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Birth (Multi, XPd on Steam Deck)
You are alone in this world. Why not go on an adventure and find the parts to make yourself a friend?
Birth is a surreal adventure puzzle game, to be sure. You are literally going down a block in a neighborhood, rifling through all the spaces to find and collect bones and organs to construct a new creature.
As puzzle adventures go, this one is pretty solid. For the most part the puzzles are great, with a wide variety and not much repetition.…

One of my favorite horror tropes is the town/people that know of the horror nearby, in their town, and either don't interfere because they're afraid to, or don't care, or because they're helping the creature get victims, etc. 😂

Today we had to say goodbye to Orbit the cat. He came to us needing a temporary home when he was 2.5 years old, and lived to be 20! A handsome creature, but it must be said that he was not the sharpest tool in the box!! We'll miss our little friend but it was time. Sleep well, puss.

Spotted at the therapist.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Poor Creature:
🎵 Bury Me Not
#PoorCreature
https://riverlea.bandcamp.com/track/bury-me-not
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gsXB6p8SuvjpR8vUXsy3h

We're in Remer, #Minnesota, the home of Bigfoot Days

Been quite a week

CoCre-Sam (Kokkuri-san): Modeling Ouija Board as Collective Langevin Dynamics Sampling from Fused Language Models
Tadahiro Taniguchi, Masatoshi Nagano, Haruumi Omoto, Yoshiki Hayashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11906

CoCre-Sam (Kokkuri-san): Modeling Ouija Board as Collective Langevin Dynamics Sampling from Fused Language Models
Collective human activities like using an Ouija board (or Kokkuri-san) often produce emergent, coherent linguistic outputs unintended by any single participant. While psychological explanations such as the ideomotor effect exist, a computational understanding of how decentralized, implicit linguistic knowledge fuses through shared physical interaction remains elusive. We introduce CoCre-Sam (Collective-Creature Sampling), a framework modeling this phenomenon as collective Langevin dynamics samp…

Pontius Starmer will meet the genocide president, then wash his hands. Don't expect any actual action from this creature.
Of course, Herzog should be arrested on entry for investigation. See 2nd link.
Starmer to meet Israel's president in Isaac Herzog in No 10 - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/artic…

Starmer to meet Israel's president in Isaac Herzog in No 10
The PM will stress the "the action Israel must take to end the horrific suffering" in Gaza, No 10 said.

Reykjavík Grapevine provides answers to questions you were too afraid to ask
https://grapevine.is/mag/2025/07/07/help-call-charlie-campsites-expensive-vegetables-beautiful-but-harmless-eruption-more/…

From Iceland — Help? Call Charlie! Campsites, Expensive Vegetables, Beautiful But Harmless Eruption & More
Unsolicited advice from an unreliable advisor Help is a four-letter verb meaning “to make it easier or possible for someone...

A nekoma is a little creature that is covered with a thick coat of fur on its legs, arms, and back. It has whiskers, and it lives amid the boulders and pillars that form the foundation of a house.

The Quasi-Creature and the Uncanny Valley of Agency: A Synthesis of Theory and Evidence on User Interaction with Inconsistent Generative AI
Mauricio Manhaes, Christine Miller, Nicholas Schroeder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18563

The Quasi-Creature and the Uncanny Valley of Agency: A Synthesis of Theory and Evidence on User Interaction with Inconsistent Generative AI
The user experience with large-scale generative AI is paradoxical: superhuman fluency meets absurd failures in common sense and consistency. This paper argues that the resulting potent frustration is an ontological problem, stemming from the "Quasi-Creature"-an entity simulating intelligence without embodiment or genuine understanding. Interaction with this entity precipitates the "Uncanny Valley of Agency," a framework where user comfort drops when highly agentic AI proves erratically unreliab…

SATURDAY, August 9th
@ Center for New Music
(55 Taylor St, SF)
Noon until 2pm SHARP!
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We saw this gorgeous Golden Orb Weaver while walking through the gardens. Massive creature. About the size of my closed fist. 👊
Such fancy leggings too.
#spider #WildLife

So just for my amusement I asked chatgpt "why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air" and got this response, which is not, quite, right.
#chatgpt

I’m sure someone’s into this

I’m sure someone’s into this

"Guillermo del Toro has created a movie about a grotesquely unnatural attempt to make a human being shocking in his physical strangeness … but that’s enough about his film version of Pinocchio." 🤣
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/

Good Morning #Canada
Conservationists who focus on restoration of wetlands are increasingly "Leaving It To Beaver." Beavers are considered the ultimate Keystone Species because they area they re-engineer offer benefits to many other species, and an entire ecosystem can collapse if a Beaver is removed. A Beaver dam doesn't just hold and conserve water. Beavers increase the population of frogs, fish, insects, birds, and small mammals and extend the range of larger mammals like moose, deer, and bears. The quantity and variety of vegetation are increased. Water is filtered and saturates the land, refilling artesian wells. It's unbelievable that we almost lost this amazing creature because of a hat fashion trend.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2021/01/01/leave-it-to-beavers-keystone-species-provides-nature-based-restoration/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
BRUX:
🎵 CA$HED UP (Machinedrum Remix)
#BRUX
https://itsbrux.bandcamp.com/track/creature-1

Sie züchten Goa‘uld Larven! @…

Considered a lot of flicks I haven't checked out to take in today, both older and newer, but settled on 1997's 'The Relic'. I always want weird monstery creature features over anything else, and this sounds like it is. And it has Tom Sizemore (RIP).
https://boxd.it/1UR2

The Relic (1997)
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

Javastation 2.6 kernel Progress!
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The old Sparc Linux kernel had that friendly oops erm creature.

Been seeing this guy regularly on our walk along the canal trails in our neighborhood.
Just read that Egrets eat fish, and insects, and frogs. There are a ton of frogs in these canals, so now I know why we see Egrets so often. And they're so chill and graceful. Really amazing creature.
#wildlife #outdoors

What a disgusting creature. A joke of a president. His own party will have no choice but to stab him a thousand times and push him off a cliff before the end of the year. ->
Trump's vanity forces weird change in portrait hall
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xgclFcJeob0

Watching a house sparrow eating a grain of cooked rice from the leftovers I put out for the birds.
Size-wise, it's like a person eating a baguette, a whole meal!
I try to never bin anything that some other creature might like to eat 😊

Debian in 2025 is really relaxing. When I think back with horror to how I struggled with Debian in 1999 after switching from the well-functioning Red Hat Linux to Debian to get all my hardware to work halfway, and how easily everything works out of the box today without much fiddling, even with Debian Stable - a remarkable advance. 😎
If I had known this earlier, I would have long since returned to the quasi “mother” of all major distributions. But as we all know, man is a creature of…

What planet is this creature on?
"Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged Iran to return to the negotiating table"
World reacts to US attacks on Iran | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/202…

World reacts to US attacks on Iran
A roundup of reactions as US joins Israel’s war and attacks three Iranian nuclear sites.

Good Morning #Canada
Next week is Beaver Week, a look at Canada's most loved wild creature. Consider today's post as a teaser or commercial for this important event.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek
https://youtube.com/shorts/tGQ1KBJPdDk?si=TBHCsLO63SAtHx-7

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Ky-Mani Marley:
🎵 New Creature
#KyManiMarley
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oxkQFuy4QRWFHi4DoHdML
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Now starting up Wolf Man. Definitely won't finish this til next week, but wanted to get it started.
#horror #2025Movies

Wolf Man (2025)
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #StuartMaconiesFreakZone
Poor Creature:
🎵 The Whole Town Knows
#PoorCreature
https://riverlea.bandcamp.com/track/the-whole-town-knows
https://open.spotify.com/track/4drMw6etdgNvVJHYSc6feS

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Poor Creature:
🎵 All Smiles Tonight
#PoorCreature
https://riverlea.bandcamp.com/album/all-smiles-tonight
https://open.spotify.com/track/1myfUIUfstpJMfvXdvuzbL

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Poor Creature:
🎵 All Smiles Tonight
#PoorCreature
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://riverlea.bandcamp.com/album/all-smiles-tonight
https://open.spotify.com/track/2oqJzrrhsbsoEBmekFgGq5