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Finally finished last week's book on the importance of "the international" for explaining not only how capitalism emerged in Europe but also how Europe and the West would eventually rule the world. If anyone wants to learn more about Global International Relations/historical sociology, start here.
Book cover for How the West Came to Rule by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu. The top third is blue, the middle is red, and the bottom is yellow.
December 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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I finally finished Bakeru, a much longer game than I thought it would be (about 20 hours). I highly recommend this game to anyone who loves platformers. Good-Feel makes every level feel special, and finding all the random pieces of trivia makes the game extra charming.
A scene from Bakeru for Nintendo Switch. A red mechanical entity shaped like a roof with four legs. Clown-like Oracle Saito lying on the ground, passed out. A humanoid baby ninetails fox in a golden room in outer space confronts Bakeru. A red dog-like machine flies over Earth with a spaceship shaped like a metal tea kettle. The moon depicts someone in a bunny outfit with a mallet and bucket.
December 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Dinner is served!
A wooden Turkey Day/Thanksgiving table. Items include bread stuffing, sweet potatoes, chicken and potatoes with lime wedges, two wine glasses, pumpkin bread with streudal, and a box with chocolate chess pie.
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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The pumpkin breads are out of the oven!
Two loaves of pumpkin bread with streudal on a rose-gold wire rack by a kitchen stove.
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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"I would often go there
To the tiny church there
The smallest church in Saint-Saëns
Though it once was larger"
Pope Leo XIV using a microphone closely in front of other Catholic figures.
November 23, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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New toy arrived.
The title logo for Donkey Kong Bananza (not "Bonanza") for Nintendo Switch 2 appears over a large chasm. Donkey Kong, panting and wearing a miner's outfit and helmet, stands in front of sparkly gold bananas, with a green shiny one in the middle. A giant rock impacts Ingot Isle. Donkey Kong and the purple Odd Rock fall from a bright sky toward a land titled "Lagoon Layer." The "terrain strength is two out of dive stars, and the subtitle says "Hahaha, oh! so pretty!"
November 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I finally beat The Misadventures of Tron Bonne!
Scene from The Misadventures of Tron Bonne for the Sony PlayStation (PS1 or PSX) on a flat-screen television where a giant robot with a pin-shape head is exploding beneath a lightly cloudy blue sky. Trone Bonne confronting Lex Loathe, who says "Aw, please? Can't you forgive me? I know I treated you badly, but you can't leave us here!" Loathe, Glyde, and birdbots are swimming out in the blue ocean while a small floating purple metallic pirate ship hovers above them. End credits, showing the actors for Teisel Bonne (Rob Smith), Bon Bonne (Chuck Campbell), and Loath (Jim Morris). An image shows Tron Bonne in a lab uniform building a giant green, whale-like ship with the help of a servbot wearing a white construction helmet with green decal.
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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I'm going to bl*w my br**ns out.
Scene from Monument Valley for Nintendo Switch, where Ida's yellow totem friend (four stacked cubes, with the top cube having a round eye) following Ida into a polygonal sea as she sails away from a large pinkish red wall.
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Started a new game tonight.
Scene from Monument Valley for the Nintendo Switch, where the Princess Ida (white princess of simple shapes) looks upward and toward a triangular mountain range as the title hovers above the sunlight. Ida on a beige-and-pink building of 90-degree angles, having reached a goal. A crow person sits on a balcony. Ida at the goal of a similar building, albeit one colored in greens, blues, purples, and indigos. A large crescent moon surrounded by red stars covers the background. Ida approaches a blue silhouette in the darkness, with the text "Long have these old bones waited in darkness" hovering above everything.
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Pizza time.
Rectangular homemade Detroit-style pizza on a wooden board, with two strips of pizza sauce served on top of the cheese.
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Remember when public benches had backs to them?
Indoor facility with black metal benches without backs to them. There is a mural on the wall behind the seats.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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A Guardian headline under "Stock markets" titled "Global stock markets fall sharply over AI bubble fears." Right underneath is a cellphone ad for BDO saying "AI is just the start of the next-generation operations center. Rocket your back end business practices into the future."
November 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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N64 Kirby is not to be fucked with.
A screen featuring Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards juxtaposed above an ESRB T rating for "Blood, Crude Humor, Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence."
November 4, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Tired: How're they going to get MegaMan Volnutt off the moon? (Worn out, they're already building a shuttle for him back on Earth.)

Wired: How's Roll's mom getting her body back? (Seriously, Yuna has been controlling it and now Sera is using Yuna's actual body since you destroyed her real one.)
Scene from Mega Man Legends 2 for Sony PlayStation (PS1 or PSX), with MegaMan Volnutt (MegaMan Trigger) and Sera (controlling Yuna's body) listening to Yuna (controlling Matilda Caskett's body). The sky is green, starry, and cloudy. Picture from YouTube channel Ephraim225.
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Spooktober video game, 2025 edition.
Title screen for Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, with a "Press A" prompt at the bottom. A scene from the aforementioned game, consisting of a lighthouse with a portal opening to some place bright and sunny. A beam in the foreground on a cliff rises into the sky and falls into a triangular fixture hovering above an island in the background. A cliff over a beach at night, with hills and a full moon in the background.
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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"Israeli soldiers opening fire in eastern Gaza "By Tareq Abu Azzoum "Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza "We understand that the Israeli military has said in a statement that its forces have opened fire on a number of Palestinians who had approached Israeli troops stationed along the redeployment line. "The incidents took place in Khan Younis and in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City. "Many Palestinians have used the pause in fighting to return to their homes to inspect the destruction. The scale of devastation across Gaza has left large, open areas visible to Israeli ground forces. "Gunfire can still be heard right now as Israeli troops often open fire at any movement near their positions, particularly in the eastern parts of the enclave."
October 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Time to mull some cider.
Pan on a stovetop with apple cider, orange peels, broken cinnamon sticks, black peppercorns, and coriander seeds.
October 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Time to kill before tonight's movie.
White Analogue Pocket playing the green title screen for Game Boy game Final Fantasy Adventure (1992 Square Soft video game licensed by Nintendo), with a sword in the title and a hand cursor pointing to the "Continue" under "New Game."
October 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Scrolling through r/kitchencels because nothing's alright anymore.
Reddit post by Unique-Bench1495: "Meowed at a girl on hinge. She said I sound nasty like I have fleas. I asked her to take me in and give me a bath and she blocked me. 17 ugly ramen eggs for a filthy unlovable kitty...." The post includes a photo of the eggs in a plastic container next to a porcelain bowl with some brown liquid in a marble counter.
October 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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You vs. the guy she tells you not to worry about.
AI-edited sepia-filtered zoom-in of an image of a boy playing Taito's Darius from an old photo. Appearing uncanny, he looks away from the camera with no emotion. This picture and the next one taken from Gabriel Jones's Bluesky account. The original black-and-white photo, zoomed in. The boy originally is looking at the camera with curiosity.
October 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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And with 120 stars, I'm finished with Mario 64 (again). Every time I have a new device that plays Super Mario 64, I'll complete it on that console.
Scene from Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 (N64) via MISTer Pi FPGA on a flat screen. Princess Peach with two Toads on a bridge in front of the castle door.
October 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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It's amazing how The Rehearsal predicted this.
A large, formal room with drapes of the blue-and-white Paramount logo (a mountain with stars) meant to invoke Nazi Germany. Nathan Fielder sits in a wooden chair across a table, while another man stands, looking out the window.
October 6, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Today, in journalistic malpractice:
NBC headline: "'It's a big day': Trump moves closer to Middle East peace — and maybe a prize"
October 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Finally!
Tron's machine is about to load a ship with the last required crate.
October 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Possibly the most infuriatingly difficult puzzle I've played in a while.
Scene from The Misadventures of Tron Bonne for the Sony PlayStation (PS1 or PSX) in a flat screen TV, where Tron's darky themed machine has to navigate a harbor full of crates. The corner shows a grid.
October 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM