Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

“The 49ers’ season is not over because, as the Eagles found out the hard way on Sunday, you can’t kill what is already dead.” - Dieter Kurtenbach, San Jose Mercury News

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that’s all I need to know about you.” -Brad Meltzer

Generally speaking i think you can judge people based on how much Vince McMahon hates them. And McMahon hates Ventura with a blinding passion.

Sports Night.

Stephen Jay Gould’s Wonderful Life.

Good enough.

Cities are Real America.

Huh, I thought they did this like 30 years ago. I haven’t seen an MTV channel on cable in decades, but maybe it’s been on those super-high numbers that I never go to?

I ate at a small restaurant where Mike Rutherford was also eating, prior to Genesis playing a concert in town.

Wtf is this?

I say this in no way to detract from the novel, which I’m sure I will preorder at the first opportunity: How great would it be if this had illustrations by Stewart Cowley? (IYKYK)

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

I hadn't seen a photo of Gavin Newsom in a while and forgot how much be looks like when the Joker disguises himself as a regular guy so he can go through airport security

I showed these to my husband last night and he made me laugh with this one: "He looks like he's in a lover's spat with the lamp and the lamp is winning." bsky.app/profile/astr...

Yes, I have imposter syndrome. I post instant messages.

I feel like the original 1982 Conan should have spawned a trend where every action hero has to explain what they think is best in life. I want Batman, James Bond, Spider-Man, Blade, Jason Bourne and Lara Croft to be asked to expound their theory of human happiness.

Pro-AI-slop people saying we won’t be able to avoid it because it will be everywhere forget that shitty content has *always* been everywhere. We’re *already* practiced at avoiding it. Sturgeon’s Revelation is more relevant than ever.

No one bores like Gaston Makes us snore like Gaston No one has ted-i-ous back-stor-ies like Gaston (sorry)

Also, the article is titled “The Lost Generation”, implying that people who aren’t white men are not part of the generation. As if women and minorities don’t also have aspirations, not to mention bills to pay.

HOW DARE YOU QUESTION OUR VICTORY UNITS (Also I don't know how to break it to you but most actual scientists here in the US *also* use Victory Units in their daily lives and use the Socialist Units for professional work) ALL HAIL THE VICTORY UNITS

The #Raiders added Pete Carroll as their coach this year, and I am delighted that this detestable #NFL team (which has been fucking over cities for decades) with the coach I hate is 2-11 and is currently getting stomped by the #Eagles.

On the streets of San Francisco. The signal fairies are pretty fickle.

I’m getting a trickle of follows from people who seem to be exclusively reposting things, usually liberal political things. Probably bots I should block? Might be a good idea in this age to assume if they’re not posting their own original content then they’re not real people?

Wow, they actually made a trophy representing Trump’s lifelong performance in groping without permission.

The one that’s stayed with me for almost 30 years is: Chick Corea Falls to Communists

He could die.

Type your zodiac into gif and see what comes up! Post your fave one. (I have no idea what this is but it looks cool.)

Q: Why did Donald Trump bury Ivana on one of his golf courses? A: So he could still cheat on her.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

I made a bunch of friends while slamming Star Trek: The Next Generation on rec.arts.startrek in the early 90s.

I wonder if the turkey drop in WKRP would have gone better if they’d defrosted the turkeys first?

Apparently I missed some big development in the news yesterday which has left a lot of people here feeling like they’ve had enough internet for a while, and I cannot figure out what it was. Maybe I’m just jaded? Or maybe I’m the frog in the pot.

Oh no I logged off bluesky for half an hour and now everyone is posting cryptic shitposts four times removed from the original context

My favorite #MarjorieTaylorGreene meme. (Also #LaurenBoebert.)

#MarjorieTaylorGreene following the proud #Republican tradition of quitting when the going gets rough (see also: #TACO), decides to leave finishing the destruction of U.S. democracy to others.

#MarjorieTaylorGreene resigning to spend more time with her seething hatred of ordinary people just trying to live their lives in peace.

I know this makes me a bad person but I kinda wish Geddy Lee and Rush would get involved in some kind of massive lawsuit so I could joke that today's Tom Sawyer needs a keen keen lawyer.

We could try taxing the rich for a change

Them: <something something> dark mode Me: People use dark mode?

The wonder of the Discover tab is sometimes you get a post which you just lack the context to understand. Jordan Davis? Singer? Activist? Athlete? Cat? (Could be a cat. There are lots of cats here.) (I apologize to OP for this post. If it wasn’t them it woulda been someone else.)

Oof, few things more frustrating than the smoke alarm going off at 1:30 am. I ended up having to disconnect the one that was going off since the one other thing I could think of - vacuuming the sensor - didn’t help; it kept going off.

BOOK! IS! COMING!

Every ad now

BOOK IS COMING

The Internet Archive is like a person who shot themselves in the foot and is now complaining that they’re having trouble walking.

Starting to wonder if the end result of all this - even if the Repugnicans don’t complete their coup - is that the Democratic Party splits into a moderate party and a liberal party. That would probably mark the end of liberal influence in the federal government for a generation or two.