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move slow and repair things

A/B testing

I’d read your gay narrative

I love firefly but i feel like the moment has passed

Wait—is this because blocking actually works on this platform? Like, they’re not using backend tools for moderation, they would need to make another account to skirt the block in order to review you?

That’s hilarious

Literally every modern political problem

kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Anyways.

Where does it fall on the Animal Crossing / Story of Seasons matrix? New Horizons always felt clunky and aimless to me but i am a huge sucker for farming/ life sims

Just for long enough to pied piper the crazies out of government and military

The people who thing Armageddon will bring about Jesus’ return—how will they know when it’s happened? What if we have then a hoax Jesus and spared ourselves a nuclear apocalypse?

What if all the sane people of the world just silently agreed to go along with the lie?

In just two months, Zohran Mamdani has:

-Launched the first stage of his universal childcare program
-Rolled Trump into releasing a detained Columbia student
-Used fair wages to get New Yorkers to clear streets and sidewalks during a blizzard

FYI: This is what leadership looks like.

Still, “CPAP water” is an obvious racket

I just realized that shipping is by weight and store supplies benefit from economy of scale while I do not. Leaving up my badge of shame

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Oh no

Ah, I haven’t seen them. I don’t think my bulge filter is set to OwO

Holy fuck the markup on distilled water water on Amazon is criminal. $30 for a gallon of “CPAP” labeled distilled water vs $2 at grocery.

It’s like “Men’s Body Wash” all over again

What was wrong with it? I use it occasionally

The games industry has yet to reckon with this presumably because the leadership of these studios support this kind of thing. If they didn’t, I can’t imagine they wouldn’t speak up.

Holler if you wanna be connected with CWA folks (I get that that’s a different objective)

You cant say that and not elaborate

Just found out my dad was flying from OMA to LAS. I have instructed him not to release the boy in the pit.

This goes for anybody in my network, but if you see anything within the ABK family that you’re interested in, holler and I’ll send you a referral link

There is no good reason for these to exist. It's a massive invasion of privacy and being used by the worst people to make shitty content or by simply getting you used to constant surveillance.

Ghost of Yotei star: 'workers need more protections' in game development 'If you're watching this, if you're like me, please demand that the workers are treated fairly.'

Ghost of Yotei star: 'workers need more protections' in game development

Blizzard Watch is looking for new writers, as well as an artist! We’re adding a few new writers to the Blizzard Watch team, as well as an artist to help us with new designs for merch. These are paid freelance positions a

We're looking to add some writers to our team, plus an artist to do some merch designs for us! If you're interested, please send in an app! I like to think we are pretty fun to work with, but I may also be biased.

Trump White House Uses Call of Duty In New Video Promoting Iran Bombings It is the latest example of Donald Trump's White House using video games in their propaganda

The U.S.-led bombing campaign has killed over an estimated 1,000 people in Iran so far, including an elementary school full of kids

scott f @scott@carfree.city Israel hacked Tehran's traffic cameras and used the surveillance feeds to plan an assassination. That makes me feel just great about all the Flock cameras, Ring cameras, and Waymo cameras on SF streets. cnn.com/2026/03/03/middleeast/... Mar 03, 2026 at 22:14

Learning that the abundance of Thai restaurants around the world is a direct result of the government of Thailand doing a sort of restaurant diplomacy makes me wonder why America can’t just do that, why can’t we make the burger to end all burgers instead of Henry Kissinger 2

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