Greg V.

6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’

‘I feel violated’ - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io bans The recent Itch bans on queer and NSFW content have damaged careers and put countless people out of work. Though some are now on the verge of homelessness, they’re still organizing and fighting back. TNN delves into what’s at stake on the frontlines of the fight against anti-queer censorship.

Following our reporting, members of the community began exerting the same pressure on Stripe, pushing them to allow Itch to host the legal content its allowed for years.

everyone should play mafia old country thank u

Several Game Boy Color RPG bootlegs have been dumped recently, INCLUDING A PORT OF FINAL FANTASY 8

thank you to everyone who donated/shared

we only need to raise 1750 Euro more in the next 10 days, which will give us safety until mid-September and also enable us to leave Berlin, and this rental market/situation.

Everything counts, and I appreciate all of it

thank you

This is so many delightful clam facts

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

We’re just innocent men

Fred Rogers is rolling in his grave

The release date for the exploration puzzle platformer game "Öoo" is set for August 8th!
Please consider sharing and adding it to your Steam wishlist!

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

universal healthcare would save the government trillions in the long term; its never about saving the government money its about carving up infrastructure and selling its guts to corporations

apocrypha is a type of doujinshi

i should probably be better about boosting this so uhh, if this book sounds like your jam, please preorder. i really like writing books and want to keep doing it. plus, this one features a silly cockatoo named Coco Chanel who is a total diva, and the best.

alright teens you know what to do

35 rabbis arrested in NYC and DC protests for Gaza food aid - Jewish Telegraphic Agency The arrests come as reports of mass starvation in Gaza draw global outcry.

Show me what Torah looks like

Impressive. There are layers of incorrectness here. I know, you might rush to list one. Don't. Savor it like a fine wine. Allow them to meld together in a melange that lingers. It isn't wrong; that's reserved for people trying to be right. It's a treat for the senses, like a fresh pile of bullshit.

Reminder that from the end of summer I’m available for work!

Writing, narrative design, historical and narrative consultancy, research etc.

I’ve got a PhD, 5 academic publications (another on the way), 3 shipped games (3 more on the way), lots of experience collaborating with cultural institutions

Emil Bove was the DOJ official who told them all to ignore court orders and send these Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador.

And now Trump wants to make HIM a judge.

The Senate is teed up to vote on his final confirmation as early as TODAY.

Call your Senators 👉 5calls.org/issue/emil-b...

If you're looking for an alternative, I highly recommend Peritune. The site's in Japanese but their work is solid and, as far as I know, free of GenAI.

peritune.com

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

This is the same amount as the entire National Science Foundation's R&D spending for the entire field of *engineering* for the whole country. All of it.

Dog of Wisdom - Meredith Gran My brother Joe Gran released a video game this week, his first as a solo developer. It takes about 15-20 minutes to play, and I recommend adding it

New blog post: I wrote about Dog of Wisdom, my brother @joegran.bsky.social 's new game that you can play in your browser for free.

meredithgran.com/dog-of-wisdom

To insert a bit of joy on your timeline, this is a behind the scenes photo of Superman 2025 of mr David Corenswet bringing his dog onto the set....with their own tiny Superman costume.

Hello.

It's almost been 10 years since UNDERTALE released.

Now, I'm looking for your memories.

Let's turn back together.

Face the flower and speak.

memories.undertale.com

Hoe of Destruction - The Codex of Ultima Wisdom, a wiki for Ultima and Ultima Online

suddenly reminded of this: wiki.ultimacodex.com/wiki/Hoe_of_...

sweet joke you just posted on the internet, be a shame if someone took it 100% serious and responded like your grandma on facebook

when RFK says he wants to “end chronic disease,” what people hear is “he wants to cure us” but what he means is “i want to cull the weak”