This is why I believe that building up community spaces is truly the way forward.

Mutual aid is the foundation of society, but we Americans have let that part of our culture deteriorate and instead promoted the “self-made individual” as the heroic ideal.

Although it doesn’t seem vital, promoting pro-social spaces is critical to getting people to engage with their community and expand the “tribe” to include more degrees of separation.

The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut.

Alex Jones and his lawyers were repeatedly warned that if they did not participate they would receive a default judgement.

From a contemporary article:

Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis cited the defendants’ “willful noncompliance” with the discovery process as the reasoning behind the ruling. Bellis noted that defendants failed to turned over financial and analytics data that were requested multiple times by the Sandy Hook family plaintiffs.

It was so much fun fucking around, Alex, but the time has come to find out.

After the murder of Pertinax on 28 March 193, the Praetorian guard announced that the throne was to be sold to the man who would pay the highest price. Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus, prefect of Rome and Pertinax’s father-in-law, who was in the Praetorian camp ostensibly to calm the troops, began making offers for the throne. Meanwhile, Julianus also arrived at the camp, and since his entrance was barred, shouted out offers to the guard. After hours of bidding, Sulpicianus promised 20,000 sesterces to every soldier; Julianus, fearing that Sulpicianus would gain the throne, then offered 25,000. The guards closed with the offer of Julianus, threw open the gates, and proclaimed him emperor. Threatened by the military, the Senate also declared him emperor. His wife and his daughter both received the title Augusta.

Archbishop Harold Holmes by Jack White

“There’s no dogs down here!”

Fuckin’ gold right there.

Abiotic Factor is an interesting crafting game that takes place in a science facility during a mysterious emergency. I’d recommend playing with friends, but I think it’d be fun solo, too.

I also had fun with Subnautica, though that one is a few years old now. I have not tried the sequel, but I’ll probably pick it up some day. It’s a game where you have crash-landed on an alien ocean world, and you have to explore to make better tools to try and escape.

I’ve been playing Hardspace Shipbreaker lately, where your character is someone who disassembles spaceships. The fun of the game is moving around in zero-g and safely take stuff apart without setting off the nuclear reactor, or explosively decompressing a ship right next to you. You upgrade your tools as you do more jobs.

There’s a popular indie game right now called Megabonk; if you like rogue-light games, it’s a fun one. Avoid waves of monsters and upgrade your character by picking the best of three random power-ups as your level goes up.

Pretty good article, but this part stuck in my craw:

Reid has Zelig-ed his way through just about every stage in the GOP’s metamorphosis from anti-fascist family-value conservatism to its current incarnation as the profa (as opposed to antifa) party of pervs.

The GOP has been the party of lost-cause reactionary hatred since before I was born. They’re just more up-front about it now.

I actually don’t think I’ve ever played a game by an Indian studio, which is a shame because I’m sure there are some great storytellers and coders from there who make spectacular games. I should look around and see what available.

Regarding great games, what genres do you like?

A lot of the “old games were better” is because we mainly remember the best of the best. There has always been shovelware.

On the other hand, I do agree that AAA gaming is fairly stale. I believe it’s mainly because the games are huge investments that have to be a “safe” bet, which is one way to make art (of any type) boring.

But there are indie studios making amazing games these days, because the incentive there is to differentiate their product from the others. Once an idea gets popular enough, AAA studios will pick it up and grind it into the dirt.

I would disagree with the idea that games are worse now. I think the best stuff is getting made today, it’s just harder to find it in a deluge of shovelware. Look in the indie and AA space for interesting games.

Stephen Miller is the worst American, and that really means something in 2025.

100,000% this.

It’s what they were made to do: entrench the privilege of the wealthy via propaganda.

I was just thinking about this today, actually: how much the right freaked out over an “invasion” that was never happening compared to an actual declaration of war on American cities.

It just goes to show how they want to do everything they accuse their opponents of doing.

Trump on Maxwell: “I wish her well.”

Interesting that this is the only occasion where this blowhard shitheel doesn’t pretend to know everything about the subject.

So … the police will let the press know if there is anything to know. Ok then.

The right-wing paramilitary who are notorious for being bad at their jobs is on the case!

I prefer “reactionary,” because it accurately describes their political philosophy and tactics.

Also, it really pisses them off.

Ray refused to participate in this plan, believing it would be inappropriate and highly unusual for a white-collar defendant like Comey, according to the source. He was then suspended for insubordination.

So it’s fine to parade a person around after an arrest for political reasons so long as they’re a lower-class peasant.

Even when the FBI does the right thing they do it for the wrong reasons.

I think the real criteria is how much effect it will have on those corrupt assholes’ wealth.

They know blowing up the fed will make them immediately worse off, so they don’t allow it. They know that the mass firing of union-protected workers will weaken public unions, so they let it go through.

They’re on the take and one of the primary drivers of the reactionary political project.

Is that the same event where he threw an axe at a drummer?

86 percent of the white supremacy party still loves the white supremacist in chief. Gross.

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