Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Emperor Palpatine xkcd.com/3157/

Ten years ago you didn't hear some new scandal about Nazis every fucking day. This is not normal, and it's not okay.

Remember--just block. Don't respond. Don't quote-dunk. Don't screenshot. Just block and move on. The joy of Bluesky's nuclear block is that the moment you tap that button they cease to exist on here for you. And (more importantly) you cease to exist for them. Just block and move on.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Yeah, this is me. I'm the bloke...

Mental health literacy matters.

A statement from Drew Struzan's family via his FB page

1970's: CEOs earn 20 x more than average worker 2025: CEOs earn 122 x more than average worker The richest 1% own 50% of entire country's wealth. Obscene inequality has been normalised.

It's chaos out there in the wild...

Great Scott!

Vaccines are safe and effective. Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support. When you want information, ask your doctor. It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy." - Drew Struzan

RIP the legendary Drew Struzan (1947-2025) 😩 Even though we were expecting the news any day now, it makes me very sad. What an artist.

Just to hammer this home- there are no societal problems for tech to solve. We already solved then. We know how to do clean energy. We know how to cut emissions. We have the resources to feed and house everyone. We've shown UBI and univ. healthcare work. We just need to care enough to DO all of it.

We’re just normal men

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Nightmare on Elm Street but Freddie Kruger just wants to get a decent night's sleep...

So, it's another case of wait 2 years for a new season and then have it end on a cliffhanger with no official news of renewal. The streaming model really does abuse the concept of a cliffhanger... Gotta keep you subscribed...

Web based platforms are superior to apps, in nearly every way. I honestly think we've fucked it; we've overshot the "best" version of the internet and landed in this web 3.0, internet-of-shit wasteland.

Lego really have fucked the release of their Christmas themed Gingerbread AT-AT. Physical shop out of stock. Online shop out of stock/backorder with a prospective delivery of Jan 2nd. Meanwhile, I can find upwards of 30 on Ebay with scalpers selling them for £20-£30 above retail. Fucks sake #Lego!

How many Jared Leto films imploding in critical and commercial failure will it take for producers to finally realise that casting Jared Leto is a terrible idea because he's Jared Leto.

The same, but more so …

I once again beg all y'all not to screencrap nonsense from the former Twitter and bring it here to dunk on it, that's like inviting a vampire in to tell them their fangs look stupid, maybe you're right but they're still going to fucking eat you (also "screencrap" was a legit typo but I left it in)

"We all like what we like and don't what we don't." How many times have I had to explain on Twitter what I understood when I was 7 years old? 😅 In fact, I have far fewer problems about it here, which makes me think that the people who made the move are a bit least egocentric.

This is tech/marketing people leveraging decades of science fiction media presenting "AI" as generally encyclopedic and infallible. People think they're getting JARVIS, when what they're getting is the machine version of that annoying dude in your dorm confidently spouting bullshit on every subject

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

I don't know how many times this needs to be posted, but clearly it is MANY TIMES. Sigh.

How the fuck is the phone going to get the laundry out of the basket and into the machine?! Tiny arms and legs??

This is Ruby. She likes to pet the other dogs at daycare. 14/10 extremely relatable (TT: alanahlorraine)

Here's a repost of my thread of custom Lego Andor minifigures in case anyone missed it... #Lego #StarWars #Andor

Continuing my #StarWars #Lego #Andor custom thread from last week. Here's Luthen Rael on his speeder bike alongside a little brick built B2EMO.

Wanted to help this escape Reddit containment: Farscape is popular in prisons (and in my house.)

My personal timeline is full of autistic people trying to explain that there isn't more autism than before, it's just that we're better at detecting it, and there's nothing more autistic than hoping explaining something at length will help matters when nobody is really listening.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Watched Alien Earth... Episode ends. Hmm. Thought this was the last one. They resolved nothing at all. Oh, I think, there must be more episodes... Nope. No more episodes. That was the last one. Is there a season 2 coming? No idea. Has it been renewed? No idea. So, in summary fuck you #AlienEarth

As I was saying…

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be. Just deal with people being different than you.

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

Totally forgot to share this. My sister got us this cute #Lego wedding present...

this is real

I have an autistic son. What the orange fuckwit said is very dangerous and completely wrong. More please need to stand up and say this.

Amazing timing here...

Everything bad is down to the pursuit of growth. Our wrecked environment. Stress increasing on you each year as an employee. Billionaires funding fascism to divide countries so right wing parties can gain power and cut taxes. It's all companies trying to hit targets.

I got a custom Lego minifigure of my #StarWars #GlupShitto character Tenzigo Weems. He's a Rebel radio operator seen in #RogueOne & #Andor. He's made by a company called Hall of Bricks, they do great custom versions of characters Lego have never done using actual Lego parts. Who's your Glup Shitto?

The Mandalorian & Grogu trailer looks fine. More of the same. Them doing what they do. I just think Grogu has become a massive hurdle for interesting storytelling. They should have left him with Luke. #TheMandalorianAndGrogu

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity