vast configuration

Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o'-lantern images. trick OR treat trick AND treat trick XOR treat trick NOR treat trick NAND treat trick XNOR treat

Free will rules

if I ever hold a panel on audio editing you know this image is gonna be part of the slideshow

I wish social media had more boons, fewer vows of fear

Conquest of Camelot?

My initial thought was “hah it’s not Monday!” And then I had a whole Reckoning.

you'd think nine months in reality would have set in but i still can't believe people fucking voted for this

Can AI Avoid the Enshittification Trap? Cory Doctorow’s theory of “enshittification” explains how tech platforms rot from within. As AI grows more profitable—and powerful—it risks the same fate.

brother it *is* the trap

Crowd of protesters

Portland City Councilor Angelita Morillo speaking

Crowd of protesters taken from a bridge

Someone in unicorn costume

Massive crowd at Portland’s No Kings protest today. Will be posting updates here as the march continues. @portlandmercury.com

[Exit King.]

I found a recipe years ago for rosemary orzo and it’s been my go-to since. Lightly toast the orzo in butter in a hot pan, add the liquid when it starts to change color. Rosemary sprigs, and I usually add mushrooms too.

You’d need to go back to CYOA series like Lone Wolf or Sorcery (and I’m not sure on Sorc — the inkle version has this, tho) but it was pretty sparse. Maybe QFG but I can’t think of any actual world-altering decisions.

“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

I read it as “headquarters” and thought it delightfully mythic! Now.. well it still works, I think.

Image of bug scarf around my neck

Image of my bug scarf on the floor

FINISHED MY SCARF

As usual my phone struggles to show the correct colours so :^)
It is more like the first photo irl, but I kinda want it to be more like the second one 😔 maybe I can dye it

Who wants to sing?

These are amazing!

I’ve really appreciated your reporting (and am a subscriber!), hopefully we won’t have too much local news to share :/

I just played through the game for the first time a few months ago and it regularly knocked me over. The little 2-person vignettes pre and post missions, the haiku, the animal shrines on Ike.. just a really incredible game in these little moments.

Found it at US Michaels, thank you!

Where is this from?!

my new doormat that has a picture of a skeleton who is laying down. it says bone-jour

guys guys guys guys guys

Pumpkin spice spider, new seasonal mascot

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

did you know if you took a person's bones and laid them end to end in a straight line that'd fucking kill them

don't do that

bones are for INSIDE

We've officially reached the "show me your papers" phase of Trump's fascist takeover.

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

Shazam but for who people are subtweeting

a four quadrant grid. right side reads “WET” left side reads “DRY” top reads “GUN” bottom reads “SWORD”

push to standardize RPG classification

when i have to do something i dont want to i imagine a little hand clicking on me from the sky like in a real time strategy game then i say "yes milord" and go do it