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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"If you're ruthless for the right, you get money put behind you If you're ruthless for the left, you get money put against you America First Legal got >$50 million in funding. A left version of the same would get attacked by Dem orgs and donors, and everyone associated with it blacklisted forever"

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"Turning Point USA and Young America’s Foundation (both heavily pro-Trump)—are propped up with cash from wealthy conservatives. Ben Shapiro gilded by a number of conservative billionaires, many of who...

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Yglesias admitted getting to feel like a rebel while being on the side of power bsky.app/profile/mich... bsky.app/profile/jaim... Iraq: "Being for the war was a way to simultaneously be a free-thinking dissident in the context of a college campus and also be on the side of the country’s power elite

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Super Mario Sunshine is surprisingly more realistic than later Mario games in one specific aspect: here, Mario will start drowning if he hangs on to a ledge in such a way that water is flowing into his nose and mouth, as one would in real life.

Observe Mario holding on to a ledge that water is flowing over in Super Mario Galaxy (left) and Super Mario Odyssey (right). If realistic physics applied, he should start drowning since his nostrils and mouth are covered by water flowing into them.
However, in these games the air depletion/drowning state is tied to the swimming animation. As long as Mario is not visibly swimming, he cannot be drowning even if he is covered by water.
In Super Mario Sunshine, however, air depletion is decoupled from swimming as an action, allowing Mario to realistically start drowning in this situation (note him flashing red and his air meter depleting).
However, he is saved by Sunshine's (also unique among 3D Mario platformers) ledge tiredness mechanic. After hanging on for 20 seconds, Mario will let go. This is also realistic, since why would he let himself drown?
Source: discovery by YouTube user @miguelgcgamer, screenshots by Supper Mario Broth

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Audrey @virginiaheart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Scandals be like Republican: rapes a child and uses tax money to fund the abortion Democrat: Photographed with a random guy that plays donkey Kong 64 while making offhand political statements Media and DNC leadership: I can't believe the democrat did that

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door includes its own fictional language that is a cipher for English. Amusingly, the misspelled "Game Cuve" graffiti from the original version is translated into the new language... but still reads "Game Cuve" when deciphered.

The Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door contains an in-universe language used for signs and labels that is a cipher (i.e. a one-to-one symbol conversion) for English.
Textures that were in English or unreadable in the original (left) are translated into the cipher in the remake (right). The remake's poster reads "Wanted" and the signboard reads "Signboard".
A famously misspelled "Game Cuve" graffiti appears in Rogueport in the original.
In the remake, it can be seen through this arch from the back.
Analyzing it reveals that it is still misspelled! The designers deliberately kept the misspelling in the translation.
Here is the key to the cipher used.
Source: research/images by Mario Wiki users "LadySophie17" and "Reese Rivers", mariowiki.com/List_of_fictional_languages

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Audrey @virginiaheart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Once I went on leftypol (leftist chan site) and there was a guy there that legitimately thought Marxists should hate welfare programs because they subsidize the lumpen

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shigeru Miyamoto has claimed that Toad is his least favorite character in Mario Kart. Despite this, in all footage of him playing Mario Kart 8, he picked Toad every time. Whether he was joking or specifically picking a character he hates to challenge himself is unknown.

I have an important question. Nintendo has also just released Mariokart 7 for the 3DS. In every iteration of Mariokart, I've always preferred to play as Toad. Who's your favorite character?
That's the most challenging question! I'm sorry that I cannot come up with an interesting answer. Somehow, it's habit to me, but I play with Mario. He's a very balanced character.
Who's your least favorite character?
Toad. [Laughs]
My favorite character is your least favorite character?
I understand that he has some popularity. Somehow.
In a 2012 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shigeru Miyamoto has claimed Toad is his least favorite Mario Kart character.
In December 2014, Shigeru Miyamoto and Bill Trinen played Mario Kart 8 against YouTuber Rosanna Pansino. Miyamoto picked Toad.
Also in December 2014, Shigeru Miyamoto and Bill Trinen played Mario Kart 8 against YouTuber iJustine. Miyamoto picked Toad again.
Finally, in January 2015, the two played Mario Kart 8 against YouTube group Smosh Games. Miyamoto picked Toad again.
Whether Miyamoto simply had an enormous change of heart about Toad in the intervening 2 years, or whether he was picking his least favorite to challenge or punish himself, is unknown.
Source: information compiled by @SpriteCell, x.com/SpriteCell/status/1653842781897474048 ew.com/article/2012/02/10/shigeru-miyamoto-zelda, youtu.be/DNUcDkNI24o, youtu.be/3Q2KxS32Q1g, youtu.be/untLD6z6aql

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Notthedarkweb @notthedarkweb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Spent a lot of time making this too-long guide to getting good at watching cinema guide, which maybe less than 10 people will read through

Films: Lady Bird, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, There Will Be Blood, Get Out, Shiva Baby

Films: Casablanca, The Great Dictator, Singin' in the Rain, 12 Angry Men, Some Like It Hot

Films: North by Northwest, Rear Window, Psycho, The Birds, Notorious

Films: Mean Streets, The Godfather, The French Connection, Chinatown, Easy Rider

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Audrey @virginiaheart.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Baked another potato casserole

A baked potato casserole in a dish. The bread crumbs on the top are dark and small parts of it is pink

The same potato casserole in a plastic bin

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Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.net · 29/09/2026

Do you think someone out there just used the Wii as a computer

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 29/09/2026

genuinely the whole "let's do a shitty AI translation of a Japan-only game and rush it out for clout points" thing is a total disease on the retro gaming world

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Pan-Pizza: Watch Loki IRL @rebeltaxi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gamecube vid youtu.be/wcMtH64YU5Q?...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

New Super Mario Bros. Wii contains unused Hint Movies where the players play badly and then die. While these were likely recorded before the levels were changed so the inputs don't match up, it is humorous to imagine them being actual intentional hints on what not to do.

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Audrey @virginiaheart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was like "it's crazy that super Mario Galaxy was the first 3D Mario game after Mario 64" and I didn't remember the existence of Mario Sunshine until like a week later

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Sporkamarink @strivingally.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also the way they’ll do word for word transcription if they think it’ll make AOC sound more ditzy, but they’ll paraphrase and cherry-pick Trump’s deranged ramblings to hide his impaired cognition from the public.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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ladyvibrato.bsky.social @ladyvibrato.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT faithfully preserves every “like,” “uh,” and verbal stumble in AOC's quotes. Funny how I rarely see that same devotion to the unedited transcript when they quote male politicians.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In the prototype version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario and Luigi would have needed to electrocute a living mouse for all eternity to solve a puzzle. This was changed in the finished version to a toy mouse, likely due to the original being absurdly cruel.

In the finished version of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, there is a puzzle in the Woohoo Hooniversity basement whereby an electric circuit must be completed using mechanical toy mice as conductors:
Mario must fill himself with water, which Luigi shoots out with a hammer to push the mouse into the circuit, completing it:
After this, for the rest of the game, going back to that room shows the mouse continuing to be electrocuted as it is now permanently part of the circuit.
This is completely fine since the mouse is a toy.
However, in the prototype version of the game, the mice are clearly living animals, being shown to eat cheese when they stop moving:
Now, Mario and Luigi are completing an electric circuit by electrocuting a real animal.
This means that for the rest of the game, the circuit is completed via the mouse's body, meaning it is a real animal being electrocuted eternally.
The cruelty of this is so absurd that it was likely removed for this reason.
Source: tcrf.net/Proto:Mario_%26_Luigi:_Superstar_Saga/Early_Sprites/Map_Graphics_and_Objects,
YouTube user @Skawo, youtube.com/watch?v=lloE59IWN4c

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Audrey @virginiaheart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Downgrade so bad it's actually depressing (Left: Original SEGA Saturn version of Baroque Right: PS2 Remake)

A side by side of Baroque original vs it's remake. The remake has an impossibly generic kiddie looking anime guy in overly light lighting, the original has a more mature and dour art style in darker lighting

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually

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Audrey @virginiaheart.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Downgrade so bad it's actually depressing (Left: Original SEGA Saturn version of Baroque Right: PS2 Remake)

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FoulMouth, Life Coach @fergusmcdingus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Dems specialize in fighting the current war with the rules of the last war. See Clinton and Obama reacting to Reagan and Bush.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/09/2026

remembering when a certain pundit challenged my “the administration is ideologically opposed to clean energy for gender reasons” with “i think they just want cheap energy”

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Audrey @virginiaheart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

AES will win and then the media will cope by running a story on a progressive losing in a county commissioner race, proving the limitations for the movement, or some shit

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Unused graphic found in the files of Mario Superstar Baseball, possibly used as a placeholder for the title screen. It features crude sketches of Mario and Luigi seemingly made in MS Paint and the text "ルイージの兄野球", which translates to "Luigi's Older Brother Baseball".

ルイージの兄野球
Source: tcrf.net user "Geno Penguin", https://tcrf.net/File:MSSBTitleScreenSketch.png

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026

Trump: "We spent more than $2 billion in FEMA funding. You're waiting for some additional funding. I'm gonna get that to you. Now if Michael loses, I'm not sending it." Crowd: *groans*

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very Smart People will see these and know that literally the world'a richest man is behind them and think "gee maybe trans activists did this to themselves"

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Audrey @virginiaheart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whenever you're on the cusp of actually caring about something instead of being a mindless vote piggy somebody has to pop up and wag their finger like "now now that's not very team player of you now is it?"

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Chicken Puppet 🏳️‍⚧️ @chickenpuppet.online · 15/09/2026

People held their nose and voted for Biden so hard that he’s the only person since Eisenhower to get more votes than “did not vote”, despite getting completely fucked over. This is the thanks you get for doing that

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Party bigwigs are posting "voters' opinions don't matter and never will" like 6 weeks before an election. It's incredible.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

they think we’re stupid peons who should be grateful they’re leading us

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Brian @thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What we've seen is that while some Dem voters have responded to this by further retreating into a fantasy that their leaders must be planning or doing secret good deeds offscreen, a lot more people are coming around to a proper "throw the bums out" party revolt which is the only real path.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable

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