Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
Trans candidates ask important questions. How has my being trans affected your life? Has it made groceries, gas, medical care and rent more expensive? Has it turned friendly nations against us? Have we led you into foolish wars? Do we cause gun violence? We're not the problem. Republicans are.
I appreciate that people want a new Mass Effect, but the future where fans advocate for the work itself and not the people who make it is the one the vultures at EA want. If you'll take it however you get it, they can keep treating people who make what you love as expendable.
sorry i need to publicly be a hater for a second but what do you mean the giant 230k+ signature save mass effect petition is only about the IP and not the devs that were laid off
While my potatoes might not look as good as Emily and Ina's, this recipe is solid, if not kinda fussy. I might look for shortcuts next time.
Now to take them out and pop in a steak and get dinner underway.
Having a โWorking Manโsโ dinner of steak* and potatoes tonight.
I shall obviously be sending along a letter of apology to the Working Manโs Union for appropriating their culture. ๐
* I wait forever for ribeye to go on sale, then I stock up. My friend asks about the โmeat bricksโ in my freezer. ๐
Steak done via this method because while I love the slower methods, sometimes I simply cannot be bothered when I want it faster but still cooked properly.
Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell
New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a group of his friends have been secretly using the NYPD Police Academyโs gymnasium in Queens to play pickup basketball โ scrambling some operations at the facility.
w/ @grahamrayman.bsky.social & Joe Anuta www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
While my potatoes might not look as good as Emily and Ina's, this recipe is solid, if not kinda fussy. I might look for shortcuts next time.
Now to take them out and pop in a steak and get dinner underway.
This article does not discuss one major reason why chocolate in the West got worse - Ghana and Ivory Coast, the two African countries that are the biggest suppliers of cacao globally, got organised and started demanding fair prices for it.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
I feel a small "gamer grump" coming on from the seeming onslaught of "genre overload" game pitches I'm getting.
I do not want to tidy up a massive shop, I don't want to run a simulated shop nor do I want to check credentials at an entry gate.
Shit talk incrementals all you like, but that's my jam.
One of my favorite aspects of the #TwilightZone time-travel episodes like "Back There" and "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" is the reinforcement of, "No, you can't go back in time and change what you wanted to change, howeverโฆ other things may change anyway."
Butterfly effect but not for thee.
Also, Julie Newmar is the best OG Twilight Zone Devil. All shade to Burgess Meredith who is great, but she's amazing.
However, shout out to the modern episode "Poker Night" which handled it in a really fun way. ๐
This is the truly frustrating thing. A company, organization, website, platform, etc. will frame itself as an "AI alternative from the big evil ones" and then slowly head towards the same destination.
I get it, I know that perhaps soon there won't be any place to avoid it, but jeezโฆ
I also don't like the slow creeping shift that people who aren't into AI aren't being "left behind" but that we're just weird stubborn "haters". (Which, yes, obviously.)
"You don't want a cutesy little Teletubby like agent having total access to your bank account to order you Taco Bell? Weirdo." ๐
I believe that if your company undergoes layoffs during a set amount of time after a sale or acquisition, there should be some kind of massive financial penalty or forced restitution. You can afford to buy a company, but you canโt afford the staff? Then you canโt afford to buy the company.
This isnโt insightful but almost every time that I open the Netflix app itโs an accident and nothing there *looks* like a show. All the thumbnails look like ads for a phone game.
Netflix is a really fascinating story of how for years a company listens to the market (create more/better shows;), listens to analysts (create advertising products! create targeting! create live streaming opps!); generates mounds of money for folks and then...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!
I'm one of those in the group at risk. If anyone is on the lookout for someone with decades of experience in production and release management, please reach out.
It is, sadly, a universal experience of being Black (child or adult) in this country that any bit of excellence over white peers is immediately seen as "suspect" or "unfair" and how quickly they will appeal to an authority figure about it.
And also, how it fucking wears you down, every time. ๐ก
I spoke to the mom of the 3-year-old soccer star who was left "thinking he did something wrong" after a league official called police "due to a disturbance between parents"
The youth sports league said they launched a review and reached out to the family
I still remember tantrums from childhood neighbors and friends, accusations from classmates, disbelief from teachers, snide comments from co-workers. All because I had the nerve to not only do what was expected of me, but also to do it well.
While also not being allowed to express anger about it.
Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe ๐ฎ