as creative buckaroos we sometimes are beholden to a specific path we dream up, but in my experience art becomes SO POWERFUL when we hand over the reins and let it teach us about ourselves. when we COLLABORATE with fate. when we realize there is no artistic failure, there are just WAVES

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

They are disappearing people. Listen to this. Nightmare. (And the longer they stay the more money core civic makes)

If you really think about it.. lamps in video games use real electricity

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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy

A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation

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Do you want Saw Boss and the Monster Minds because this is how you get Saw Boss and the Monster Minds.

[Jace and The Wheeled Warriors theme kicks in!]

steam is apparently allowing "this game had AI in it that it didn't disclose" as a valid return statement, so if you or anyone you know actually paid $70 for slop, get that money back

whenever i was playing a videogame as a kid my dad would come in and say 'are you levelling up your wizard?' but I'd be playing Need for Speed Underground or something. now i am sitting here literally levelling up my wizard realising he is dunking on me from 20 years in the past

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

One fun thing about writing historical romance is that I’ve read way too many people pontificating about the Value of a Free Market when what they meant was “shut the fuck up and stop complaining about the opium.”