I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

“Everyone from Walmart to your local bodega will need to maintain a presence in Fortnite to stay relevant” is so profoundly stupid I’m just glad I have the documentation to prove someone legitimately believed it.

Everyone loves NASA missions so much. It’s not just because it’s space travel it’s because there is a sense that we are doing something collectively that isn’t purely evil vs. 20 exploding SpaceX rockets that dump garbage in poor Texas communities and low orbit that everyone forgets an hour later.

The queuing feature in YouTube Music is straight up broken in a way I didn’t think possible for a 3.5 trillion dollar company

Average GITS cyborg: aghhh my eyes have been hacked!! my brain got a virus!! reality is nothing but suggestions fed to me by a sinister mastermind!! Motoko, expending 1.7% of Japan's defense budget: F cup. No wait, G. They must be big enough to put the fear of God in them before I pull the trigger

mutual: ugh the discourse is so bad today me (only seen tweets about gay little gnomes): yeah it's pretty rough out there

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

Need to see this for the cast alone. Rick Moranis’s first live action movie in 30 years? Nearly 100 year old Mel Brooks?

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

Man if Mychal AND Miss Rachel showed up to say they were disappointed in me I would simply die

Better things ARE possible

Oh so now copyright matters.

science fiction is when you chop parts off of the letters and fantasy is when you add things onto them.

they're calling it the most normal way to present evidence of corporate sabotage of all time.

When internet nerds were new, I thought they'd be like Craig Newmark, a nice guy who invented a cool thing, didn't want anyone to fuck it up, didn't let anyone fuck it up and then thirty years later wrote an editorial in the New York Times about giving away his money www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

YES

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

Is there any funnier expression in TV history than Walton Goggins' response after tripping his balls off and hallucinating a demon

i know nothing about whether social media is addictive but i do know that legislation is being passed in this country that purports to protect children but is actually used to surveil and monitor members of at risk communities, and it’s getting passed fast.

It's my answer every time for this: National identity is, with some exceptions, more modern than the steam engine.

as a non-gamer, my favorite piece of gaming trivia is that sonic the hedgehog’s personality was based on bill clinton

Still my favourite tweet of all time

Just thought of this, but if you loved Project Hail Mary for its relationship between two beings who learned to understand one another despite language barriers, I invite you to watch Ranking of Kings, an epic and heartfelt fantasy series about a deaf & non-speaking prince who befriends a little guy

No matter how big or small the landlord I’ve had is they will always send some guy’s cousin or someone who is cousin coded to repair your shit.

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying https://theonion.com/rising-conservative-star-just-guy-wearing-nazi-armband-1849855062/

The pandemic backlash against taking any precautions needs to be studied

We crossed over at some point into a world where any and every game you could imagine has been officially re-released, but roughly half of them have such a cheap, slapdash presentation that they scan on first glance as bootlegs. Production errors, art theft, the works.

I love this Wikipedia redemption arc

Still looking / hoping for a job by the way... Please keep me in mind if opportunities pass you by that seem relevant to me!

He’s just like me

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

OKCupid but with the Nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor

Publishers when a live service game is ready to launch

Huh. Glad to see NYT finally admitting to this.

Imagine the guy who discovers hentai through the NYPost.

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Been thinking about why this is annoying me so much, and I think it's about how narrowing and shitty a thing it is to be so rich. For anyone else, sushi is an event meal, you plan for it, you splurge on it, you go somewhere that knos what they're doing because culinary arts are an art to appreciate.

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

chorvs

I believe a day will come when a lot of people will wish they’d worked harder to stay human in the face of this.