I braved Clearsky briefly yesterday to see if I'd been put on a starter kit or list that was causing the influx of Blue MAGA buffoons/bots following me. Unfortunately I haven't been, but I did find out on a blocklist just called 😠 and that has tickled me to no end.

This was a pretty eventful year for the Sharkstream, between model debuts, fundraisers, and brand new releases. Let's take a look back at some of this 2025's highlights! 🧵 #Vtuber #ENVtuber #Vsky

That's enough of that...

Hello I have played more TTRPG systems on-mic than any performer in the history of TTRPGs and Actual Play, and more TTRPG systems than most players period, AMA www.partyofonepodcast.com

Aging is truly taking a massive gulp of water like you've never had water before and being like "damn this shit is HITTIN"

Sarah is COOKING and refuses to leave the kitchen. Bladelands is brainworm-inducing.

CUSTOM COIN WITH YOUR FACES ON IT TO DECIDE TOP OR BOTTOM AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA MOREOVER, ICE MUST BE DESTROYED

This is a small one but it happened yesterday: I walked up to a cashier at AutoZone wearing a purple hat a friend crocheted for me. I pulled it off and the dude fired off "Why'd you go and take that off just as I was about to say that's a great hat"

I'm committing to the 2026 project of making AMC A-List "worth it" by seeing a minimum of two movies per month. Something made more challenging by the fact 2025 was a year of great original movies, while 2026 is shaping up to be a lot of known directors doing milk runs with IP sequels/remakes.

Tragedy: AncestryDNA says my bloodline is significantly more English than Irish.

Saw a heated discussion on just how the Weasleys could be poor in the Harry Potter world when Hogwarts has no tuition and nobody is brave enough to say "because JKR is a bad writer who treated poverty like a genetic condition instead of thinking it through."

Toxic thought: Maybe I could make AMC A-List "worth it" in 2026.

Not only did Behaviour actually add Springtrap to Dead by Daylight, they made him fun as hell to play.

are you telling me you watched something at 2x and then logged on to bsky dot com and called it kino

It sucks how many times I see someone queer be like "my book is about a protag who's fat/disabled/lefty/polyam/trans/insert alphabet mafia-bait here" then you immediately find out the writer's using generative AI or voluntarily running a Substack.

Netflix truly missed the point by making their Originals second screen friendly. That's YouTube's job. God invented theme park YouTubers for a reason. They contribute to the delicate ecosystem of second-screen's natural predator: subtitle-only food YouTubers.

Finished Dispatch, that was an incredible game* That * has like five thousand words about superhero fiction treating Batman/Spiderman's no-killing rule as a moral waypoint for every character.

Culver's Mac & Cheese: truly the blandest fast food Mac and cheese I've encountered. It's wild to experience given half of the place is built around "we have cheese."

Enshittification for specific niche things is harder to demonstrate to the wider world but I think Easy Anti Cheat, the anti-cheat used by SO many huge online games, going down multiple times before, during, and after Christmas is a great example of "things that used to just work are getting worse."

🎶I saw Goody Proctor kissing Santa Claus underneath the mistletoe last night🎶

I can never purchase a Cameo from a celebrity because I love the idea my experience on that platform started and ended with commissioning a gay clown to do a fake tarot reading for my friend with cards he made up.

The first song in A Muppet Christmas Carol is truly everyone else in London admitting they're complicit in the calcification of Scrooge by ostracizing him early on.

"Your favorite game dev" is damn near revisionist history ignoring those of us with memories longer than "they updated Cyberpunk to be not broken." Just 'cus Witcher 3 was an okay open world game doesn't erase the bonkers shit CDPR's managerial class have done for many MANY years.

We need a remake of Timeline (2003). It was SO close to being an incredible movie, it just needs a little tweaking and a couple roles recast. Hell, all of the character actors could just play the exact same roles again no problem. All of the "old" characters were aged-up 40/50-somethings.

Tonight I've jumped back to the beginning of season 4, the episode just before this one, and it immediately has one of my favorite all-time Columbo moments.

I'm gonna jump ahead in Columbo a tad to finally watch the episode where Dick Van Dyke is the villain of the month.

The downside to Mullvad being basically THE privacy-focused VPN is the kind of influencers who will tell you about Mullvad are some of the most obnoxious, conspiritorally-minded people you'll encountered online. Mullvad's got great business and privacy mentality. But it's cursed by its fanbase.

Ale-8 zero sugar: for when you want a bottle that vaguely looks like Ale-8-One but tastes nothing like it.

You can tell the labubu trend is thriving by how I saw like 20 of them locked in a glass case at a local vendor mall. Right next to sun damaged baseball memorabilia and ancient in-box Barbies.

i've been making original logos for sondheim shows for some reason so uhh please enjoy

Me: I'd love a little older truck, if I were to get a not-car. Facebook Marketplace: HERE'S THE LONGEST BED AND WIDEST BODY EVER MADE IN 1995. ALSO MY PET RAT LIVES IN THE CARB.

The existence of OFTV is darkly hilarious. OnlyFans tried to be like "no nooo, we're not stabbing sex workers in the back and pivoting." At the same time they have a platform that's over-paying creators to make safe-for-work accounts that never mention sex work to kick-start their own YouTube

The name Burnie Burns is wasted when it's not being used by a fitness themed wrestler.

I have... perhaps a controversial opinion about John Wick having just finished it for the first time. After a decade of only having seen the first half, there's an argument to be made maybe I saw the best half. letterboxd.com/gavingwhiz/f...

I forgot about the shot in John Wick where it does a cool action movie music sting and then it's just him taking the bus.

when the potter game came out and trans ppl were saying not to buy the game bc it would fund our own oppression there were fucking think pieces about how mean we were about that and meanwhile ive seen someone get blocked from a bunch of their favorite artists for sharing ai benis pemps memes like

How can there be an Ice Age Christmas special when Ice Age predates the Christ for which to hold a Mass by thousands of years?

"we USE ai, but our game wont CONTAIN it" is a clarification that no one has ever cared about & now CEOs are using it as a wedge to get their foot in the door as a part of a long term plan into normalizing AI, just like how 'it's just placeholder' was used with E33. dont cede even an inch of ground

I am BEYOND not normal about this

An unimportant but nevertheless positive aspect of the Silent Night, Deadly Night franchise being restarted is it's causing a bunch of retroactive "you know, I always liked those movies" comments online that wash away the fact SNDN was cheap December fodder for every damn unfunny YouTube reviewer.

Dan Akroyd walked so Jerma985 could run.

Working theory: the less-shitty a video game content creator is, the funnier their audience is. Jerma's audience? Hilarious, queer, creative as hell. Nothernlion's fandom? Some bad apples but largely funny. Pop open /r/JonTron and you'll find the un-funniest people alive.

I guarantee you, Person Who Is Somehow Still A Harry Potter Fan In 2025, that there are so many books by trans authors that are better and not fueling hate. Go read them instead.

Christmas with the Kranks is a fascinating movie in that it has three celebrities and then a STACKED cast of character actors/working comedians. Andy Daly has three lines, Jake Busey gets two scenes, David Hornsby is barely in it. Hot on the heels of Rickety Cricket's first appearance on IASIP.

I'm not trying to be a hater but I have fully grown into an adult who does not buy into the idea Charlie Brown is a charming character. letterboxd.com/gavingwhiz/f...

buddy if you don't know Ale-8-One, you gotta learn about it. it's like nothing else. the Cincinnati Chili of Ginger Ales.

The fact that there's not a Borderlands extraction shooter is a sign Gearbox doesn't know their own IP/audience.

I'm glad I actually tried out watching Northernlion play the AI-voiced extraction slop shooter 'cus it's an adventure in watching a man realize he behaved badly while hanging out with someone else behaving badly, and then working to rectify it.

My favorite part about the Game Awards final announcement being dogshit is they've done this multiple times now and people still have the gall to be surprised.

[Gesturing wildly with a hunk of stuffed crust, sauce smeared on my beard] No no listen! This is leftover pizza so it's healthier. The TikTok said the gluten in the crust, once it reaches a certain low temperature, starts to develop fiber so, so this has the benefits of mushrooms AND fiber.