becs 🌟

a painting of a man lifting a sylveon by the armpits

Long, firm, tubular body, DEEP blue eyes, really wonderful expression. he is so calm, confident, really in charge here. Big, bouncy ears, perfectly set, a slender, whippy tail, and of course, those smooth, vibrant ribbons. Best in show.

It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.

Hey what the fuck?

www.twitch.tv/friendsatthe...

It’s MARATHON DAY! We’ll see you at 11am ET to kick things off with what I can only imagine will be normal legal drama.

send this to your crush

A fabricated statement from Nintendo of America's Twitter account addressing a fictitious scenario in which the Earth's oxygen supply is presumed to be depleting at a rapid pace, leaving humanity with mere days to live. "This is Miyamoto. On behalf of everyone who is employed at Nintendo Co. LTD and its subsidiaries, we deeply mourn the countless human lives which will be lost due to the depletion of the global oxygen supply. To anyone who has ever played one of our games, we are eternally grateful to have created long-lasting fun and memories for you. To ease the suffering of families and children across the world, the Mario Kart World game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system will be available as a free download on Nintendo eShop for the foreseeable future. We hope this small gesture of kindness will ease the pain as humanity prepares for a worst-case scenario." The statement is distastefully plastered with logos for Nintendo and Nintendo Switch 2, as well as with a render of Mario from Mario Kart World.

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. John Default Profile Picture: "No one read this statement and thought it was distasteful? Why did Miyamoto think this would help anyone?" NintenDeen: "Simple: Nintendo is so depraved that they'd exploit a global crisis to boost the player count of the failed Mario Kart World and force consumers back into the Switch 2 ecosystem to boost sales and player numbers."

A fabricated Twitter thread responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. PlayStation Nation: "What the fuck are you doing falsely advertising sales during these trying times? I went to the website and Mario Kart World is still selling for $80 USD." Kremling Kevin: "If you actually read the statement, it clearly says the discount is available on Nintendo eShop. Meaning the application on the Switch 2 itself, not the web browser version." PlayStation Nation: "Point still stands."

A fabricated Tweet responding to the fabricated Nintendo statement. Isaboner: "Nothing for Switch 1 owners?"

Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not

i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

DISPATCH - Twilight Mirage Cookbook

osgpod.com/dis/Dispatch...
The Friends at the (Dinner) Table Twilight Mirage Cookbook has LANDED! Please enjoy all the recipes from seriously informative to total nonsense. You'll be APPALLED at where Calci-YUMMM falls on that spectrum.

#fatt

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Flower mechs

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.

Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.

This is great news. 📚

Against 'Metroidbrania': a Landscape of Knowledge Games What are knowledge games? How do we relate them to each other? What sub-genres exist – and which ones might be implied?

appreciate this article breaking down a taxonomy of knowledge games (also, unfortunately, known as metroidbrainias)

azhdarchid.com/against-metr...

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Here is the first draft to my brief guide to the digital preservation of Actual Play, from a digital archives perspective, targetted at AP producers.

allmyfriendsarestories.neocities.org/posts/2025-1...

I say "brief guide" but, you know, I'm me.

reading about this man and my scream rising to a higher and higher pitch

A painting of a very large hog.

AWS is down, post hog

A line ink color drawing over several objects arranged in neat rows. The objects are all colored in earth tones of yellow, brown, and green and feature statues, baskets, pottery, shadow puppets, and teaware.

A digital watercolor drawing of several objects arranged in neat rows. The objects are all colored in earth tones of yellow, brown, and green and feature statues, a potted plant, ginkgo leaves, a carved snake atop a human skull, pottery, a gold coin, masks, and teaware, etc.

Sacred Objects I & II 🏺🪑

it is funny when someone accidentally invents Cohost from first principles, because Cohost was a good idea. unfortunately it is less funny to tell then what happened to Cohost

vector line art type illustration of an osprey calculating water refraction midair in the pursuit of a fish

Osprey calculating fish math midair

wormmo.de/boatpost_00x...

Christian Girl Autumn is canceled…it’s time for Fuck Fascists Fall

"Your malice, your mercy, will be the last thing I remember from this planet"
original work, 2020

rows of archival boxes, with one larger box on the bottom shelf being a lighter color than the rest

when you find one goddamn legal size file in your collection and it fucks up the whole aesthetic 😡 #archives

the official national republican congress committee account posted this fake project 2026 agenda that democrats supposedly have and it’s so fucking funny they thought they could fool people into thinking it’s real

The intro title shot from the PS3 game Journey. This is from the finished game. The title "Journey" is displayed above a distant mountain, with the player character seeing it from atop a sand dune.

The intro title shot from a work in progress version of Journey. The title's font is different, the composition is asymmetrical, and the distant mountain is not as tall as the final version.

My initial sketch for the title shot for the game Journey. A simple, small line drawing featuring the player character in the foreground and the mountain in the distance.

10th anniversary Journey thread, recreated:
I was the art director of thatgamecompany's Journey. It set the course of my career and my art. I'm forever thankful to the community of players and their incredible love for the game. This is a thread comparing early dev images and how things shipped.

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities)

the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

I found her gofundme! She's already raised 41.5k of her 45k goal for gas, vehicle maintenance, phone/internet costs (for posting the videos), food and supply drives for the community, and emergency funds in case she gets into legal trouble: