A table at a craft fair-type event shows ceramic items for sale, including earrings, a smiley face spoon, and other knickknacks. There are ceramic letters on the table spelling out “deny depend depose”. The artist is a white woman in glasses standing proudly with her work.

I went to a pop-up holiday market and this white lady selling hand made ceramic earrings was proudly displaying the political message left by an assassin on bullet casings after a successful murder so that’s a bit of a data point for Where Things Are

The wonderful dice maven @smokingglueguns.bsky.social handed me this lovely gift at PAX:U and I instantly became a cloud of mist.

The Ring of Brass endures! 🥹 #EXUCalamity #CriticalRole

It's a good day to be a New Jerseyan.

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed a law Monday to prohibit public and school libraries from banning books in the state and to enshrine protections against civil and criminal charges for librarians who comply with the law.

Requiring your employees to denounce violence against executives — and only executives — while calling it a “Solidarity Pledge” is some I don’t even know fuckin what

people think that Ai generated results come from some magical computer spirit that they are too dumb to understand. no, tech bros are exploiting people.

lofi beats to ignore the slow motion apocalypse to

Open-world games teach us something profound: You can explore anywhere, but the story only progresses when you take action.

Read that again...

Good morning :)

If you're a Spotify user who is finding the microgenre & geodata of your annual "Wrapped" to be less substantial than usual, there's a reason why.

A year ago, Spotify laid off most of its employees who worked on genre classification, including folks like data alchemist @glennmcdonald.bsky.social.

It's my favorite CR shirt, I love the art deco/Mucha vibes so much!

Teacher: What is the first rule of thermodynamics?

Me: We don't talk about thermodynamics

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

my main complaint about indie games is my general complaint about the way a lot of people consume media these days: that things are increasingly self-selecting and catering towards exactly what you expect on the surface - and that "weird" stuff always tends to get pushed aside into its own category

if santa needs an elf on a shelf to report my crimes, maybe he’s not as omnipotent as he claims. maybe he can be killed

When I was in high school, the guidance counselor used to speak really scornfully about easy electives like "underwater basket weaving" but I have contemplated this for 35 years, and I still think underwater basket weaving sounds really hard.

Frozen lake with a cloudy sky

It's stunning when the lakes freeze like glass.

“I’m furious about what happened last night,” said Lee Sang-seon, a 55-year-old building maintenance manager in central Seoul, where protesters gathered to call for Yoon’s resignation. “This is a historic moment, but I don’t want to experience this kind of history,” he said.

relatable www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

6 hours under martial law in Seoul On the ground from the protests outside the National Assembly building

6 hours under martial law: a drunk scene report from Seoul www.theverge.com/24312920/mar...