This looks like fun!

FOR THE RECORD: There have been rumors. Now I will clear it up and be as unambiguous as possible. The Magic: The Gathering release The Dark was 100% a commentary on the evils and hypocrisy of bigoted right wing Christians. Having gone through the idiotic satanic panic of the 80s and then listening to their moronic and unfounded pearl clutching arguments that MTG promoted "devil worship", I had had enough and decided to hold a mirror up to them. That is why White is represented as dangerous, dogmatic and unempathetic in the set. White in The Dark glorifies ignorance, mob mentality and violence against those who are different. The truth is that people who view themselves as virtuous and righteous can be as deadly and dangerous as any blood sacrificing devil cult when they forget the message of love that is supposed to be the foundation of their belief system. We can see that replaying today with MAGA. I also wanted to paint spooky stuff. Two birds, one stone. Now you know. If you go back and look at the white cards in The Dark it will become crystal clear what the meaning of the set is. The Dark was a reference to the dark ages, when the church had full control of the population, when wise women and folk healers were burned as witches, education was only for the very elite and anyone who spoke up or strayed from the herd was killed in horrific ways. Even today people are trying to bring those dark days back. I was shining a light on them with this set. That is one of the important roles art plays in society and I view games as an artform. Happy Halloween!

The Magic the gathering card preacher

The magic the gathering card, angry mob

The magic the gathering card inquisition

From @jespermyrfors.bsky.social, The Dark set art director over on Facebook:

“The Magic: The Gathering release The Dark was 100% a commentary on the evils and hypocrisy of bigoted right wing Christians…”

Some cards for context and the set list:
scryfall.com/sets/drk

Yikes

In Wrigleyville in Chicago right now—

ICE/CBP has reportedly been targeting laborers in the area all morning. A large number of neighbors are gathered outside a house where agents snatched a man. His lunch is still here on the ground.

Area is clear of feds for now, gas deployed earlier.

White House releases list of donors for Trump’s multi-million-dollar ballroom | CNN Politics Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump’s proposed 90,000-square-foot...

People keep saying it's privately funded. That's misleading. "Privately funded" is when foundations and wealthy individuals pay for it.

At least half a dozen of these donors are major federal contractors dependent on U.S. taxpayers. This is money laundering.

Threads post from julieceye At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

This metaphor is really, really on-the-nose.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

The parallel L's was how a teacher got it to stick for me.

Feds Are Tear Gassing Police, First Responders In Broadview, Officials Say: 'This Is Not Putin's Russia' Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson said the feds must do a better job of working with local officials.

“ICE has to stop unprovoked, chemical arms attacks on peaceful protesters and on journalists. This behavior is not normal. This is not Putin’s Russia. This is the United States of America,” said Broadview Mayor Katrina Thomas. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/f... via @blockclubchi.bsky.social

I would like the bad news to stop

This is real bad

I just want any future anthropologists (if humanity even survives the next 20 years) to know that a solid 30-40% of the humanity fully understands that the world we're living in now is incredibly, irredeemably stupid.

Industry: hey GDC, we need you to move out of San Francisco and the US at large because it's unsafe, deal with the still-too-common harassment issues, stop charging egregious for-profit fees, and for you to provide proper compensation for speakers

GDC: we hear you but best we can do is rename it

Autism doesn’t need to be cured.

Swalwell: There’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year. To the FCC chairperson and anyone in involved in these dirty deals: get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room answering questions

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

As the man who made All the President’s Men, how did you feel when Nixon died? I had no remorse. I did not think he deserved the kudos he got in death — there was this weird revisionism that went on. You feel for the family. There’s some sympathy for that. But for me it was not the passing of a great man. He was a man who dealt us some pretty undignified blows. He did not symbolize the better part of ourselves at all.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

Sony fires Ghost of Yotei artist, allegedly over Charlie Kirk joke "Drew Harrison is no longer an employee of Sucker Punch Productions," Sony confirmed

A senior artist on Ghost of Yotei has been fired, reportedly following a joke they made about Charlie Kirk's assassination.

www.gamesindustry.biz/sony-fires-g...

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

I feel like if he wanted to help people he'd be talking about unionization as a solve. Funny he isn't.

reddit post screenshot. what’s the point of vibe coding if i still have to pay a dev to fix it? what’s the point of vibe coding if at the end of the day i still gotta pay a dev to look at the code anyway. sure it feels kinda cool while i’m typing, like i’m in some flow state or whatever, but when stuff breaks it’s just dead weight. i cant vibe my way through debugging, i cant ship anything that actually matters, and then i’m back to square one pulling out my wallet for someone who actually knows what they’re doing. makes me think vibe coding is just roleplay for guys who want to feel like hackers without doing the hard part. am i missing something here or is it really just useless once you step outside the fantasy

you’re so close

It's probably also a lot of "my company forces on Microsoft Teams or Zoom auto transcription and it's useless but I can turn it off"

once again you think the president's mistress directing impossibly cruel policy would be a bigger story but it does not get much play outside of overtly liberal outlets

Various Nintendo mascots riding on Nintendo 64 controllers like airplanes

The hardest promo image of all time

The study is entirely done with LLM AI and not people. Questionable data.

It sure ran Dwarf Fortress in my i3 well. Too bad.