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tbh i think of the US as fifty different countries who are all pretty cool with each other for the most part

[NaCl @na__chloridee_]

No AI, I made these using ibis paint and 2 liters of tiramisu

[NaCl @na__chloridee_]

It costs 00.0$ to support a 17 years old artist

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

If capitalism truly rewarded skill or intelligence, the richest people would be neurosurgeons, engineers, and scientists.

If it rewarded talent, it would be artists, writers, and creators.

If it rewarded hard work, it would be cleaners, laborers, and service workers.

But it’s none of them.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Shimazu.S @ShimazuSystems]

you're not brave enough

[Slaylor @GirlSnailure]

got so tilted by someone blocking my path today i had to make this to blow off steam

[Michael Pyrcz🌻 @GeostatsGuy]

"Howdy Folks, I'm Michael Pyrcz, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin, and I record all of my lectures and put them on YouTube so anyone can follow along!"

...and I kept doing that, and writing a Python package, along with 2 free, online e-books, 100s of Python demonstration workflows, dozens of synthetic datasets, etc. etc.

Why? So anyone can follow along!

Education changes lives. I know because it changed mine. I’m just paying it forward.

[Arin Hanson @egoraptor]

This clip is a great example of why I didn't want to continue making Sequelitis.

I had an interest in game design, and I had an interest in publicly talking about it, but my thing was comedy, and cartoons. So that's how I did the show... as a cartoon comedy. My schtick was loud characters, and chaotic shouting. Every topic in Sequelitis was shouted at full volume. Every little design choice I thought was smart was "fucking genius" and every minor annoyance I had was a full on meltdown rant. Some things I complained about didn't even piss me off, I just thought they were interesting to bring up. But I exaggerated them for the sake of comedy because I didn't really know how to make them funny otherwise.

And I'm sure because I was young and insecure, I had a morbid desire to shake things up... Ocarina was an untouchable game, a 10/10 across the board, and I think being provocative about that appealed to me back then, too. But I love Ocarina. I grew up with it. I genuinely did want to have a discussion about the things that didn't age well, because I think that's interesting. I think we can learn a lot from that. But I dunno... I just don't think I felt confident enough to talk about it with the appropriate tone, so I hid behind what I knew: a cartoon character that shouts.

This carried into Game Grumps... I had been doing Game Grumps for like 3 years when I released the Zelda video. I think the lines blurred for the audience because at that point I was "Arin Hanson," not Egoraptor. But Arin on Game Grumps is also a character. If I'm getting frustrated and shouting at a game on the show, it's for the bit. It's a show. Heightened emotions. And the go-to bit for me was saying "this game sucks, it's bad" and going on rants. The intent was to play the buffoon. But I think people just thought that was me.

And that's fine. I don't blame them. It is "me," there's always some truth behind that sort of stuff. And I think it was extra confusing because I WOULD just be normal sometimes on the show. But you may notice recently I've very deliberately changed how I handle those bombastic moments on Grumps, where I point the finger inward now. "I suck, I messed up, I can't believe I didn't see that, what an idiot, etc." I just didn't like the bad energy I was putting out there. I hated that people saw me that way. It disturbed me that people told me "wow, you're actually really nice" all surprised when they met me in person, as if they assumed I'd rip their head off.

And look, I'm not gunna pretend I'm an angel on the show now, the schtick of "buffoon that is easily angered" comes very easy to me when I'm performing, so I still utilize it constantly. But I usually find a way to channel it inward and be the butt of the joke, instead of just radiating it outward. It's funnier that way.

I think I just assumed this was all obvious. You see how I tweet. You've seen interviews. I don't talk like I do on the show, or in my cartoons. I like being supportive of people and I like discussing things. I don't shout in my normal life. So when I see people characterizing me as this idiot who has no patience and sucks at playing Zelda... it sounds so silly but it just honest to goodness hurts my feelings sometimes. I love game design! I love video games! But, I get it. All you can see of me in my shows and cartoons is this loudmouth asshole who says your favorite game sucks. Like, fuck that guy, right? I think that's valid. I think you're right to feel that way. I think I was playing fast and loose with this character and I was being flippant about how frustrated it made people. I regret that.

I suppose I should have thicker skin about this. And yeah... it feels so benign in the grand scheme of things. Who cares if people are circulating an 11 year old clip from a cartoon I made and saying "wow this guy's a moron." It shouldn't matter. Why should I care? But I guess I just have to admit that I do care sometimes, and it just kinda bums me out. I cared a lot about game design back then. It wasn't as prevalent as it is now. It was all dry GDC talks (which are, of course, wonderful). I found it really exciting to bring game design to light in a fun way for people that don't usually think about it. I hope I succeeded in that. But if I could go back, I think the in-your-face hyperbolic know-it-all character would go the way of the dodo. I suspect that aspect of it may have done some harm for game design discourse. And that sucks.

For the record, the waiting in Ocarina barely frustrates me. I think it's appropriate at times. The game feeling larger and more cinematic just kind of lends itself to moments of pause. Enemies are more sparse so making them "last longer" just kind of makes sense. Did I feel this way back then? I'm sure I did feel stronger that "waiting" was more frustrating... but not to the level in this clip, by any means. That's just being young and insecure, I guess. I felt like I had to beat my chest in order for anyone to listen or be interested in what I had to say.

[Dropout @dropout]

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[Rick @colonelhogans]

NOBODY in Australian media tells it straight like the icon, no bullshit, straight shooting, journalist, writer and playwright, Van Badham ♥️

Pauline Hanson is a 71-year-old woman from Queensland who has lurked around Australian politics for 30 years.

One suspects Ms Hanson has stayed in politics because it’s a job that pays her very well for doing very bloody little.

As a cross-bench senator without the responsibility of government, all she’s had to do is go out and find 7.4% of formal senate votes cast in Queensland to keep her bum in a red leather chair.

Yep. She got only 7.4% of the primary vote last time she faced the polls in 2022. In 2025, her LOOPY One Nation senate pal Malcolm Roberts from Queensland got 5.67% of the vote at the ballot box.

Her schtick has never been about taking a comprehensive policy suite for all Australians to the nation.

It’s been about finding that minority of people willing to vote for someone who merely shares their American-far-right-flavoured opinions, rather than someone who delivers any tangible outcomes to their community.

Because what has Pauline achieved? What are her ACTUAL runs on the board?

Pauline has never authored a bill that’s passed into law, or engineered a budget, or overseen a multi-stakeholder policy development process. She’s never negotiated a trade deal, or navigated international diplomatic relationships.

This is literally *the business of government*.

Go through the THIRTY YEARS of her political statements and speeches and you will start noticing a consistent pattern.

Have you observed that when Pauline faces meaningful questions about the details of governance, she either yells her opinions at them, accuses them of attacking her, or she starts to cry?

Have a think about when you have ever seen her engage sophisticated discussion of trade relationships, foreign relations, export markets, taxation schedules, disease control, social policy, constitutional law or the justice system. Or the legislative process.

All of which is fine… unless you’re *a real federal government* whose decisions affect real Australians, not pretend ones.

Australia is a serious country for serious people who know government exists to make their lives easier and their society more prosperous.

If I want to watch clowns set everything on fire, I go to the bloody circus, where they do no harm.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING:

🇦🇺🇺🇸 An Australian app is now dangerously challenging TikTok, after Jewish-American billionaire Larry Ellison bought TikTok and began mass censorship against Israeli critics.

A massive number of users are now abandoning TikTok and jumping to UpScrolled.

The app has already climbed to 13th place on the US Play Store with hundreds of thousands of downloads in just a few days.

[Serkan Öztürk @SerkanTheWriter]

We have Mossad Minns in NSW.

And it's clear now we have Mossad Malinauskas in South Australia.

[HALO | CAREER SPECIALIST @Halosznn_]

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[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

An open-source tool designed to remove or disable unwanted AI components like Copilot, Recall, and other AI tools from Windows.

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

Gmail welcoming the Gemini era?

That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: https://t.co/zVLWwTQI6g

[𝔑𝔞𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔫 @TheNathanNS]

uBlock, AdGuard, Pi Hole, a modified HOSTS file

It's a peaceful existence.

[Synth Potato🥔 @SynthPotato]

I've recently been playing Skyrim with 1900+ Mods and it is a shockingly amazing experience, and it took me basically just one click to play this.

This is using the "Gate to Sovngarde" mod collection, not only is it completely stable, it transforms Skyrim while still keeping its original core. it still feels like I am playing Skyrim unlike some mod collections out there that turn it into a different game, but it focuses massively on enhancing the immersion of the game.

In a lot of ways, it feels like Red Dead Redemption 2 with its new hunting system that feels far more involved, including carrying animals. There are survival mechanics involving Sleep/Hunger/Cleanliness (that you can turn off) plus having to battle the elements like Cold. There's ability to talk to any NPC with thousands of new dialogue lines added to existing NPCs (they have used AI voices for this) and new NPCs everywhere. it feels like every single quest, person and location has been overhauled and had new things added to it to expand the game. Just in Whiterun alone, there's a ton more going on with more people, more buildings, new quests, the entire outskirts of the city is now filled with new markets and buildings to explore.

One of my favorite parts early on is that now you can play the prologue from the perspective of a Helgen resident, with a ton of little quests and dialogue with the residents of the city up until they bring in Ralof and Ulfric, you get to witness that whole sequence from the sidelines and once Alduin arrives, it progresses same as vanilla.

There's an entire bestiary here just like The Witcher 3, Photo mode is here, all the animations have been overhauled and third person is actually playable now. You can play card/dice games with NPCs, and the game in general is a lot more reactive to what you do. for example I cleared out a bandit camp near whiterun and I could capture it properly, resulting in the guards moving in, making the roads safer.

And all I've described is just scratching the surface, there are a ton of new quests, new lands, new gear, dungeons, choices, expanded quests, every single mechanic in Skyrim has been touched up in some way to ensure a more immersive, more role-playing experience is achieved. It is insane what you can do with Skyrim modding 2026, I have been modding this game for what feels like my entire life just manually, so seeing that modding has become as easy because all this took was pressing download on the collection on Nexus, with the only boundary here being that you need Nexus premium but I simply just used the trial and cancelled right away, so I did not spend a single penny to get this experience.

[Pheenoh @pheenoh]

After 5 years, 3 months, 23 days,
60+ contributors,
2000+ commits,
1500+ pull requests, and
1.2 million+ lines of code

The first version of Twilight Princess has been matched!!!!!!!

[MoshiMoshiMoan @MoshiMoshiMoan]

The things Valve throws in the trash are better than what Bethesda puts on the shelves.

[GitHub Projects Community @GithubProjects]

A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry.