Monday, August 31, 2026

New video game Humble Bundle featuring fantasy RPGs

Starts at two games for $6, Steam scores displayed.

Today's news and jokes





Planes approach at 1:55

In 2019, "Creeped Out" sent three kids into the backrooms

"The Many Place" episode, on Hoopla.


3D-printable Zero Company miniatures

Patreon.





Speaking of custom Star Warss toys, Aneé-san from Star Wars Visions:




And some clips:








Sunday, August 30, 2026

"Dungeons & Dragons Crochet: A Book of Many Patterns" is $1.99 right now

at Amazon.

Chappell Roan performed in a stewardess costume from The Fifth Element




"Styled as always by Genesis Webb, it was a reverent recreation of the Jean Paul Gaultier costumes by Michael Schmidt Studios." (The concert reportedly raised $20 million for charity.)


(Talk about having to separate the art from the artist, btw.)

Today's news and jokes

@thetimes At 9.20 on Wednesday morning, 900 children were halfway through the early shift at Tribhuvan Trishuli secondary school, a three-storey complex in the Trishuli valley of north-central Nepal.⁠ ⁠ Another 700 were on their way on foot and by bus, when the principal, Rajendra Dadabi, received a panicked call from a friend in Betrawati, five miles upstream. “He said the village was gone: taken by the river,” said Dadabi. “He told me to run.”⁠ ⁠ The 47-year-old English teacher took a moment to consider the threat. He remembered that the school buses, each carrying 80 children, were en route.⁠ ⁠ “I got through to all the drivers but one and told them to turn back. Then I saw the bus I hadn’t been able to contact coming across the bridge. By now, the water was in the school grounds — it was so fast — so I told him to turn around. It got to the other side just as the bridge collapsed.”⁠ ⁠ Dadabi’s quick thinking saved the lives of 1,643 children and all but one member of the teaching staff. #nepal #nepalfloods #floods ♬ original sound - The Times and Sunday Times


A human did remarkably well playing Go against an AI (AI roundup)

franklantz.substack.com/p/go-lives?r...

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— Frank Lantz (@flantz.bsky.social) August 24, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Great, and long discussion about Go and how the AI works:
Part of the reason it’s very strong is that Go players like it a lot. KataGo had a great innovation where it’s actually accounting for points, which is how humans judge the game: by counting points. The prior AIs were sort of doing something else, which is related to counting points when they judge win rate, but not actually telling you a point estimate. So when KataGo started counting points, and people could read that point estimate and learn from it, KataGo was immediately more useful as an educational tool than any of the prior AIs had been.
 

Saturday, August 29, 2026

Look at this 3D-printed Sentinel (X-Men '97)

The Patreon.





Valiant Comics Humble Bundle

Starts at $5 for five volumes plus one comic. (Big bundle includes mix of 90's comics and newer stuff)

Today's news and jokes



This "wave object" desk toy is beautiful

Friday, August 28, 2026

The best images of yesterday's lunar eclipse



PAX West video game Humble Bundle

Starts at five games and a coupon for $10 (I haven't followed them in years, and almost never stumble upon them--have they put out any particularly good pods or comics?). 

Also, the Awesome Indie Games bundle expires in a few hours.

Today's news and jokes



These Lantern covers are so arresting (art roundup)

Cover of Green Lantern Corps issue #21. Out in October.

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— Jorge Fornés (@jorgefornes.bsky.social) July 31, 2026 at 7:18 AM


Green Lantern by @jorgefornes.bsky.social

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— Kevin Miranda (@kevinmiranda.bsky.social) August 1, 2026 at 9:17 AM


Cover of Green Lantern Corps issue #20. Out in September.

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— Jorge Fornés (@jorgefornes.bsky.social) August 14, 2026 at 7:43 AM


Saved by the Bell x Final Destination

(Lots of gruesome death set to an upbeat tune)

Thursday, August 27, 2026

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Free short story by Robert Jackson from his Tainted Cup universe

"The Lion's Tusk" murder mystery is free if you have Prime. (The third book in the series is also out.)

Terrific display for Family Mart's new uniforms



(More pics and some video from the event)

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Dolly Parton tribute helmet for the Vols, perhaps? (And lots of other obscure Tim Curry and Parton stuff)





(Did Mike Myers copy this?)

New Humble Bundle featuring Metroidvanias

Starts at two games for $5, Steam scores displayed. 

Also the "unhinged indie" game bundle ends in a few hours, starts at $6 for four games plus DLC.

Today's news and jokes

Has a little hard hat in the second and third pics

Photographing Italian frescoes through open windows





Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Isabel Fall's "I sexually identify as an attack helicopter" is back online

Intense, vivid thriller. (Website says it's not associated with the author or original publisher)

Travelin’ Prayer by Dolly Parton

Marvel Legends Retro Lizard and Venom figures up for preorder

Lizard comes with two heads and two flasks. 

Some other new figures: Mafex Bossk and gravely wounded Superman. 

Today's news and jokes

@aa.briti and for my next act…🪄 lmao fog machine was truly my biggest opp 😂 #dancefail #fogmachine #dance #performance #povcomedy ♬ original sound - Aabriti


Ghost in the Shell and other Cyberpunk fan animations










Has a Patreon selling wallpapers