every tech worker out there whose "i donate to democrats" CEO is taking off his mask today to muhaha and show his true class solidarity: the thing that would ruin his life the most is for you to help unionize your workplace. do it for the very real benefits to you and your comrades, or do it out of spite, or any combination of either. but it's time, now (overdue, in fact!). tech must become the next major labor battleground. & for those who've already been in the struggle for years: thank you.

I brought over one of my recent bots from cohost: follow @lands for a random Magic the Gathering "basic land" card once a day.
I don't actually know much about MtG and last played 25 years ago but I've always dug the art, and the minimalist, frequently relaxing vibes of the basic lands. Enjoy!

[werner herzog voice] ultimately, all editions are limited.

I don't know anything about this instance or its community, but I like this section of its About page. It feels like a human being talking about what they're willing to do for other humans.
The way corporate platforms communicate (or fail to) has really skewed our understandings of what kinds of relationships we get into with them. Human communication like this feels like it's recalibrating that a bit, to something better and more like a future I'd like to live in.
https://artistalley.space/about

LOL, looks like I'm getting some new followers due to twitter making terrible UX changes again.
Welcome! In case they're interesting, here are two of my ongoing mastodon-exclusive threads:
No Man's Sky visual travelogue, going since summer 2018: https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/100920861813591323
My trip through Doomworld's 100 Most Memorable Maps, currently paused at #65: https://mastodon.social/@jplebreton/104765559869626072

In case anyone cares, here are two open source fonts I use on any desktop computer that lets me customize fonts:
Inter, a variable width sans serif: https://rsms.me/inter
Iosevka, which has several flavors including a nice monospace I use anytime I'm reading or writing code: https://typeof.net/Iosevka

https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/18/introducing-cerulean This was unexpected... a masto/twitter-like service cobbled from the Matrix framework. Diversity of approaches seems good, and this is coming from outside the ActivityPub-based sphere. Very curious as to what the social consequences of a mainstreamed version of "reputation feeds" would be.

Cycle Knight (1986) box art awareness/appreciation thread

Just released "Works of the Masters", a deluxe edition of Master Levels of Doom II:
https://jp.itch.io/deluxe-master-levels
Classic and lesser-known work from the best mappers id Software could find in 1995, now playable in complete episodes. I'm just the curator here. [bows reverently]

1980s microcomputer history is full of companies that started strong but blundered and died off. A lot of these stories manifest as canceled products, like the Commodore 65: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_65
It would have been a very Apple IIGS-like last hurrah for their 8-bit line, with advanced graphics modes and a GUI. The possibilities of these kinds of generation-ending machines are always kind of tantalizing to me, like a venerable system's final boss form. The Coolest C64 Possible, never to be.

I collected together Doomworld's Top 100 Most Memorable Maps and started playing through the list, from #100: https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Top_100_Most_Memorable_Maps
This is a bit of an undertaking, and I've played somewhere between 10-25% of them already, but it'll be good for filling in a lot of gaps in my knowledge, and food for my level design brain of course.

Peak Araki Dad Energy

WAD Wednesday starting in about 30 minutes, at 7pm PST: https://www.twitch.tv/jplebreton

me, every time i hear about a really good 'food'

Finally decided that since black hole roulette no longer works, 120k LY from the Galactic Hub is close enough to say "F it, road trip it is". First refueling stop was an uncharted blue star with a planet called simply "Peggy", that was classified as a "Vile Anomaly". Constant pinkish rain and some moderately curious stripey creatures, but I don't see what's so vile about it. Onward...