I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

I love this website because it is the closest you can get to "A fellow academic has resurfaced after nine unexpected hours in the archives hyper focused on something that is not at all related to the paper they are supposed to be publishing."

Eeehhhnn that's like literally never been his MO. I think this is just going to be a thing to launder money to him and his buddies.

We are like four or five generations removed from "It got really hot really quick and everyone died" and while societally we are much more resilient than we were in 1877, mentally our poor fragile minds are poised to shatter when the weather does something Weird and Bad.

I think one thing people haven't really factored into their What The Fuck Is Gonna Happen calculus is heat madness. You simply cannot predict how the US population will respond to an unseasonably cold spring launching directly into Satan's Asshole temperatures within the span of one week.

Hahaha I need to get solar panels installed like this week holy cow

lol

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

If I ran a print shop in the 11th Arrondissment two blocks from Le Bastille, I do not think I would write a pamphlet called "The Unwashed Masses Are Coming For Your Arable Land. Here's How To Prepare" but that's just me.

This is all the internet was supposed to be. Hubris to ask for more.

I think the best thing we can do as human beings is introduce other animals to cool stuff they otherwise would never encounter.

Long. Hot. Summer.

I don't think being mocked on its own will drive them insane. I think what will drive them insane is that neither Eric Schmidt nor any of his compatriots are capable of conceiving of a reality in which they are Wrong About Something. They would rather literally become villains that admit that.

My wife ran a half marathon this morning and while I was standing with my sign this older couple of Vietnamese folks stood next me holding an entire 18x18" framed picture of their daughter.

you sound like a phrenologist when you start talking about fertility. people can't afford to start families it's actually so fucking simple

For generations, the American empire was the most powerful force on earth, and so we tended to assume that it was the most *durable* force on earth - surely anything so powerful *must* also be *eternal*? 1/

the services sought for detransition are quite literally the same ones sought for transition. detransitioners work in tandem with us on advocacy. there aren't enough people to keep a detransition-only clinic busy. this should clue you in that this clinic will not be used for consenting detransition

Under two years for an entire STATE of Australia to do a 100% peak power transition to renewables is I N S A N E. Pair the adoption with vehicle battery efficiency increases and charging stations going public and we have a civilization-altering Green New Deal.

HIS SOUL GOES MARCHING OOONNNNN

Kendrick Lamar one day you will be enshrined forever in the Hall of Haters so that future generations might aspire to enlightenment. Lucifer Morningstar did not fall so far as Aubrey Drake Graham.

He’s offended because The Odyssey is about something near and dear to him: being an absent father while chasing vanity for 20 years

somehow i don't see this line making Super Bowl history

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

My favorite is when one of them drops the line about how "AGI will be five to ten times as impactful as the industrial revolution," gleefully skipping over the part where the most direct impact of the industrial revolution was a generation of people ground into mud in the trenches of WWI.

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

I dunno about y'all but the words "Too Many Godzillas" will get your ass beat around me I'll tell you that much right now.

What Kendrick Lamar did to Drake needs to be the subject of an entire field of study. I need to see linguistics and rhetorician conferences erupt into fist fights about what happened during that feud.

i still don’t know what to do about it and goddamn has it ever gotten worse over the last few years. it got so bad so fast.

It is becoming really difficult to work or read in this circus. (Sound on)

new vlog: I made my old man lunch today into content

It's officially Paris Paloma Friday in this household

Can you feel the vibe shift

I think the people who complain about Bluesky being dead or useless mean "People on this website say things that upset me and I think that should be illegal."

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

I might need to rewatch TNG and actually watch Deep Space Nine. That might need to happen this summer.

HAHAHAHAHA I forgot about that hot damn

Sometimes art is so breathtaking and poignant it defies all expectation

Things are bad, gang, I won't be the one to deny that. We have a lot of work and very little time. But stop and take a moment. Look at this graph. Look at the explicitly and openly hostile environment in which solar technology is fixated. Understand that a better world is dawning.

1986 snail farming zine PART 2 openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...

obsessed with this US department of agriculture zine about snail farming from 1986 openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...

because in the ideal universe, this would be very fine as a zoom background during corporate meetings

Is the Thucydides Trap before or after Age of Sigmar does anyone know? Or is this a Horus Heresy thing?

Same energy:

This book rules. It's a debut by @carterkeane.bsky.social and it's got literally everything you could want. Gruesome Ohio folk horror, queer punk hero, gnarly backwoods rituals, The Real Monster Is Capitalism (also a literal monster), Fucked Up Critters, a Very Good Dog. It's great.

It's important to all who walk the Path of The Hater to make a pilgrimage to Ireland at least once in their lives. The island is imbued with a wild and untamable spirit of spite that drives its inhabitants to wondrous new heights in Being A Hater.

There is also a third Good Genre of Country called "I am overwhelmed with Y E A R N I N G, I am utterly destroyed by my HUNGERING NEED, and I HATE MYSELF for it" and it is only for windows down driving after midnight or smoking outside of a bar after it closed.