a major night in NC.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

Reading this thread is like watching a tiny little bird puff itself up in a threat display every time the judge asks a question (only to fold when the judge insist he actually answer it). The only principle here, as with so much of this administration, is "we should never be held accountable".

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Four little dinosaurs printed in a pink and purple and blue gradient.

the same dinos: a bronto, a pterodactyl, a stegosaurus, and a triceratops. This time in Northern Lights vibed colors!

now the dinosaurs are RAINBOW

these are the OG dinosaurs, printed in my desert sunset colors. also so old the picture is from before I got a light box!

We'll be closing the store for the final week of March so I can recover from surgery, which means selling as much as we can now.

Great time to buy something & force me to actually recover from surgery by not working!

(hey I ADDED ALL THE DINOSAURS!)

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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Unassailable logic

OCTOPUS RING

Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them

www.politico.eu/article/age-...

📚 go to town, digital preservation nerds

We all know what it means for something to be divine providence but what does "Divine Pawtucket" look like?

Now I am at my destination and my calendar tells me I need to take a run but my body tells me I really, really need to take a run.

Possibly she was a lawyer or journalist, who knows. But she had a windows laptop and terrible opsec and a boring yet belted outfit. Seemed kinda fed. As ever, frustrated that I don’t think fast on my feet in social situations (insofar as the amtrak quiet car is ever social…)

Pretty sure I was sitting next to a Nazi on the train. She politely asked if the seat next to me was taken, and helpfully picked up someone’s dropped pen, and worked on quiet little CBP spreadsheets.

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Hello internet stranger, I love your living room decor

This post brought to you by my fourth Amtrak ticket in a week plus no coffee yet

1. Fairies are allergic to iron (common knowledge)
2. Life finds a way (Jurassic park axiom)
3. Variation + selection eventually results in adaptation to many niches (Darwin)
4. Fairies gain strength when people believe in magic (Tinkerbell theorem)

-> there exist iron-road-adapted Train Fairies

When this ICE shit started, a mutual I’d never met asked how to help. I sent him to a friend’s kid’s preschool that was struggling to find patrollers. He’s been there almost daily, even in brutal cold, at a school where he didn’t know anyone, to keep folks safe. We finally met and got beers tonight.

i'm not going to fall over myself complimenting them for adhering to their own policies, but i do think that choosing to hold the line forces this issue at a lot of other tech companies in ways the administration is unlikely to prefer

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

Television pioneer Fred Rogers, gone 23 years ago today.

His acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award is always worth a watch.

#RIP 💔

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Absolutely nothing, I beg of you (as a person with perfume allergies)

photo of a very cute black and tan young goat, looking at the camera with a smiling expression.

Cutest little Norma Jean! She looks extra cute in the winter when she got her thick winter fluff. 🥰