history's greatest monster is surely the wolfman, with frankenstein a close second

Roomba + "Baba is You" = Roombaba

Whenever I read these news stories about people falling in love with AI chatbots, I am reminded of the researchers who found that male turkeys could be easily fooled into attempting to mate with more and more reduced model females, down to just a head on a stick. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/t...

Leonardo : Carrie Raphael: Miranda Donatello: Charlotte Michelangelo: Samantha

Today I was surprised to learn that "refurbish" actually does derive from a real word, "furbish", meaning to polish or make lustrous.

People ask "Where are the toilets on the starship Enterprise?" My theory: there are none. Instead, they use transporters to beam the waste directly out of the bladder/colon, and deposit it in the feeder tanks for the replicators.

One thing that’s pretty useful about having geckos around that eat powdered gecko diet is that when the food gets infested with fruit fly larvae the following day you can just move the dish into your newt tanks. Infinite food glitch.

the alleged CEO shooter is obviously a plant by the feds to make wealthy republican families look like they produce sexy dudes who attempt to right great wrongs

Everywhere I go is a philosophy classroom-cum-pub. Your flat with Jamie. PHIL105! Your living room! Just being around me is an educational experience!

/me stretches out arms, does spirit fingers, vocalizes

I've watched Zardoz so many times now, I actually understand its plot!

You know what would make things more bearable? Zardoz: The Musical.

Subscribe to The Onion. Maybe we can buy Red Lobster next.

RIP, Scrub Daddy

Life is short, and full of pain... 🎶 here in Duckburg! 🎶

Extreme perm

Seeing that aurora in Chch tonight

When did my life become a Salvador Dali painting of ducks?

A tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without the Ham-Hams' help. But they're not helping. Why is that?

In the dystopic future envisioned by the 1960s Jetsons comics, every time they visit a bank (or just drive past one!) it's in the midst of being robbed.

The Jetsons comic posits a future where there are no product safety laws to prevent you from posting a large pedestrian-killing spike on the front of your flying car.

𓅹𓅹𓅹 Box of fluffy ducks! 𓅹𓅹𓅹

Did Rosie start singing the "Scam Goddess" theme song there?

@seawall.bsky.social here's that cartoon you asked for archive.org/details/anim...

Sorry Elroy, I'm pretty sure "Satellite Arfsville" is a nice way of saying "launched into the sun"

Death and Tuxes

Proof that the Tartarian Empire animated Frozen, not Pixar, which is why they have not replicated its success. They dubbed over the actual native Tartarian language (the Rus dialect of Hyperborean) to spread western propaganda. If you say Frozen is not a Pixar movie, you are only proving my point.

What are the data sovereignty ramifications of hosting your servers in the Upside Down?

Visiting my work's Wellington office for the first time in a year, and I'm feeling suspicious about these new hires.

I call the big one "Huge-o"

Quacktal

Realizing a lot of sitcom theme songs begin with "I'm going to tell you a story..." - "Come and listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed..." - "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale; a tale of a fateful trip..." - "Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside-down..."

I like to imagine it's one person asking these auto-suggest questions in an increasingly frantic voice

In Chch, I can't figure out how to make my camera do a long exposure, so I can just barely capture the aurora. :-P

Fun Context: - The # of cases is half what it was this time last year - $1.3m is 0.05% of total rent take - The biggest claim was for $33k in arrears over 21 days... so $11k a week for one property (?!?) - One of these tenants was in arrears because they had died. Landlord is pursuing their estate.

My husband @aaronthemad.bsky.social: "This is a crisis of bird law!"

Had a very Las-Vegan-in-NZ accent moment yesterday. Was chatting about how I like to jokingly look down my nose at casinos in other cities, but the one in Monaco probably has us beat. And the other person got very confused, thinking I said there was a really classy casino in Manukau. 🇳🇿

Party vote green (birds)! 🇳🇿