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

ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.

you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore

You know how supposedly one of the ways you can tell you’re dreaming is to look at something with words on it, and if it’s just squiggles or nonsense, you’re dreaming? What does it mean that AI image generators can’t make legible words?

Tried to get a job as a grocery bagger and ended up talking about all kinds of food I like. Next morning the recruiter called with the crushing news that the interviewer had felt I was “too steeped in the lore”

Wild to see so much anger over this. In, what, like ten years we’ve gone from “I can have almost as good an experience watching at home” to “movie theaters should be more like my home”

Ground Bird

"To understand who is in control, observe who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire

No FUCKIN’ way

Thrilled to see that the new He-Man movie will be honoring the universally beloved original by being set in the real world and looking cheap as shit

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

Absolutely losing my shit at this editor’s note

Has anyone done this yet