I saw a neat-looking car on the way home. Stylish. Modern. Even a little futuristic. If I could afford it right now, that's the kind of car I'd want. It was a new Kia. In that moment, I understood what the Cybertruck was going for. And the car that did it was a freaking *Kia*.

Same

After being introduced in Mario Bros. in 1983, it took Luigi YEARS to look different in-game than Mario in a title that was released in Japan—and it only happened b/c the Game Boy palette forced Nintendo to draw them differently for 1989's Tetris. More: thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/mario101

Added a few drops of peppermint extract to my budget iced mocha. (It's Folgers crystals, Nestle cocoa mix and half and half.) This is LIFE-CHANGING

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

Again?

I have a horrible gut feeling the main reason so many tech bros are pushing AI is because they sincerely believe Roko's Basilisk is real, or should be. I wish these nutjobs would quietly join a normal religion or at least stop dragging the rest of us into their stupid cult.

It's going to be really funny when the The White House UFC Tournament goes wrong because ICE detained the competing fighters at the airport.

Real men have shoulder kittens. Photo from my collection, ca. 1950s.

This is Tumbleweed. She is an artist, and this is her art. Doesn't expect everyone to understand. 13/10 (IG: winstonandtumble)

Images you can hear

On the bright side, at least leftist stupidity is usually more funny than dangerous. Case in point:

Taste tested some Albanese sour gummy bears. Had to reseal and put them away immediately or I would have eaten the whole bag in one sitting

Thanks, Skeletor, I needed that 😊

Not sure why I'm thinking about this now, but wasn't there a time when Canada set the White House on fire

"The Pope is spittin facts" wasn't on my AI bingo card, but...

EA: did you finish that open world WWII game? Pandemic: yeah, real horny just like you asked EA: what

Have you been served? 📸 Tad__Pool

Thought-provoking

Been saying this since at least 2020. We’re on a bullet train towards it.

Watching WALL-E since that's clearly the future we're heading for

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Baker in training.

Since I finished The Handmaid's Tale, I'm watching The Testaments now. Running into the same issue as w/early seasons of its predecessor where it's a really good show, but HOLY CRAP is it uncomfortable. Which is only fitting, all things considered.

There is something desperately sad about people who fall in love with AI because there’s other people falling in love with AI that are dealing with the same loneliness and you both could probably love each other instead and get a Hulu account, the endpoint of all heterosexual relationships

Finally watched the final season of The Handmaid's Tale. Guess I needed to see the beginning of the end of Gilead.

Update: the Hario brewer makes consistently amazing coffee. Not sure if this thing is made of ceramic or magic.

PSA for YouTube Creators! Just wanna share this in case you don't want Google to have access to remix your YouTube shorts with GenAI using Gemini! YOU ARE AUTOMATICALLY ENROLLED. Here is what it's doing and how to opt out of said option if you don't want your shorts to be remixed with AI.

Bathroom shenanigans!

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (2?) has just had his hair cut and is singing a MIGHTY song to his Dad who is laughing as he buckles him into his bike seat. Dad then gets on the front and they're off. A happy haircut harmony* being sung as they go. (1)

Business deal: complete.

At the dealership and just got slammed with an additional $2k in repairs more than we expected. 😭 If you were thinking of making an order in the store, it would be greatly appreciated! www.avaneshop.com

I'm still thinking about this. When I was poor enough to be on food assistance, I cooked almost EVERYTHING at home because... I couldn't afford not to. Even now, I don't do Doordash and because it seems like a pointless expense.

think it’s time we all get much clearer about what ‘creating home cooked meals’ is meant to entail. no one is suggesting you whip up a brand new restaurant quality Dish three times a day dumbass. slap together some spaghetti alla bullshit and call it a day

Imagine you're shrunk down to amoeba size & could observe a tiny plant root under the soil. The first thing you might notice is that the root isn't all plant cells. Both inside & outside the root are symbiotic fungal cells (grey in photo) in close association, working together. (🔬:Eye of Science)

Today's main character on Bluesky is... yelling at Jamelle Bouie for posting a picture of his taco bell meal and thus somehow being personally responsible for America's obesity rates. THIS PLACE HAS THE JUICE

most non-cybertruck 4x4 failures are people getting into situations they could've handled but don't, due to arrogance and lack of experience most Cybertruck failures are people trying to do things no vehicle can safely do, because they believe their car is magic

I have questions

This is Cooper. He just came across a new painting in the house that caught his eye. Doesn’t want to come off as conceited, but the resemblance is uncanny. 13/10 (IG: cooper.minidachs)

I made a new dumb thing because I wanted it. Jankify! Upload an image and get it back in emoji, pixel art, ascii, polygons, and [request here]. No AI. dr.eamer.dev/jankify

I just wish they would bring back the TurboGrafx 16 mini since I actually have money now 😭

Nah, I'm good

I forgot, which party is in charge of everything right now

I recently got baited into watching a YouTube video because they used Xenogears for their thumbnail. (It had nothing to do with Xenogears.) I've never clicked "Do Not Recommend Channel" with such righteous fury before

@propublica.org built a one-of-a-kind tool so you can check where your own generic medications come from! I’ve looked up a few of my own and let’s just say the results were…illuminating. Before ProPublica did this work, it was impossible to do that. projects.propublica.org/rx-inspector/

A day later, one little line from the movie is still haunting me: "I don't want to be different." I need to watch it again.