Here's what I hate about the "Paul is the bad guy" takes about Dune: they're not what the actual text says. I get that Herbert insists that his story is about the risk of messianic figures to societies and cultures, but you can't do that when the canonical story is that the visions 1/

I find it amusing that I'm on both of these blocklists

This is amazing, wonderful news. Both Mistborn and Stormlight will be coming to screens. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Have a picture of Amelia the Cat to make your day better

So the guy they murdered is a nurse with an extensive social media history of himself being amazing and supportive and compassionate and humble, am I getting this right?

Hoping the ICE personnel in Minneapolis have a great time outside on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

Let me get this right, we're at war with Minneapolis and Denmark? Do Trump's people just hate the cold? Is that why they love climate change? Less cold?

This is the exact scenario the 2nd Amend die-hards always gave as the reason it was vital. I always thought it was a bullshit argument, but here's this dude I think things would go very badly, very quickly if ICE showed up on his block, and I think the risk of an encounter like that is very high rn

Want to feel old? Most high school graduates this spring were born in 2008. Starting next year (class of '27), most graduates will have been born after Obama became President

Note to self: don't engage with the bad faith assholes who drove Sky Marcini and Parker Malloy from BlueSky

Pretty much the only thing I'm confident about is that the administration will bring their standard level of competence, foresight, and execution to this whole exercise

My fetish? Consent.

This behavior does not function on any of my twitter accounts. Earlier today some accounts could get an info pane that showed the creation date of the account, but none of my accounts got this full display. Looks like Elon is A/B testing the change or perhaps has reverted it back out

Yes, Cait is a bully. She always has been. She was as chaeronaea, she was as punishedcait, and she is here. The thing is, she's almost always bullying people who are themselves bullies, which is needed. Stancil is an attention whore who deliberately picks fights. Mix those and this is what you get

I don't know if it is the most optimistic phrase in American English, but "First Annual" has to be up there. Such a perfect encapsulation of a certainty of success before anything has even been delivered

I see people post takes like "reading is declining overall" but then I go and check and more books are selling than have ever sold before and that pretty strongly suggests reading is more popular than it ever has been

Don't we normally have days of notice when there's enough solar wind coming to create auroras as far south as we're seeing them? Is this a forecast thing and I just missed it because of *waves arms in general direction of the shitshow*

I've begun unfollowing authors and artists who spend too much time ranting about AI. Whining about the future of technology and the growth of knowledge is finally too much for me

Sarah Kendzior is a doomer who has predicted 17,000 of the last 20 bad things that have happened. She's pollutes the information space with constant encouragement to give up and to disengage and has probably demotivated hundreds of times as many people as she's motivated to make change

She's literally advocating for treating low-level staff like shit. I can guarantee you what her waiters, bartenders, and baristas think of her, and it's not warm and friendly

I hate how often I agree with Tom Nichols and Bill Kristol these days. I tell myself it's because they've changed, and they have, but it also means I've changed in ways that earlier versions of me would be very unhappy about

This image sums up why even New Jerseyans make fun of Staten Islanders

My 'Popular with friends' feed literally has 5 theophite posts in a row as the first 5 posts

I saw some ridiculously stupid posts about the ACA so I went to look at the guy's profle and of course he's a NYTimes reporter, lol. Everybody at the NYTimes is trash

I would be in trouble at my job if my uptime number looked like this: usa-status.com

With the sources being cited as being from Nashville, that sure suggest Keith's people. Can you imagine your friends telling people that the problem is you aren't able to satisfy your partner, who happens to be Nicole fucking Kidman?

This is how I experience reality, as well

Not only are they out there, but it's way more dangerous to be protesting in rural Texas than it is to be out in Seattle or Denver. Just imagine those assholes in the coal-rollin' trucks trying to run people down, especially since that's been more or less legalized in Texas

Exactly this

Clearsky has this as its current list of the most-blocked accounts in the past 24 hours. Next time they do a data refresh on these stats, those new Trump admin accounts are gonna go shooting to the top. Also, the fact that Justin Wolfers is at the top of this list is a huge indictment of this place

Putting on John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. It's been decades since I last watched this movie, but it seems to have only grown more well-regarded over time

The lyin', the bitch, and the xenophobes

I don't RT or QT very much stuff, but THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS. I'm so sick of progressive/liberals who have deluded themselves into thinking things happen inside of the 44 minutes reserved for plot action between advertisements. That's not reality

I'm not tagging Jon Fasman, who is on this site, because authors often don't control the headlines put on top of their work. But if this headline is an accurate representation of the content (which I don't know, since I'm not a WSJ sub), he should be embarrassed to call himself a cultural critic

This is a thing I think most people really don't get. High-end scraping tools can login to all of the major social media and are scraping the fuck out of all of it. There are orgs building private equivalents of the Wayback Machine for purposes much less civic-minded. We're already in a panopticon

That Psych 210 class at UW sure is a sight for sore eyes

Having a caffeinated beverage at 1am because circadian rhythms are for pussies

My Amazon coffee order is up more than 30% in the past month. On August 23 it was $31.24 for a box of 100 k-pods. Tonight, September 25, it is $41.65 for the same box

I haven't been able to get Fandango to fully load all day long. How tf do I get tickets to Taylor's movie if the ticket website won't load?

I'm seeing almost zero 'pro-murder of Charlie Kirk' posting on BlueSky, but holy shit is there a lot of it on Reddit

Until a shooter is caught, we don't even know that this is political violence, tbf. Charlie could have fucked somebody else's tradwife for all we know right now

I'm 51 years old and today is the first time I've ever heard that Stouffer's used to operate restaurants. Crazy

I used to breathlessly tell my kids "I've traveled through time from 1974 to tell you" and then finish it with just whatever I needed to say to them at that moment

I couldn't sleep and so I started scrolling socials and somehow the conventional wisdom has congealed over the last 5 hours that it happened? Really? This is fucking weird

If there's one thing Democrats are good at, it's sending text messages asking for money

Diana is 100% my favorite character in this game #DateEverything

Bad day for the Gaylors, huh

I knew more than 1 kid as a freshman in high school whose mom or dad sat them down and gave them their "first" (it was never their first) cigarette, now that they were "old enough for it". We had a smoking area on my high school campus. The legal age for sales was 16, but 13-yos were never refused

The framing of this story is such a good example of why I canceled my WashPost subscription and won't be renewing it when the current term expires

Date Everything is so much fun. I adore the character design, art direction, and voice work