"Are my migraines hormonal, or am I thinking too hard about how Peter Thiel has more money than all nurses on Earth combined?"

Take heart, everyone, there is only 426,874 years left in the Kali Yuga!

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRq... I'm finally watching Lake Dredge Appraisal, and this episode feels very topical.

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

Current main character on Threads. Everyone is now posting knitting projects saying they're none of your business.

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I would have forgiven all the flaws of Alien: Earth if Timothy Olyphant and Babou Ceesay had kissed in the finale. The sexual tension in their scenes together is palpable.

if you havent seen dril on threads yet it might be time to get over there

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

A new look at ‘THE VAMPIRE LESTAT’ has been released.

How the mighty have fallen.

Broke: 10 hour movie. Woke: 10 movie length episodes.

it's not FOR us

Billie Eilish has released her own set of UNO cards with custom rules curated by the singer.

So long as there is an internet and breath in my body, those stories will be there indeed. ❤️

The Power Fantasy #12. I want to play a video game in this style.

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me. azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

lol

for posterity i just wanna point out he's quoting this video

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Unfortunate update: Link reached out to BlueSky and got email back now on reason. His appeal is denied. He will remain permanently banned on BlueSky’s side. Here are the screenshots he just sent me as of 8:22 AM EST(my time)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mtI... This month, Dua Lipa talks to David Szalay, author of Flesh, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize.

People forget that Bluesky was originally supposed to be a decentralized protocol for Twitter itself to use. Bsky.social was just the proof-of-concept trial.

"In 1909, Forster foresaw the Internet, Zoom calls, bleeping notifications, well-honed HVAC systems, tech worship, globalization, Reddit boards, Yelp reviews, Spotify, YouTube, environment-destroying pollution, shitty automated customer service, psych issues involving physical isolation, and more."

Boosting. My friend Umbire has also been suspended under similar extremely shady circumstances. Both Umbire and Link seem to be functionally banned from the entire ATProto network despite already being on Blacksky, because Bluesky controls connecting infrastructure.

Someone on the SA forums suggested this should be called "The Bus That Could Not Halt, or Catch Fire."

www.youtube.com/shorts/cHJsp... A really fun take on the classic vampire seed counting weakness.

I was married to the owner of Something Awful, and I know this spiral well. Let me save you some time - this doesn't end well for you if you keep digging your heels in.

Young #Peacemaker

A thing that's become apparent to me as I've looked more into the landscape of alternatives to the bluesky app view and how effective the decentralization of atproto is: There's an alarming asymmetry in the way all this is architected + the social conditions of the network's formation.

store.steampowered.com/app/449150/P... PataNoir is currently 25% off for the Steam sale.

He's on a roll.

While the number of daily active users for Threads has steadily grown in the two years since it launched, X’s numbers have declined considerably.

We have Sam Bankman in real life.

"average mini painter drinks 3 pots of nuln oil a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average painter drinks 0 pots of nuln oil per year. merritt k, who lives in woods & drinks over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSKo... Reminder that Hanson is a legit good band that has released tons of albums since MMMBop.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1r... In addition to everything else, Dua Lipa is also a great literature interviewer.

Whyyyy do people keep shooting at the alien with bullets when it was shown to go down from a single hit with a stun rifle in the second episode? We even saw that they have stun rifles on the boat last episode. #AlienEarth

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Te7... The Aeon Flux cartoon was amazing. I wish I could find full episodes somewhere.

"This whole thing smacks of gender!" I holler as I kill the php-fpm daemon turning my web server into a web shit.

IDK why but I think it's very funny that there's an official PHP port of gender.c, a library to "find out the gender of firstnames." It's not installed by default so if you want some gender then you'll have to install the PECL package: pecl.php.net/package/gender

I accidentally prepaid Disney+ for an entire year, so I can't participate in the boycott until April 2026. Sorry, guys...

TIL, Homo is Latin for "man" but Greek for "same", so "homosexual" is actually a bilingual pun.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JGk... Dua Dua Literature Club.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKF_... If you're looking for something to watch, I highly recommend Starmania, which is like if Metropolis was an 80's French rock opera (w English subs). I had to learn the soundtrack for high school french class 30 years ago, and it's been stuck in my head ever since.

goontu.be Con join us on Goontube, the communal streaming channel!

Ingold's rules of narrative: - the universe must have a moral arc - plants always grow towards the light - mean people aren't interesting but nasty ones are - good people aren't interesting but kind ones are - every liar must be living a lie - every maze must have a minotaur