you idiots! comedy is not about joy or building community or challenging systems of power! comedy is about teaching 14-year-old boys slurs and making sure women know if i don’t like their bodies! it’s called pushing the boundaries and doing it makes me very profound!

Tbh so much of the creative industry at every level is getting good at what you do and then hanging on long enough to get lucky. In my own personal experience the hardest part by far is the "hanging on" part.

Fox reporter to protester: You have a dirty mouth Protester: You are a Nazi bitch

I know MST3K is the reason I love so many old terrible movies, but the thing is: Life would be pretty empty without terrible ones to go with the awesome ones. Sometimes, I get much more from a terrible film than I would from a good one.

I love the GameFAQs forums I hope they never get removed

zohran mamdani announced a plan to seize properties from bad landlords and private equity if tenents suffer from neglect and i genuinely do not think i’ve seen rightwing circles this mad in reaction to anything i’ve ever seen before lol

Genuinely think modern media has poisoned the well for having healthy discourse because we're constantly force-fed the perception that being snarky and snide makes your point more valid (e.g. Whedon and Sorkin) Real life doesn't have a laugh track. The only audience you're playing to is your ego.

Could there be a better example of "the trans debate" than 98% of women supporting trans people and then one single lone person voting against them and getting their way regardless. It's all such a fucking sham

It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more.

We are going to win! This stuff can and will be brought to a halt. None of it is inevitable. Anthropic cannot afford to slow down. It has to grow to at least $100bn a year in revenue or it doesn’t have a hope in hell of paying its compute bills. Same for clammy little Altman.

The Breadwinner (2026)

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

as always i am sympathetic to the fact that male loneliness is a real problem but the solution to male loneliness is robust afterschool and other social programs and shit like accessibility to public parks and the lonely men take industry opposes these things so i don't know what i'm supposed to do

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this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

FREE HER

I guess my only real problem with AI is that it doesn't work, uses all the water, makes the worst people who ever slime-trailed across this green earth richer, gives monsters cover to crater organizations, destroys lives in both obvious & subtle ways & also isn't even AI. Besides that, I'm for it.

It took me a while to feel like I understood Cure and Pulse, which are films I love and appreciate now. I feel like Cloud will be the same: I'll digest it for a while, revisit it in a couple years, and have loads to say. 1/2

Everything we’ve ever done since 2013 is yours for just $29/year. We’ve never run ads & don’t aggressively push anything on you ever, because the internet sucks enough as it is. But we still need $$ to pay writers, artists, editors, and bills. Each subscription means the world to us/keeps us going 🙏

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Apologies to my very Lutheran father but I really like the Pope.

There's a corollary to this that even though almost all Americans are living in the lowest murder and violent crime rate of their entire lives, by a wide margin, they live in a constant state of fear, agitated by the people and factions who profit off it. Americans are kept in a terrified state.

Leo the Grey

i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

Waking up from weird stress dreams at 3:30 wasn't how I wanted to start today but at least I'm getting to be a doofus on blue sky dot com while most people in my circle are asleep

Hey, listen, sometimes you just need more eyes, okay? Sometimes shit starts happening and you gotta see what's there, you know? You can dabble responsibly!

This is also true of credit scores, which did not exist before 1989.

Porn includes shit like Paleolithic art and is "bad for (this) society" because a bunch of dogmatic fascist assholes use it as a thin edge of the wedge on oppression of all marginalized groups and so. many. leftists. fall for it because they have too much internalized shame send fucking tweet

that's just how it is on this bitch of an earth

"uhh, i mean" and "shoot that's why we do it man" being perfectly audible elevates this from tech glitch to competent YTP joke

Random opinion: The primary purpose of AI, instead of the genuinely revolutionary like medical/scientific image analysis, has become the replacement of human labour in order to lower costs. It's being driven by shareholder greed We should tax the use of AI to fund a universal basic income

The prophecy has been fulfilled.

I keep saying this every time Ashley and I watch another episode but holy shit the lighting and production quality on The X-Files are still so fucking good.

Telegraph story bemoaning the UK music biz which does not once mention: A] Brexit and how it wrecked touring & thus the ability of British acts to build audiences in the EU B] Tory govts treating the biz as a nest of lefties and sniggering when Brexit damaged it www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

it truly is fascinating - albeit in a very sinister way - how Everything Is Gender. it's not like Obama never used the military! but he liked art and books and emotions and women who are smarter than he is, so the GOP coded him as a pussy. "Real Men enjoy killing people" is really baked in there

I might be ready to get hurt again.

[shambles slowly out of the marshes to like four of your posts in a row before disappearing into the humid night]

"I'm that weird old geezer you've heard so much about." This is all that he says.

Spare me your “think piece” about the “controversy” of Christoper Nolan casting Lupita Nyong'o in The Odyssey. The whole thing stems from Elon Musk being a depraved, hateful racist. That’s all there is to it. There is no fucking controversy.

Whenever NPR sounds like it's platforming a right-wing talking point, it *almost* comes off as naïveté, but really they're actually part of the problem.

Also, Words Mean Things. You didn't "invest" in a game buy buying it. You're not a partial owner. You don't receive dividends. YOU BOUGHT A GAME, POINDEXTER.

At this point this is all of us.

Majula (Dark Souls 2, PC-PS3-PS4-X360-XOne, FromSoftware, 2014)

Admiring the water ❤️ - SaGa 2 Hihō Densetsu (NDS), the 3D remake of Final Fantasy Legend 2 (GB)

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

The Marketplace of Ideas people immediately forcefully shut down all dissent, bought all media, sued & fired all critics & arrested & caged journalists reporting on their heinousness as soon as they got control & all of this was entirely predictable & people who warned of it were called overreactors

As if the requirements for Valnet writers aren’t already outrageous. Apparently gotta update this piece. thefilmmaven.com/valnet-jobs/

It’s like the whole accusation that climate or vaccine or *any* scientists are “in it for the money.” They literally cannot conceive of another motive. Maybe that person just really likes curing pancreatic cancer. Get the fuck out of their way.

Media disinformation. It's not like Senate Republicans are actually DOING anything to stop Trump's slush fund (e.g., passing legislation to bar it or suing to argue he's violating appropriations clause) or denying him a reconciliation bill to hand his domestic gestapo $75 billion.