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This is so delightful.
I've already picked out a specific puppy for me which won't be happening.

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Reminder: Today at 11 am Eastern I'll be streaming "The Long Dark" to raise money for NY Common Pantry! With giveaways for each goal! Let's see how long I last.

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If you don't feel like watching the game, you can also donate directly at tiltify.com/@nkjemisin/s...

One thing I love about healthcare in the US is how expensive and useless it is.

Truly the ultimate in conspicuous consumption.

To be clear, when I suggest that people sign up to be election pollworkers, I'm not trying to be flippant. I'm dead serious. It's a vital civic service where you help your neighbors vote. And you learn an absolute *ton* about how elections actually work, as well as meet the officials who run them.

Caves of Qud award laurel image: Golden Joystick shortlisted for Best Indie Game 2025, Hugo Award Winner: Best Game 2025, Independent Games Festival: Winner Excellence in Narrative, Navgtr nominee: Outstanding special class game, DICE finalist, Independent Games Festival: Finalist Excellence in Design, Independent Games Festival: Finalist Seumas McNally Grand Prize.

The AWARD-WINNING Caves of Qud is on sale for 20% off ✨

Buy on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/333640/C...

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

transition2025.com

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

Colorful graphic on "How to Apologize" with steps & examples. 1. Say WHAT you are sorry for. 2. Say WHY it was wrong. 3. Accept full RESPONSIBLITU. 4. Ask HOW to make amends. 5. COMMIT to not doing it again. 6. Ask for FORGIVENESS. 7. THANK them.

Just gonna remind everyone on How to Apologize.

I have seen some half-assed apologies lately.

It is not a complete apology without making amends and a commitment to do better.

• Professors should never put a student's words or work into an AI software without their consent. • Professors should also be transparent about their Al usage with grading, curriculum building, and any other way they might use it in their teaching. • If a professor does use Al chatbots in the classroom, they should explain their reasoning behind this decision and how its usage will help students meet learning outcomes. • Professors should additionally respect a student's choice to refuse Al. To do this, it would be ideal that they have assignments that students can choose from that do

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

What if dinner was public infrastructure? A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for all—potentially a big ask in the current political climate.

A charity is gaining momentum pushing for state-subsidised diners to be reintroduced across the UK to improve access to affordable, healthy, and climate-friendly food.

Not everyone is convinced, however, that there's a chance in the current political climate.

My latest for Sower ⬇️

We’re in dark times already, but the stakes are growing exponentially day by day.

So it’s a good time for a reminder for all of us: performative vs. effective solidarity approaches.

Everyone needs this reminder, especially when we already “know” - the heat of the moment can make us forget.

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ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Let me get a BEC.*

*Bringing Economic Change

Looking at portfolios to find some covers for the next few months. Not going well. So much slop. When I finally manage to avoid it, everything is so dark and shadowy. Color and light and detail appear to be gone from the world. (I may need to start doing this in shorter bursts.)

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On Monday, I'll be talking with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher magazine about why it's more important than ever to resist AI, and how we can develop a convivial technopolitics. Register for free at www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...

So this is, in my experience, what autocorrect is now across virtually all software and platforms I use. It feels somehow self-aggrandizing and a little suspicious to complain that autocorrect is *introducing* errors into my typing, but here it is, caught red-handed. What are we doing here?

Sort of freaks me out that Elon Tweeted this a couple hours after my post today (yes, yes, I know that’s paranoia).

In any case, the shift in his framing of ‘empathy’ here as *not* inherently suicidal, but instead, a quantity to be abused, is a fascinating shift in messaging.

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Those are my general thoughts presented in a quick bullet pointed manner, anyway.

Fascists are scared shitless by empathy because it means they’re *not* special and superior.

NONE of us are. And THAT is the beauty and utility of empathy, to me.

Think it over, is all I’m saying (for now).

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"proc" and "mob" are the funniest gaming termology. how many people know their roots nowadays?

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

VIDEO: FBI Agents Visit Anti-ICE Protester “Your name was brought up.”

I obtained video of two FBI agents visiting an anti-ICE protester not charged with any crime.

While the media continue to mock Trump's war on "Antifa" as legally impossible, the FBI is quietly implementing it with investigations like these:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/video-fbi-...

I've known two kinds of people with Nazi tattoos: Nazis, and people who were forcible tattooed by Nazis. I did know a guy who renounced his Nazism. He covered up his swastika tattoo. But maybe I'm being precious.

if you pay me $300/mo I'll make you work 30% slower but say you're fucking great all the time

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

One things I’m really glad that my parents taught me (ESPECIALLY at this level of my career) is that I don’t need everyone to like me. As long as I’m true to MYSELF (the strongest judge of anyone I know), then I am on the right path. Period. The noise remains just noise.

Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call” Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Caves of Qud is #7 on PC Gamer's Top 100 Games of 2025 248.20 score -Quality: 8.4 -Importance: 7.5 -Freshness: 8.67 (1st)

PC Gamer just put out the 2025 edition of their Top 100 Games

#7 is... Caves of Qud!

www.pcgamer.com/games/the-to...

YouTube KidZuko clips of the first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow. Both of the clips have over 400,000 views each

The first two episodes of the revival of Reading Rainbow have nearly 500,000 views each 🤯

Do you know how cool that is for literacy, for book joy?! We are all worthy of reading, we are all readers 💚

And NOW episode three is out! Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋

youtu.be/e4VIV48ZB0M?feature=shared