"In the year 2000...." #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

important context for the one (and literally only one) example that the "trans girls in sports" panic was built off of lia was a good swimmer who, post-HRT, was not remotely exceptional by the general standards of female athletes these bans are based on flimflam and bullshit

So I’m experiencing rather serious financial difficulties from medical bills and…capitalism and I would love to not have to declare bankruptcy or do a gofundme which seem like the only way out right now but maybe if everyone bought some shirts or signed up for Patreon? Signal boosts appreciated🖤🦷

A monitor portrait on a portrait monitor.

lmao

I have regrets about everything that lead up to this moment.

dammit frank luntz is a colossal piece of shit but he’s clearly mocking Scott Jennings here

and a very happy Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May to you all

As far as I can tell from @listifications.app notifications and ClearSky, I've been added to 1 list for being pro-AI, and 3 lists for being anti-AI.

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

Finishing out 1999 with, finally, the Oscars for Best Picture & Best Foreign Language Film. Plus a slightly early watch of The Accountant, because for some reason Collectorz.com had it in their database as 1999 instead of 2001. Oh well. I submitted a correction. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

I'll take "Aristocratic Porn Names for $500, Lord Kenneth"

I mean, look how cute it is!

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen perform live: Here Come The Mummies The Pogues Violent Femmes Laurie Anderson Warren Zevon Meat Loaf Elton John Dweezil Zappa Blue Man Group nine inch nails

The AI bubble as an interpretive dance

PSA but also people should not interpret follows as endorsements come on now.

For context, the Teapot Dome scandal, which brought down numerous people during the Harding Administration, was over about 10 million dollars in today's money.

tbh this is probably THE day of the year to post this

Bring Me the Heads of Alfredo Garcia and Grogu

As a bluesky poster and in the tradition of our people I present to you Tom Bombadil. As always @faineg.bsky.social's fault.

I saw this on Facebook (there was no creator credit) so now you have to as well. It hurtsses us.

The six real Talmudic genders are: - obligated in positive time-bound mitzvot - witches, probably - you thought it was a beautiful woman bathing in the river, but it's a beautiful rabbi instead - tumtum, the mystery gender - the Satan in a wig and dress, à la Bugs Bunny - Adam (pre-Eve)(look it up)

A couple: "Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it." (Alanis Morissette, You Oughta Know) "When the lights came up at two, I caught a glimpse of you, and your face looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase." (Warren Zevon, The French Inhaler)

Every time I open Bluesky,

Sharing this because I've backed several of his RPG Kickstarters, and I want to remind myself to revisit this after I've paid an upcoming dental bill next Monday so I have a better idea how much I can spare.

I mean, this is the obvious choice for me.

mood

Look, ngl, if I were a billionaire, and I could convince/bribe the DMV to declare this thing street-legal and slap a license plate on it, I would absolutely have one of these things to pull up to galas and red-carpet events in. Hell, I'd use it to go to Starbucks.

Boy, 1999 was a pretty good year for movies, and I haven't even gotten to the Oscar winners yet. @letterboxd.social

As is tradition.

to all who celebrate

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

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Mostly 1999, with one detour to rewatch A Scanner Darkly, because it was my pick for a movie discussion group I'm in that met this week. I expect next week I'll get to 1999's Oscar winners (American Beauty and All About My Mother). #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

CRPG: Questron, a C64 game that featured my first experience with an ending that was more than just a "Congratulations, you beat the bad guy" text screen (there's a whole celebratory cutscene that plays out when you win).

TTRPG: Hawkmoon, published by Chaosium, based on the Michael Moorcock novels. Like their earlier (and better-known) Stormbringer RPG, it uses the d100-based Chaosium "Basic Roleplaying" house system.

If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer: “Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”

People who get pet rabbits frequently have to be re-educated about what to feed them because a pop-culture reference in Bugs Bunny cartoons made everyone think rabbits eat a lot of carrots.

I know it's not the canon explanation, but I like to think that's how Yoda escaped detection for so long. Any troops the Empire sent to Dagobah looking for him just found this weird, annoying little shit stealing their food, figured "this can't be the Great Jedi Master", and just gave up and left.

Why are so many geek-collectables shops actively hostile to their customers? Funko Pops, action figures, old worthless DVDs, random vinyl LPs, all strewn haphazardly on shelves with no apparent organizational scheme. Clerk behind the counter in uninterruptable conversation with a regular.

At the rate Trump keeps bragging about his doctors repeatedly making him take the dementia screener, it's only a matter of time before he starts bragging about other oddities. "The thickest blood they'd ever seen. Direct quote. The thickest!"

are federation offices closed on star wars day

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

wish I'd done more fucking around prior to this miserable eternity of finding out

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.