Apple TV is incredibly weird stuff. It doesn't have a super deep roster, but it has a weirdly high ratio of absolutely must watch shit. I got some free Apple TV when I got an iPad a few Christmases ago, and ended up hooked on For All Mankind - then let it lapse, and now my three favorite shows are all from there. It goes Severance, Pluribus, and now Widow's Bay. They don't seem to be able to produce on any kind of schedule, but then, I don't think they're even trying to. This is exactly what a modern leviathan should be doing with its bulging coffers. As a young man, I was told that Campbell's Chunky Soup was said to eat like a meal. These are shows that watch like books, that benefit very clearly from study.

It's very textbook stuff; now that the game festivals are over, now that the charm offensive has been executed more or less flawlessly and there's no more juice to squeeze from it, it's time to produce an incredibly large cartoon knife from nowhere and move to the next phase.

We had an opportunity to dip back into the List of the Forgotten, as we had already detailed the perfidy of Niantic Spatial in full. The current list is constantly being added to, and so release from this obligation may never truly arrive. Currently it stands as follows, if you would like a sort of preview:

Fruit Fucker
The food court dragon
Rex Ready
L. H. Franzibald
CTS
Twisp & Catsby
Jim
K-Reazy

"Tag urself," etc.

I really want to make this year’s Child’s Play dinner auction the best that we have ever had and to do that I am asking for your help and I am asking for it early! 

I had seen a post from Kris Straub - whom I call Krasp - about… Well, I'll just embed it.

new stage discovered beyond end-stage capitalism

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— Kris Straub (كريس) (@krisstraub.com) June 12, 2026 at 9:36 AM

This glorious #Fridabe, we are back on our bullshit with a several more hours of buildcrafting, bon mots, and then battles with the channel at the end.  Come hang out around 11am PST on the stream, and grab a copy here on Steam or your phone to test your mettle against us live!

(CW)TB  

Morak wasn't sure he wanted to discuss the scourge of "bisexual lighting," because he didn't want to glorify the assertion. His other contention was that it might simply be rage-bait, and he was hesitant to be baited into rage. I'm open to these ideas, certainly. Let's deal with the second one first: I think it's incredibly silly stuff. And what's more, rage-bait has a way of becoming canonized, calcified, because the revolution must always act at the edge - the frontier - where experimental rhetoric bakes into ideology. Whether it's meant authentically or not, goofball adherents have already internalized it. It's simply a premonition of some future battle. As for the first contention, that we don't want to inadvertently glorify it, well, you tell me. I'd be surprised if it did!