ADHD really did exist forever huh

hot take: we fucked up when we let computers get so important to society that developers had to stop putting easter eggs into software because they were seen as unprofessional and untrustworthy

oh, to be a cat and live a life where the gravest injustice I face is a human making me vacate the window on whose sill I had been lounging

Hey guys. Stella here. Just wanted to say I figured out today that “baked beans” is an anagram for “naked babes”. Well, have a good one

the existence of neutral milk hotel implies the existence of a heretofore undiscovered acidic milk hostel and basic milk motel. in this essay I will

shout-out to Pluto TV for having an all-Bob Barker-era Price is Right channel so I can relive my childhood when I have to take a sick day

the more I rotate this fact in my head the more I start to think the problem is the economic incentives dictating that any product that fails to capture less than its entire addressable market is considered an abject failure

I will never get over the fact that "jackfruit" is the name of an actual fruit and not what you would call someone if you think "jerkwad" is too explicit

fun fact: although North Korea is widely considered the world’s only necrocracy with its 1998 constitution naming Kim Il-sung “eternal president of the republic”, it is neither the only nor even the first currently-existing necrocracy—though it is probably the only *state* that is a necrocracy…

confusing americans and annoying the rest of the world by continuing to call american football "football" but calling soccer "association football"

to the tune of “every rose has its thorn”

this is one hell of a garden-path sentence

Grogu’s family has announced he has passed away. “He was probably like 56 years old, which is like a baby age for little freaks like him,” his mother told the Times. He will be flushed down a special toilet with an extra wide pipe designed for Yoda disposal. “Like a big green turd,” she added

the what discourse? sorry i use social media to keep up with friends and look at naked anime women i have no time for stupid discussions

explaining HRT to an american: imagine a Hamburger that makes you a woman

RIP DNA, Hitchhiker’s Guide had an outsized influence on me because I read it at a probably inappropriately young age, but 25 years later I’m glad he died when he did so we didn’t have to find out whether he would have caught the TERF brain worms

this is far milder than the mildest thing a TERF has ever said about a trans person… unless you believe in the divine right of kings I guess

incidentally this is how I found out that Ted Turner wasn’t already dead

Kinda funny that they turned a color photograph into black-and-white for this.

one of the pettier hills I'll die on is that discord and other chat or messaging services are not "social media" unless you consider any medium that facilitates socializing to be "social media". so if you wouldn't consider any space with a breathable atmosphere to be social media, neither is discord

a lot of the other quotes of this say it sounds like the AI voice getting throatfucked, but I think the last eight seconds or so sound like donald duck losing a fight with a gelatinous cube

Film you've watched more than six times with gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli

Raise your hand if you want to at least VISIT the Land of Boobies.

Me whenever I post something on here

stridently: if you're going to mark the intended tone of your text when conversing online, you should do so like the elcor in mass effect indicated the tone of their speech: by describing it up front. or at the very least, never use "/hj" because I will never *not* read that as "handjob"

I had zero idea what my adult years were going to look like (which maybe explains why I feel like a 42-year-old adolescent. well, that and the second puberty) so I can't really answer this question other than to say that I didn't think donald fuckin' trump would be president once, let alone twice

I feel like Diddy Kong under the effects of the disease

saw a couple of people in the quotes trying to provide alt text for this, and while admirable, I suspect that out of all the people on earth there are only maybe about a half dozen who have the juice to make a textual description of this image hit the same for someone who can’t see it

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

randomly thinking about when I got really into euro truck simulator 2 earlier this year, I joked to a friend that thanks to Trump it might be the closest I ever get to visiting Europe. at the time this was just a commentary on Trump alienating our traditional allies and also how it’s markedly less …

I'd never heard of gen hoshino before I played death stranding 2, but thanks to that game, "pop virus" is stuck in my head about half the time (the other half it's "raindrops keep fallin' on my head", which, admittedly, I did to myself by setting it at every timefall shelter I encountered)

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 30,1944

playing death stranding 2 and changing the music at every timefall shelter I encounter to "raindrops keep fallin' on my head"

thinking about the oft-cited reasons for the death of software Easter eggs and I have formulated a hot take: it was a mistake to let computers become so important to society that it became necessary to eliminate whimsy for the sake of an appearance of security and trustworthiness

it should be illegal to say something implying that you are about to end a phone call if you do not actually intend to end the phone call immediately after the person you're talking to acknowledges the thing you said

I need to figure out how to balance my desire to stay informed with my desire to not feel like I might as well go drive into the lake before things get much worse

welcome to social media, where we have things you can't buy, places you can't go, things you can't do, people you'll never interact with as equals, and a looming sense that nothing will ever be ok again

schools are closed here today due to severe weather in the forecast, meanwhile I'm remembering the time my 6th grade science teacher TOOK US OUTSIDE while we were under a tornado watch to point out to us how the color of the sky changes when there are strong thunderstorms

this is why it’s important to take the time to properly socialize even domesticated CRTs, otherwise they can revert to instinctive behaviors like this dominance display, which can seriously injure both the PC and the CRT. luckily this PC was powered off or else its hard drive could have crashed

if someone had told a younger and more innocent me that donating to a political campaign would mean the party would never stop emailing me even about candidates on the other side of the fucking country no matter how many different ones I unsubscribed from, I never would’ve given them a cent

she's right and she should say it

in vaguely a similar vein to this, I've sometimes wondered, in a world where TV was based on an all-electronic emulation of Baird's electromechanical system, would computer displays use polar coordinates instead of cartesian ones? (I don't think you could get a whole blog post out of that, though)

em dashes? smdh I can't believe lenin used AI

a story about the relationship between a giant robot pilot and her handler and it's set in the lone star state, call that tex-mechsploitation