Normal people: buy houses.
Me: spends life trying to buy movie and TV rights to video games.
In 2009 I failed to get the Fallout TV show rights (RIP), right now I'm trying to get The Elder Scrolls.
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I have just learned that my toot escaped containment and had been reposted on bluesky (with credit) and is getting a ton of attention there too.
This is really cool, thank you all for so giving my random observation so much attention.
I’ve been enjoying reading the discussions here, apologies that I haven’t had the time to engage with most of you! I try to read every reply I get.
I am grateful every day that so many of the worst people in politics are stupid. Things are horrible but they could be a lot worse with an ounce of intelligence.
Even as a digital forensic investigator who’s seen people dragged to prison for their darkest evil impulses, I’m still stunned by so many powerful people letting their vices draw them into an incompetent circle of depravity and susceptibility to blackmail. Billionaires are truly maladjusted idiots.
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"A new investigation of Elon #Musk’s X by Sky News found that every account set up by reporters, 'no matter their political orientation, was fed a glut of rightwing content', much of which was extreme. The experts it consulted believe this pattern could have resulted only from an algorithm engineered for this purpose, and that 'an algorithmic bias must be decided by senior people at the channel'" -- George Monbiot
Anyone still on X is deliberately supporting #Fascism.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich
After six momentous leaps from a small aircraft, skydiver Gabriel C. Brown completed his mission. He and his photographer friend Andrew McCarthy created this stunning image that shows the adventurous subject falling in front of the sun.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/andrew-mccarthy-skydiver-sun-image/
Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface | Live Science
This photo is breaking my brain. 🤯