youtu.be/P1EKQidRooc?... This entire interview is fantastic, but Cory Doctorow has a perfect phrase in his answer to a question starting at 1:42:16 (link to that timestamp): "So here's a way out of that trap. And it's to throw away pessimism and throw away optimism, which are both fatalism: (1/2)

I'm one of those gamers that likes all kinds of different games... From grognard old-school games like Civ (6) and Wizardry (1), to casual idle games like my newest sensation, Monopoly Go. My wife picked it up months ago and I started watching over her shoulder... Finally started an account.

A high percentage of my favorite Youtube video game remix composers are LGBTQ, because OF COURSE THEY ARE. Here I am realizing they also have Bluesky accounts, soooo... follow, follow, follow! Maybe I'll get to the point that I don't actually need to browse Youtube.

I kind of feel bad for LegalEagle when he clearly feels like he can't be his usual jovial self. Like, the long arc of history would bend toward justice if we didn't excuse injustice.

What a brave new world we live in just a few days after the assassination of a CEO. It’s always tough to wrangle with the lines between justice, murder, and ethics but we owe it to ourselves to try.

*clears throat* Umm, hi. I cut my teeth on message boards and LiveJournal, where long form discussion and, like, subject headers were the norm. I look through microblog feeds and feel like I'm wandering through a maze with no branching paths. It's disorienting. Anybody have any hints?