Darmok & Jalad at BlueSky

Age verification?

I learned to type on an Apple II-GS.

Oh yeah, I think I was like 12. What a trip indeed!

I adore this movie. I feel like a lot of my fiction sensibilities come directly from it.

PHEW

Can't sleep. Decided to play Hades 2 instead. Unlocked the Surface path, beat Eris. Finished a bunch of incantations and unlocked various Weapon Aspects. This game's got the juice.

Kind of a boring football game, good halftime show, and terrible, terrible commercials.

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

The ads were gross. Just straight up AI jerkoff gross.

The AI part hurt my soul, I should clarify.

That Jurassic Park one hurt my soul.

YUUUUUP

Judge strikes down old Arizona abortion restrictions that clash with voter-backed guarantees A judge has ruled that Arizona must stop enforcing abortion restrictions that predate and contradict a 2024 voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights.

Arizona must stop enforcing abortion restrictions that predate and contradict a 2024 voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, a judge ordered in a ruling released Friday.

I like this a lot more than what they came up with for the miniseries (which is otherwise excellent).

If there's one benefit from all the Republican criminality and corruption it's that you never have to treat them like good faith interlocutors again. Every currently living Trump accomplice should be treated at most to a reflexive "Eat Shit" for life, and that's better than they deserve

Damn

Fig. 1: a very chill gecko

Oh my

Man, what a great game. It does ramp up at the halfway point, though! Keep at it, you'll have a great time.

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

I should probably print this out.

Inspired by Hades, I've decided to attempt a serious but stylized bust of Griselda that I can print out and use as a character portrait at the table. Here's a very drafty draft.

The folded arm will be her true, fucked up arm. The other arm will have an opera glove on.

One of my favorite webcomics!

Federal judge rules DOJ can ‘no longer’ be trusted in voter roll crusade The judge pointed to a letter from Bondi to Minnesota that tied federal immigration enforcement to demands for voter data as the smoking gun.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

I'm setting out my soapbox, dusting off the top, and getting out my megaphone

ok ready?

📣 BAD ART THAT YOU MADE IS BETTER THAN ANYTHING STOLEN AND MUTILATED THROUGH AI

YOU are the one commodifying skill in favor of having a voice

the bootlickers don't care about you! open your heart or fuck off!

goDAMN

This is a kick in the teeth. Why isn't Sloogs' art on the cover to begin with?!

*shakes fist at sky* NATUUUUURE!

*gasp*

I've made D&D characters with all three of these types!