There’s a Cordwainer Smith story from the ‘40s, “Scanners Live in Vain,” that uses something similar. Simply being in outer space HURTS in a way that will eventually kill you, so spaceships are full of hibernators and one pilot who’s had almost all their senses removed. Smith went sicko mode on that

@patri.xyz Patience, please, as I’ve never requested a label from any labeler, but could I get the Alt Text User and Hellthread Veteran labels, if possible? Apologies if I’m doing this all wrong.

I can’t stop laughing at this picture of Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr in these new Beatles movies. Looks like he’s in an SNL sketch about Ringo being an Unfrozen Caveman Drummer

I'd argue that the AI wasn't art until it was eaten

Look for the helpers

@sidvicious.ca FUCK YES SANTA GOT MY LIST

Years ago I saw a thread on a message board titled something like “The subtext of the song is that no one fucks like Gaston” and I think about it every day

Does anyone else get irrationally angry when they keep seeing the same company’s emails in their spam folder month after month? Hey 5 Star Nutrition: fuck OFF already

Not loving one possible interpretation of “Liberty: 1776–2026” here

If it’s any consolation to anyone, I don’t think Jimmy Fallon himself enjoys being alive. There’s nothing behind those eyes except alcohol and a series of preprogrammed instructions on how to laugh too hard whenever he’s spoken to

This has got to be the least appetizing picture I’ve ever fucking seen on a chip package

got banned for life from the TaleSpin forums for suggesting that Baloo in TaleSpin is NOT the same bear as Baloo in The Jungle Book. People were screaming at me to shut the fuck up even though I provided EVIDENCE

Dudes rock

true story

Just starting Ken Burns’s American Revolution doc, and you gotta wonder why no one at PBS thought better about thanking the sponsors at the start by saying “Major funding for The American Revolution was provided by….”

Daylight savings or whatever can get fucked. We should just stop tracking time honestly, like who gives a shit. Unless you’re still watching network tv then like what does it even matter what time it is

Sorry if this is too “woke” but this whole “Trunk or Treat” system is some Satanic Panic Helicopter Parenting bullshit. Imagine just collecting candy in a parking lot without even the slightest danger of being kidnapped. Imagine Charlie Brown getting a rock out of a cop car’s trunk. It’s depraved

Holy shit

You can know *intellectually* how bad Netflix and Sony fucked up on merch, but you don’t really *feel* it until you’ve handed out candy for a couple hours without seeing a single member of HUNTR/X

Breeding dachshunds only to turn around and refer to them derisively as “wiener dogs” is exactly what Mary Shelley was trying to warn us about

Breeding dachshunds only to turn around and refer to them derisively as “wiener dogs” is exactly what Mary Shelley was trying to warn us about

I would love to think this was some Calvin-inspired deliberate fucking with survey responses. I would love to.

Whoever made yesterday’s NYT Connections puzzle is an Alex Chilton fan:

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

I just realized “Actually Romantic” must have whipped the batshit Gaylor part of her fanbase into an unprecedented frenzy, and I’m laughing too hard to be mad any more

I’ve always liked most of Taylor’s music, why did she have to write a song that makes me wonder if she squeals with surprise and delight when her fiancé plays peekaboo with her

Been trying to come up with a joke about the Tylenol Murders that still conveys a) there’s nothing wrong with being autistic and b) I sorta believe those deaths were just Johnson & Johnson fucking up and not admitting it. I can’t do it. Too many layers. I’m sorry.

Imagining how much more conflicted I’d feel about this whole thing if it’d been Jimmy Fallon instead

I’m gonna tell y’all the funniest joke I’ve ever thought up: “Hello, my name is Racecar Internet. I’m Amish.”

If you are a white Gex Xer or Millennial in Michigan: hello! I’m at this Rilo Kiley concert in Grand Rapids with every single one of you.

Realizing now this was likely chatGPT’s fault and not a committed designer sneaking something past their boss

Not the Neutral Milk Hotel Halloween décor at Michael’s

I don’t know shit about fighting games, but I can’t stop watching the trailer for Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls, where some absolute genius gave Dr. Doom a GUN

Imagine seeing a kid popping a wheelie on an ATV and thinking “This is sick [bad]” and not “This is sick [fucking awesome]”

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

I don’t ever want to know what the fuck is going on here

Clear right-wing agenda, pro-police bias, furthering the transphobic frenzy: fine, NYT. We all know you’re evil. But this is a whole other fucking level of outrage

In love with this engraving of physicist Georg Wilhelm Richmann being killed by ball lightning while trying to study electricity. (The other guy lived.) Both because it seems like a really mean thing to illustrate, and because they both look like fighting game characters getting knocked backwards

Every time there is an animal on screen, the closed captioner (the GOAT) crushes it:

when you're cracking an egg, you mustn't let yourself become paralyzed by the fear that this one is gonna have something else inside. it's basically always your standard egg stuff. yolk. the other part. BUT you can't totally let your guard down either

I watched a video about how this comic is almost entirely recycled these days, with just the mom’s haircut or the tv redrawn. Jeff Keane, look at this. Look at what you could be doing with this, you lazy hack

We cannot let this man become mayor

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

Zohran to NYC landlords tomorrow

The Hives have a new album coming out, and it doesn’t sit right with me. Those dudes should have winked out of existence the moment the ball dropped for 2010

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

incredible things are happening in China