see you next year or whatever

remember this shit? remember "let's sell Lovecraftian horror to ten year olds looking for the next Harry Potter"? the 00s rocked, man

he's richer than god and ludicrously privileged and will never want for anything but i can't help thinking about the soul-crushing way Chris Evans must have been feeling when he signed on for more Marvel. bleak.

Bordeaux Windsock, international man of mystery

bro what the *fuck* is this

wikipedia's featured article today is (inadvertently?) very funny

80% of UK publishing was formerly conversations about how David Walliams was a well-known massive wrong 'un so i wonder what everyone will find to talk about now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

some personal news: i have decided to become Good at chess

i red sum buks this yeer

if you want a picture of the future, imagine a teenage wizard stomping on a face forever

chess question that i can't work out how to google: for the (theoretical) board position in which there are the the highest number of possible moves, how high is that number, and what kind of position is it?

cannot stress enough how much this song fucks www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF14...

country musician wikipedia pages literally be like

i agree that she's fallen off but i don't think we should be hunting her like an animal

none of this practical greenery was noticed by the poets

is there anything worse for your youtube algorithm than briefly taking a passing interest in chess

...

i really don't know about this. it's not like Ariana Grande, who was actually *there*, is it? for someone in the middle of getting a ton of criticism about how she always wants to muscle her way into the spotlight and have the last word it seems.... yikes

Herman Melville invented gooning

imagine deciding to look like this

should I melt the insides of my laptop by attempting to run Divinity, thus leaving me unable to play either it or 40K Total War, or should I melt the insides of my laptop by attempting to run 40K Total War, thus leaving me unable to play either it or Divinity?

Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever!

the secrets of the taoists are in danger of becoming commonplaces

my longest "welp" ever deadline.com/2025/12/disn...

sorry but this would have been so funny

fwiw they've been pulling this bullshit for a while. this was 2006

"Can Articles Entitled "Can Hasan Piker Save The Left" Save The Left?"

die

saw Zootopia 2 and i don't want to fuck the animals but the people who are making the movies absolutely want us to want to fuck the animals

wreck of the deuschland? more like uh . wreck of the bitchland

'What a story if I get with Pedro Pascal'

frank gehry is dead, post straight lines

is this the most embarrassing time there has ever been to be alive

absolutely incredible big mood behaviour

there's no such fucking thing you stupid cunt

regrettably this fucking rocks

i can still win this

they're actually doing all this so that they have a recording to show to Guantanamo detainees and break their spirits instantly

is cloudflare fucked again

i'm sorry but be fucking serious. shut the fuck up. a BBC liveblog for this shit. fuck off, actually

is there anything more catastrophically 00s than "hot, ready and legal" and "the secret files of Abu Ghraib" headlines sharing a Rolling Stone cover

i mean...

I'm playing a lot of chess this year and one of the reasons why - other than just being a nerd who doesn't know when he's beat, what with how I'm fucking terrible at chess - is that it's instructive to get into a field that has been "solved" by AI for more than a generation.

not sam fucking kriss doing the "psych, that paragraph was written by AI" in the new york fucking times

is it your listeners, joe

warhammer lore is really complex and literary, actually, it's a lot like Milton

but enough about me

jumpscare

that's fucked up, why was the pope praying there when it blew up

the annoying thing about saying you work in publishing is that the question you get is "so do you ever want to write a book yourself?" and the reason is annoying is that for 95% of people in publishing the answer is "deep sigh]...yes"