Paul Dronet

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Congrats to Lula on overcoming Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump to defeat Hospital Pervert Jr., even as his opposition literally blocked off roads and turned off bus service during election day. Fascists are scary but they are always, 100% of the time, ultimately gigantic fucking losers.

Wrap it up

If you have Steam, you’re looking for a fun demo, and you love musical rhythm games, the one for Mr. Records is pretty great. Played it all the way through, and was sad when it was over.

New — I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy’s weaponization of Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse and how it’s only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:

I mostly see movies by myself, which is perfectly fine by me. But I watched You Can See Everything today, and that is precisely the kind of movie I want to talk about with someone immediately for a few hours.

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

There will never be a cooler character than Garrus Vakarian in the Mass Effect series. He was a stand-out, one-of-a-kind dude in a series of outstanding characters from a studio that specialized in giving us magic. RIP, BioWare. Thanks for the good times and the memories. Thanks for Garrus!

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

BioWare statement

a guillotine is simply too merciful

BioWare closing rings the same hollow bell in my soul as WB and Paramount becoming “Skydance.” Across movies, TV, publishing, games, we’re watching decades of legacy and history being hijacked and fed to the furnace of an abyssal engine with no desire beyond the abstract concept of “More.”

This has been the fundamental mechanism through which political media operates my entire life. The right makes a bunch of noise about a fake scandal, the mainstream media "covers the controversy," & normie voters get the vague impression that Dems are constantly involved in scandal.

"dont worry, we didn't use LLMs for real art, like writing, or graphics, or sound, we only used it for dumb gross useless basic shit like programming" always the funnest thing to read as a programmer, as someone whose whole career is based on code, whose handwritten library changed the industry etc

Abdul El-Sayed has MAGA fascinated and terrified this election cycle. But I don't think it's (just) because he's Muslim. They don't know how to handle his aggressive and blunt style. It just goes to show the power of Democrats actually fighting back. www.salon.com/2026/10/19/a...

The thing to understand about James Carville is that nearly 40 years ago he served as water boy for a star quarterback. Based on that job and that job only he has spent decades insisting he knows how to win Super Bowls. At best he knows how to fetch Bill Clinton’s water.

Now is the time to care about everyone, not “once we win” The time to care about everyone is always always always now

He looks like Stanley Tucci from The Lovely Bones, unfortunately.

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

America now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...

Wait'll the folks who are mad at Zuck for muzzling No Kings get wind of the Rohingya genocide.

Unfortunately there are people who care about trans people having rights who are not trans people themselves and I’m sure that the number will suddenly grow exponentially post election when candidates have lost and you’re looking for someone to blame that isn’t the candidates themselves

hyou've got this twisted. we haven't been screaming for more rights, we're having our existing rights taken away and lived through American society become increasingly hostile to us. by letting republicans set the terms of the debate you're giving them a wedge to take away your rights, too.

SCOOP: 'Tommy' from the now-viral exchange with Abdul El-Sayed is Thomas Teepell, a former staffer for Republican Senator Josh Hawley with close ties to Christian Nationalist Sean Feucht. He's the son of a former Bobby Jindal staffer whose consultant work was instrumental in getting Hawley elected.

🔴 BREAKING - Israeli settlers beat French mayor, attack European diplomatic cars in West Bank

The werewolf howl in An American Werewolf in London is underrated. A genuinely unsettling piece of sound design.

Oh my god the sushi robot is playing corporate birthday

Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.

There are so, so many verified diaries of white Union soldiers at the beginning of the war saying "I don't know about this, I condemn the deplorable violence" and then they get down there and see slavery with their own eyes and immediately go "John Brown was right we gotta kill these motherfuckers"

We did this already & it failed. Centrist Dems & the Biden admin had the power to prevent a 2nd Trump presidency. Instead they helped usher it in. Those people were elected because we set aside purity politics and “voted blue no matter who.” So, no. Tell those Dems to move to the left, or go away.

Dems actively selling out trans people: “This is not the time for purity politics.” My brain: “Roll the James Baldwin clip!” youtu.be/UBFDdTIYZ6Q?...

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

Our internet, how we get all of our information, now has banned using the word "sex" without writing it like "s*x" but our kids are being inundated with people falling off rollercoasters, being mauled by Tigers, and jumping off buildings. It creates a culture afraid of people but in love with death.

They want to dehumanize you. They want you to hate like they hate. They want you as soulless and heartless as they are. Cause light, love, unity, and peace are the things they fear most of all, and they’ll use any tactic to stamp them out. Don’t let them. Oppose them. Resist them.

i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo

There are two Misses inside of me and they both demand justice.

New year, new VHS entry. Hitting play on VHS Mixtape.