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We somehow have gotten Kendrick and Bad Bunny staging two of the most spectacular and political Super Bowl halftime shows ever, back to back, during the most aggressively fascist reign in US history

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

We’re living in the fascist police state Alex Jones told everyone liberals would build and he’s deepthroating the boot while the sheeple he criticized risk everything

The fascists called us snowflakes and they’re wetting themselves over a halftime show and regular people are studying street warfare

drawing of an elf woman (my OC caroline) with disheveled hair, runny makeup and bags under her eyes, sitting in front of a typewriter while exasperatedly looking at the viewer. In a speech bubble is a screenshot of a post that says "Terrible news. Apparently just vibing with your story ideas does not make the stories apear fully written in a word document." #art #oc

tragedy

A friend who has a very large 4K TV and a surround sound setup, but NO devices that are actually capable of outputting such data invited me over for a movie. Well, I'm showing up with my own UHD blu-ray player, and a copy of Apocalypse Now. 💿

i heard you were looking for an illustration of Olive Oyl using her nintendo famicom, with the tv-net modem peripheral plugged into it, so she can use "daiwa my trade", and make trades on the japanese stock market, with the help of popeye.

well here you go

Are there sports guys on here who adopt the annoying too-savvy doomerism of politics guys? Saying stuff like "You really think there's going to be a second half"

Watched the whole thing and it's so worth it. We need people willing to brutally honest about this.

“L-L-L-looking respectfully“ shut up. Live like a freak or die like a coward

They literally played American Idiot

moar DVDs

#Rockman #MegaMan

A square sandpit that has been covered perfectly with snow. The surface is immaculately smooth.

Important question!! You're out on a walk and you come across this pristine patch of snow. What do you do?

1. Admire from a careful distance
2. Protect at all costs
3. Place a few artful hand/footprints
4. Absolutely obliterate with all extremities

Opinion | ICE and Minnesota Have Pushed the U.S. Closer to Autocracy (Gift Article) Measuring America’s slide toward democratic erosion.

“Based on recent events, we are moving our assessment of one of the categories — stifling speech and dissent — up one notch, to Level 4”

The NYT editorial board on its updated autocracy index

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Love this. In 1999 my friend and I made a 20-foot Atari 8-bit SIO peripheral chain on the floor of my parents' basement (just to see if we could), and then set it up to record music from M.U.L.E., Ultima III, Archon, etc. to DAT. A Win98 PC and PS1 sat idle in the next room. I wish I had a picture.

The Death and Rebirth of the Queer Bookstore Hi! Before we get started… Right now, you can get a Humble Bundle including everything Annalee Newitz and I have published with Tor for just $18 (plus...

Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything!

Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns.

My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop:

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

get equipped with machine girl

production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA

An English friend almost ground his molars to nubs post Brexit when his family members said basically, "Well, we never thought they would actually do it..." Problem is votes have real-world consequences.

Dwarf Fortress stream went super !!fun!! this time. We experienced a game crash that reverted the death of 4 dwarves, only for me to blunder losing 4 dwarves to basically the same thing anyway when I thought I was more prepared.
Caverns are super dangerous apparently and 3 cage traps isn't enough.

Update: Switched Monday and Wednesday's games

Stream announcement: At 3 PM (Central) tomorrow, we will continue running the Dwarf Fortress of Diamondspeech to rebuild the Submerged Sword! Come swing by if you want to see an intermediate player's attempt to save a struggling dwarf civ! twitch.tv/wertercatt

A Tumblr post by user taffywabbit. The entire text is as follows: I think more people should make fursonas and I'm dead serious. the process of self-exploration that naturally comes along with creating a funny little critter to represent yourself is SO valuable, as you consider the types of animals you vibe with and what kind of aesthetic/colours/personality/etc suit you and stuff like that (fun fact this process is how I figured out I was transgender lol. not saying that will happen to you but just proving that you can learn a LOT about yourself through this design process and any subsequent design changes) and then when you're all done, you have a little freak you can do whatever you want with! edit them poorly into memes, commission lavish oil paintings of them to hang in your mansion, use them as a personal online mascot, design a fucked up evil twin for them to fight, soak them in milk and throw them at the wall, anything really. same stuff some people do with fandom characters they really like, except it's 100% yours and nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong! also now you have an animal your friends can associate with you and they'll send you funny pics/videos of that animal that make them think of you. literally it's just wins all the way down for you and everybody you associate with. everyone should have one of these things!!

very good tumblr post about why to make a fursona, and in the replies, a couple followups on how to make a fursona

A couple years ago I picked up a big box copy of Myst 3 at a thrift store thinking “surely this won’t be habit forming” and boy that was inaccurate.

The tide is shifting. They're walking back the bullshit hype.

A coloured sketch of Hatsune Miku, drawn as a rabbit in the style of Sonic the Hedgehog.

oh miku the hatsune... we're really in it now

An ad for Paper Mario with a cute-out little chibi Mario with a dotted line around him to cut out on one side next to game screenies. "Free Demo"

"Free Demo."

Always worth seeing again, especially on Paper Mario's 25th NA release birthday. Still one of my favourite game ads.

sign that says HEY MALL NERD, WHEN YOURE DONE GETTING YOUR ASSORTMENT OF NARUTO SHIRTS FROM VARIOUS RETAIL STORES, COME GET SOME INDIE GAMES

sign for a market i'm doing at the mall this weekend.