People upset about zips in Starfleet Academy: Just tell yourself it's a fashion thing. It's become cool to have visible zips. Like that time in the 2360s when it became fashionable to make your walls look like cardboard and put lacquer on everything, for about five years

QTP with a female character you love!

QTP with a female character you love!

Can Netflix hurry up and buy WB or whatever so we can get more than 5 seasons of Teen Titans Go

Critical Failure is mostly a fun and spicy house rule but it does suck a lot more when it comes up on a spell than an attack #dnd

How can it be that this personal attack also slaps

Of course.

- I really hope there's a slightly more nuanced take than "Screens Bad" - of all the jokes to make about a toy with plastic moulded hair, "bald spot" is perhaps the most absurd while also being extremely lazy

The Wanted: "The sun goes down, the stars come out 🎶" Me: and long ago somebody left with the cup

doomer arlo

gtbh I'm getting a little jumpy about all this discussion of "The Andrew Situation"

Always amused to see the image the DC Fandom wiki chose to use as its "Incomplete" icon

"Ubisoft is introducing Age Verification - you'll need to verify to use Ubisoft Chat with non-Friends!" o....okay you're good I don't particularly want to use Ubisoft Chat with anyone anyway

This is mostly about AI but I have a sidebar about why web integration is a fundamentally flawed concept for offline media

star wars is an *incredible* sandbox you have samurai space wizards! you have lightsabers, which are easily the coolest fictional weapons ever created! you have the best fictional ship design in sci-fi (x-wings! the tie fighter scream! the big angry triangle!)! you have awesome weird aliens!

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

there's a current thing where The Kids write "yt" instead of "white" and unfortunately my first thought is always "youtube"

My illustrations celebrating Nancy Drew entering the public domain

Honestly this is automatically an improvement on the WFC release because the train mode does not have wheels that fit TWO DIFFERENT GAUGES OF TRACK (I am not a rail nerd, but this is basic train)

As I say, I haven't played or read Brindlewood Bay, but as I understand it the GM throws out Random Clues, the players assemble them into wild theories, and then they either roll to see if they're right or the GM simply decides if it makes sense. This upsets me profoundly.

This is still peak

The Walking Dad

Spider-Ma

Ruin a comic book by removing one letter from the title. I'll start: Martin Manhunter

How things change. In my day, the worst thing that could happen on a billionaire's private island was being hunted for sport

The iteration of Firestorm in Batman: The Brave And The Bold is conceptually superior to any version that has existed in comics.

"obviously he converts into a spaceship/submarine, but i'm not gonna stop you from turning it upside-down" And then Nate does so and then everyone screams.

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

This is a powerful story for me. Several branches of the Women's Institute are closing across the UK in protest at the new trans-exclusionary ban against trans women. It cuts through the lie by the media and GC groups about speaking on behalf of women. Solidarity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I think The Independent's cookie notice is my favourite right now "Privacy! It's your choice. You can choose to pay up, or you can choose to have no privacy." PS, if you subscribe, you're giving up at least a little privacy anyway as that inherently requires your personal information

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

I had a joke about "ABSOLUTE SUGAR & SPIKE" but DC kind of already did better than anything I could have come up with

Done with waiting for someone on #StarfleetAcademy to make this joke

Hoping @jamesgunn.bsky.social commissions a Mxyzptlk movie, just because I want to hear reviewers try and pronounce it

Some sites have realised instead of "would you like cookies, y/n" they can say "agree to advertising cookies or pay to remove them" which is really annoying because it means I have to open an entire anonymous tab

Everyone looks better in New Rocks

One other bit context here: “The average McDonald's restaurant generates nearly $2.7 million in annual sales.” (Per Business Insider, circa 2019)

Take "Chariots of the Gods" literally. Aliens didn't build the pyramids. Modern UFOs are actually ancient deities

I’m finally home 😌

I'm occasionally reminded of Midnight (usually because of The Steak Incident) and I think ... why aren't more settings like this? Fantasy settings ted to be more-or-less functional worlds, faced with some external enemy. Isn't it more heroic to be playing the scrappy underdogs?

you ever think it's weird weird that we communicate by stretching our holes into different shapes and pushing air through them

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

"Page budgets" is a concept I dig into quite a bit when I teach, and it's exactly that. It goes for all artists - for example, the first YA cover here is about 4-5 times as much work for Colourist Matt Wilson as he has to do palettes foe each sliver. The second cover was the month after.

NGL, Neil Buchanan selling the concept of Art Attack for a Bond villain amount of money then just going on tour playing guitar in his metal band as he never has to work another day in his life is the most relatable thing any celebrity has ever done. Absolute king shit. 👑

all my hot friends love going to chrome://flags and deactivating every. single. gemini or ai function within, and then going to cmd prompt and using group editor to disable copilot

I was doing this before Bad Bunny made it cool

Blades '68 is to Blades in the Dark as Deathloop is to Dishonored

Ever go to a boring Christian Union meeting at school, or an Anglican service of the quasi-Evangelical style? Those were doctrinal games of Mornington Crescent. There wasn't much real spiritual reflection. The point was to say very, very often: 'And that's why we should follow Jesus!' 6/

One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about. Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards. From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:

You know what, I loved Xiaolin Showdown, but looking back it's wild that a TV show thought this character design was OK in 2003