Twenty years ago I encountered a young fella on a bus singing N.E.R.D.'s "She Wants To Move" in the thickest West Belfast accent and it has become definitive to me. The lyric "Hey Mister, Your Girl, She Loves It" simply cannot exist without it

Google, Apple and Microsoft eyeballing each other for the prime mover advantage in admitting it's all shite before the decision gets made for them

Mildly freaked out that I arrived at this exact parallel about three days ago. And reached the conclusion that Carrie was definitely more in the right

I know this gets tied to bluesky a lot, but it's always been a thing. I remember a guy on the BBC "Have Your Say" forums demanding the bookmakers Paddy Power changed their name as it was a clear statement of Irish Supremacism, and insulting to British victims of the IRA.

I found all of C&C on Steam last week for seven quid, and this is merely the capstone on some of the campest FMV cut scenes ever made. It's fucking glorious from front to back This is what they took from us. We must Retvrn

Yudkowsky demonstrates his thesis very capably, albeit accidentally. You definitely don't need a big hape of GPU's buzzing in the corner of your shed. He can pump out complete bullshit knocked off from better original works to excite (other) fucking morons whilst powered by tea and toast

I'm sure the makers of Tylenol are just fucking gutted that their cheap, generically available drug that people could assist for themselves is getting denigrated and stigmatised, because after all they one make that one cheap, generic drug that patients can administer for themselves.

Big tech rediscovers remote working

Turns out for maybe eighteen months, one of the waiters here had been offering dessert menus with the words "Would you like a happy ending?", completely oblivious to any other meaning. I'm fucking dying here

Not so much Damascene conversion as "Damn, I seen a lot of news presenters are getting fired. I should triangulate a bit and I'll be in a secure berth at CNN by Christmas".

Completely idle in noticing this, but all of Command And Conquer, even Renegade, is like seven quid on Steam. So today is going to feature a *lot* of Red Alert 2

Remember: "It's not that I want the gays to be killed, that's just what God says" is civilised free speech discourse, and "The devil made me do it" is mental illness, and well fucking dare you think they're not completely different

Not-Bungling Idiots

Looks to be a very bad day for Connor McGregor as his abortive presidential run breaks apart on the rocks of reality and rumours abound of suborning perjury. In such trying times, one can only pray that tomorrow is even worse

So, as dust begins to settle, I see again that The Debate, or the idea of The Debate is held to be very important, a sacred and inviolable thing where ideas get tested in the white heat of the competitive arena until we arrive at a truth and honestly, are you all fucking stupid?

"Did you get that knife sharpener for me?" "Sure did, Mr Loaf, it's got an edge on it like two teenagers fucking in a car"

Who have you got for the first "well, the fact I thought it was definitely a leftist really makes you think"? Step fright up, folks

I worked under a couple of Michelin guys and if anything this undersells it. Reheating mash in a pan that was already insanely rich and working in more cream and butter until *just* before it turns into soup. Constantly riding a line between "hot enough to serve" and "cold enough to hold shape"

Is he the original defender of women and children from the immigrant hordes whilst also being a colossal sex criminal?

I salute the STALKER series for never bothering with a "hmmm, looks like it's humans who are the real monsters" moment like so much fiction of the general post-apocalyptic tyoe, and instead just having it baked into the fabric of the entire universe like a law of physics

How astonishingly odd that a man in this precise pickle manages to get himself "arrested for tweets" just before this trial to absorb the entire news bandwidth about himself. It may, of course, be coincidence and stupidity, but it is remarkably convenient

Our Açai bowl provides 3 of your five a day, and 650% of your RDA of fucking notions

Man, that's a fucking shitter about Brent Hinds. 51 is no fucking age to go, and so suddenly in the midst of a fairly shitty time in his life that'll just never be better now. Good Night, you crazy, crazy bastard

Seeing Queens Of The Stone Age when it's actually really Mikey Shoeseseses birthday

Proof, if ever it was needed, that the Moon Turk is real.

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the waxing gibbous moon. If convicted, moon faces a sentence of “fine shattering”, a process by which her gleaming brilliance will be pulverized and refined to make raw material for semiconductors.

The manosphere exists for people who think they are warriors and defenders but are terrified of looking at themselves

i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere

I'm sure the world's gambling websites are just about to implement face-checking and RealID checks any time now, right?

Thought Whitney Houston was gonna deliver my parcels, but they meant a different Evri Woman

Watching a guitarist/singer here, playing a song that's clearly in G, by playing it in F with a capo on the second fret

I admit this was less funny as I desperately googled the Spanish for "massive fucking hernia, seriously lads" to avoid a much, much too intimate part down

I can't help but think this new Operation Gladio isn't even trying with the cover names

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ygekzpv7o Thing to remember here: this took ten/twenty people, who were all confident that they had the temperature of the village, and by the sounds of it, they're dead right. A rotten, insular, backward shithole, and hell fucking mend the lot of them

Not to be disregarded here is that tech in general has worked *fucking hard* over the last decade plus to completely remove any idea of human input or direction from its product. You get served Nazi shit by the YouTube "algorithm", ChatGPT "hallucinates". "User activity" surfaces the Nazi tweets...

Since the idea of "healing factor"/ restorative immortality became a thing in fiction, authors have tried to create scenarios where it's actually nightmarish, but I don't think anyone has done it properly until @sgj.bsky.social did it. No fucking need for that, Stephen (complementary)

Sudden intense thunderstorms whilst on holiday here, which has made my constant intake of cheerful yellow continental lager feel a lot more like compulsive drinking than merely "enjoying the weather"

Whilst having upwards of half of me colon hanging out in a hernia is at best very uncomfortable, I'm about to really fucking ruin the day of whoever's running the back-scatter x ray at this airport

To put it mildly, I was a dumb fuck before I had kids, and it definitely didn't make me any smarter, and the idea that it should give me authority over their education is absolute bollocks

Is it just me, or did the quality of Lidl's middle aisle pruck really go on the slide in or around the time Viktor Bout got imprisoned? Coincidence? I think not!

I get a customer asking for the recipe for the wheaten bread. Take 5 minutes and write it or for them. They get stroppy and unpleasant because I had the temerity to write it out in grams. How fucking nuts is it that someone prepared to bake bread is too lazy/thick to do simple mathematics?

Back from NIN. I know there's all kinds of valid-ish critiques you can level at them but they fucking rock live and Trent is a 12/10 frontman. Also, maybe the last of the black clad sad bois everyone liked in the nineties who might not be a complete piece of shit.

Celebrating father's Day in the traditional manner of fucking off on my own to watch Nine Inch Nails

We're gonna get a 2025 Quinn brothers out of this shit and not one of these feckless bastards care one jot.

If you see this, post a monster

I swear one wee fucking lick of pedal steel is the 2025 equivalent of Sean Paul's occasional vocal spasms

The implication of Livin' On A Prayer is that with stronger unions and better treatment for service industry workers, America can avoid the next Bon Jovi, a lesson which they simply refuse to learn

Just heard Starship's "Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now" on the radio there, a novelty hit from a bad film by a formerly credible artist. That's for all the parents wondering how long they'll have to listen to "Steve's Lava Chicken" for