each area in super mario world is named after an essential food group. donut, vanilla, chocolate, soda, cheese, illusion, and bowser

the eternal struggle of “I should change my website layout” vs “I like my website layout”

It's been an amazing year for Cassette Beasts - we can't wait to jump into 2025 to show you what comes next! For now, you can enter the code SNOWTIME at your in-game mailbox to receive a snowy surprise.

Happy holidays! ⛄️

If you want to see what we've been up to this year (as well as a look ahead to 2025) check out our dev blog here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1321440/view/554602728738783380

mastodon has a very good cover of orion by metallica https://youtu.be/aKYbXVnakIs

realizing “just do your best” is a curse in the same vein as “may you live in interesting times”

are activitypods just atproto but federated

ok I officially have no idea why I can’t use my server’s known working smtp outbox on my akkoma or bluesky-pds installs I truly do not understand what’s not working here. time to not think about it for a month maybe that’ll help

just finished reading the king in yellow, just in time to watch an almost-nine-hour video essay on the king in yellow

(the essay: https://youtu.be/D1k1jIIAgqA by flawed peacock)

seeing a lot of single-user activitypub options that are probably way easier to run and maintain than akkoma, but I already have akkoma installed and I like it so whatever lmao

omg the newest technical difficulties has matt gray wearing a first of october shirt 🤩

sometimes I forget people don’t like me. those moments of blissful ignorance are wonderful times

the most unrealistic part of blaseball was hawaiʻi having a professional sports team

[Nintendo Music]

"Splatoon 2" has been added.

Listen now: https://share.m.nintendo.com/en-US/US/officialPlaylists/ed61f16b-c91d-4807-bed3-dc1d845674a5/

accidentally blew up my blocklist lmao whoops

edit: oop nvm luckily my nonsense didn’t save

TIL that to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its construction, the operators of the Iwayagawauchi Dam in Japan's Saga prefecture had it pressure-washed into a picture of Godzilla.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwayagawauchi_Dam

More images here: https://soranews24.com/2024/11/27/big-dam-godzilla-appears-in-japan-as-power-washer-art-on-side-of-195-foot-dam%E3%80%90video%E3%80%91/

tried out whitewind, an atproto-based blogging platform

“2024 will be my year,” I think confidently to myself as december 2024 approaches

If you've been following my Christmas light saga, this year's video has made me happier than ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSFNufruSKw

just set up a twtxt.txt file on my domain. while trying to look for examples to get the syntax right I kept coming across other feeds that were discontinued years ago, so I’m hoping I got the extensions’ syntax right. also I don’t have any way to check for mentions or replies so I probably won’t use it very often

wonder how cursed it would be to put my secret threads account on bridgy