This is really, painfully true.

I get the nostalgia but so much of this is just wrong. Wal-mart didn't have live lobsters. They didn't do the sticker thing anymore in 2002. They were famously charmless big box stores where you could never find an employee and there were weird messes on the floor that never went away.

Government of the podcasters, by the podcasters, for the podcasters.

The wars of Louis XIV should really get more discussion.

City Hunter revival announced for PS5, Switch 2, Switch, and PC Publishers and developer SUNSOFT, publisher Clouded Leopard Entertainment, and developer Red Art Studios have announced City Hunter, a revival of the 1990-released PC Engine side-scrolling action game. It will launch for PlayStation…

Thia legitimately incredible.

Random life hack time. Panasonic Let’s Note laptop are durable, easy to work on, and available for $100-200 on eBay because Japanese companies issued them by the millions. They’re useless for modern games, but if you need a netbook or disposable travel they’re great.

"The Regime will find you if you put your name on a list" motherfucker they couldn't even sack Jimmy Kimmel

he was a racist piece of shit.

This is straight up paranoid nonsense. The Trump administration constantly makes empty threats. The actual capacity of the DoJ continues to decline each month. There are not that many Feds, the quality of their leadership has declined sharply, and morale is in freefall.

Bluesky is wild man...

The “don’t sign up for protests” thing is just an outgrowth of the Online tendency to one-up other people on how much you care. Oh, they’re protesting and signing people up for it? I’ll show them by claiming that’s wrong and you can care more by not signing up.

I paid $25 at the hardware store for my chunk of nylon and I'll raise or lower it as I see fit. Texas drowning victims? Sure. 9/11? Sure. Charlie Kirk? Obviously not.

Yes, kids, we used to have a cable TV channel that just told us what was on the other channels. And at the time, it felt like the future. youtu.be/x53eQPlx6_M?...

Math doesn't lie

Seriously, Texas A&M is a feeder into basically every institution in the US. People should care about this.

As is inevitable you peruse responses here and there and it's half "no lefties are doing this thing and what even is a tankie anyway" and half "I'm a proud tankie doing the thing and telling you I'm doing it."

Well, I can confirm that the Walgreens' stores in Houston, Texas will let you self certify that you have a condition that would benefit from a Covid vaccine booster shot. Flu and Covid shots acquired.

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either. This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem  This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now 1/

Lukewarm take: the COVID vaccines work fine, and if you stay current on vaccinations you're fairly safe from the disease.

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Someone forgot to switch out the placeholder text. 😀

Nearly got drawn into the kid's media Discourse. But no, I'm not doing it. I refuse. I am instead going to enjoy thinking of Trump's most likely medical ailments. Those ankles just do not look healthy.

Guy in the second photo has a well displayed kitchen clock and schoolhouse regulator though.

Cat's Eye was never particularly good. I still loved it for the art style. I suspect the reboot will be hot trash but I'm still excited.

Delightful thing to receive in the VA newsletter. These guys really are turning over ever rock looking for goons.

"Loudmouthed bully actually a coward that needs 24/7 security" would be too on the nose for most schlock action films. Hegseth keeps finding new and bizarre ways to be terrible at everything.

2022: it's a wake-up call for Europe 2023: it's a wake-up call for Europe 2024: it's a wake-up call for Europe 2025: it's a wake-up call for Europe

Always RT when Dirty Pair said TRANS RIGHTS.

This is the most relevant Texas Democrats have been in my whole lifetime. Incredible stuff.

#GVerse Dear #MAGA: 😅

Hot take: "irregardless" sounds better spoken that "regardless."

Random encouraging observation time. If you haven't read a book in awhile, it's still totally possible! And after the first book it gets steadily easier. Your brain gets used to absorbing longform writing again, and it becomes enjoyable. Anyway please read more books.

Minor achievements of the day: -make breakfast of bacon and eggs -cut back some brush -bought birdseed and refilled the feeders -finished a book

Minor achievements of the day: 1. Made breakfast of scrambled eggs, coffee, and hash browns. 2. Engaged in lengthy zoom call with friends. 3. Reset and tightened chain on chainsaw, which I've been procrastinating about for weeks. 4. Actually did the dishes.

Posts that are basically only for me: Elizabeth Moon's "Deed of Paksenarrion" is the most Marine coded high fantasy I've ever encountered. Got halfway through the first book and realized the author had to have been in the Corps. And sure enough, 8 years.

Very good podcast if you want to nerd out on post-Napoleonic French history.

Old article, but: 1) Any study that claims *this* level of precision in terms of health outcomes is horseshit, flat out. 2) Coverage like this is the mental-health equivalent of rolling coal. You may as well be deliberately trying to endorse orthorexia in people.

@aelkus.bsky.social I had to check that you weren't where I first saw this from. automaton-media.com/en/news/japa...

Anyway, you're doing great, everyone. Keep up the good work, we're all counting on you.

Slightly guilty admission, but I really like this stupid capeshit soap opera. Does is actually do some Important Deconstruction of comics? No. But it does have that early Chris Claremont "ridiculous premise plus lots of drama" energy.

The amount of time we used to spend just getting lost driving around. Like "oops, we closed the exit you needed. There aren't going to be any signs telling you where to go now. Good luck!" Also we didn't have any way to call our friends and let them know we were running late.

This is the hardest I've laughed in a long time. Glorious thread from beginning to end.

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

Here’s the first legitimate site for general relief that I have from a trusted source. Cheers for amplifying this. cftexashillcountry.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

The Trump admin is using official comms channels to tell lies to seniors. Incredible stuff.

Man I wish my congressman wasn’t dead right now. 😅

@vulcanmoon.bsky.social I couldn't escape the thought until I purged it.

Twitter is definitely having a normal reaction to learning Japanese animation companies exist in the modern world and not in some weird unchanging "based" bubble.