They're rowdy, they're ragtag, they're misfits turned mercenaries for hire. Vox Machina is more interested in easy money and cheap ale than actually protecting the realm. But when the kingdom is threatened by evil, this boisterous crew realizes that they are the only ones capable of restoring justice.
fray — Bluesky thread factions
Discworld MUD - Soul Commands
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Kafkaesque Backrooms
On Soft Yellow, Mark Fisher and Artificial Paradises in the Labyrinths of Neoliberalism
Kafkaesque Backrooms
On Soft Yellow, Mark Fisher and Artificial Paradises in the Labyrinths of Neoliberalism
HyperRogue trailer
Bad Gear - I tried my best to HATE IT
Bad shape
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
The Hives - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
The Rise of Alt-Pop Stars
Welcome to a messier and more daring era of pop music.
What features and changes would you like to see from the Blacksky team?
People don't buy who they are. They buy who they want to become.
Why the most successful brands build against a muse, not a demographic
Staff archetypes
Most career ladders define a single, uniform set of expectations for Staff engineers operating within the company. Everyone benefits from clear role expectations, but career ladders are a tool that applies better against populations than people. This is particularly true for Staff-plus engineers, whose career ladders often paper over several distinct roles hidden behind a single moniker. The more folks I spoke with about the role of Staff-plus engineers at their company, the better their experiences began to cluster into four distinct patterns. Most companies emphasized one or two of the patterns, and one pattern only existed in companies with many hundreds or thousands of engineers. A few companies didn’t feature any technical leadership pattern and pushed all their experienced engineers towards engineering management. In literature, recurring character patterns are called archetypes, such as the “hero” or the “trickster,” and the archetype term is helpful for labeling these frequent variants of Staff-plus engineers.
Liber Indigo - Metaphysical Prisoners of the Desktop