Young, dumb, and full of rare mineral deposits.

New article in @theconversation.com today reflecting on Australia’s 2024 loot box regulations and how, 1 year later, there remains widespread non-compliance - and generally really confusing age ratings for mobile games on the App Stores! theconversation.com/loot-boxes-a...

my favorite line and favorite line read of all time

"Sonker" sounds like when a fantasy story invents a slur against a fantasy race and you can tell from context it's a slur but something about it sounds off.

Just to recap, the actual president found an AI-generated video of a fake news report depicting a fake announcement about an imaginary healthcare system based on a technology that doesn’t exist and posted it on his official social media account

Both my cats have job titles in their names so they can participate in the great human traditions of Skiving Off and Ignoring Their Responsibilities.

Congrats to the BDS. FREE PALESTINE.

I think it's very important that Will Smith start writing theme songs for his movies again. He should probably do some for the ones he's missed as well. Start with I Am Legend and see how it goes.

Ice cream cone manufacturing line.

people talk a big game about medieval peasants not being able to handle doritos, but if I spent 5 seconds with the kind of stomachache they must have been dealing with 24/7 I'd double over in pain so fast and so hard I'd cleave myself in twain

In case it needs restating, autism isn't caused by Tylenol, or vaccines, or woke parents or whatever. It's not a disease, and it doesn't need curing. Eugenicists and fascists love to think of ways to eradicate us because they are unwilling to understand us. But we will outlive them.

At the "about you" section of a survey and...what? There was nothing at all in the preceding questions that would have made this make sense, it just appeared to me in this form.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

"From hell's heart I stab at thee!" 🎵 here in 🎵 Duck Berg

GFVTLEMEN

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I call this the "characters in an action movie who are having a hard enough time when suddenly they're in a fantasy/sci-fi movie" trilogy.

Not every Jeffrey Combs character is Herbert West, but sometimes Jeffrey Combs is definitely playing Herbert West's latest ill-advised career move.

“If these journalists actually wanted us to draw attention to them, then maybe they would get killed in a way that helps me spread hatred against a minority," said a reporter for news.com.au. theshovel.com.au/2025/09/15/a...

The entire centrist establishment writing fan fiction about how Kirk's life was dedicated to building bridges while assiduously ignoring the movement-wide conservative effort to incite a pogrom against trans people.

Emmy Awards? That's nothing, have you heard of the Gremmy Awards? That's when my cat, Gremlin, likes you enough to give you a little headbutt on the leg as she walks past. It is a highly prestigious honour.

*mournfully* This is a problem on the left (posters on the website 'blue sky') AND the right (the united states federal government)

Like do people really think racists and white nationalists and christofascist ideology stops at the line of “well golly I sure don’t like those people but I guess I’ll mind my own business because I’m otherwise rational” or something? The violence is kind of the whole point

Ah see, commentators suddenly understood stochastic terrorism when they thought they could blame the shooting on the entire left, now that it was most likely a Fuentes guy they'll go back to having no idea how this happened.

I must apologise to everyone I've ever met for what this post has done to my vocabulary.

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This person who was too stoned to remember the lyrics to Hey Ya is forever in my heart.

Having a nightmare headache and a lot of extremely important shit to do is, it turns out, a bad time.

“Some of it is anti-intellectualism and the death of high culture, but some of it is also that the landscape of media consumption is set up now so you never have to do the equivalent of eating your vegetables, and that means you never get to suddenly realize that you love Brussels sprouts.”

At an old job I had a boss who would say "amazeball," like, just the one, and it always disturbed me to think of amazeballs as discrete and separable units rather than a fluid quantity. It also made me wonder how amazeballs things would have to be for her to pluralise it.

ZILLA!

Me: Can I have one of those blue milkshakes that symbolizes Grimace’s blood? McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood

imagine if they had social media right after the second defenestration of prague. the memes would have been incredible.

losing my shit at tom clancy's daughter immediately setting this to her banner after seeing it

"indie games are so good right now" TRIPLE A!!! "metroidvanias and visual novels and" QUADRUPLE A!!!! "2d platfomers and pixel graphics RPG's and" QUINTUPLE A!!!!! "boomer shooters that are so fast and cool and" 80 DOLLARS! 90! PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEE~! www.gamespot.com/articles/gta...

well its gladwell, so it's not like he's thoroughly misunderstood a slim selection of research that reinforces his personally held stereotypes about a minority in order to make up some intellectual gymnastics for people who like to feel smart

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What I'm hearing is that by not using AI and actively discouraging others from using it I am potentially contributing to these people losing billions. It'd be a shame if most people fucking hated tech CEOs, it'd be a damn shame.

With all the criticisms of AI one I don't see as often is how it's the final form of the tech industry's 20+ year push to take computers and internet from "useful tool you can use in a vast variety of ways" to "thing that does everything for you and gives you as few options as possible for doing so"

Well, I've finally done it. I've assembled a document so large and with so many nested subheadings that I've had to use Heading 4. Before I started the PhD I didn't think it was possible to need anything beyond Heading 2, but here we are.

Everyone Paris Paloma has a new song coming out and the intro is my loser headline and it’s spoken by EMMA THOMPSON 🚨🚨🚨 and she knows who I am

Whenever you try to talk to an American patriot about even the basics of their nations history.

Swifties, congratulations on your new dad.

Current struggle is that Pocket shut down and all the alternative read later apps seem to work somewhere between "a bit worse" and "significantly worse."

It's hard to see the pivot from "softboy" to "performative male" as anything but anti-intellectualism and gender essentialism tbh, or maybe I'm just remembering how it felt to have all my behaviors picked apart by people who thought I was trying to seem ~quirky~ by reading or not shaving my legs.

Keep out of reach AND SIGHT of children. Just the sight of this scar treatment gel is enough to send a child into a frenzy. Don't let them see! Ointment fiends! Children are stealing your unguents and your only hope is to hide them!