Across history, the majority of people who aren't alive shat themselves to death.

Timeline presented me four straight Bastille Day jokes about France losing. Stings but I'm following to correct people at least.

honestly i respect the sheer audacity

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BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sudden death reveals everyone’s wake-up time on Sundays.

Hilariously on brand for Lindsey Graham to randomly keel over in the middle of the McConnell death watch.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex basically rewired my brain.

There is a specific genre of anime called "I'm enjoying this now, but if I'd seen it at 15, I would've made it my entire personality"

Okay so trying to make sure I understand - after Haaland crushes the Three Lions, he gets to re-establish the Danelaw, right? Or does he just get the whole thing under the claim of Cnut the Great?

The US player unsuspension combined with Egypt getting obviously hosed by preferential refereeing is like the perfect 1-2 punch to maybe finally stop letting FIFA, in the running for the most pettily corrupt organization on earth, run anything.

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You really couldn't make Blazing Saddles today though. Most of the actors are dead. It would be a very different movie. Though probably equally funny.

I cracks me up when people are like "You couldn't make THIS movie or show today because people are so politically correct and sensitive!" Sir. There was an entire board in Hollywood dedicated to sniffing out any onscreen hint of married people having sex. Lucy couldn't say "pregnant." Sit down.

Ah yes. The myth of the "clean minions". Allied nations were complicit in pushing this narrative post war, in an effort to hasten the rebuild of Germany's military strength.

There better be another trade already in the works here. Not least because I do not want to have to turn in my Paul George hater card.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Been referring to myself as a "future WNBA fan" because that league really seems intent on doing a compressed recapitulation of the history of the NBA, which means the next era should be absolutely fire.

Someone just called the reflecting pool the "strait of warm ooze" and now my friends, I am dead.

Whenever we start to sneer at folks for fumbling around with textual analysis and critique, especially misunderstanding the modern usage of death of the author, it's worth remembering that there were serious movements in literary critique that did take the silly maximalist positions.

The drain the swamp guy managing to turn the reflecting pool into a swamp through a combination of obvious arrogant incompetence and lazy corruption is some Greek myth level comeuppance.

High tier entry for "looks obviously fake, is actually real." I don't know for sure, but I bet what we're looking at is a floating roof or a loosely secured cap getting shot into the air.

Welcoming Street Fighter's Yasmine to the small but notable clique of Filipino Fighting Game women. #streetfighter #tekken #soulcalibur #deadoralive

The Knicks-Spurs finals getting the highest viewership in two decades cracks me up. Years of convoluted doomerism over watch numbers and turns out you could have predicted the viewership trends just by looking at the population of the teams' cities & how long since they last got a ring. Incredible!

If you told me GIMP was an Adobe false flag to prevent a decent FOSS replacement for Photoshop from being developed I'd believe you.

Thinking about the Compte Rendu for no particular reason today.

Live look at @scalzi.com's kitchen.

If even the Vicar of Christ on Earth can’t dodge being family tech support, what hope have the rest of us.

That'll do it. 82-0 with Gail Goodrich, LeBron, Giannis, Kareem, and Garnett. www.82-0.com/share?id=PSb...

Best I've gotten so far at 74-8. I rolled Wilt after I'd already picked Kareem and Dirk, rerolled into Steph. www.82-0.com/share?id=JOp...

If the Knicks lose tonight it might turn into Escape from New York real fast.

OK so you know how the general public has a bunch of incorrect assumptions about how the thing you have expertise in works and doesn't grasp the actual complexity of it? That's everything. Everything is like that. Disclaimer: This doesn't mean people don't also suck or do dumb shit.

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This is a good thread, but it also feels related to a bigger trend in UI/UX that's been driving me crazy for years. The idea that you have to flatten every UI to the point that a naïve user can figure it without guidance or assistance. This is a good idea for public facing websites and kiosks.

People see these out of Boston and always chime in with "oh there's a bridge like that near me!" My friends, there is not *an* infamous low overpass on Storrow Drive. There is a series of at least 14 low clearance overpasses and bridges like a fucked up Ninja Warrior course for UHauls.

jack chick dark dungeons tract but there's zero religious or moral payload and it's propagandizing against d&d strictly for design reasons

Seems like a fun thing.

another doja tweet has hit endor

As someone who does actually have both a humanities and a STEM degree, I do think it would help to make STEM students take more humanities. But goddamn do some of you humanities majors need to get shoved into an intro to physics class and some intermediate math.

millennium challenge arguments are so annoying because there's a lot of actual criticisms of the whole wasteful thing but the guy *was actually fucking with the scenario constraints* in such a way that nobody would fucking learn anything useful.

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I experience FFXIV news like rumors from across a mountain pass. I don't know exactly what happened this time but it sounds like some chud got wrecked.

I see the discourse about world building and stories has spun up again. And I just always come back to the real answer is that it's a skill issue.

Recently, one of my closest friends, the funny, talented and kind @ettin.itch.io, lost his mother, after acting as his family's primary care support for a decade. She's why he has a career as a writer. He is trying to cover the costs of her cremation, and needs our support: gofund.me/40f37091a

Saw someone with a bumper sticker that was a silhouette of bigfoot carrying a thin blue line flag. I thought I had a decent grasp of semiotics and American culture but I have no fucking clue what that signifies.

I have entire apocalypse playlist consisting of WW3 scenarios: The War Game, The Day After, Threads, Onset of Darkness, Countdown to Looking Glass, By Dawn's Early Light.