I legit think that once the “active-user/posted-content to live human moderator reading threads” ratio crosses a certain threshold, it’s legitimately like an event horizon. There’s no going back to cozy forumworld past that point.

Ephialtes Roberts will be remembered for centuries as the man, along with Mitch McConnell, most responsible for the authoritarian interregnum of the early 21st century. History will be far less generous & kind to him than everyone in our current political debates.

I gotta say that @camestrosf.bsky.social was right. The scifi fandom culture wars were a bellwether on par with gamergate… pjmedia.com/jamie-wilson...

replaying MW3 for the first time since it came out in 2011 and man noting screams “the world you grew up in no longer exists” than a game where there’s peaceful Russians and a “proper British welcome” isn’t a demand to know someone’s assigned gender at birth

I've known Jay for decades; they're a great friend and a wonderful person. They're a federal employee who was just coming off unpaid medical leave when the government shutdown hit: they were making progress digging out of the hole but the sides of the hole are now capsizing, sigh.

I loved Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, and somehow i'm just now learning that a spinoff (sort of) starring Maggie Q — and also has Bosch as an occasional guest star — is *already out* and it's been renewed for a second season. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...

Dull “drone” butterfly knife trainers are available out there on the internet and make for absolutely amazeballs fidget spinners, but using a live one for that task is almost inevitably going to end in tears.

The award-winning novelist and veteran tech activist Cory Doctorow has written millions of words in his nearly four-decade career. Now he's best known for a single one: "Enshittification." How did he get here? My profile: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

When you post this meme, you can't do it halfheartedly.

…and as I’d point out to my fellow mods, if someone did sockpuppet their way back in but *didn’t* out themselves by repeating their previous behavior, then that was a win, too.

Speaking of things I didn’t have on my 2025 bingo card…

Babe, wake up. I'm complaining about civil-military relations by making references to The Beths again. othermeans.io/p/expert-in-...

Big Bsky Energy.

THE JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ARE 4-1 MAN I CAN MULTITASK

We need a complete and total shutdown on right wing pseudo-intellectuals bloviating about how their substack posts are bravely defending the foundations of “Western civilization” against the radical left onslaught until we can determine if their ideas made more sense in the original German.

whomst else is Delightfully Moist

I made a project out of my last rolls of Fujifilm 400h… booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2020/12/proj...

just got the email from NASA today (which sounds crazy to say), we are GO for my ham radio club's contact with the ISS tomorrow at 1024am EDT (1424 UTC). You can watch if you're interested at this link from the Paterson [NJ] Public Schools: www.eduvision.tv/l?mmDyteOS

The single most important lesson for Dem politicians

Mars was the Roman god of war. That’s why we say ‘martial arts,' ‘martial law,' and 'court martial.' Marshall was the Roman god of designer fashion at discount prices. That’s why we have Marshall’s.

Little known Stephen Miller fact.

We're at the point where the Germ Theory of Disease is an actual active front in the culture wars.

I did not have “five games into the season the Indianapolis Colts have the largest point differential in the NFL, and it’s in their favor“ on my 2025 bingo card.

Getting prepped for protests by eating chiles toreados at least thre times a week.

Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas --Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

The era of the "Universal Site Everyone Posts On" ran from 2010-2020. It's already dead, it just hasn't stopped twitching yet.

I saw Pop Will Eat Itself open for Nine Inch Nails at The Omni in Atlanta on my birthday in '95. Unlike my usual "I saw _____ open for _____ " posts, this one actually happened.

"Other Times staffers at the orientation then “started snapping their fingers in acclamation,” he wrote." Of all the things that never happened, this is among the never happenedest.

For real.

"This week's episode features some country music guy you've never heard of playing guitar while Danica Patrick sings her new educational song, 'Go Fast But Don't You Never Turn Left'."

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals

What if a corporation adopted the strategies of a culture war social media influencer grifter?

This right here. Maybe they could do a popular children's show with Kid Rock, that chick from The Mandalorian, and... I dunno, Riley Gaines?

Irony just took its shoes off and slowly started walking into the ocean until it was never seen or heard from again…

I had forgotten that Cyril Kornbluth's last published novella, "Two Dooms," anticipated Phillip K Dick's "The Man in the High Castle" by approximately four years with very similar theme and setting. It's worth reading.

So very 1980s Honda!

"Look, I know there are people in this room who would like to see me jailed, or even gassed, but that's okay, because we all believe in reducing the upper marginal income tax rate" is a hell of a take.

This was absolutely my fave meme generator when it popped up back in the Aughts.

It was only recently... well, relatively recently ...that I twigged to the reason that this is why every state has an "International Airport". States aren't as de facto sovereign as they were originally, but they retain a good amount of sovereignty.

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

I honestly really do think it just kinda does. Imagine that you decided to make a soup out of everything in your home. Potatoes, rice, drain cleaner, LEGOs, that turd you forgot to flush, etc. While our individual homes may vary, it will always be a bad idea. It will still taste bad.

‘Under Trump, American conservatism has given itself over to an orgy of berserk hallucinations, nihilistic transgression and epistemological disorder.’

BRING IT BACK

My favorite bit of trivia about the downsizing part of the Malaise Era was that the Seville was the most expensive Caddie on the lot when it was launched. carsgoneby.blogspot.com/2024/11/1977...

It is an important reminder that post war, all the big car companies made BIG cars. Small cars were for Rambler, etc until 1960 with the new Falcon, Corvair, (1962) Chevy II, and whatever the Mopar frog was called.

Who is to blame for the government shutdown? We asked three unvaccinated Kid Rock fans at a cage fighting match in Fort Walton Beach.

We're at the point where the Germ Theory of Disease is an actual active front in the culture wars.

Creep tech: t.e2ma.net/message/rzbt...

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