I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

Grogu to the polls

there's a now-constant low grade conflict on this site between people fundamentally still divided on their feelings about democratic primaries in 2016 and 2020 and frankly i think the whole thing is stupid

Amazing how scifi has often used robots as metaphors to discuss humans and society and instead a lot of folks internalized that robots are going to be people and we need to be prepared for their civil rights struggles and the likelihood of human vs sentient robot wars

Having just rewatched Fantastic Mr Fox, I'm riding high on the truth that stop-motion animation is simply one of the coolest things there is

Blue Prince (2025)

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

i have so, so many furious things to say about this but just to scream about one: when corporations declare themselves able to decide what art is or not made specifically for getting off, they are absolutely going to use that power to target even the tamest of queer art first.

caked-up tachikoma

🎵I believe the children are our future...🎶

it's Her day

No respect for my beloved Regenstein Library! (I've always thought brutalism looks cool, personally)

Valve also naming the predecessor "Steam Controller" is really polluting the SEO on troubleshooting this thing

I can't be the only person who looked at his posture and heard Vince Guaraldi's "Christmas Time Is Here"

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'm Glad I Never Wanted to Do in the First Place

who will be the seth rogen of the left?

Whenever someone brings up Will Stancil on here.

The only Data center I'm down with.

speaking of webcomics I still think this Hark A Vagrant panel is like. the single funniest image of all time

[sees a matte black corvette pull past a glossy black cybertruck] there are batmobiles everywhere for those with eyes to see

the only thing that will stop a bad three-year-old with a gun is a good three-year-old with a gun

we used to play computer

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

Monarch is squarely Fine, but 5-year-old Will is going crazy for the Rodan reveal at the end of the season

PEOPLE WRITING ABOUT LOVECRAFT: he was the master of indescribable horrors LOVECRAFT, WRITING: it was a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people-eater! DEAR GOD, I SAY, A ONE-EYED ONE-HORNED FLYING PURPLE PEOPLE-EATER! and that's not an ethnicity I like!

One of my absolute favorite kinds of writing, from Tolkien and Gibson to item descriptions and flavor text, is a little passing nugget of genre worldbuilding that evocatively gestures at something cool. The currently ascendant attitude of wikification to fill in all the details is a silly waste

Call of Duty developers are furiously taking notes

i’m not haunted. please dont put it in the newspaper that i’m haunted

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

restauranteurs that charge for bread before the meal have violated the rules of xenia, and will be punished accordingly by father zeus

Alex Jones taking everything the Onion says extremely seriously is one of the funniest new genres' of comedy

Ironically they are probably just Streisand Effecting him into greater prominence the longer they panic about him

I like how you can see the fog of war like it's Diablo or something.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

they should make chickpeas for dudes

Vampire Crawlers is good! It was also a lot of fun to write a review again

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

strip law is indeed hilarious, and I hope everyone watches it so we can get more

This is truly the only time 3D felt additive to a movie. Seeing this in the theater when it came out is still one of my favorite cinematic experiences, even discounting the Herzog Q&A after

Final Fantasy 7 (DLSS 5 on)

Magic Mike: The Gathering