Timeline cleanse: MENDOZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Koi Kaze being on this list at all is gonna rightfully irk anyone familiar with it. However, of any anime to broach its topic, it's maybe the only one that should've been made as it shows that everyone involved is broken & making awful decisions. It's the anti-Oreimo before that'd been written. /1

Asuka and Rei also get desktops:

Gendo Ikari buys Shinji a desktop:

here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings

That's sadly been the case more often that not for much longer than has been obvious; the companies just get much bigger first now. This Simpsons joke is over a quarter century old, and was barely hyperbolic then:

that's all she needed to know??????????

#snackposting bought this on impulse at my local gas station: Blueberry Cobbler flavor Co-op Coffee - tastes like Costco blueberry muffins. Not a great coffee, but eh, fun enough.

The people employing whataboutism today are literally dangerous people. Do not engage.

The healthiest thing for me to do right now is to fight ignorance and I'm taking the kid gloves off.

Good thread & they're lessons that go back to email lists & usenet, if not even further. Some people are just problems & no amount of gentle correction can fix them; they must go for group safety. I've seen it in anime clubs, cons, mailing-lists, message boards & nearly every other clique or group.

Watamote needs a second season, 24 episodes, handled by the WataNare staff given where the manga slides too.

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

Costco 007: A License to Fill

As if suddenly losing the high end of my hearing in my left ear (temporarily? it's been over a month) wasn't discouraging enough when comes to music, my favorite DAW software for nearly 25 years was just bought by an AI mastering & music distro company: sonicstate.com/news/2026/01...

Reminder: The guy who married Hatsune Miku couldn't talk to his wife anymore after Gatebox ended their service for his wife. ameblo.jp/akihikokondo...

Catching up on Kaiju no.8 & Production IG really can't help but direct it like it's a "Ghost in the Shell"-alike, huh? I know some of its lead staff cut their teeth on IG's various contributions to that as juniors, but for not sharing lead talent with those projects, it's surprisingly familiar. /1

#snackposting is back posting: Wife brought home Giant Fruity Duo (Cassis & Berry) & Sweet n' Tasty Duo (Salted Caramel & Brownie) Ritter Sports - they're each split between the two flavors mentioned, and they're very tasty. Really deliver on each of the flavors.

Conan O'Brien doing Kuwabara's funeral meltdown, but for Jay Leno.

As they can't game KPIs by claiming one division is losing money when it's all going down as revenue in a preferred division, they'll game them by saying an existing product that makes money from real users is really their new product that's bleeding money fast. Google has done the same with Gemini.

Reminder that Libre Office exists.

i used to think that "life as a billionaire is just a series of your own preferences and cognitively that must be like getting kicked in the head by a horse every day" meme was hyperbolic but after accruing something like 17k followers as a normal person with no media training i kinda get it

Uncanny

GET EQUIPPED WITH FINAL GRAMMY PUSH

The thing they DONT tell you about doing audio production is the minute you think you have every cable you’d ever need… you’ll get caught in the worst time without the one cable or adapter you didn’t think about until that moment

I haven't had the chance to go to SakuraCon since moving to Canada, but nothing I've heard about the con in that time frame regarding its management makes me think I'm missing out. Checking out my local con because friends are in town & paneling is plenty. I'll fly out to Nakano Broadway otherwise.

We live in a @mega64official.bsky.social skit:

Had a dream I got laid off, woke up and realized it's because of what I left the TV on, then changed the channel to RT the news to get something different, then remembered why I went to bed in the first place, then noticed my tinnitus again. So this will be 2026. I guess.

Part of being in my early forties is realizing I can’t be the superhero producer I was in my 20s. I can’t throw a 20 minute rig cartoon together in a week now, can’t afford to disrespect my body by pulling all nighters. If I get 30-45 seconds’ worth of cartoon work done, it’s a good day.

This, but unironically & it better be even flagrantly woke & lore-imploding than Alternative/Shoegaze were. 9 underrated episodes. Alternatively, they did: it's called SANDA & it streamed on prime last season. Alternatively still, they did: it's called Diebuster because it sure wasn't GQuuuuuuX.

Tech wants to hold two things true: that chatbots are sentient and they are not accountable for them. The opposite should be true. Chatbots are word predicting machines and they should be accountable for them.

I keep seeing the montages of voice actors on tik tok saying “I’m a voice actor…” and then doing one of their famous lines. I made my own attempt at it. Plus, nobody really sees me do Oglethorpe.

didn't matter how quickly or easily one can make a bunch of slop it all falls apart if you need to print it onto paper and buy a spot in a physical space and convince people to actually buy it

These need to become decals sticker bombed all over Redmond & the Greater Seattle Area.

Even 4chan was better moderated than this (absolutely indemnifying.)

Where were y'all this year when The Cheat dropped? (music by the pronounceable Rich Trott @palacefamilysteakhouse.com)

The contrast between Cartoon Network's goofy, early 2000s mandate of setting everything in school, even shows that previously didn't do that like Billy & Mandy and Ed, Edd n' Eddy vs. the late 2000s to early 2020s where pretty much there was no rules other than "try to keep it to a TVPG."

aside, a browser extension that caught and redirected bsky.app links too blacksky.community or whatever atProto web interface of my choosing would be cool.

“i can’t leave twitter, i need it, it’s where my audience is”

Bill Watterson, writing with same ferocity as some of the best Jay-Z lines: "This is a unusual musical, I conduct it" - Jay-Z "Threat", after talking about unloading two TECs into an adversary.

ANYONE ELSE GETTING RANDOM LIKES BY BOTS WITH TWO POSTS ZERO FOLLOWS AND AN ONLYFANS URL IN THEIR PROFILE?

Most accurate SNL sketch of the past 20 years: youtu.be/z0NgUhEs1R4?...

**After 2 weeks stalled out at the same weight loss** Char Scale: Do read me? Blame this on the misfortune of your birth!

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

corporations are entirely happy to see Horror Public Domain films be loathed by the public, because it's a stepping stone towards a future day in court extending copyright beyond our lifetimes, as people look on and say "At least there won't be a 5 dollar horror movie on Tubi I don't have to watch!"

Ever wondered how a seasoned animator can tell when there's love put into an anime? Full Interview: youtu.be/KQWV4dgJDlQ