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Cackling at "Upload the Lemmings demo as DOOM10.ZIP and see what happens"

Lemmings was legit one of my favorite games as a kid.

A screenshot of the site that gets your bluesky distributed ID. The string of random characters contains the letters 'weeb'

I am being personally attacked

I will not sit in the State of the Union while Donald Trump lies, demonizes immigrants, and threatens democracy. Instead, I will be hosting a telephone town hall meeting with Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield to listen to you and hear your ideas and concerns. I hope you will join me.

we should encourage adults to learn to play more *and to recognise it as playing*. which i guess is another fantastic reason to destroy ai

men have somehow discouraged themselves from wasting time or outright having fun, that they're inadvertently creating dumb little ways to make that happen without acknowledging that they're doing it. martin here is *playing*.

the hideous plagarism robot isn't the sweet thing; you are

the more i think about it, my feelings about genAI are similar to my feelings about cars. they're semi-interesting technology that i have decided to avoid because

1 ) of their environmental affects

2) i prefer the interactions i have with people and my surroundings if i don't use them

cont'd

it's impossible to be completely inclusive. you're going to exclude some people.

people regularly leave my shop saying they don't want to mask.

i can decide to include immunocompromised people. or i can decide to include people who don't want to mask. for me it's an easy decision.

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Drawings of, and brief information about: Daphne Oram, Elaine Radigue, Delia Derbyshire, Wendy Carlos, Laurie Spiegel, Suzanne Ciani, Doris Norton, Bjork, and Imogen Heap.

Reminder that a lot of the synth pioneers were women:

(With artwork by @monosilabo.bsky.social. And yes, you can print this for classrooms.)

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

[Lindisfarne]

Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth-

Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH

British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

YouTube video by Peter Dibble Harbor Drive: Portland's Demolished Freeway

More on how we demolished a freeway and repurposed the land into a beautiful park! We can continue this climate action with political will. youtu.be/l2_yNrP0hCY?...

Sex workers at Pahrump brothel are unionizing, alleging unfair contracts and conditions - The Nevada Independent In the last week, the brothel has fired three workers who challenged a new contract that they say is unfair. Lawyers have filed an injunction with the federal labor board.

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social

Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson
thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

Generative AI cannot compete with human creativity, no matter how loudly its supporters claim that it can. We're fighting for a Los Angeles that nurtures and supports art and the people who make it.

This is a good outcome, but we can’t forget that it began with agents snatching Ozturk off the street and then holding her in overcrowded immigration detention, where she suffered multiple asthma attacks. All bc the Trump administration disagreed with her op-ed in the college paper.

This is House Rep. Paul Evans asking HB 4085 (AV) bill sponsor Shelly Boshart Davis a simple question about how we'd hold robotaxis accountable for crashes.

...long awkward silence...

Then she has no answer other than to say, "Other states allow them so it must be fine."

Remember: Data gathered for one purpose will inevitably be used for other purposes. Especially when that data is gathered by, or on behalf of, the government.

(linked post is a thread)

To repeat.

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And to repeat:

The political faction saying we must all have to log legal ID before speaking or accessing speech on the Internet,

and the political faction who believe transgenderism is a dangerous mental contagion that spreads by speech about transgenderism,

are the same faction.

Every headline like this reminds me that these are just the cases we hear about because of lawsuits, and there are many more without any kind of legal representation

Decomposition final boss

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Heathcliff and the boy in the red shirt are pondering a small mousetrap on the ground. Just around the corner is an enormous mouse, maybe ten feet tall, watching them. They do not see it. The boy says: "I just want love".

On Mastodon there's a bot which once an hour takes a randomly selected "Heathcliff" strip and randomly assigns it a caption from a randomly selected comment on "PornHub".

masto.ai/@HourlyPornh...

I am haunted by this one.

FL Studio arcade machine. Two guys are around it

thinking about the FL Studio arcade machine again

They are at war with you. Are you at war with them

After several celebrities said TikTok was limiting their videos about ICE, the platform responded, blaming the issue on an ongoing power outage at a U.S. data center. “Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center impacting TikTok and other apps we operate. We’re working with our data center partner to stabilize our service. We’re sorry for this disruption and hope to resolve it soon.”

LMAO this is not what a data center power outage would do

i hate living in the second act of CABARET. i miss living in the first act of CABARET

YouTube video by Sarah Belle Reid Touché: Don Buchla’s Rare Polyphonic Keyboard Instrument

If this interests you, after making this video Reid dropped an hourlong documentary video about the Buchla Touché. I haven't watched it yet. Questions I assume it answers: How similar is this to the Buchla 400? What happened to the other three units, besides the one in the museum in Vancouver?