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I’ll be at Motor City Comic Con today! I’m cosplaying Dr. Ian Malcom, and I’ll be with John Hammond and Robert Muldoon… and also Freddy Krueger! 🦕 🦖

As a huge fan of drag and a fan of bodybuilding, every time AEW is trending on Bluesky, I’m reminded that I really, really need to get into wrestling.

Steam Hardware The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.

Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:

Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame. 

Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware

A photo of the northern lights over a house and trees. The sky is bright pink and green. Photo from Ali Roux Gaidette / CNN

A photo of the northern lights over farm equipment. The sky has vertical streaks of saturated bright pink next to bright green. Ross Harried / Getty

A photo of the northern lights over a large body of water and city skyline in the distance. A massive pillar of bright pink lights has swirls of green around it. Photo from Steven Garia / Reuters

A photo of the northern lights over a dam with a barn and silo. Bright pink fills the sky with a slice of bright green cutting into it. Photo from Ross Harried / Getty

The promotional campaign for Wicked 2 is getting out of control

Star Maker. I read it at a time when I was in a very dark place, and its massive scope & theme of collectivism made me feel small but important. I read it when I needed it. And I re-read it every few years with no less wonder.

Oh no! My printer is otter paper!

Screenshot of the Kingdom of Conscience political alignment UI from Disco Elysium that reads: The Kingdom of Conscience will be exactly as it is now. Moralists don’t really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change — not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

Been thinking a lot lately about the Kingdom of Conscience from Disco Elysium, and how it’s an allegory for the failures of centrism. Hm. Wonder why.

Lara, a saddleback Shiba Inu sits underneath an antique desk, lying in wait

My occasional coworker likes to get the jump on me when I sit at my desk

Joyce Carol Oates absolutely smoked Elon Musk, but Mary Shelley precognitively wrote an entire book about Musk in Frankenstein:

Rich dude has to build himself a friend, only to crash out when he realizes his friend hates him because he’s a loser.

Congress’ approval rating is 20% but that’s a lot better than 0% which is what it’s going to be.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

If you a Democrat Senator and you’re not actively trying to unseat Schumer from his position of minority leader, I will vote against you.

Behold 🫴✨

Kiwi | Female | 10 years old | 4 lbs

A screenshot of a text message to an iPhone from number 44793 that reads, "MDHHS Notice: Per the federal court, USDA must fund November SNAP benefits in full by Nov. 7 despite the federal gov't shutdown. Payments will begin within 48 hours."

Just got a text from Michigan Health and Human Services regarding SNAP 👀

Shout out to the delusional DOLLS honey

Congratulations to Mary Sheffield on her historic win to become Detroit’s next mayor, and the FIRST woman to ever lead the city. Mary’s leadership in Detroit and commitment to our community is inspiring.

So proud to celebrate this moment for Detroit, for women, and for the future of Michigan.

In Detroit, we’re built different. Like the Mother from Barbarian.

Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.

@gork.it is this true?

Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, and probably Baldur’s Gate 3 if I beat it a few more times

This is a great guest post from the Handbasket that helps clear the political smokescreen around SNAP.

Who gives a flying fuck about “defending the homeland” if we aren’t feeding our countrymen.

I need to get out of tech

Star Wars movie scroll reads: It was all so dumb. Like if it was a movie, you would have walked out.

The platonic ideal grift: Convince all the richest people in the world they’ll never have to pay another worker ever again if they simply throw all their money into a magic box that might have god inside.

Madlad Steve doing madlad things

Throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks, except the spaghetti costs 100 billion dollars, and the wall is crumbling down

Sometimes you make a game for accumulating victory points and people are like “but what’s the point if there’s no story where I can play a character in that story?”

Gale begins to blow himself up to save the world, and also so no one has to get hurt trying to fight the Elder Brain. Sorry, Gale.

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The Michigan Dogman Lurks on the Tabletop Who knows what horrors lurk in the lower peninsula? Michigan Dogman is a storytelling tabletop game that's perfect for Halloween.

Who knows what horrors lurk in the lower peninsula? Michigan Dogman is a storytelling tabletop game that's perfect for Halloween, writes @ckunzelman.bsky.social. www.endlessmode.com/article/the-...