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@theetceteras.bsky.social
Enthusiast of the arts, mostly popular ones these days.
They/them. Reposts usually mean "take a look at this."
They/them. Reposts usually mean "take a look at this."
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"She had a garden hose but she did not drink from it and did not allow her kids to drink from it and this was the difference, less in lost things than in knowledge become suspicious and alert." - Don DeLillo, Underworld
LOL this list has Ro Khanna, Graham Platner, and Seth Moulton twice.
UPDATE — With Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Chair Emerita of the Congressional Progressive Caucus), there are now at least 12 congressional Democrats, 15 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 8 Democratic candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:
November 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
LOL this list has Ro Khanna, Graham Platner, and Seth Moulton twice.
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We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
The art of GamePro | VGHF Library Highlights
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
There were a lot of positive things that happened during and in the wake of COVID - people acted more considerately WRT disease spreading, we implemented a huge remote work program, governments gestured to UBI and we made a vaccine in less than a year. Amazing how much reaction all that provoked
November 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
There were a lot of positive things that happened during and in the wake of COVID - people acted more considerately WRT disease spreading, we implemented a huge remote work program, governments gestured to UBI and we made a vaccine in less than a year. Amazing how much reaction all that provoked
Here's a great use of language models, in conjunction with real live journalists and novel reporting, to attempt to inform the public.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/07/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/07/t...
Your questions about Texas’ water supply answered
You asked our AI chatbot about Texas’ water supply. We answered some of the questions that it couldn’t.
www.texastribune.org
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Here's a great use of language models, in conjunction with real live journalists and novel reporting, to attempt to inform the public.
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/07/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/11/07/t...
Really good summary here
this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)
November 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Really good summary here
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AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
AP reporter Regina Garcia Cano looked into a few of the men killed in Trump's extrajudicial strikes on Caribbean boats.
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
"They were laborers, a fisherman, a taxi driver. Two were low-level career criminals. One was a local crime boss who contracted out smuggling services"
apnews.com/article/trum...
Khruangbin - White Gloves ii (Official Video)
YouTube video by KhruangbinVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Youtube Comments sections are, let's say "not great" in general, but YT comments on music and live performances are probably the most wholesome remaining part of the commercial internet. Non-stop affirmation and personal history.
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Youtube Comments sections are, let's say "not great" in general, but YT comments on music and live performances are probably the most wholesome remaining part of the commercial internet. Non-stop affirmation and personal history.
I played through "The Invincible" over the past week and, for a shorter game, it has really stayed with me. The art and sound design succeeds at what I think its trying to do, and I do love the source material. It's mostly a walking simulator, but it's a real good one.
November 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I played through "The Invincible" over the past week and, for a shorter game, it has really stayed with me. The art and sound design succeeds at what I think its trying to do, and I do love the source material. It's mostly a walking simulator, but it's a real good one.
Can probably close the book on Republican interest in redistricting, I think.
November 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Can probably close the book on Republican interest in redistricting, I think.
I have a pretty negative view of TikTok and think folks On Here should be way more suspicious of the CCP's use of ByteDance for e.g. surveillance of overseas Chinese. But yes, the idea that views on Israel are about TikTok, rather than Israel's actions, is pure cope.
Nobody is actually giving you a good answer so here's why she's wrong: the negative trendline against Israel in public opinion predates TikTok's emergence by nearly seven years. Also, the largest shift in opinion on Israel in a single demo since 2023 has been among Democrats aged 50yrs and older.
Setting aside her subjective views on Israel, what is she saying here that is incorrect?
Young people do heavily get their views from social media, TikTok is a large component of that, and the TikTok algorithm appears to be controlled, at least indirectly, by the government of China.
Young people do heavily get their views from social media, TikTok is a large component of that, and the TikTok algorithm appears to be controlled, at least indirectly, by the government of China.
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I have a pretty negative view of TikTok and think folks On Here should be way more suspicious of the CCP's use of ByteDance for e.g. surveillance of overseas Chinese. But yes, the idea that views on Israel are about TikTok, rather than Israel's actions, is pure cope.
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Why is the UAE involved in Sudan’s bloody civil war? - https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/why-uae-involved-sudans-bloody-civil-war
Why is the UAE involved in Sudan’s bloody civil war?
The RSF is backed by the UAE, which has been accused of complicity in genocide at the ICJ
www.middleeasteye.net
November 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Why is the UAE involved in Sudan’s bloody civil war? - https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/why-uae-involved-sudans-bloody-civil-war
Blocklist discourse is mainly interesting to me in what it says about how people approach social media (maybe platforms in general) and how badly it fits with what Bluesky, or Mastodon, is trying to do. And similar to GenAI discourse, we blame technology when it is the people who suck.
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Blocklist discourse is mainly interesting to me in what it says about how people approach social media (maybe platforms in general) and how badly it fits with what Bluesky, or Mastodon, is trying to do. And similar to GenAI discourse, we blame technology when it is the people who suck.
P5 OST 09 Beneath the Mask Instrumental Version
YouTube video by MCshawarmaUpload
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Pac man is such a great game, perfect and perfectly simple.
October 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Pac man is such a great game, perfect and perfectly simple.
Aesop Rock - Sherbert (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Aesop Rock
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Chaos Zero Nightmare is a funny game - some of the presentation is good and some of it looks like a half-finished Hoyo clone - and I still don't fully vibe with deck-based combat. But the way the roguelike mode can build diverse character kits and the focus on diverse builds in combat has potential.
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Chaos Zero Nightmare is a funny game - some of the presentation is good and some of it looks like a half-finished Hoyo clone - and I still don't fully vibe with deck-based combat. But the way the roguelike mode can build diverse character kits and the focus on diverse builds in combat has potential.
It's become a much bigger problem that the entire upper echelon of US management thinking is so psychotically hostile to workers. It's hard to say whether the pandemic and remote work made it worse, but it's so clearly a religious belief now, untethered from evidence and reality.
October 29, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It's become a much bigger problem that the entire upper echelon of US management thinking is so psychotically hostile to workers. It's hard to say whether the pandemic and remote work made it worse, but it's so clearly a religious belief now, untethered from evidence and reality.
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He is so obviously mad and unfit it's just incredible there isn't a national conversation about his need to step down.
Q: What did you mean when you said you're prepared to send 'more than the National Guard' into American cities?
TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want
TRUMP: if I want to enact a certain act, I'd be allowed to do whatever I want. The courts wouldn't get involved. Nobody would. I could send Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines -anybody I want
October 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
He is so obviously mad and unfit it's just incredible there isn't a national conversation about his need to step down.
Really striking to me how quickly the whole LLM-centric development world is advancing our ability to work with messy data from heterogeneous sources. This is like, THE challenge of contemporary Information Science and it is slowly disappearing into a mass of neural networks.
October 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Really striking to me how quickly the whole LLM-centric development world is advancing our ability to work with messy data from heterogeneous sources. This is like, THE challenge of contemporary Information Science and it is slowly disappearing into a mass of neural networks.
Oh lol they really are doing the Halo remake - at least this avoids the problem of having to figure out what to do with the Halo narrative. This will make for a nice addition to PS+ in early 2027...
October 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Oh lol they really are doing the Halo remake - at least this avoids the problem of having to figure out what to do with the Halo narrative. This will make for a nice addition to PS+ in early 2027...
No strategy, total innumeracy, nobody willing to say no.
New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...
www.cnn.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
No strategy, total innumeracy, nobody willing to say no.
I was curious about the regional response to the administration policy of randomly bombing Colombian fishing boats so I went looking for news, and found out from Democracy Now that Petro strongly protested and in response Trump called him a drug lord. Mad king shit, seems easy to point out!
October 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I was curious about the regional response to the administration policy of randomly bombing Colombian fishing boats so I went looking for news, and found out from Democracy Now that Petro strongly protested and in response Trump called him a drug lord. Mad king shit, seems easy to point out!