the whole bloody internet rn The irony YES, journalists need to get paid but also YES, this is why there's a low-information epidemic right now NO, I don't have the solution for you, in an economy where subscriptions are nibbling everyone to death and not everyone can sub to everything.

it's maybe the one meaningful difference between the two parties - that the Dems seem on some level aware that the machine needs maintenance and can only withstand so much abuse before it breaks but beyond that they are not morally opposed to anything the GOP is doing

I think one of the best indications we don't have a functioning society is that a legally bankrupt person has access to unlimited money

what the fuck indeed

Catching up on Daemons of the Shadow Realm now and appreciate this absolutely *slutty* animation of opening a rice ball

over the shoulder of caricature artist i slipped an extra $5 to: so i want bea arthur but wearing, like, japanese street style clothes, with big blue anime eyes. and a little tube going to her nose. and on the bottom “Maude Weeb” in—you know the DUNE font right? artist: [breaks easel over my head]

how many great first novels, how many weird cultural scenes, how much art that will never hang in a gallery some day, how many future businesses that started in a garage, how many people that never decided to pivot and do something new after leaving school have we lost because of this?

I once went to a spa at a resort in Hershey, PA and they had chocolate treatments, like a bath where the put cocoa in the water or a body wrap with chocolate in the lotion and then you got out and immediately went into the shower and that was lovely but THIS IS THE WORST THING IVE EVER SEEN

I don't think non specialists understand how much we have recently lost in typography. In the "gold rush" since mid 1980s, digital type discarded—simply failed to reproduce, and ignored—nearly FIVE CENTURIES of honed artefacts and sophistication, including every font in this image. flic.kr/p/2pihtHw

Eliza McLamb had an apt analogy abt modern fandoms: Fans no longer treat creators as creators. Fans treat creators like stock options they’ve invested in; like they’re part owners of a creator’s work just by *being fans*, and therefore get a say in what creators make/how they act. And it sucks.

You speak of him

The links between this series and Apple’s design history remain some of my favorite homages in anime

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Why did I look up what Tolstoy thought about the US, I should have known that catty bitch would only hurt me

#HorrorWritersChat "Pretty!" she said. It shone. Thrummed with unseen energy, the same absinthe green of the glowing stars on her bedroom ceiling. It was warm as her kitten's purr. She held it in her mouth like a chocolate that wouldn't melt. A week later, her hair began falling out.

The firelight illuminated the manuscript. She watched as the letters seemed to dance and shift in time with the flickering flame. Then, to her horror, she realised they were changing - from poetry to prophecy. A strange prophecy. She read it aloud. Read... your present. #HorrorWritersChat

Dr. Beverly Crusher would like to know... for science.

yo dawg we heard you liked search so we made search for your search so you can search what you searched

remembering the days when looking up something on Amazon got what you asked for instead of 10 ads from competing products

ガウォークうれしすぎ

microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

Wishing @thekatemulgrew.bsky.social the happiest of birthdays!!! Thank you for changing my life and continuing to inspire me and many other girls out there to be the strongest versions of ourselves! 💕 #KateMulgrew #KathrynJaneway #StarTrekVoyager

Well, another vector for the corrosion of society formally empowered. Time for the left to start some "churches" too, I think. If UBI is forbidden (as some states do) use the Church as the dispensation point. Redistribute "tithes" there. Time to form a real "Love thy Neighbour" sect.

Priorities

Weird thing about the modern GTA games is that they now take so long to develop, and the major swings in real-life culture happen so rapidly, that by the time the games show up they already feel like period pieces

My friend just finished the Deep Specter arc and has questions so we're doing Jojo Rabbit

Don't judge until you try it

[date] her: I’m a big dog person me: *whispering* oh shit werewolf

...i approve of this message. he should go there right now. personally. with the rifle. boots on the ground.

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

the crows love me because I give them peanuts and sometimes meat scraps. they always dive me to say hello and hang out when I'm outside. love those guys. I shooed away two seagulls and the crows starting laugh cawing and chased them off the rest of the way it's good to have mates

I don't think a person can work 40+ hours a week for years on end using a carefully policed language designed to abstract from actual real people being harmed, and then be normal. They're gonna keep acting like that off the clock.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

this would fix the website

I'm an avowed and open anti-monarchist as far as UK politics is concerned, but I will offer credit where credit is due. The King has absolutely nailed this speech and it's hard to imagine a politician being able to deliver it with the gravitas that would be heard in the US. #theking

First of all, no one was writing 12 page essays, they were closer to like five, eight at most, unless you're fucking nuts like me and writing 50 pages. Second of all lofi did not get defined as lofi until the late 2010s, real millennials listened to torrented EDM or alt rock torrents on Winamp.

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

If Trump tried that with me, I’d yank his arm so hard that he’d collapse. Then I’d laugh.

At airport the P.A. system is broken and weirdly distorted so the nice gate lady’s voice is coming out exactly like a Dalek. Everyone here is finding it very funny. I’d guess in 10-15,minutes that will be less the case.

LRT: LOL it would be the funniest thing to drive billionaires out of society by taxing them because they are terminally allergic to paying out money they wouldn't even miss

you have to lay a succession of strategically placed global wealth taxes which eventually leads all billionaires onto a decommissioned oil rig owned by the umbrella corporation

You don’t have to like it when people you follow online fail. The problem is, social media offers a very incomplete picture. Not everyone sees the ways we hold ourselves and others accountable offline, and how we’ve changed through the years. Be uncomfortable - but remember that’s still a person.

In the finale, they *try* scheme after scheme to fix what they have already irreversibly broken, and each time it just makes the situation worse. They don't find a magic bullet, technology doesn't save the day, the invisible hand doesn't invent a solution.

Doesn't seem too hard Couldn't take more than a full weekend to get down to an acceptable degree of mastery And practice makes perfect

wtf