This is how you live a life
17.02.2026 02:32 โ ๐ 4025 ๐ 964 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 32@exceptionalpotato.bsky.social
UE graphics engineer at Firaxis, occasional photographer, sometimes cosplayer. Previously at Schell Games. He/him. Born in the USSR, now in west PA. Made a WonderSwan demo once. ๐โ โฅ @smolcano.bsky.social
This is how you live a life
17.02.2026 02:32 โ ๐ 4025 ๐ 964 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 32PS C:\git>git morg --continvoucly
17.02.2026 01:17 โ ๐ 556 ๐ 94 ๐ฌ 21 ๐ 514 years ago we accidentally hired a genius to write the script for 80 Days. Now sheโs narrative director on a deck-builder about billionaire busting.
Check out All Will Rise:
love a bit of continvouclous morging
16.02.2026 17:10 โ ๐ 778 ๐ 215 ๐ฌ 36 ๐ 44The biggest problem with "popularism" is that its advocates don't fully internalize how much poll question framing can distort measurement.
They also don't get that if having unpopular views stopped you from winning, Republicans would never win elections. Many people do not vote based on policy.
I come out on the Nintendo Switch tomorrow. Buy my ass to support
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
Support @boltsmag.org if you can.
Either by READING and boosting their invaluable journalism.
Or
If you can afford it $$, reporting like Bolts saves democracies.
(I'm serious about this, Bolts gives voice to people who desperately need to be heard. And we desperately need to listen.)
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.
the Black Panthers were right
15.02.2026 17:47 โ ๐ 13986 ๐ 5063 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 38This is just unconscionable man
13.02.2026 01:43 โ ๐ 6428 ๐ 2485 ๐ฌ 87 ๐ 115Text says "A measles vaccine analogy if you understand Dungeons & Dragons: Measles has a DC of 19 (you have an approximately 90% chance of getting measles if exposed and not vaccinated). The measles vaccine (MMR) would confer a +17 bonus to the average adventurer (CON 10), giving you a 95% chance to resist measles if you encounter the disease in your journey. (Two doses of the MMR vaccine actually = about 97% effective, but Iโm told getting to 97% exactly in the game is more complicated than can be explained in a graphic.). In other words, the MMR vaccine is better than even very powerful magical items!โ Beside the text is a picture of a cartoon baby dragon. The caption beneath the image is a caption that says "Definitely (absolutely not) an accurate representation of what the dragons look like. We didnโt want to accidentally choose a dragon that looks like a very bad one, and we made this graphic in like 5 minutes, so this one seemed safe."
Yesterday, someone made a Dungeons & Dragons analogy for vaccines in our (Facebook) comments. I don't play or understand D&D, so I asked our Preparedness Coordinator to explain. I still donโt understand it, but he said this analogy will be understood by people who do! Anyway, please get vaccinated.
11.02.2026 17:05 โ ๐ 61 ๐ 38 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 6Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
10.02.2026 17:11 โ ๐ 53318 ๐ 16902 ๐ฌ 1159 ๐ 1350Fun fact: pushing back on helplessness can be as easy as hanging out with people
11.02.2026 00:05 โ ๐ 88 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
10.02.2026 23:32 โ ๐ 8853 ๐ 2748 ๐ฌ 48 ๐ 242Someoneโs sharp X68000 setup with those Roland monitors and itโs playing the game Cotton
Serial Experiments Lain is a cautionary, deeply political story about how cool the Sharp X68000 looked, and what would happen if computers kept looking like that.
11.02.2026 00:51 โ ๐ 2052 ๐ 523 ๐ฌ 43 ๐ 17I think one of my favorite Bad Bunny reax vids is Canadians getting all excited they got namechecked at the Super Bowl and now pronouncing the country's name Canadรก.
11.02.2026 01:28 โ ๐ 74 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Screenwriter Chris Morgan: In Fast & Furious 7 I wrote about the Godโs Eye device - able to connect to any camera in the world- as a cautionary tale
Jeff Bezos: At long last we have created the evil Godโs Eye device that almost kills the whole Toretto family in Fast & Furious 7
Yeah Iโm looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and hereโs the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
09.02.2026 04:13 โ ๐ 5402 ๐ 1426 ๐ฌ 54 ๐ 39dr. manhattan exploding a guy labeled "ring camera" with an attack labeled "wi-fi deauth packets"
23.12.2025 23:22 โ ๐ 1231 ๐ 139 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 8Imagining a guy whoโs mad that Bad Bunny did the halftime show in Spanish instead of Quenya, the tongue of the high elves of Valinor.
09.02.2026 05:35 โ ๐ 398 ๐ 61 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 2i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute
09.02.2026 04:22 โ ๐ 8253 ๐ 1483 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 3To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach
vicious sadistic bullies all the way down
There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.
04.02.2026 03:34 โ ๐ 10017 ๐ 3541 ๐ฌ 75 ๐ 46A digital illustration of Tina Belcher from Bobโs Burgers wearing her homemade Topsy the Elephant costume. Bubble letters over her head read โMaybe it will happen todayโ. Everything is kind of funky looking because I put a heavy chromatic aberration filter on it.
21.04.2025 14:45 โ ๐ 385 ๐ 62 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3I did not know this.
04.02.2026 23:50 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Announcing the end of life for Adobe Animate. Thanks for bringing your ideas to life with Animate. Starting March 1, 2026, the app will no longer be available for purchase. Existing Animate customers may continue to use the app. Support will continue for enterprise customers for three years, through March 1, 2029. For all other customers, support will continue for one year, through March 1, 2027. In the future, check out Adobe After Effects for complex keyframe animations and Adobe Express for one-click animation effects that you can easily apply to photos, videos, text, shapes, and other design elements.
I AM FURIOUS.
Adobe Animate remains an industry standard for TV animation. Star Trek: Lower Decks was made in Animate. Haunted Hotel was made in Animate. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was made in Animate.
And because you can't buy a permanent licence anymore, it'll just be gone.
It really bums me out that Klobuchar, who was instrumental in normalizing Trump as just another political adversary, is almost certainly going to be the next governor of Minnesota, a state currently paying a severe price for that normalization of fascism.
03.02.2026 03:16 โ ๐ 3163 ๐ 632 ๐ฌ 121 ๐ 51A line of swans and one of ducks float in peach colored water from the sunset. There are lines of grasses silhouetted in dark blues and black.
Swans and ducks at sunset for #WorldWetlandsDay!
#birds ๐ฟ