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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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This is how you do it.

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Thinking about when Jo Cox was assassinated whilst campaigning against Brexit 2 days before the vote and it had no impact on the outcome of the vote, turns out political violence doesn’t persuade or dissuade people to change their vote

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Well this is grim

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hello i am teaching an intro to mini painting class next month in hamilton, ontario and there are still some spots left if you want to come! www.otherstrangeness.com/product/intr...

Intro to Miniature Painting (Aug 13, 8 PM @ FARSIDE Hamilton, ON) - Other Strangeness — merritt kwww.otherstrangeness.com Learn to paint miniatures quickly and easily with merritt k at FARSIDE Bar in Hamilton, Ontario.

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please enjoy me and my pals talking about what i consider to be one of the greatest horror stories ever told

SHELVED BY GENRE continues its unit on Junji Ito today, shifting gears into the first half of the immaculately strange gloominess of UZUMAKI, about a town where everyone is slowly driven mad by spirals. rangedtouch.com/2024/07/05/u...

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People unironically posting Naomi Shihab Nye’s famous fireworks poem today “No Explosions”. Nye is a Palestinian-American poet and this poem is perhaps most apt for #July4 for the US but everyday in Palestine.

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wrote about Mindmaze, the Microsoft Encarta edutainment game from the 90s www.otherstrangeness.com/2024/07/02/m...

MindMaze Was the Original Wikipedia Rabbit Holewww.otherstrangeness.com Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia software came with a trivia game that many still think fondly of.

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Games made for exhibitions, experimental world building academically funded projects, art installations, live ARGs, games exploring academic research, as well as interesting indies and other commercial games… Just some of the stuff I’ve worked on/I am currently working on

Going to be at Develop Tuesday late afternoon and all day Wednesday. I will mostly be chatting and eating ice cream, but I’m taking some meetings about narrative and consulting work/collaboration while I’m there- get in touch if you’d like to chat

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i think donald trump should withdraw from the presidential race, for the good of the country

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pigeons gather in scores

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logging on to bluesky

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When your corgi is buffering

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here's a new video i made and it's about how to have fun painting little guys www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ae...

how to have fun painting little guyswww.youtube.com it's silly little guys, don't stress about itbrush wielders union: https://www.patreon.com/brushwielders/music is "bona fide" by JP (https://soundcloud.com/d...

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i have a piece up at @floppyadult.com's new site @vgbees.com about the legacy of Japanese PC RPGs from the 80s and 90s! since i wrote this, a few more have been made available on the switch via EGGCONSOLE, which rules vgbees.com/the-hidden-l...

The Hidden Legacy of Early Japanese PC Games - VGBeesvgbees.com For as long as there’s been a “retro gaming” subculture in the US, the canon has been fairly limited. Mainly because of the second big...

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Over at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social, some thoughts on how the term "AI" is increasingly being used to describe all algorithmic tools, new and preexisting, as a way of obscuring the fact that LLM-based text and image generators are effectively useless. With examples from my own workplace.

AI and Me - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com [This post is an expansion of a tumblr reply I posted yesterday. Thanks to Murc for suggesting I expand and republish it here. This may also, finally, light a fire under me to finish the AI-focused Po...

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This was the view when I looked up today on NYC. Great theater weekend and then a momentous vision of mirroring sky and skyscraper

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Happy Father's Day!!!

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this is sublime

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From the new Cyndi Lauper documentary 🏳️‍🌈

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Tell Me Why, the narrative adventure game from Dontnod (Life is Strange), is 100% free on Steam + Xbox for Pride Month: 🌈 store.steampowered.com/app/1180660/...

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Puberty is a "commonality of experience" when it's a white dad observing a young woman have emotions but it's too personal a story when it's a woman of color talking about bodies.

Note well, "Luca" and "Turning Red" were the Pixar movies (along with "Soul") that were released directly to Disney+ during the pandemic. Luca was the #1 streamed movie of 2021; Turning Red was the #2 streamed movie of 2022. That seems pretty universal. (Soul also streamed well + 2 Oscars.)

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Oooh, what's that? Oh, it looks like Remap's website (remapradio.com) has gotten a shiny upgrade, because now it features: * A fancy new light mode! * Personalized RSS feeds that let you get EVERYTHING we make in RSS form—or just the articles. Your choice!

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I'm not complaining, btw. We likely could have got away without paying. We didn't because... i) it was very funny to pay 125 quid a boom when we got to use a huge chunk of Marlowe for free. ii) pay creatives. It was mainly i) but we do like that we did our part to keep the Vengabus running.

I just remembered we (poor indie comic creators) paid the Vengaboys 500 quid to quote the phrase "Boom Boom Boom Boom" in The Wicked + the Divine and AI corporations (venture capital bloated monstrosities) think they can sample the whole of human endeavour and not pay a cent.

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If you're looking for someone to edit your Kickstarter video, I've been the sole editor on some really big/successful campaigns! And I can turn around a video VERY quickly! ✨️ hit me up at struccimovies @ gmail

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i think my x-men podcast @themutantages.bsky.social did some really good recaps of the entirety of x-men '97. we loved some episodes and we also actually disliked some episodes and some decisions made. which i haven't seen that many x-men podcasts doing tbqh. check it: soundcloud.com/themutantage...

X-Men '97soundcloud.com Maddy Myers and Ryan Pagella review and break down the queer subtext of every X-Men cartoon/tv show/movie/game/book EVER. And maybe date Wolverine. E-Mail: [email protected] Discord server: htt

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Hey there! I’m Florence Ashley (they/them/that bitch) and you should follow me! I am a transfeminine law & bioethics professor who loves to shitpost. I’ve been told I write smart stuff, though let’s face it that sounds fake. Whether it’s one or the other, you should follow me (and share this post)!

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hello, would you like to read "The Husbands" on ebook and pay less than a pound? Are you in the UK? Today's your chance, it's a kindle daily deal till midnight