Fun fact: A “Lord of the Flies” type thing actually DID happen…to a bunch of young boys of color (AHEM!) from Tonga… …and they did NOT devolve into violence and mayhem. They created their own rules and took care of each other until they were rescued by a fisherman over a year later!

Carter: Colonel! O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say? Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years... Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"

My take on the cursive discourse is that the most important class I took in high school was typing. I can’t believe how many teens and twentysomethings I see hunt-and-pecking their way around a keyboard. Everyone should be taught touch typing!

“HAHAHAHA YOURE GAYYY! YOU GAY GAYING GAYLORD!!! GO GAY SOME MORE!!” *turns back to microphone* “And that’s why I would like to lead the Democratic Party.”

I don’t know this for a fact but this *highly* looks like it’s one of the plane stages used to create non-ai slop outrage TikTok content

if it happens, there's going to be an period in which US standoff firepower flattens everything not just on Kharg Island but also everything adjacent to it on the Iranian coastline, followed by a lot of crowing and "this is the day Trump became President"-ing. People here need to not freak out

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

"You end up with a world in which strategic trust has dropped. Everyone has to assume the worst. You are more likely to assign nefarious motives towards others…" This 👆 is what McLuhan meant when he said the planet was becoming a global village. It's not a pleasant, bucolic environment.

mavis beacon did not teach you typing so you could make such terrible posts

Here's the piece:

Because someone plowed a car into the shelter where Kristy works, she’s losing at least a week’s income while the building’s repaired. Meanwhile, she’s the main financial provider for her wonderful family. Please help if you can: Kristy’s the first to give back in any form she can find.

This is how the conversation invariably winds up sounding whenever you talk about food safety and public health systems

me: dad the new season of for all mankind premiers tomorrow! my dad (invented the directv satellite): what’s that me: it’s that alternate history nasa show about “what if the soviets did the moon landing first” my dad (again, who works in aerospace): i think they did! WHAT DOES THIS MAN KNOW???

So depressing how life in the US now is "We're going to do stupid, obviously risky bullshit for no good reason, just because we can" over and over again.

MY THERAPIST: Wow thank you for explaining, it's very clear that you were in the right and very valid. ME: Thank you. MY THERAPIST: I'll have to read up more on Twitter beefs from the mid-2010s but until then definitely keep thinking about them instead of sleeping. ME: I agree,

Court dismisses Elon Musk's lawsuit alleging brands illegally boycotted X

Want to feel old? All the teenagers who used to email Rockstar Games asking why you can't shoot dogs in Grand Theft Auto now work for the federal government

Elizabeth Banks

I don't think she should have dated *that* cat

yeah... fair

My man clearly had to fight with Cigna over an MRI

I think it is fair to say McLuhan was correct when he said the internet would cool us down so much, we couldn't even work up the anger to kick an openly criminal, sociopathic idiot out of power.

The actual most influential medium of this era is going to turn out to be the group chat.

A general reminder that if you've got ADHD (and probably RSD) that when someone tells you they want you to call it's very probably not that you're in trouble.

As a child listening to Top 40 radio in the early 80s, I knew the Maneater and the Maniac were not the same woman, but it felt like they could have been. Facets of the same Platonic jewel.

Truly, there is nothing Bluesky loves more than lecturing Bluesky about something Bluesky is not actually doing.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Also, just like… Why the fuck do we need this? We have a series of movies. We have video games. We have a theme park. We have radio plays. We have audiobooks. We have a fucking West End play. It’s diminishing returns at this point. And it was never fucking Tolstoy.

"At the station, Villarreal says, officers surrounded her, laughing and taking pictures of her with their phones, celebrating that they’d gotten to her at last." Pretty tough to ignore the ever-growing mountain of evidence that cop culture is thoroughly debased.

Cops in Laredo were tired of Priscilla Villarreal reporting stories they did not like. In 2017, they arrested her for texting two questions to a source in the police department. She sued, but a lower court gave the cops qualified immunity. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal this week.

As someone who also loved to build websites back in the early days (and was thrilled by the Fray's use of frame tags too!) and who is looking for reasons to be optimistic about the future of the internet, I really enjoyed this piece. (Do read the whole thing before going off.)

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

This is a really good, and very sobering, read from @bretdevereaux.bsky.social. I wish I thought anybody in the Trump regime was thinking about the situation this realistically.

Peace, doting wizard, peace!

sorry i never responded to your email, i didn't want to and then i forgot

any ways, when she was AG Janet Mills actually took on Big Pharma, over the Opioid crisis, and won, she spent the money she won for Maine to get enough Narcan for every police and fire department in the state, and when the GOP Governor LePage wouldn't distribute it, she did, herself in her car.

White House IT Guy Sends Out Reminder Memo About Child Porn https://theonion.com/white-house-it-guy-sends-out-reminder-memo-about-child-porn/

Just want to note for the record that I have the most awesome in-laws, and I will be eternally grateful for that.

less talk about cold plunges and jawlines, more building your wife a table and your kids a playset

There was a big print of Guernica up in my middle school's library, so I would just go look at that.

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

I think it's still early to declare that Marxism lost, but I also think it's really silly to commit in a granular way to a three-volume philosophy written in the 19th century.

Gonna drop the gimmick for a second and explain, as a therapist. What you're describing is a phenomenon called Revenge Bedtime Procrastination. It's a subconscious habit that develops in which a person seeks dopamine-releasing behavior at night to exact "revenge" on the day which deprived them

Lay her on a couple of sawhorses and we can serve barbcue.

the problem with no true scotsman arguments isn't that they're wrong, exactly. it's that they show that your priority is to defend some community/ideology, rather than trying to make that community and ideology better. 1

This is so clearly about indulging random Chud fantasies, and also possibly bailing out a generation of men destroyed by gambling addiction.

the harry potter show being popular is gonna be deeply annoying but it will also be a great time to practice saying calmly and repeatedly “oh i don’t care much for harry potter since i learned rowling spends all her time and money attacking trans people”

People get very out of sorts when you gently point out that actually Apple did it. In fact, sometimes it makes them madder. 😞

Really truly believe that if you want to help the world, the best thing you can do is constantly practice being friendly, thoughtful, and kind to everyone you meet, offline and on. (I'm still practicing, but I'm way better than I used to be.)