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Alex P. 👹
@saddestrobots.bsky.social
· Dec 15
this is "woke," these are the "woke" people right here, everyone else was just looking to denigrate them or steal their valor
fuck off with your whole "i'm the real left, i'm too good for this woke shit" act, chickenshit parasite e-celeb grifters
fuck off with your whole "i'm the real left, i'm too good for this woke shit" act, chickenshit parasite e-celeb grifters
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the jerk store called. they said you're back in stock
When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
the jerk store called. they said you're back in stock
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a comic about Hollow Knight (5/11/2020)
September 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
a comic about Hollow Knight (5/11/2020)
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Roger Stone & Matt Schlapp were banging on the doors in Miami to stop the vote count (The Brooks Brothers Riot).
Meanwhile, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were on W's legal team drafting the legal arguments to make sure those votes in Florida never counted.
Meanwhile, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were on W's legal team drafting the legal arguments to make sure those votes in Florida never counted.
literally the same people who also stole an election!! real two-for-one accepting-the-indefensible thing there
November 30, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Roger Stone & Matt Schlapp were banging on the doors in Miami to stop the vote count (The Brooks Brothers Riot).
Meanwhile, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were on W's legal team drafting the legal arguments to make sure those votes in Florida never counted.
Meanwhile, John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were on W's legal team drafting the legal arguments to make sure those votes in Florida never counted.
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i feel like this would be a really good conversation to have BEFORE bulldozing the fucking white house
My favorite part of this story is that the architect finds himself in the position that so many people who make a deal with Trump find themselves in….
November 30, 2025 at 4:54 AM
i feel like this would be a really good conversation to have BEFORE bulldozing the fucking white house
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The finest minds at the Hollywood Reporter trying to Surf Dracula the gay hockey show
November 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The finest minds at the Hollywood Reporter trying to Surf Dracula the gay hockey show
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i've been thinking about this again after seeing some anti-options posting (players will ruin their experience with savestates / difficulty settings / credit feeding etc.) and to be a bit pretentious, i feel like part of "game literacy" is learning how and when options like that will benefit you
i generally think it's a good thing for a game to be book-like, in the sense that you can flip to any "page" (game state) relatively unimpeded, which i feel is a more radical position on difficulty than "dark souls should have easy mode"
November 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
i've been thinking about this again after seeing some anti-options posting (players will ruin their experience with savestates / difficulty settings / credit feeding etc.) and to be a bit pretentious, i feel like part of "game literacy" is learning how and when options like that will benefit you
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A *high school* junior should write better than this. A college junior should be deeply embarrassed to have this quality of writing made public.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
A *high school* junior should write better than this. A college junior should be deeply embarrassed to have this quality of writing made public.
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BAH GOD THAT'S GENE WOLFE'S MUSIC
One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".
Not sure how I feel when a book tells me that instead of "12 months" they have "10 arcs," which are each 40 days long, and they all have names like Blossomarc, Flamearc Snowarc,.... I appreciate the world building, but couldnt we have just kept the calendar the same?
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 AM
BAH GOD THAT'S GENE WOLFE'S MUSIC
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my pro tip is that if you find it grating to say "july" just say something like "midsummer" instead of some fantasy hogwash
Not sure how I feel when a book tells me that instead of "12 months" they have "10 arcs," which are each 40 days long, and they all have names like Blossomarc, Flamearc Snowarc,.... I appreciate the world building, but couldnt we have just kept the calendar the same?
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 AM
my pro tip is that if you find it grating to say "july" just say something like "midsummer" instead of some fantasy hogwash
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One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".
Not sure how I feel when a book tells me that instead of "12 months" they have "10 arcs," which are each 40 days long, and they all have names like Blossomarc, Flamearc Snowarc,.... I appreciate the world building, but couldnt we have just kept the calendar the same?
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".
apparently there was a coup in guinea-bissau and right now everyone is arguing about whether it was a real military coup or a "simulated"/"ceremonial" one to invalidate an election
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
apparently there was a coup in guinea-bissau and right now everyone is arguing about whether it was a real military coup or a "simulated"/"ceremonial" one to invalidate an election
i am an orders-of-magnitude less prolific a player than Paul, but this post really speaks to me:
when i see a tabletop rpg that's like "deluxe book! special stuff! we made this one real pretty for you!" i kinda reflexively assume it's gonna be ~ dogshit
www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-r...
when i see a tabletop rpg that's like "deluxe book! special stuff! we made this one real pretty for you!" i kinda reflexively assume it's gonna be ~ dogshit
www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-r...
The New Novelty
Hello readers. It’s been a while. You may have noticed I haven’t put anything up for a few months. Things are good here, no worries. No medical emergencies, no family or work drama. My kid’s school…
www.indiegamereadingclub.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
i am an orders-of-magnitude less prolific a player than Paul, but this post really speaks to me:
when i see a tabletop rpg that's like "deluxe book! special stuff! we made this one real pretty for you!" i kinda reflexively assume it's gonna be ~ dogshit
www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-r...
when i see a tabletop rpg that's like "deluxe book! special stuff! we made this one real pretty for you!" i kinda reflexively assume it's gonna be ~ dogshit
www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-r...
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My favorite ludicrous New Yorker style is that they print initialisms in full caps but acronyms (initialisms pronounced as words) in small caps, so in the days of CD-ROMs, they'd write the word like this:
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
My favorite ludicrous New Yorker style is that they print initialisms in full caps but acronyms (initialisms pronounced as words) in small caps, so in the days of CD-ROMs, they'd write the word like this:
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But to your point, there's no level of sycophancy that would result in Trump deeming them fair. There have been several times over the years where he's raged against Fox News, even.
November 30, 2025 at 3:22 AM
But to your point, there's no level of sycophancy that would result in Trump deeming them fair. There have been several times over the years where he's raged against Fox News, even.
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Maybe ABC, CBS, and WaPo like being denounced by the White House, at least a little, because they can use that to say they’re not biased in Trump’s favor despite all the objective evidence that they are. Good point.
I think they probably welcome it. They're all hopelessly biased in Trump's favor but having the WH call them out as somehow being "anti-Trump" is brand management for them
November 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Maybe ABC, CBS, and WaPo like being denounced by the White House, at least a little, because they can use that to say they’re not biased in Trump’s favor despite all the objective evidence that they are. Good point.
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The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
November 30, 2025 at 3:15 AM
The White House’s new anti-media website includes denunciations of:
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
-ABC, which bribed the president
-CBS, which bribed the president and moved away from fact-based journalism trying to appeal to him and his fans
-WaPo, which spiked a Harris endorsement and tilts coverage in Trump’s favor
Fools.
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The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
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Y’all there’s a possum out here in the trainyard, so if you’re wondering how bad it’s gotten in Texas the answer is “the possums have taken to riding the rails in search of better fortune”
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Y’all there’s a possum out here in the trainyard, so if you’re wondering how bad it’s gotten in Texas the answer is “the possums have taken to riding the rails in search of better fortune”
my school's professor specializing in 20th-century african history wrote as much back in like 2009, real "if you kick the can now we're all just going to regret it" moment, and we have seen some absolutely STUPENDOUS can-kicking plays since then, and literally nothing else
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
my school's professor specializing in 20th-century african history wrote as much back in like 2009, real "if you kick the can now we're all just going to regret it" moment, and we have seen some absolutely STUPENDOUS can-kicking plays since then, and literally nothing else
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Do not count on 19yo Lance Corporals to do what Senators won't
February 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Do not count on 19yo Lance Corporals to do what Senators won't
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Bolsonaro may die in prison.
Bangladesh's PM was just sentenced to death for ordering last year's brutal crackdown.
Are any politicians running on a "We gotta start stacking these fascists like fucking cordwood" platform?
Bangladesh's PM was just sentenced to death for ordering last year's brutal crackdown.
Are any politicians running on a "We gotta start stacking these fascists like fucking cordwood" platform?
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Bolsonaro may die in prison.
Bangladesh's PM was just sentenced to death for ordering last year's brutal crackdown.
Are any politicians running on a "We gotta start stacking these fascists like fucking cordwood" platform?
Bangladesh's PM was just sentenced to death for ordering last year's brutal crackdown.
Are any politicians running on a "We gotta start stacking these fascists like fucking cordwood" platform?
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The main reason we're in this situation is a bunch of war criminal shitbags from the Reagan administration paved the way for fascism.
And the best thing you can do is ask the grunts not to follow illegal orders. What about your part of the bargain?
And the best thing you can do is ask the grunts not to follow illegal orders. What about your part of the bargain?
November 30, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The main reason we're in this situation is a bunch of war criminal shitbags from the Reagan administration paved the way for fascism.
And the best thing you can do is ask the grunts not to follow illegal orders. What about your part of the bargain?
And the best thing you can do is ask the grunts not to follow illegal orders. What about your part of the bargain?
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"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
"Don't follow illegal orders" would be more meaningful if Democrats had prosecuted literally any of the prominent war criminals of the last 30 years instead of, you know, fucking campaigning with them
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