SolarJudas

this made my soul ache

Whenever I hear someone say something like “AI is so useful, it helps me write email subject lines!” I realize that a lot of people are just really fucking bad at their jobs.

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free.

...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." …
She offered me $2600 to self-deport.
I refused.
I wanted to talk to my attorney.
They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

A stick figure made of overlapping punctuation marks from a typewriter labeled as Craig saying: ladies & gentlemen, the world that was promised to us in our childhood has been stripped away from us by the very people that forced us to work toward it. the only future left for us is one that we make for ourselves, and one that abandons the lie, accepting that the world will never be back the way it was. you were all lied to, and it is our sacred burden to hold the liars to account, and take back from them all that we have given to build the castle they, now hide within as our world crumbles to dust. also, the weekend.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

Photo of a full-page ad on the back of a print newspaper (The Onion). The add is for Burt's Shrimp Lip Balm - a modified version of Burt's Bees - with text underneath reading: "We warned you that our bees were dying, and you did fucking nothing."

May I recommend a subscription to @theonion.com print edition as a holiday gift, because their ads continue to rule

i mean it's fine. the legislation specifically said they couldn't do that but what is congress going to do

If I had known the two paragraphs about genAI in my article today would be so controversial, I would have expanded them a bit! Here's a rough transcript of the relevant portion of my interview with Swen Vincke, so everyone has all the context. (Full article here: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...)

Using ChatGPT for generating “Stub dialogue” and “placeholder”

Aka

First drafts

Happy 35th to the original Commander Keen trilogy. 🎂🎉🥂
($15 back then is approximately $36 today.)

time for my new favorite tumblr post

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

Steam intentionally killing an old, respected, and beloved decade old indie game studio through bullshit policy is fucking wild

A four frame comic about Captain Torture. The first frame shows the sign "BREAKING NEWS" and the drawing of a man, with the words "CAPTAIN TORTURES PASSES AWAY" near him. The second frame shows a journalist holding a mic, as she says "A controversial and divisive figure, Captain torture will be remembered for his key role in history." The News title is "Mourning day for Captain-". The third frame shows three posts on social media. The first one is by a man called Paul James @Paulitician. He writes: "I didn't always agree with Captain Torture but he sure was a man who believed in something." The second post by James Paul @Avegetable reads: "I pay my respects to Captain Torture and his family. His heart was in the right place- with our country." The third post is by SonicVomit @SonicBleh , and reads "HE TORTURED PEOPLE". The fourth frame shows an interview on TV. An angry man on the right is saying: "Let me tell you something, Jen. I think it's SICK to celebrate Captain Torture's death. These people should be LOCKED UP, and also tortured-". The news below says: "Every president on earth pays homage-".

Captain Torture

A pair of silver aluminum barbecue tongs on a white background .

everyone automatically clacks these twice upon picking them up because deep down we all know we’re crabs

Oh, you like baseball huh?
Well, we’re going to sit here while you smoke this whole pack of baseball and THEN we’ll see how you feel.

Truly amazing that their post yesterday is showing off concept art from an actual human, then today they post this AI slop with their characters hastily pasted onto it.

Such an insult to the artists still at the company, and such an insult to the people they just let go.

Do better, Playtonic.

Narrator: It wasn't fun. Even a little bit.

The Crossing || Crapshots 809 YouTube video by LoadingReadyRun

We made this absurd sketch so please enjoy.

youtu.be/1GpqqVPJUvY

Canadians, this is a parliamentary petition, not a random online thing. Takes a minute to sign. An easy good deed for the day.

physical media>than streaming

Fuck censorship. They're coming after you next, whether you make porn or not. I have never sold NSFW services or artwork, yet here's my termination from Stripe! Fully SFW, innocent headshots of furries = adult content. This is what we've been trying to fucking tell y'all this whole month!

two characters in a single comic strip pane: - first character: "I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO WISH ILL, STEVEN" - steven: "DAMN"

AUGUST 16, 2025

it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous

Single panel cartoon in the style of Gary Larson Far side. Hacker T. Dog, a dog puppet in a flashy shirt, pulls a goofy smile behind a table of 4 crudely made tools as his co-host, Lauren, puts her thumb and forefinger to her nose trying to stifle laughter. Caption reads "just normal tools."

what do you mean 'normal tools'?