The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

quick fume knight for buddy #art

i wish we'd stuck with pushing squares instead of touching glass

Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from. We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.

This is the funniest time lapse video of slime mold growing that exists and I dare you to prove me wrong youtu.be/Azm4O6UIgnk

"My child was perfect and has been replaced by a changeling baby," but in the year 2025.

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

These things literally drop loot lol they're are BEGGING to be destroyed Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Beware the Nil pipeline, lest you end up like me✨

Shingles vaccine is rougher than the average jab (36 hours of arm pain and a night of poor sleep for me). OTOH I’ve seen people’s “golden years” ruined by shingles: chronic insomnia, chronic pain, deep depression. Plus we now know there’s a robust association of shingles with dementia risk.

I am baffled by this because I have had so many friends with shingles and NONE of them made it sound fun. Not one. A vaccine that made me absolutely miserable for 48 hours would still be a huge improvement over the mildest case of shingles I've heard of. (Also it made me tired for 1 day.)

Respectfully, Congresswoman, you voted with Republicans to strip due process from immigrants and to praise Trump's ICE. This year. Now you're upset? Votes have consequences. Minnesotans deserve better.

What a totally normal and not-suspicious-at-all thing to do

I can hold two truths in my soul at once: every man in her story is a creepy-ass predator who should be marooned at sea, and also she's an ethics black hole who may have brought upon a new age of victorian era infant mortality. people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess

Worth noting just how impressive it is that public opinion has so steadily turned against Israel in the United States considering the fact that news like this basically does not get covered in any of the legacy media publications.

Trying out a new PCP's office, and their "preferred language" dropdown on the intake form is time-traveler inclusive.

The way student loans are meant to limit your options in general is truly unhinged. I have fully paid off the amount I took out twice and still owe more than I took out.

Mark Zuckerberg believed in the Metaverse so much he changed his company's name to "Meta" in 2021 and spent over $70 billion on this fantastical virtual reality chat space that has less functionality than VR Chat. Now, in 2025, he doesn't even mention it. And investors still give him money to burn

one thing I think we shouldn't lose sight of: these people are stupid, their ideas are bad, they are always wrong about everything. there is no mea culpa big enough to erase the fact that they have a child's understanding of the world and their vision for the future is not worth taking seriously

almost like the violence overseas, boomerangs back home

Love that AI is not only “threatening” to take our jobs it’s making the MEANS of working untenable. The RAM I bought last march for $160 now costs over $900 because of AI. It is impossible to make or upgrade a work computer. This is insane.

the balance hasn't remained constant, but people have long wrongly seen the NYT as a liberal publication that feels the need to bend over backwards for conservatives to fight bias charges, when in fact it's a conservative publication aimed at convincing liberals. they're more open about that now

hey uh this is bad

no idea

I like the part where its arm has enough force to blow up that water bottle by just casually whacking it. That's definitely a thing I want interacting with me on a daily basis with no sort of safety buffer, yep.

#gundam #vocaloid

I'll post on my site soon but there'll be a holiday break from 12/19 with the next update being 1/16, due to christmas and traveling for magfest. After that though, I am intending to ramp up to 2 updates a week and aiming to finish kill six billion demons in its entirety by mid 2027.

i am a workflow enjoyer and i'm addicted to astrophotography's various workflows, all of which run through a half dozen niche freeware programs i've never heard of before

Incentive enough for more people to be openly racist - why work hard at a low-paying service job if you can make a hundred grand shouting your inner feelings?

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

On his tombstone

portfolio catch-up post 03

our bluesky safety manager replied with this to a woman venting after ICE kidnapped her husband, and then banned her. How do we trust this person to have the empathy needed to be in charge of safety on this website? what the fuck? if we spam the feedback, it might get somewhere @safety.bsky.app

Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right. www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

OH THAT IS INTERESTING

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

it’s not just AI slop: they’re breaking shit constantly now since the latest update, random things will crash Explorer and my taskbar will restart, Discord kept freezing until I turned off notifications, and trying to scroll in Chrome with some games alt-tabbed is a glitchy mess

Not disagreeing at all but the synthesis here is probably something like he doesn't actually see these people are opponents as such, rather more like Helots; subhumans you kill to prove you are a man.

Alan Moore really was 110% right when he said you need to read bad books as well as good if you want to write better. I have become far more invested in the material lives of my characters after some of the bourgeoise bullshit I read this year.

this is why liberals won't call for actual consequences. nothing trump is doing is something we didn't spend two decades doing throughout the middle east, central asia and africa during the war on terror. it's just that trump brags about it on social media too much

Labour doing a "proving the left right about liberals makes the left miserable" speed run into a brick wall.

this lives in my head rent free. whenever a character is knocked down in a ttrpg i just think "right on their pronis"

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

Please note that any "centrist" pundit who blithely discusses the "merits" of arguments for eliminating birthright citizenship is either a fascist enabling fascism or a clueless clown enabling fascism.

Can’t afford grandkids for y’all, sorry bout that

when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.

Forget strangling baby Hitler when I get a Time Machine I’m drone striking an early PayPal board meeting