“pPl wHO weAr GLAsseS aRE sOoo SmArT” like i literally had to fail a test to get these.

Unrelated but Mosfilm have uploaded all of Andrey Tarkovsky's films to youtube with english subtitles www.youtube.com/@Mosfilm_eng

what bit of the Culture did Musk take in? slap drones

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

Renewed an Apple push cert for an MDM today and am rather worried that the web GUI for this process is still using the old Apple font, the old Apple aesthetic. No, not that old aesthetic, the OLD old one. Aqua-with-the-horizontal-stripes old. eWorld globe old. ResEdit old.

it is now possible to transfer your spotify playlists seamlessly to other listening apps btw

Me: The Foot Clan's headquarters, an arcade/gambling den/source of free smokes from which people are plucked to become loyal servants of the Shredder, is really just Pleasure Island, making TMNT (1990) effectively Pinocchio fanfic My therapist, moving the clock hands forward: Aaand that's our time.

The three types of ‘50s pop songs were come on everybody let’s do the snap pea, if you ever kissed me I would turn into some goo, and hey hey beautiful child I would never take you over state lines

when even The Onion gives into joy, you know it’s been a good day

That whole thing about how The Art of War mostly just says stuff like "be sure to feed your soldiers"

this just in: now aliens are calling us “the corn dog planet" i cannot express to you how much of an improvement this is

too big to fail speedrun

how could I forget? I had to buy three copies in the 90s because I kept loaning them to people and never getting them back

every time dems win an awful lot of conservatives go “Soon they’ll be introducing us to submissive bondage scenarios aplenty, which i must stress i am constantly imagining at all times. out of fear.”

This is a nice story about how libraries change lives.

hey dude you good over there?

the defining characteristic of white supremacists is they think you're as stupid as they are

i don’t like him, but, man, turning down $10M in favor of haterdom is an all-time, world-class, heavyweight champion hater move

Virginia's election results should teach us that people reject anti-trans politics, and we must all immediately move as far left as possible on the issue

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

massive inflation due to misgovernance is a bitch

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Don't feel pressured to do weird stuff just because it came to you in a vision. Do it because it's weird. That's reason enough

Who's up replying to every third text from boomer relatives with "sorry, that's ai"?

Life hack: albums uploaded as one video instead of a video for each song get a LOT LESS ads.

This is what rich people used to do...build some hospitals, fund PBS, sponsor a University building... Now they buy yachts, sports teams, and 5th homes.

Alan Moore knows the score

When you think about it, this is two AI trying to convince each other they’re human.

some jazzers have been griping about Hancock’s vocoder ad-lib segment, which he’s been doing every set. Allow me to set you straight. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest musicians ever to live and in the context of music if he makes a choice then that is the right choice. Hope this clarifies

this motel in Asheville I’m staying in overnight basically has a weed-oriented smoke shop in its lobby

It’s fine that it gets dark earlier, I will just get depressed sooner each day. No problem

evergreen post

Gonna start calling Erika Kirk by her alter ego Ashley Furniture the way she's trying to lure JD into her cushions

There’s a headline, “Donald Trump is going on 60 MINUTES, here’s what to expect” and I’m like… 1) He’s gonna lie like a borrowed rug 2) No matter how alzheimery he is, Bari Weiss is going to try and make him sound like Cronkite 3) If the ratings are bad, he’s going to blow up another boat.

Had to scroll 600 paragraphs of text to find out it was Ben Horowitz of a16z (aka Marc Andreessen's founding partner, and murderer Daniel Penny's employer) who made the donation, which was done entirely in physical trucks and was not exchangeable for any other use or need. 💩

where does the carbon monoxide from this indoor firepit go? that’s right, Snookums, it goes right into our lungs and thence into our bloodstream!

A CTO completely misunderstanding a short tweet about tech executives not understanding metaphors is really something

I lived in a house like this

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up. "But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

hey apple stop reactivating message summarization on my phone after I’ve turned it off

Wow a real golden shower

Someone in my neighborhood got FED. UP.

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

I spent all of today reading the @achewood-official.bsky.social Patreon strips and feel warm, fuzzy, and strangely accomplished

Charles “Charlie” Brown has been laid to rest today after passing peacefully in his sleep at the age of 96. Though he faced many hardships throughout his life, Charlie Brown will be remembered for his optimism and determination in the face of failure. He is survived by his many hoes

Don’t forget to “fall forward” Saturday night

John Lennon (rightly) has gotten a lot of shit for various reasons, but his take on the Sixties -- and, by extension, the idea that the hep youth set moves the needle in any radical way -- remains valid.

Probably not good that the bubble has gone well past the “to big to fail” line and is now rapidly passing the “too big to actually even be bailed out when it fails” line

[sets difficulty level for SILENT HILL 2 to Light]