the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

I don't have any words right now for the naked thugs. Just assume I'm spitting on the ground every time I think of them.

YouTube is showing me, under a musical artist's video, the date of their closest appearance to me in the future. Not the soonest. Which makes sense, right? Drive 50 miles next month, not 2000 miles next week. The artist is from Japan. Apparently Sapporo is closer to north Florida than Osaka is.

If you are going to point out that things are genAI, using "genAI detection tools" makes me dismiss you immediately. A) those things throw false positives constantly B) I need you to identify markers that a human can detect

It's rare for me to go this long (like a week) without wanting to read social media. This isn't like some declaration of a cleanse. It actually feels more like I'm mildly ill.

Just saw an exchange on Reddit: "why don't people switch to Bluesky" two different people: "Bluesky is too hard to use" . . . what? Bluesky has plenty of problems, but "hard to use"?

Here's an example of it happening to popular cosplayer Keekihime. I will not screenshot the generated response out of respect for her privacy. x.com/keekihimedes...

If you want to know what's happening on Twitter, basically Grok lets people quickly use AI to edit OTHER PEOPLE'S photos. So now every single post a woman makes with a photo of herself is being used by incel losers as fapping material after they use Grok to remove her clothes.

Of all the times to set off fireworks throughout the year, 10:52 PM on December 31 might be the least comprehensible. Impatient asses.

Watched the Hololive New Year's countdown. Fun, but a step down from last year. No cover songs, no one "guesting" on others' original songs (excepting the DEV_IS 2-song medley), and some of the most obnoxious branding I've ever seen from a sponsor (Coca-Cola).

I have learned Just Now that you can unpin the default algorithmic feeds? Awesome.

I made another one of these browser puzzlers: hempuli.itch.io/covelink

I have a weird dilemma/hang-up at the moment: I don't want to listen to a lot of new music because I don't currently have a way to hear it in good quality. My earbuds died, and I bought some really cheap replacements that are, in fact, really cheap. And my laptop speakers are only a little better.

I'm close, but still a little bit short on rent, and not a whole lot of time left. If anyone can pitch in a little, I'd be very grateful. Thank you!

This has an outstanding punchline.

If you dislike chunky and/or a lot of tomato sauce on your pizza, does that necessarily mean you dislike deep-dish pizza? Is it proper to say you like an iconic food if you order it in an un-iconic way?

KESSOKU BAND, in: "How to Write One Song" #bocchitherock

I only have a few days left to make rent. I know people usually don’t have much to spare this time if year, but please consider pitching in a little if you’re able. It would mean a lot to me. Thank you! ❤️

Dominant voice in my brain: aw hell, why did this person have to suck too, now I can't watch/read/enjoy any of their stuff happily anymore Tiny voice, struggling to be heard: hey asshole you have more media to consume than God himself, be grateful the pile got smaller

I have an old man question: what's the value of boosting on Discord, beyond giving the channel you're boosting more emote slots and such? I looked it up, but didn't feel confident that I understood the answers.

Nothing. Special exception: a condiment I was eating with something else that was especially tasty but I ran out of other food before I ran out of condiment. Usually honey mustard.

Is it (mentally) healthy or unhealthy to buy snack foods that you only sort of like, as a method to not each so much of them?

If 90% of my audience disagreed with me, I might at least ease up on hitting "like" on the 10%'s comments. "Principal Skinner, pensive."

I wish I could explain why I find Game Grumps so funny even though they don't seem at first glance like my type of humor. I guess it's something in common with MST3K. Spending years finding a hundred different ways to comment on things that might be boring as hell.

I have an old man question: what's the value of boosting on Discord, beyond giving the channel you're boosting more emote slots and such? I looked it up, but didn't feel confident that I understood the answers.

so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery! now I'm bedridden for recovery, fun! I'm still about 1300$ away from paying all my storage bills, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing

I know most of you probably don't have much to spare right now, but if you do, I could really use help with getting my rent together and avoiding Foreclosure Season / Harvest Time For The Moneylenders. Thank you very much. Even small donations can help me out tremendously!

"I just want to know who wrote what about my toaster and where they live" -- Dan "Daniel" Avidan, Game Grumps, "Terror in Christmas Town"

I have been trying to use Discord for the past few months, and I get it, but I don't feel like I'm *good* at using it. I also hate that things that seem very basic are locked behind Nitro.

(someone deliberately posts about a movie seeming like a Christmas movie but it isn't Die Hard) reply: hey haha, what do you think about Die Hard tho

Another day where I confer blessings onto all anime fans who know that one cours is a cours and not a cour.

I'm not perfect about it, but the rule I try to keep is, if I'm going to repost an image that doesn't have alt text, I also need to provide alt text.

(Alt text: art of Raccoon Peach, dressed in warm and Christmas-y clothes, tying a scarf around Tanooki Mario's neck. Mario has the expression of an aggrieved child barely tolerating being dressed by a parent. He is imagining a Hammer Suit.)

You’d better take a Tanooki suit, Mario. It gets quite nippy in World 6 this time of year.

"And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die", has but one bit too big.

#meetthewebcomic Nothing Doing is a comic strip about the quiet, aimless discontent that lives in your stomach, whispering, waiting, and also what if some aminal ladies had jobs. Three 20-page ‘issues’ available to read at horseonvhs.com/nothingdoing

🎶 To shake the [room when|womb when|woman] it should 🎶 (it's "room when", but I like that there's 2 reasonable mondegreens)

"And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die", has but one bit too big.

Having a little schadenfreude over how many commenters are roasting this one reaction channel for, among other things, acting like 60 seconds of exposition was unbearable boredom. Especially when they constantly don't remember things a show has told AND shown them multiple times.

I love a mundane creepypasta.

I’ve been getting this ad for a week on Facebook. I don’t know what these are. Sasquatch insoles? I’ve never shopped at LL Bean, never shopped for anything like these anywhere. I didn’t know you *could* shop for these. I never was interested before but now I am. No, I won’t forget about them.

Is there a term for suffixes that become more broadly used in a way that doesn't parallel with their initial usage? Like -gate from Watergate, for the most famous example. And what are your favorites? I like -oholic, -sona, and -aboo.

What did you bother adults with as a kid that you only realized later probably tried their patience to the limit? Mine was making everyone solve "Wheel of Fortune puzzles" (really just Hangman with phrases).

Comics like these are the real reason my kids aren't old enough to read SMBC yet. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/anythi... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

A Proposal for All Parents Worldwide

I watched two clips of Albert Brooks' ventriloquist bit, and now YouTube thinks I'm a vent-head.

Do you ever jump into a conversation and just immediately think "I said the most annoying thing possible"?