🧵: It's November 22nd 1996. I'm at the premiere of Star Trek: First Contact. The climax of the film features Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride. Now, I know and love my oldies. I knew I could go to my, ahem, music acquisition app, type in "magic carpet ride" and I'd find it. I also found others...

this website is dying because rust blooms beneath all we build. structures fail, signals fade, and all timelines collapse to dust. the universe, trending irreversibly towards disorder, makes each post a little colder than the last until even memory redshifts into the darkness.

“Astronaut” is ancient Greek for “Star Sailor” But sadly that’s all we know about the ancient Greek space program.

Christian sectarian hostilities are rising in the West. Will the fiery rhetoric by dueling religious leaders inspire followers to once again engage in bloody clashes?

Do horses want cake? We conducted an investigation into statements published by @bencollins.bsky.social in the print edition of @theonion.com.

get me a fuckin breakfast sandwich you crazy bastards or you'll be living in hell

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Sermons in Minneapolis in 2025: so I heard a podcast that got me thinking, Sermons in Minneapolis in 2026: demons are real guys and they’re right over there and we are going to delight in humiliating them

Easter sermon began with a lengthy discussion of how life-giving and holy this image is lmao

oscillating between whether "fuckin'" is more or less concerning than "fucking" in that post

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

He is risen; adjust elevation 0.1 MOA

When we talk about what the NYT is up to now, it’s actually helpful to be attentive to the fact that they have *always* done shit like this

Putting aside Steven’s (correct) comments for a moment, the escalating hysteria in Trump’s tweets about Iran & Hormuz really gives away that Trump’s figured out Iran is collapsing the global economy, and Trump knows he has no way to fix it. My concern is what does the desperate man do

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.

It doesn't matter what other powers they nominally have on paper, including lawmaking. A legislature that doesn't control the checkbook is impotent, and an executive who does is a tyrant.

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

the Artemis II crew just posted a new photo. what the fuck

I just saw Nermal be referred to as a "shota femboy" and I'm gonna need a bit to recover

I do not use text-to-speech, I do not ai generate voices. I SENTENCE MIX. And if it sounds incomprehensible, I don't CARE.

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they banned trans women from playing snooker because we have an advantage in placing balls inside small openings

American Protestantism is really something else. The Pope is like “God doesn’t want us to invoke his name when we kill people” and Franklin Graham is like “God loves it when our powerful leaders hulk smash the evildoers you woke fool.”

an inspiration for us all. she got out.

If you look up at the moon you’re actually looking at the moon and four people. That’s neat as hell

As I’ve said before, the problem with Mastadon is that everyone on it has at least considered switching to Linux. And while I have many dear friends who have done this, the idea of restricting my social circle to such people is pure existential horror.

at the risk of going full reddit atheist even in the context of all the more directly horrible stuff they're doing, i find this stuff coming from government accounts absolutely stomach churning

At the beginning of the war all Ghalibaf’s posts were principled arguments ornamented with verses from the Quran or from the Shahnameh; now it’s all LLMslop and everyone’s going crazy for it. Whatever happens in the field, we’ve already failed to be the kind of enemy one can quote poetry to.

There's really no preparing anyone for what the Lenipen user interface looks like. It's a giant green head. #retrocomputing

These guys are spending millions of dollars making crappy movies to keep giving YouTube creators like me easy material.

I AM GOING TO PERFORM ACTS OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST THE GOOGLE MAPS PRODUCT ENGINEERING TEAM THAT DECIDED TO REPLACE THE HOME BUTTON WITH THE AI BUTTON

all of the lessons of the Trump era are the type you’d learn from a children’s book. you tried to use bullying to get what you want, but you alienated your allies, oh no! you have learned the power of friendship.

NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂 Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…

i distinctly remember that at one point a Bluesky Premium was suggested and people were like "yeah i would pay 10 bucks for an edit button and p more premium features that help protect marginalized people from abuse" and like a week later Jay did her "WAFFLES!" skeet and killed it dead

it’s true that overall likes are way down on bluesky over the past year. however, if you look closely at the data, that’s mostly an anomaly resulting from the fact that your posts specifically have gotten worse and are dragging the vibe down.

my dude, i posted on a dying forum with like 20 active users and had a cursed thread that, if anyone replied to it, could cause the database to crash and lose data in what we called "boardquakes". i cannot emphasize how little i fucking care that fewer people are liking your shitty posts

It’s a miraculous thing to make a show in constant contrast to TNG but that almost every TNG fan enjoys and I think the only way you thread that needle is if criticisms are based in an understanding and love of what you’re responding to. Only really good shit can do that, it’s Alan Moore Star Trek

I love the first episode where you can tell Sisko hates the absolute fuck out of Picard for killing his wife while Borgified and I think it struck such a clear note about what DS9 would be: it would embrace the open mindedness and dream of utopia while also showing the damage of actual life

In 1993, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" made a Black man the star of a major sci-fi franchise and his character was like the Platonic ideal of a loving father, a great cook, a man who uplifted others, who was kind and tolerant but MILITANTLY so, and who also had flaws like any other human. Hail Sisko

The fun thing about doing a podcast with a pro like Lenny is that his team can slice the thing up into TikTok-style shorts after the fact, here's 48 seconds of me talking about the cognitive cost of agentic engineering

All dudes know is Chevron Seven Locked, wormhole theory, charge they phone, ambush slave holders with niche Belgian PDWs, eat hot chip,