By Joel Pett.

Repost with your first crush

My physical media collection is gonna be putting in WORK for the rest of my life.

I think this is why I've turned to playing only TTRPGs and wargames. I get to spend time with friends and create something new every time.

Maybe I'm just old but I could go the rest of my life ignoring every new tv show and movie. I imagine I'm not alone. Let Hollywood just die if they're going to shit all over their own dinner table.

Got a feeling there's a truck filled with crates of cash careening down the I-95 as we speak.

Every time I think this account has hit its high watermark, it achieves a new height. I'm gobsmacked by how perfect this is.

Republicans win: it's a mandate! The Will of the People! The voters have spoken! Democrats win: it's a travesty and "the voters went along with it."

For me this has always been the point where I'm happy with how good I've gotten at it. Reminds me of the line from one of the Sherlock Holmes stories where Holmes remarks, "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius."

Writing note, the word "jibe" has as one of its meanings, "to be in agreement," like, "this account jibes with what is seen in the video footage." The word "jive" means almost the opposite, "talk intended to deceive," like, "Get outta here with that jive."

"Innsmouth, the iconic home of several HP Lovecraft stories…" I'm interested to know which Lovecraft stories take place in Innsmouth besides "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," because I don't recall any outside of that particular novella.

Just got an update from an unfulfilled Kickstarter from 2015. This guy created six Kickstarters and only fulfilled one of them. I don't understand how it's possible to stiff backers on a campaign and then go create another one. And then another and another.

I'm the sweating cartoon superhero looking at two buttons marked "DON'T RISK GET BLOCKED BY A FAVORITE CARTOONIST" and "POST HILARIOUS BLADE RUNNER 'TEARS IN THE RAIN' MEME IN RESPONSE TO HIS POST THAT HE'S SEEN THE TYPO IN HIS LATEST STRIP"

The important thing to remember here is that you and your children are absolutely disposable.

Are you sick of all the winning yet?

Okay now you listen here

Nothing says "man of the people" like reaching nearly 80 years old and never having heard the phrase "corner store" in that time.

I know we're already doing it, but someday, the historians, psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, etc. who study right now are going to refer to everyone who supported or enabled Trump as some of the most self-centered, evil, utterly moronic folks this country has ever spawned.

The trade-off of course being our society's ability to instantly generate deep-fake porn.

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics

It just now occurred to me that you probably don't have to actually shop at Target to be wrongfully arrested for shoplifting at Target. If there are photos of you online and their "A.I." decides that someone who looks like you has shoplifted at Target, here come the handcuffs.

oh hey it’s a wacky new cartoon of no particular relevance to anything this morning www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Wow, @handelabra.com just bought the Sentinel Comics related properties by @greaterthangames.bsky.social, along with the brand, this should, I hope, keep those games alive.

WHO BLOCKADES THE BLOCKADEMEN?

Just got this week's @tomtomorrow.bsky.social comic in my inbox and holy smokes does it hit the nail on the head.

Honestly I'm surprised Jesus doesn't look like Trump, here. I wonder what A.R. Moxon would say about this.

I think as a society we've got this one nailed down

When bad things happen to bad people…

Ruben Bolling's ongoing Dementia Donnie series is essential reading!

If you see this, post a character from space.

Just saw a video about how there is a lack of tailors worldwide, is that true, Garak?

what will he screw up today? www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Star War

It's funny, remembering Pam Bondi fluffing Trump up and down in the weeks before she got canned reminds me of all the times I've seen married guys whose wives are on the cusp of leaving them try to salvage the marriage with overt displays of affection and praise for their soon-to-be-ex spouse.

So, I was just reading the Memory Alpha entry on the Terran Empire parallel universe in Star Trek, you know, the one where humanity has abandoned freedom, democracy, and equality and embraced brutality, conquest, and xenophobia, and I think I'm gonna go lie down for a bit.

"Jesus had a really bad weekend for your sins."

Guy who wasn’t a huge fan of Jesus but when he rose from the dead had to pretend to be excited cause everyone else was.

Add food to a movie title: Saving Private Ryan Some Leftovers

Reached the first killer AI episode in The X Files and the only thing quainter than the dial Up modem is Mulder appealing to the developer’s moral code

Logging on

Saw someone i'm following make a nice post about setting their mom up with their old Switch and putting cozy games on it to play, and the effort I had to expend to resist the urge to find and post the link to the sad but sweet webcomic about the author's mom playing Animal Crossing, it was a lot 😣

The terrifying thing here is the one hundred percent reliance by law enforcement on a half-baked, oversold, junk technology. Clearly the only thing these cops did by way of investigation was to look up this woman's address four states away. Not a shred of actual evidence linked her to the crime.

This thing of Trump wanting to put statues of himself into things is making me dizzy, partly because of his absurd and vain it is but also because @tomtomorrow.bsky.social predicted it almost seven years ago… thenib.com/trump-s-firs...

Oh hang on is Pam Bondi being fired in the betting apps at all?

"You can't fire me, the Dow is over 50,000!"

Pam Bondi might just be in a position to do the funniest fucking thing ever on her way out the door.

Oh, so if the SCOTUS decision goes Trump's way, your Trump Loyalty Score will determine your very citizenship status. Everything else will hinge on that. Lovely.

Privacy and prayers. The person who called Renée Good a "domestic terrorist" before she even knew her name wants privacy and prayers. We'll get right on that, Kristi.

I've noticed throughout my life that quite a few if not nearly all fictional bands have a song about themselves, one in which they will reference their own name and call attention to their vibe, and I think more real-life bands should do that. (The only one I can think of is They Might Be Giants.)

panel from last summer