james cameron every few years

cigarette company

Chekov's nuclear weapon.

I don't know if this is true but I've decided it's funny as hell. This is the shit that happens when arrogant morons who don't know anything or listen to anyone are put in charge.

christmas on bluesky

No, you're all wrong. THIS is the best Christmas song.

bald guy: i’ll do anything to have hair again doctor, writing a prescription to “kill the grinch”: good

I’ve done some catalogue searching and am fairly confident in saying that 5/10 titles in this list do not exist (1, 2, 4, 5 and 7). Sloppy, unacceptable, and a real kick in the guts to real authors with real books they’d love people to buy and read!

This is how we do philosophy of mind actually.

I totally forgot I wrote about this!

merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this

Me communicating with the new Japanese users.

Crawlheads rise up.

Chief O’Brien is canonically the median Bluesky user.

It's been a few years since I played a game with a large and active modding community, but having installed a couple of large mod collections this month, I'm particularly amused by how many of them include menu song replacers where the song is extremely cheesy and fun.

Twink coded Niles Crane can still happen if people want it bad enough

As climate change becomes increasingly visible and materially significant to voters, denial will become untenable, meaning politicians are left with three options: serious action, voicing "concerns" while doing nothing, or "we can only protect our own people" fascism.

Raumati: Summer

And also, please help @thexylom.com, which I founded to report on global health and environmental disparities, meet its $30,000 year-end fundraising target! bsky.app/profile/thex...

"Criminalization and repression are not aberrations of climate governance but a core governing strategy.”

My parents' place is pretty fancy, but for some reason they have this wide shower head that only points straight down. Which would be fine if A) I only wanted to wash the top of my head (I don't) and B) if I wasn't 6'3".

I loved this. And I want to note the whole “there were no autistic people before …” discourse has an answer here: just the people were sent away in the incarceration (yes “care homes” like this), and if they fled, they were just abandoned by society, usually to die.

Call for papers: Philosophy through Art, Games, and Fiction think.taylorandfranc... Guest editor: Lisa Bortolotti. Deadline: 31 July 2026. Submit your work! #philsky #philpsy

Japanese posters are so much more organized than Americans lmao: @catclub.bsky.social, which runs the #blueskyねこ部 hashtag, requires users to register their cat's name and birth date before receiving a virtual membership card that allows their cat photos to be seen by the broader audience lol

it's crazy that 500 years ago, you would see the ruler of your country maybe once in your life and hear whispers that they're the Sun God, but now with social media, you get to see on a daily basis that they're the most unhinged, idiotic, and unhappy person you know

NO ONE WANTS TO GO TO SPACE TO WORK FOR BILLIONAIRES. ALIEN IS NOT ASPIRATIONAL.

Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal

*youth pastor voice*: do you know who else was in a heated rivalry?

I caught an overnight bus to visit my parents for Christmas (Te Huia isn't running) and we're having Christmas lunch with my parents and their neighbours, a young Indian couple who are hosting their own Christmas lunch for the first time. It's adorable and the smells from the kitchen are amazing.

I think it’s important to insist on recalling, at all available opportunities, that this was specifically an attack on a trans instructor over an assignment about gender. Neither of those details are incidental; they are the center of the story

staffer: you talked to the little girls? trump: sure did, real fuckin creepy just like you asked staffer: what

People are harshing on some “diverse reading challenge” thing that’s going around, and I get it, but looking at what you read and asking yourself “what isn’t represented here?” is imo a good and healthy practice

I watched the Ralph Fiennes Odyssey film earlier this year, and I thought it was pretty good! Very grim, and it's only about the second half of the Odyssey, so absolutely no magic or monsters, but it was a fun take on the idea that Odysseus was not merely driven and clever, but also haunted.

people are clowning on this, but the Canadian mind is cunning, pitiless, steeped in boreal perfidy

“You eat your dirt, Billy. You want to grow up as big and slimy as your dad, don’t you?”

I'm listening to this while I wait for my bus to Auckland, and once again it strikes me that, almost without exception, the loudest "free speech advocates" who insist on the value of open debate have never changed their positions on anything they want to talk about.

All I want for Christmas is for 42 people to watch this youtube video so it can become the first ever video to hit 10k views. If you like it, we just put out a second historical cancellation episode just last week with Eleanor. youtu.be/-fW6er3VdqM

Double Dragon is better than Mamma Mia.

Hard to overstate how bad this is. The people doing anti-hate and anti-disinformation work are now being sanctioned by the United States of America. This is really, really, really bad.

Kojima-san settling the IDHACM debate once and for all.

Whatever next!!

We live in a society where Betty Gilpin doesn't already have a million Emmys. That's just how fucked up things are these days.

Cunk spittin Christmas cheer

Wood and Astin play a VERY divorced couple who are both fingered for the mysterious murder of their mutual employer the Duchess (Blanchett) by the heir apparent (Miranda Otto) and her personal detective (Vigo Mortensen). A grumpy groundskeeper (Sean Bean) and crew (Hobbits) are the narrators

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I reinstalled Skyrim recently because I got a new gaming PC and wanted to try it out, and I have to say, even with 600+ mods installed and a lot of tweaks, it's hard to overstate how janky and stilted it feels now.