Patrick O'Duffy

"You can't block someone just for being annoying!" Those are actually the most important people to block

Well that was easy, thanks again @jasonbostwick.bsky.social for the suggestion. Here's a non-comprehensive list of VOID 1680 AM Affiliate stations across the globe, sorted by air date: bannerless.games/void-map Each one has a link to their first broadcast.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

This is a good time to revisit a story we pubbed more than a year ago. The claims of safety/advantage have become accepted as fact. But they’re vastly inflated … or flatly untrue. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.

They want us to be scared, and sure, there is much to fear. It can always get worse. But a world that can get worse can also always get better, and our power, our vision, our beauty and our joy is stronger than anything they can imagine, and every moment we bring them to one another is a victory

Dont forget my loves, these ghouls must spend their every moment living in fear and activation in order to maintain sufficient momentum, the richest men in the world must spend all their time and money to maintain this stranglehold, and still power is constantly slipping from their grasp

Bad Art response to bad art

close enough

"He's gonna make--!" No he's not. He and all his cohort are in the provocative pitch deck business. Don't be such a fucking mark

Do not show me Palmer Luckey's face again, I do not need to know about the latest vaporware press release that netted one of the worst people alive yet another mountain of money while everyone I know is one bad bill away from ruin

well, on the one hand AI has made things significantly worse for everyone in almost every capacity that it has touched. But on the other hand, the dumbest guy you know can send emails nobody reads really fast now. So it's impossible to say whether it's good or not

A game I think really got slept on is Deathloop. Extremely stylish, interesting conceit, fun protagonist, leans into Arkane’s main strength i.e. sending you on stealth missions to kill a bunch of weird perverts

This is the big thing I want to hammer home with my work here: we on the left are not *better* than conspiracy theorists. We are not *above* propaganda. We are not *too smart* to fall for scams. People like AltNPS know how to exploit our fears and manipulate our anxieties, and we need to be alert.

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

RE: my last reskeet: I sympathise with all my writer friends bombarded by endless scam emails with reams of AI lies about how they'll sell a million more books if they hand over 100 bucks. I, however, am too unsuccessful and unloved a writer to have ever received one. is that is that better

Fantastic news from Aotearoa New Zealand - trans healthcare professionals have won their court case against the government, overturning the country's ban on puberty blockers. Huge respect and congratulations to everyone involved in this fight.

we gotta bring back shame, man society doesn’t work real well without consequences for being an enormous piece of shit in public

“Irony is a means of depriving the object of its reality in order that the subject may feel free….Irony is thus destructive and what Kierkegaard worries about a lot is that irony has nothing to put in place of what it has destroyed.” — Donald Barthelme, “Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel” (1970)

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

The Cartoon Network leak revealed that the team actually wrote fake interviews for the Powerpuff Girls in-house so that the writers could understand them better and honestly this is incredibly useful for learning how to characterize your characters holy shit

new tingler 'NOT POUNDED BY THE SENTIENT TESLO FLYING CAR BECAUSE IT’S OBVIOUSLY FAKE BUT I’M SURE PEOPLE WHO THINK THE PIRATES AT THEME PARKS ARE REAL AND BIRTHDAY PARTY MAGICIANS ARE ACTUAL WIZARDS ARE PUMPED.' out now here www.amazon.com/dp/B0HNHXRGJ2/ and patreon www.patreon.com/chucktingle/...

"Make me virtuous, but not yet" is one of the all timer great insights, and one thing servives can design for is to present you with a sequence of micro choices, encouraging you away from planning, as that locks you into your basic preferences more which makes you a more reliable income stream

Eating the rich is only revolutionary if we also remember to feed each other.

all of the talk of Mars is a lie while they build a cage around us

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

You should read this. It’s really good.

Trying to treat every marginalized person as a spokesperson for their form of marginalization in every situation is itself proof that you are not treating them as just being people.

Okay, I think I'm over sympathetic villains. The trend had its time, but the way reality is now, it's okay for the bad guys to just be shitty and evil. They mostly are! No need to understand their trauma on a deep level.

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

The thing I think we all understand but don't talk about explicitly is that the main thing all of these AI freaks have in common is their nuclear-level praise kinks

Its kinda wild seeing corporate management just obliterating the gates that keep them relevant ; namely the assurance that customers are getting quality products made with all the resources and institutional knowledge a corporation entails

Soft men living frictionless lives will commit untold barbarism to avoid acknowledging the truth of who they are

Sanguine Games has dropped the price on their Matt Howarth graphic novels to essentially free: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1... www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...

I think it would be okay for all media to stop treating "CEO says company he gets money from is good and will change the world" as a newsworthy thing