Friday, January 2, 2026

Today's news and jokes



Fishing Minigame of the Year Awards

Starting off strong with BEST FISH DESIGNS!! For me, this has to go to Demonschool! These designs are awesome and make the fishing well worth it! Congratulations to @necrosoftgames.com! (Here's an example of my favourite so far, the death sentry!!) store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

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— Is There a Fishing Minigame? (@fishingminigames.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM

Moving on to MOST INNOVATIVE FISHING!! This award goes to Sip Fisher! Never in my life would I have thought of fishing by drinking up the water!! A very smart and interesting mechanic for a game! store.steampowered.com/app/3680510/...

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— Is There a Fishing Minigame? (@fishingminigames.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM


More in the thread

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (art roundup)

A pair of happy hammerhead sharks (ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)

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— eileen chengyin chow (@chowleen.bsky.social) December 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The acompanying illustration

Thursday, January 1, 2026

"California's DROP program is now active, giving Californians the ability to stop data brokers from selling their personal information"

Here's the site. And here's a write-up. I think they're overloaded right now, so the email confirmation doesn't work, but the text to phone does.

New Humble Bundle featuring "Bob’s Big Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG Megabundle "

Starts at $1 for the core rulebook, three more adventures, and a coupon.

New video game Humble Bundle includes the recent Hellboy game

"The carnage is real, and so are the savings on the amazing games within The 2026 Carnage Collection." Starts at three games for $8, Steam scores included.

Today's news and jokes

(How is it possible that Thunderbolts got pretty good reviews? It's unwatchable.)