Dylan Martin

A little background here on the very long, very intense investigative work Aftermath published this week on the gamblification of gaming sites. Glad that the reporting has resonated with people and hope to see more support for independent media grinding it out.

Just shy of a month ago.

I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power

While all eyes are on Iran, Jewish terrorism is rising in the West Bank | Editorial Israel, by Means of the Jewish Marauders, Is Advancing the Gradual Expulsion of Palestinians From Their Lands, and in Doing So, It May Be Responsible for Committing War Crimes and Crimes Against Human...

“Israel, by means of the Jewish marauders, is advancing the gradual expulsion of Palestinians from their lands, and in doing so, it may be responsible for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.” www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Attacks leave dead vs killed

After slashing federal jobs, Trump administration ramps up hiring The hiring push is unfolding under new rules designed to give the White House greater influence over the government’s 2-million person civilian workforce.

“We probably have some skills that we now need to hire back, quite frankly,” Scott Kupor, the head of the OPM said... “There’s no question anytime you do restructurings … sometimes you over-restructure, sometimes you under-restructure.”

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All babies at a certain point look like Baby Sinclair.

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

Keep in mind that it’s not just the cost of filling *your* tank which is skyrocketing…the cost to every *truck driver* is also spiking, which means the cost of whatever they’re transporting will go up as well…

NYT: The video “shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on Feb. 28. The U.S. military is the only force involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles.”

@nytimes.com
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I'm covering Nvidia's GTC event next week, and I'm SO CURIOUS about what the tone will be like.

"Unfortunately, all our previous CapEx plans will now be allocated to fuel cost increases."

Tehran residents warned of acid rain after oil storage attack [FREE TO READ] Iran’s Red Crescent Society tells locals to avoid exposure as capital is engulfed in smoke

Tehran’s 10 million residents now risk exposure to “highly dangerous and acidic” rain, in addition to fuel shortages, after Israeli bombing of 3 fuel depots unleashed clouds of noxious smoke over the city.

Donald Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall Republicans typically lead on the economy, national security, and immigration. Trump is squandering the GOP’s traditional strength on all three.

Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.

A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/

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I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

You are one of my favorite critics, if not my favorite. I'm very sorry to hear this, and I hope someone makes room in their budget for you. I will certainly be checking out the store!

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

BREAKING Initial reports of an explosion at the U.S embassy in Norway, no reports of casualties

Added to the growing list of institutions that will never receive a tuition check from my family.

this reasoning is such disingenuous dogshit. "some boys like boys and some girls like girls" is the easiest thing in the world to explain, maybe try being a fuckin parent instead of letting iPad do it for you.

I would never buy from his company, but there is a market for hardware emulation systems, as Analogue has proven. I much prefer playing Game Boy games on my Analogue Pocket.

Yup, it's happening at publications big and small. I hate it.

Welp, saw $3.50 gas prices today in my area. They were slightly under $3 a week ago.

Trump gets angry at Fox News' Peter Doocy for asking about Russia helping Iran to kill Americans during his roundtable on college sports.

Trump: "What a stupid question that is to be asking at this time. We're talking about something else."

Priorities for the US Commander in Chief.

Love to see it!

Our tiny little website currently has the 4th-placed story on r/all, which is doing all kinds of weird and beautiful things to our monthly traffic (which doesn't normally operate at anywhere near that scale)

Amazing work from @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social, as always!

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pixel art in four panels depicting how to draw a sphere. Step 1 reads "draw a circle" and has a basic line circle. Step 2 reads "add basic shading" and has four shades of flat color including a couple teal highlights toward the upper left and darker blue-green shadow colors. Step 3 reads "add highlights and shadows. Blend colors" and the teal-blue sphere introduces two more highlight colors and two more shadow colors, which are now blended with excessive dithering. There is also slight reflected light on the lower right edge. Step 4 reads "make sphere angery" and the sphere now has a cartoonish frowning angry face in the highlight area. On the lower right of the image is a bar showing the eight colors in the palette.

how to draw a pixel sphere in just four steps

#pixelart #ドット絵

The prevailing metaphor for the Trump administration that has stuck in my mind for the past year is someone who is constantly sticking all his fingers in every pie he sees.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.