Wednesday, July 2, 2025

The US women scored a very anime-style goal, as if they used the power of friendship; and Luna did the first viral tiktok dance for men











@greenscreens4memes #indonesianboatracing #aura #aurafarming #pacujalur #indonesia ♬ Young Black & Rich - Melly Mike


@kitaofficial.idn Replying to @๐“† the viral “Aura Farming on Boat” kid from Pacu Jalur Team Tuah Koghi! Now he’s answering our questions ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ”ฅ Pacu Jalur, ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉIndonesia’s living tradition ✨✨ #pacujalur #aurafarming #auradynamics ♬ Young Black & Rich - Melly Mike




A number of Guatemalan fans ran onto the field and one overzealous security guard decided it was her job to blindside deck people. It was, frankly, unnecessary — even if those fans should not be on the field.

— Paul Tenorio (@paultenorio.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM

Podcast interview with Jason Blum discussing M3GAN 2.0 flopping

It starts with him noting that it wasn't long ago that tracking indicated M3GAN 2.0 might beat F1.


Meanwhile, in real waste:



It never ceases to amaze me (derogatory) how much money and effort game publishers are willing to just walk away from and never see any kind of return on. Major cancelations like Perfect Dark, Everwild, and Zenimax's thing represent decades of work by hundreds of devs that's just *gone.* Shocking.

— Dan Stapleton (@danstapleton.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM



Also:

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Some previously exclusive G.I.Joe figures are in stock at the BBTS

Shadow Tracker and Wolf Spider.

New video game Humble Bundle featuring ocean-themed games

Aquarium Designer, Crab God, and more (Steam scores displayed).

Damaged box Sabine Wren with Batwolf on sale

3.75" Disney+ Sabine (alt head, saber, blasters) and monstrous mount for $10 off at EE.

Today's news and jokes

@julessanantonio what in the microtrope… @AuthorAbbyJimenez @Hannah Bonam-Young #sayyoullrememberme #abbyjimenez #booktok ♬ original sound - Jules.


Some great theme park images



Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel "Alien Clay" is terrific from start to finish and is $2.99 right now

A body horror thriller about crash landing on an alien planet, told by an unreliable narrator (don't spoil it for yourself, avoid learning more before you read it). On sale for $2.99 right now at Amazon.

Superman 2025, Gamerverse Cyclops, and a bunch of other good new S.H.Figuarts figures up for preorder

Probably the best Cyclops figure ever made, plus a whole bunch of other Figuarts including Evangelion pilots and Godzillas. And if you loved the train from Back to the Future III, well, your day has come.

And if you're feeling nostalgic, MASK toys have been re-released. 

New Humble Bundle for July includes Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader for less than its Steam summer sale price

$14.99 for Rogue Trader and seven other games (can cancel monthly subscription at any time). (Rogue Trader alone is $24.99 in Steam's Summer Sale at 50% off.)

Today's news and jokes

@clowntown559 ‘Twas entertainment most stimulating… of the intellectual variety! Benjamin Frankin @TudorTooterTutor www.Ben-Franklin.org; conspirator credit to @Dannyboi ♬ Father Figure (Featured in 'Babygirl') - George Michael


The Poetry Camera team got Susan Kare (of Macintosh icons fame) to design a pin for them

From their latest newsletter about all the tweaks recent they've made to the camera's design.

Lovely flash of green on this silver Lego chimera

Monday, June 30, 2025

Ken Liu's collection "The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories" is $1.99 right now

at Amazon:
This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards).
Also, "Creation Lake: A Novel" from my wishlist is $2.99 right now:
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION*
*AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
*NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE WASHINGTON POST, KIRKUS REVIEWS, NPR, THE ECONOMIST, THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, VOX, and more*

From Rachel Kushner, two-time finalist for both the Booker Prize and National Book Award, a “vital” (The Washington Post) and “wickedly entertaining” (The Guardian) novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner filled with dark humor.

Solar Man of the Atom #7 was one of my favorite comics














Thanks for all the great memories, Jim Shooter.

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— Jim Zub (@jimzub.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM



Jim Shooter's treatment for The Transformers: the eight pages that started a legend. RIP Jim Shooter (1/2)

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— Simon Letch (@simonletch.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM

(2/2)

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— Simon Letch (@simonletch.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM





RIP King

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— peterquill47.bsky.social (@peterquill47.bsky.social) June 30, 2025 at 5:31 PM


Damaged box S.H.Figuarts movie Venom in stock

$22 off at EE.

New Humble Bundle featuring Cyberpunk, Warhammer, and G.I.Joe TTRPGs

and Dishonored, and Transformers, and lot more more properties.

Today's news and jokes

[Tom Jackson voice] That ref got... JACKED UP

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— Chris Vannini (@chrisvannini.com) June 28, 2025 at 1:05 PM


Drones being used to deliver supplies and remove trash at Mount Everest

@bbcnews Mount Everest is often described as the world’s highest garbage dump. #MountEverest #Nepal #NepaleseArmy #Asia #SouthAsia #Rubbish #Waste #Drones #Technology #BBCNews ♬ original sound - BBC News


A longer write-up at CNN:
Airlift currently has two DJI drones, only one of which is being operated on Everest this year. The second one is a backup, and if there’s need for more drone flights, they’ll consider deploying both.

One challenge is money. Each drone costs $70,000, and that’s before they even begin operating.

“Everything is expensive at Base Camp,” Bikram said.

“Because there’s no electricity we need a lot of fuel to charge batteries.

Cosplay of the Stormtroopers from the Star Wars Visions episode Duel

More incredible cosplay from #SWCJ for #StormtrooperSaturday

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— kameraloosh (@kameraloosh.bsky.social) June 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM



Related, sexy Gonk:

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Today's news and jokes

("Accompanied by his daughter – and presumed heir")

Silly Ghost in the Shell plate



(Related, some mildly spicy Kusanagi pinups.)

Lego Kaiju Hermit Crab with Tug Boat as a Shell

Saturday, June 28, 2025

Lab-grown salmon approved by the Food and Drug Administration and to be served at restaurants






Discussed here, along with the FDA's letter.

Plush Big Chungus

Some fun new plush toys at Entertainment Earth including Big Chungus, Lumpy Space Princess, and sleeping Toothless.

New Humble Bundle features the Numenera TTRPG

Rulebooks, campaigns, and more. (One of the first kickstarters I supported was the Torment: Tides of Numenera video game.)

Today's news and jokes

Officials at a small airport in northern Japan conducted a low-speed car chase Thursday to thwart a security risk: a small black bear. Twelve flights were canceled as airport employees chased the bear around the runway, a Yamagata airport official said. wapo.st/4luRYMP

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— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) June 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
(There's a car chase)

X-Men #22 Psylocke variant cover




Bonus Psylocke:

Strange and charming story about meeting JJ Abrams

There's an mp3 download at the end.

Friday, June 27, 2025

Footage from the flooding in Paris

@remybuisine Les parisiens et touristes sous les orages ร  Paris. #paris #orage ♬ original sound - ๊จ„๐’‚๐’Š๐’๐’†๐’š๐’‘๐’†๐’‚๐’„๐’†๊จ„


@vibes.on.stage Un orage ร  Paris#tempete #orage #bloquรฉ #metro #pluie #paris #innondation #pourtoii #fyp #pourtoipage #pourtoi #foryou ♬ son original - ✨️


@blackcardclub Paris sous la pluie ☔️❤️ #paris #eiffeltower #rain ♬ son original - BLACK CARD CLUB ®️



Related, the aftermath of recent flooding in China:

Good poster for The Naked Gun

New video game Humble Bundle featuring virtual reality games

Variety of gaming, including bullet hells and city bulders.

Today's news and jokes



The magazine is from 1984, but that's clearly Jonny "Zero Cool" Lee Miller

pirates and raiders: the computer-abuser subculture, article, imagery, k-power, magazine (1984) archive.org/details/k-po...

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— videogame history (@vghistory.bsky.social) June 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM


(The article is titled "Pirates and Raiders: The Computer-Abuse Subculture" from the February 1984 edition of K Power: The Magazine for the Computer Generation.")

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Replay of Faith Kipyegon's attempt to day to break the 4-minute mile (with Nike pulling out all the stops to help her)



The effort included developing a 3D printed sports bra using "FlyWeb":
some wearers reported being able to feel airflow on the chest for the first time while running, a sensation made possible by the garment’s open, breathable zones. “Most women have never experienced that while running,” she said. “We don’t even think about it because it’s just not something we’ve ever expected to feel.”

Alyssa Thompson's goal tonight

Alyssa Thompson. That is all. #USWNT

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— Our Game Magazine (@ourgamemagazine.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM


(On like four consecutive plays on the left side, she did something completely different yet successful.)

New graphic novel Humble Bundle

Big mix, including a collection of Twisted Tales by Simon Bisley and Kevin Eastman, The Art of Dracula by Ricardo Delgado, and check out this cover:

New and improved Marvel Legends Juggernaut up for preorder

At the BBTS.




Tomorrow at 1300 ET smash the preorder buttons for this Marvel Legends Juggernaut

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— Dan Yun (@danyun.bsky.social) June 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM

Today's news and jokes

New Sandman goes hard!!

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— Billy Hynes Comics Enabler (@billyhynes.bsky.social) June 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
What if Destruction retrieved Dream's helm?

Charting the NBA Baddie Index (do NBA players perform better when trying to impress)

@nbaresdev

they are indeed affected by those baddies

♬ original sound - nbaresdev



Related:




Lots of jokes, but despite his dad being the NBA player, mom was the coach (and had murder in her eyes):

Never heard of Tiny Chef before, and wow, quite a video about the show's cancellation (infinitely better without sound)

@thetinychefshow

SOS Cheffers, please go to the link our bio to learn how you can help us keep Chef on social media. Tiny chefs cooking show has officially been cancelled (very unexpected) and without the support of a major network we need crowd funding to keep cookin’ over here. Yesh this es weal! We want to thank @nickelodeon for giving Chef two blamazing seasons and all the besties he made there. Chef wouldn’t want anyone to blame his friends over there, he’s just deeply sad he doesn’t get to continue hosting a show he adores. Please let cheffy know how much he means to you in the comments he’s really feelin this one.

♬ original sound - Thetinychefshow





They're crowdfunding and have a shop, and are probably kicking themselves for being sold out of figurines. There's a figure with storytelling feature at Amazon.

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

New video game Humble Bundle featuring "marquee mystery & thriller titles"

"Murders on the Yangtze River" has a 97% positive Steam score. One of the games is named "Song of Farca."

There's also a new bundle featuring the Mafia and Bioshock games.

Pablo Torre's latest podcast is a remarkable discussion about the NFL Player's Association seemingly sabotaging itself with ineptness and self-dealing

He and Mike Florio of PFT heard about a secret document that concerned possible collusion among NFL owners to prevent guaranteed contracts in the wake of Watson's deal. The two reporters understood why the NFL might want to keep the document secret, but why would the NFLPA? So they made a bet as to who could uncover it, and Torre won.

Compelling listening, and stay tuned til the end to hear which ESPN personality and former NFLPA president refused to comment.

Here's Florio's follow-up today discussing whether Justin Herbert might want to sue the league and the PA.

Today's news and jokes

I went to a barcade in London and bought 36 tokens for 20 pounds. These "tokens" turned out to be American quarters and I have never felt so owned. Essentially I gave them $27 and got $9 back

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— Brandon Sheffield (@brandon.insertcredit.com) June 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM


A May 2024 solar storm that disrupted GPS might have cost USA farmers more than $500 million

Space:

Location signals beamed to Earth by GPS satellites were off by hundreds of feet during the Gannon Solar Storm in May last year, and the disruption lasted for up to two days in some U.S. regions

...

The erratic behavior of GPS-guided farming machinery caused by the Gannon solar storm cost American farmers in the U.S. midwest more than $500 million, according to ... a professor of agricultural economics at Kansas State University.

Related, saw this the other day, FWIW:


Fun fact, at Google I need fingers, plural, to count the times I am certain nondeterministic (often: cosmic ray) bit flips caused outages. I am sure there are many more, but we've proven it more than a few times.

— Elixir of Progress (@elucidating.bsky.social) June 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM

Pretty Lego Allied Tech Center from Command and Conquer