(Anyways now that I've given a rousing, energetic speech that was coherent and uplifing to me personally, I'm sure that'll magically spread widely and realign everyone who I might later interact with to be at minimum aware of my position. That is definitely how that works.)

Russia has escalated its attacks on Ukraine with around-the-clock bombings. Civilians are killed every day by Putin’s jet drones and ballistic missiles. So here is my question to European leaders:

What is the plan?

Will Europe sit idly by while Putin continues the slaughter of Ukraine’s civilian population through this winter?

Or will we finally — in the 5th year of this war — join Ukraine on the battlefield and defeat the Hitler of our time?

#WhereIsChurchill

Isn’t Hotel California just a ghost story?

@Ambulocetus I don’t really care for Wil Wheaton’s voice. I heard Ready Player One. It was mid. Not sure if it was the book or him

How to have enough – Wendell Berry on creativity and love https://t.co/iNDUUKrF4u

For Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, even a marginal erosion of support in his biggest political stronghold in Brazil's northeast could cost him his reelection. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/29/world/politics/lula-vote-brazil-election/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #luizinacioluladasilva #flaviobolsonaro #brazil #southamerica

@dirtwizard666 There was a wacky Zork send up I played as a teenager called Enlightenment.

https://www.ifwiki.org/Enlightenment

I won't spoil too much, but The Grue features heavily in the premise and it's very cute.

(or, at least I thought it was in 1998!)

@farah The Fireman sounds intriguing; I will keep an eye out for that. Another Star Trek Alumni who narrates audio-books is Wil Wheaton.
I especially like when the author reads his own book. Of course, all of Cory Doctorow's books are great, but my favorite (if you can find it) is a novella called "Grail" read by the author, Harlan Ellison. It's a mind blower.

La Coxinha es una empanada en forma de pirámide

But if you follow a world history argument, the discourse of universal rights and citizenship was universalized precisely in the efforts of non-Europeans. . . . The early #Caribbean school of world history . . . had already argued for the precocity of the Caribbean experience in the development of the modern world. . . . [T]he idea of universal rights was made universal not in the French Revolution, but in the struggle of the Black Jacobins in Haiti. This argument . . . demonstrates that the genealogy of universal rights isn’t purely Western; this idea comes to India via France AND Haiti.

– Mrinalini Sinha in interview with Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa, Part II https://www.jhiblog.org/2026/09/23/universal-rights-and-the-specters-of-indian-feminism-part-ii-an-interview-with-mrinalini-sinha/

#Haiti #India #HumanRights #HistoryOfIdeas

Miles: You've got moves that make the Vidiian Devil blush.

If you’re a man wondering what you can do about the Cornell 7 situation: cut off that guy you know who has committed assault. That’s literally it. Tell him to his face, “I can’t be friends with people who act like this”.

Like, I'm a 36 year old man from the US. I grew up with Video Games as a central part of my life.

But I was also inconsistently poor, a compulsive yard-sale/fleamarketer, a shareware gremlin, arcade obsessed...

Games I feel like I have to include:
- Tomba
- Pokemon (silver, which I put the most time in as a kid)
- Ratchet and Clank
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
- Spider and Web (I wrote about that one, and how important it was to me, a few years ago. It was absolutely formative.)
- ZZT (my first introduction to game development!)
- DiscMUD (my first online game)
- Runescape (the MMO I've spent the most time on in my life)
- H.E.R.O. (My favorite game for the atari 2600, which was for years my favorite game console)
- Final Fantasy Tactics
- Donkey Kong '94 (perhaps the game I've played the most in my life)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (the first game I finished in an arcade, with three other kids.)
- MULE
- Starship Titanic
- Jazz Jackrabbit
- Goddamn DOOM, holy shit I've put so much time into Doom.
- Sonic 3D Blast 2 (The DOOM Total Conversion fan game)
- Chexquest
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (the first home console game I ever finished)
- Virtual On Cybertroopers (the arcade game I've spent the most money on in my life)
- Joust (my first favorite video game)
- Gorilla.bas (for obvious reasons)
- Oregon Trail (I'm too young for this, but I fixed our school's Apple IIs so I could play it)
- Summon Knight: A Swordcraft Story (the first game I had to special order. The second one is better, but they're both excellent.)

... I could just keep going.

I could probably do a top 9 arcade games, and a top 9 atari 2600 games, and a top 9 shareware games and ... etc. etc. etc. and still probably have to leave more things than I'm happy with on the table.

And like, obviously that's absurd.

I don't even play video games anymore.

‘Daniel Decodes’ Interview Craig Federighi Regarding the iPhone Duo
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/09/28/daniel-decodes-federighi

@dansup 'I can't wait for the past'

If you're local to the Denver metro, hope I'll see you at MileHiCon! Oct 23-25 in Aurora.

Some top notch names in author alley plus incredible names on the GOH roster!

Check it out!

https://milehicon.org/

#denver #literature #convention #milehicon

Shein Drops to Record Low After Profit Plunge in Debut Earnings
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-29/shein-drops-to-record-low-after-profit-plunge-in-debut-earnings?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Today’s step goal was 5000
Total steps taken 6940
#StepCountChallenge