A prequel trilogy could have showed us—carefully, subtly—the structure that will emerge to support the Empire and has been growing in the Republic like a tapeworm—corporations who want to be let off the chain, human-separatist fash, a security establishment rankling at the Jedi, the mob...
I think this is the problem *behind* the problem folks are talking about when they talk about 'green screen' / 'bad CGI' — green screen & bad CGI seem to create options but really they remove actors' and directors' options to *embed characters' cognition in scene*
To give a little side-craft lesson about what I mean here when I say 'clunky writing'—let's say this is your *goal*, to write a space-wizard-action serial for kids (& kids-at-heart) with real political depth (for the genre). This is a subtle and interesting and worthy task! So: how?
The guy from the OC did his undergrad in economics and has become a prominent critic of cryptocurrency. He made a documentary last year and you should see it.
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
I feel like I'm handing a 7th grader a joint. bsky.app/profile/virg...
Maybe should have laid off the AI, you've Turkmenistan labeled as the "Capisan sea"
Years ago, an invasive fungus called white pine blister rust began killing the whitebark pine trees lining the rim of Mount Mazama’s crater. Scientists feared the worst, but after decades of trial-and-error genetics work, the trees no longer face extinction.
You should buy both - Lucah: Born Of A Dream and Death Of A Wish. They're basically two halves of a whole.
Lucah leans a bit more into Bloodborne-esque combat mechanics, DoTW into Bayonetta style aggression. Both are full of religious trauma, rage, Shin Megami Tensei-esque weirdness & queer angst.
New for @theverge.com: i wrote about how Kansas' trans ID law and the "age verification" systems popping up everywhere tie into larger efforts to force trans people to out themselves both IRL and online
Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
The important thing to remember is that The Big Bang Theory, a multi-camera show, spun off Young Sheldon, a single-camera show, which then spun off George and Mandy’s First Marriage, a multi-camera show. This is the first time in tv history that this has happened. We live in unprecedented times!!!!
sketches of all my dragon ocs ✨
A blue-green mountain stream flowing between brown boulders with thick pine trees around and the air filled with snowflakes.
Under dark spruce boughs
Ancient stones shoulder spring flows
Snow falls quietly
I was instantly inspired by @mortiscausa.bsky.social Arthurian palette challenge, so here is my take on 'Burial'.
The Pathways carbon capture project is endorsed by the PM - he described it as necessary to make Canadian oil “decarbonized” and competitive 🚨
Oh I messed up the link I think www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ov...
!["What ultimately broke me and my Blizzard career was I got called into the CFO's office and he sits me down and he says—he gives me a date which at the time was 2020 and was going to slip to 2021, but at the time it was 2020—and he said: 'Overwatch has to make [redacted] in 2020, and then every year after that it needs a recurring revenue of [redacted]' and then he says to me 'if it doesn't do [redacted] we're going to lay off 1,000 people, and that's going to be on you.' And that was the biggest fuck you moment I've had in my career, it felt surreal to be in that condition."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6kfv4l2wkabpwgw3v6k2vwx2/bafkreigxhkst43oa76yvbsaeoupzkdmles6drmfitfymosj3mty5gjzreu)
"What ultimately broke me and my Blizzard career was I got called into the CFO's office and he sits me down and he says—he gives me a date which at the time was 2020 and was going to slip to 2021, but at the time it was 2020—and he said: 'Overwatch has to make [redacted] in 2020, and then every year after that it needs a recurring revenue of [redacted]' and then he says to me 'if it doesn't do [redacted] we're going to lay off 1,000 people, and that's going to be on you.' And that was the biggest fuck you moment I've had in my career, it felt surreal to be in that condition."
This is a deranged thing to say to someone wtf. www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/ov...
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a giant squid wearing a yellow Bart t-shirt and some terrible hypebeast shorts is looking in the mirror. It says, “need groceries… but all my clothes are in the laundry.” Panel 2: the squid, now also wearing hot pink crocs, exits its apartment and says, “eh. I won’t see anyone.” Panel 3: two fisherman are pulling the squid to the surface of the water and pointing at it. An overlayed news caption reads: RARE SQUID SIGHTED - the fit was crazy
The more I read this decision, the more I understand that its logic is that state Medicaid / Medicare can decline, without respect to medicinal standards of care or established scientific evidence, any arbitrary treatment.
Several Cherie Priest books shelved along with an employee recommendation
Elliott Bay Books knows their books.
(cc @cheriepriest.com)
despite extraordinarily stiff competition from the Roberts Court, Citizens United keeps its place as one of the most damaging Supreme Court decisions of all time
I know I’m a goddamn broken record, I really do, but Congress had a way to change that, it worked for decades, and the Supreme Court blew it up in the 1980s in a way that was impossible for Congress to fix. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Sketches of faeries
More oldish sketches. Still like this rose faerie
Your senator is a greater threat to children than all the legal porn on the internet.
a pheonix bird casting magic
Commission for @heliopter.bsky.social of their oc Helio!! I was so excited to draw this bird again and love the pose we landed on. Thank you again!!
#art #furryart
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Oh, yeah, the space alien that infects all of life and absorbs all their knowledge and then destroy a whole planet and move onto another planet to do the same thing. No, yeah, that totally makes sense.
A black midori passport with a little blue charm on top of it
The inside cover of the midori with a color chart, a small business card case and two small pen and pencils
A small notebook and a watercolor sketchbook with the two mini pens aside and the business card case open with watercolor pans inside
The end of the midori with business cards and a card guide for the watercolor palette
For now it looks like that. It's not that thick so it's pretty ok.
