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“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

A basic tenet of my worldview is that fascism is very hard to sustain due to the fundamental rowdiness of people. You have to do so much for so long to contain it. You will never have enough guys. Eventually you just give up and start killing people but you go to sleep surrounded by the feral living

make sure to pick up Mobile Suit Gundam on DVD - 8-7-2001!!

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Pixel art of various animal themed robot bosses. The tag at the top says MegaGear X

People keep saying the codenames in Metal Gear Solid sound like Megaman X bosses, so I decided to give them actual designs. Matches the scale of my other X mockups.

Something I've been sitting on for several years that I finally decided to wrap up tonight.
#megaman #pixelart #ドット絵

The civil rights movement called its protests "demonstrations" because they were meant to demonstrate to the general public just how evil the status quo was and how depraved its defenders were.

ICE is actually worse than Connor -- he had to be goaded into overreaching, they're doing it on their own

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

I love that our government is telling us we need to be treating all the ICE ppl they've deputized to terrorize us like they're fucking dipshit horses that'll spook if you look at them too hard

He has sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people

He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislatures

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us

For protecting them from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence; we did not adapt. We destroyed ourselves. But we destroyed the world first.

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there

Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.

“I want a progressive movement that is aggressively pro raising wages at the bottom and aggressively pro immigration. These are completely coherent goals.” Great piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money."

I keep thinking about this post and how it's one of the best, most succinct messages Democrats could use in 2026 campaigns.

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

A horned character sits astride a horse, casting a long shadow over a cliff overlooking an ancient temple and the long bridge with symmetrical arcing supports leading to it. Fumito Ueda's original painting/concept for Nico, which became Shadow of the Colossus. The painting evokes both a spirit of adventure and a mournful sense of emptiness, evoked by the barren landscape ahead.

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Vita means life!! =)

Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward The 'Anduril Chromatic' is the final straw

Site News: Why We Won't Be Covering ModRetro Products Moving Forward.

Encountering a cute little Horokko Reaverbot in one of MegaMan's dungeon delving escapades. It's a cylindrical green robot that looks like two marshmallows stuck on top of one another with additional four marshmallows for legs. It's just stumbling around the dark cyber-dungeon, looking all cute with its one red eye and smiling, searching for its next victim.

The downtown part of the Kattelox Island city, a beautiful, cozy town with white, yellow and green pastel-colored houses and buildings, clean wide roads and cute chunky red cars driving around town. It's just a neat look at the art direction of this gorgeous looking game, makes you wanna live in that town.

The Cannam Reaverbot, a spider-like robot with a cylindrical head and what looks like a bent, L-shaped penis, hanging from the ceiling of an ancient sci-fi dungeon, looking very creepy.

Exploring the town's Apple Market, a beautiful indoor mall full of cute shops for anything you'd like, a casual meeting place for people of all ages socializing and walking around. We see a closeup of Paprika, a very good boye pup pup with white fur and brown splotches, wearing a red collar and jumping around just being the cutest dog ever. <3

Mega Man Legends (PS1) (1997)

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The yellow and red sunfish-shaped Flutter, a small airship and home of our heroes, gently floating through the beautiful blue skies with a few puffy clouds scattered about. Below we see a vast ocean that stretches beyond the horizon, a world covered in water with a few island nations. What if Waterworld... but robots? There's an ancient cylindrical structure sticking out of the ocean, probably a chimney that contributed to the climate change from the previous civilization.

Our heroes, MegaMan Volnutt, a dark haired boy with his signature blue armor and next to him at the helm of the Flutter, Roll Caskett, a blonde girl with spiky Knuckles the Echidna style hair, wearing a red uniform and big red hat. They look happy and carefree, eager to get to their next adventure in this perpetually dying, ocean-covered hellscape. Man this game looks gorgeous all these years later, just a beautiful anime style art direction with clear, brightly colored shapes and characters, it's beautiful!

MegaMan being startled by a massive Reaverbot, an ancient gray-ish robot six little legs, big chunky body, drills for hands and a knight's helmet shaped head with a big red eye and ridges on its face that give it a menacing, skeletal look. It's missing one of its arms, probably due to being so old. (that's what happens when you get old, kids) Though huge and evil looking, its skeletal smile hints at it maybe, possibly being a cuddly friend? MegaMan doesn't wait to find out and jumps off of the ledge into the ocean. (but actually lands on the Flutter and escapes)

A beautiful forest clearing with bright green grass, quite the contrast to a disturbing situation of an old man being cornered by a police officer and an inspector that looks like if Inspector Gadget got old and fat and grew mustache. They're here to arrest the old man, one professor Barrell Caskett under suspicion of exploiting his granddaughter and adopted grandson by sending them on dangerous adventures for his own fame and profit.

Mega Man Legends (PS1) (1997)

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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

being canceled is not a real thing, it is a neologism describing the stigma that should come from bad behavior. the only consequences that come from it are the ones we collectively imposed, and as the last decade has shown, no one with institutional power is interested in that.

Ranking the best of Star Wars:

1.) Andor
2.) Any SW movie when you’re 8 years old
3.) Knights of the Old Republic
4.) Knights of the Old Republic II
5.) Tattered Star Wars expanded universe paperback you found for $1
6.) Empire Strikes Back
7.) A New Hope
8.) Christmas in the Stars holiday album

Meme of lone person in the corner of a party while others socialize, thinking "they don't know I'm... lining up headshots with my laser nipples". Laser beams are shooting out of his nipples at the other party goers

After years of useless posture advice ("imagine a string pulling you up"???), the only technique that's ever worked for me is to imagine there are laser beams coming out of your nipples and aim for people's heads. It works, and people cannot tell you're doing it