In the 1930s, Hormel Foods held a contest to come up with a name for their newest meat product. The winner is "Spam." It becomes popular after WWII. Monty Python made a sketch about how funny it is to repeat the word Spam. It becomes the technical term for electronic junk mail. Toby Fox named a char

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

Persona 2: Innocent Sin released for PS in Japan only re-released for PSP worldwide Persona 2: Eternal Punishment released for PS in Japan and the US re-released for PSP in Japan only womp womp

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It's officially meet and greet time for Sneaks! It turns out this means that he acts very in charge and intimidating, and then backs off the moment anyone hisses at him. I'm very relieved!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I say this all the time to internet dipshits. "Nice ad hominem." "It's not an ad hominem, idiot, I'm just insulting you."

What’s the most dangerous bit of a sword?

And literally four days later from this story Open AI admits what we all know to he true. That when a model generates bullshit, that’s no flaw, that’s just how it works. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I just backed Yami Kids on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/566...

The media allowing Trump plausible deniability on Project 2025 during the campaign is right up there with Iraq War stenography in craven, lazy disgracefulness

this guy who starts dating a 6ft tall gundam mechanic and gundam stardust memory is on some next level king shit. like half the characters are busy chasing some blond hair pretty scientist. this guys, he knows whats up.

This just in, unicorns have now been removed from the protected species list.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

here’s the thing those rich dudes lived WAY closer temporally to the French Revolution than our rich dudes like, they were aware that if you piss off the peasants TOO much, money doesn’t matter to a guillotine I don’t think they were better people than our billionaires, they just remembered fear

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Forum drama evovled but never changed.

Last day with these two little doofs T3T

happy 56th anniversary Scooby-Doo, Where Are You 🎉 #ScoobyDoo

Just saw a video that bleeped the word "gun", but not the word "shit".

People who have been railing against what they call “the sin of empathy” since 2009 are now calling for empathy and even pretending to be indignant about it. Feh.

This is one of those things btw where calling/mailing VISA et al and being as willfully dense as possible is an amazingly good idea. Bring up everything you own that falls under the category 'fantasy.' Bring up everything you own with cat ears. Be a pedantic little fuck about ALL of it.

Morning magenta

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i understand the logistical reasons it was hard to boil down Oracle Of Ages/Seasons Zelda into a readable sprite but they gave her sprite odango and i can't let it go unacknowledged forever. why is no one talking about the odango #doodlemancyart

Todayborday, I'd like to wish alla y'alls a Mario Paint Labor Day!

“an ad hoc, centralized approach” “a departure from previous administrations” sure is a lot of words for “authoritarian bullshit”

“The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.” - US Constitution, Art. 4.1

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

SMH at all the people in here saying Dean and Castiel from Supernatural. Gundam didn't kick Supernatural's ass in the tumblr shipping tournament for you all to say anything BUT SuleMio. Like this:

Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

"games aren't political" fans sure silent now that they can't play games due to politics (please support JAST and make some noise about this)

A Doom WAD is when meatwad becomes the ruler of latveria

ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!

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happy september 2025

Weird that these mass shootings get narratively framed as random violence caused by an imprecise miasma of social pathology and not as independent contributions to a specific and highly organized political program.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

The best part of this photo — which is a good example of how photographers make art — is the slogan “American workers first” on the banner observed by troops who’ve been forced to pick up trash and do landscaping because the president on the banner illegally fired the American workers who did that.

I feel like the Empoisoned/Swumbles Big Jumble schema is missing the obvious third option of "indie game whose title is a complete sentence describing itself". You can argue for Swumbles, but stuff like "Looking Up I See Only A Ceiling" or "this game will end in 205 clicks" don't FEEL Swumbly to me.

Today, August 26, 2025, is the 40th anniversary of Joanca and Clicky! 40 years ago today, Dirty Pair imagined a future where being trans is about as notable as being left handed, and even your transphobic inlaws use your pronouns

JEFF: I love Def Leppard. GEOFF: It's Deof Leoppard.