Friday, December 26, 2025

New video game Humble Bundle featuring strategy games

Starts at $7 for nine items (six games, two DLC, one coupon), with a mix of genres. 

Post-holiday sale at the BBTS

Here are links (sorted by highest discount) for Stranger Things,  

Neca's Toony figures

miniatures

GI Joe action figures

TMNT figures

Star Wars action figures

Marvel action figures

Today's news and jokes

If you aren’t familiar with this guy, he’s been buying up domains with the names of various right wing figures and orgs and making his own websites for them and it is making them crazy. Here’s his insta www.instagram.com/wordclown?ig...

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— Elizabeth Spiers (@espiers.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM




I'm assuming these FFVII x Avirex jackets will sell so fast I won't even get the chance to be tempted




Pics of the jackets, tees, hoodies, bags.

Very cyberpunk time-lapse video of a Waymo lot (art roundup)

(The sculpture featured at the first lot is from Burning Man, I believe--some great photos)

Thursday, December 25, 2025

Today's news and jokes

Got Issues? Problems? Dilemmas? Get Second-Rate Advice From U̶n̶q̶u̶a̶l̶i̶f̶i̶e̶d̶ Well-Meaning Individuals

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— Brendan O’Kane (@bokane.org) August 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM


"Why Were 100,000 Pregnant Women’s Blood Samples Smuggled Out of China?"

Here's the setup, can you guess why the blood was being smuggled?

The case was part of a major operation by Guangzhou’s anti-smuggling authorities following a year-long investigation and the mobilization of 265 officers. As part of the operation, two professional criminal groups specializing in the smuggling of pregnant women’s blood samples were dismantled, and a total of 26 people were arrested.

The groups earned a staggering 30 million yuan (US$4.2 million) from their blood-smuggling activities.

So far, the story reads almost like a vampire novel, especially with Chinese media detailing how the blood was smuggled: smugglers reportedly strapped tubes of blood to their bodies to cross the border. Others hid them in specially modified suitcases with concealed compartments.