Building while falling
Missing the ground, as Douglas Adams notes, is the difficult part of flying. It’s that much harder when...
Eyes on Minnesota
My heart wants to spin a delicate filigree of dreams for a brighter future, yet the horrors persist....
2026 via 2020: The Real Folk Blues
There’ll be more looking back and looking ahead coming soon, but for now: Happy New Year, people. I...
The AI endgame
Meredith Whittaker, CEO of Signal, describes the marketing game that big tech is playing with “AI” as an...
RTA in Japan
Today I learned about RTA in Japan, a biannual speedrunning charity event that streams on Twitch every summer...
2025 retrospective: video essayists
I watched a lot of YouTube in 2025, and I figured I’d put together a list of new-to-me...
Summer Eternal
Summer Eternal is one of the projects that rose from the ashes of Disco Elysium’s success and the...
Talkin’ ’bout a revolution
Spice8Rack came out of nowhere yesterday with a massive 4+ hour opus entitled Magic: The Gathering, Revolution, &...
Free Speech Friday: boycott Xbox
People Make Games is doing some of the best work in the games documentary space today, and their...
Room Cleaning Stop
On September 30, 2005, Toranoana published Touhou Shikoubana ~Seasonal Dream Vision~, an official Touhou doujinshi that combined a...
Mainichi Junk
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RTA in JapanDecember 27, 2025
Summer EternalDecember 24, 2025
Talkin’ ’bout a revolutionDecember 23, 2025
Free Speech Friday: boycott XboxDecember 20, 2025