The insistence on turning everything into long running franchises or setting stories in existing “universes” is at least partially to blame for why everyone is media illiterate now, people talk about “lore implications” instead of just digesting the fucking story

are there any more things like this

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

If you let them ban porn, they will call you pornographic when they ban you.

If you or someone close has been called a “picky eater,” COLOR TASTE TEXTURE may be right for you! I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide that’s all about finding what works for individual sensory needs. For all ages and cooking ability.

Again - BlueSky was originally Jack Dorsey’s pet project to make a Web3 social media / NFT trading post until a bunch of trans furries got ahold of invite codes and started mass-proliferating them to other trans furries and then suddenly BlueSky was 90% queers and annoying leftists and Jack fled.

I have like $200AUD steam credits right now, for reasons (the reasons are that I’m amazing 💅🏻). What should I buy?? 😅

my dad shared an ai generated video on facebook claiming that Al Capone invented expiration dates to trick people into buying more milk

I appreciated a comment I saw on this that said it’s amazing that someone could write stories about world governments coming together to solve existential problems with their well funded space programs and not think there was any political content there.

Actually the biggest thing when I comment on how lucky I've been is people assuring me that I'm quite talented. My response to that is, thank you, I am in fact really really good at what I do, one of the best, and also, I am extraordinarily lucky. People as good as me haven't had the same luck.

I made mini Nutella cheesecakes for my husband’s birthday yesterday. They turned out pretty amazing!

April Fools Day is supposed to end at midday on the first, but it actually lasts for days. I have to double-check the publication date of everything I see for the rest of the week and most of the things aren't fun or funny?

The existence of Forky in Toy Story 4 opens up a lot of uncomfortable questions about the existential nature of toy consciousness.

The only April Fools Day joke I have enjoyed this year. archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/...

This guy like "I've always wanted to be a marathoner, but I didn't want to run long distances. But now, with the help of this handy SUV, I'm crossing finish lines like there's no tomorrow! 😁"

of course, artist buckaroos should always trot for better conditions and i personally believe ALL ARTS are undervalued. but IN ADDITION, it is wild for me to be in the author community now, because i just think 'if you think THATS bad wait until you hear how return of the jedi 'never made a profit'

I’m not a mom, but I’ve noticed that “wine mom” and “Patagonia wearing mom” and “moms pushing strollers” are cited as people who aren’t expected to take political action, or even to hold strong opinions. You all had moms, why do you think so little of her? Because she made you eat veggies? Grow up.

Every sentence brings something new to the madness. Stick it on CEEFAX.

I’m sad that Starfleet Academy was cancelled, because I really like it! But I’m even more sad that it doesn’t seem possible to talk online about liking it and being sad about it being cancelled without a bunch of people barging in and hatersplaining why everyone who likes it is wrong.

Why is it suddenly so cold in Sydney wtf

Viral math posts are like "What's 3x2? HAHAHAHA, you thought it was 6? You utter fool! You benighted simpleton! You dunderheaded neanderthal! That's not the multiplication sign ×, it's the variable 𝑥, so the answer is UNDEFINED!!!"

I was just served an ad on YouTube where a woman emphasized "productivity gains" from using AI tools but it was using Adobe Acrobat to summarize a ten-page breakup letter. That seemed to highlight a broken relationship and a skill issue with speed reading more than a need for an AI-generated summary

i miss the era when technology wasn't spending 100% of its time and energy trying to trick me and take my money

we finished Deadloch season 1 and it was great! But now I have to wait until my husband comes back later in the week to start season 2. Booo.

I remember when I worked at a servo and we only had 2 places on the petrol sign because the price was always less than $1/litre. Then the price hit $1 and we had a hand-painted awkwardly-squished “1.0” we could put up in the 10s column.

In “actually some things did go the way they should” news I got a text when my woollies order was on the way, and heard the truck pull up! So I could put my cold things in the fridge immediately and not have to worry about it. Phew.

my husband is away this week, and my support worker cancelled last minute. Not What I Expected 😭

Me: music is great, why don’t I listen to it more often? Me, overstimulated: oh, this is why

I meant to go to the supermarket this morning, but procrastinated for a while instead. Then just as I put my shoes on it started absolutely bucketing so it’s lucky I didn’t leave on time or I would have been drenched.

"Our new car has full self-driving, it can … No! God! Don't take your hands off the wheel! Jesus!" "Our AI has a genius level IQ and access to the sum total of human knowledge, it … wait, you used it for legal advice? Seriously? Don't you know it just makes shit up?" I think I see a pattern here.

my terrible hip continues to be terrible. Pinching groin pain hasn't come back since the steroid injection into the hip, but the glute tendon pain is back after having a break after the PRP shots. I've been doing all the physio exercises realy reliably but it just... hurts

Jurassic Bark

back in the day it was rough being a video game protagonist because there was a very high chance someone was going to murder or kidnap your wife/girlfriend to get the plot moving

Maybe I had been watching too much media.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

perfect, no notes. -- my review of 4'33" by john cage

super annoying that if I stop watching at the end of an episode and close out the show, Viki then wants me to 'continue' by re-starting the episode I just finished. I already watched that one, Viki!!

The game industry’s obsession with graphics is so funny because every other year there will be some breakout hit called “Stick Figure Mansion” or some shit that outsells 90% of the market and runs on a toaster

My groceries had a 7am-10am delivery window. It’s nearly 9am and the Woolies app says “packed for delivery” with no ETA on delivery time.

Woo!!

I'm of course being sarcastic here, but it's because this cuts to a classic issue with racism; when White people lose to Black people, it is never articles about how the Black person just... was better? It was always somehow a race that the White person lost because White Supremacy requires that.

At this point the reason we even get news items about the mirage of a Firefly reboot is that the show has acquired this hyperreal sheen of unrealized potential. Barely anybody has actually seen Firefly. You're allowed to make up in your head what Firefly should be.

Finally getting around to watching Deadloch in preparation for season 2 and HOT DAMN 🔥 love it so much

I love those five minutes between undoing a new hank of yarn and it becoming horribly tangled.

Whoever is the next Secretary of State is going to have some big shoes to fill.

Soooo prettyyyy.

umm actually, neutrality means you're choosing the side of the milk hotel