PSA: Bluesky's new auto-tagging moderation stuff is a disaster. Disable it. Go into Settings on the Bluesky site and enable adult content and set everything to Warn at most, which makes posts opt-in. Hide just vanishes posts. Then go into Advanced/Bluesky Mod Service and do the same on everything.

This reminds me of my favorite Beatles factoid. These are the most common non-trivial words in the lyrics written by each member: PAUL: 1) love 2) know GEORGE: 1) love 2)know JOHN: 1) know 2) love RINGO: 1) octopus's 2) garden

It must take _so much energy_ to be a terf or a transphobe. Know what's easy? And I mean, dead simple super easy for lazy bastards like me? When someone says "Hey, my gender is [this]" or "My pronouns are [that]" you just say "Okay, cool" And that's it.

“Half-men half-brioche are not the best suited for action”

I fell asleep in thermodynamics class in college while still taking notes. The professor said “and here is the equation for rock and roll.” I woke up and my notes said “infinite balls = thermo good”

british fan chat

A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

This is incredible. Also, Jack White is a fabulous straight man.

if you cowardly try to sacrifice your friend, NPS will simply send a second bear

A while ago I truly thought that he would try this kind of shit once or twice, then the business community would get up and yell "the fuck, bro? You are messing with our money. Knock it the hell off," and he'd have to go back to bitching about windmills. A collective shrug never occurred to me.

Crab Guitar.

Orson Welles: I worked with Grogu. Not in film you see but on the stage. Brilliant performer but a cruel disgusting wretch of a soul. Interviewer: Pourrions-nous parler de Citizen Kane à la place, s'il vous plaît ? Welles: yes he did sell out his friends to HUAC, I will never forgive him for that

Okay, it’s just a little thing, but here we go: So the Iliad is a sprawling epic—there are so many characters and none of them, really, is most important. Achilles, at some level, but he’s a whiny baby (in the Iliad! In the Song of Achilles, he’s perfect) 1/

Later the boy was annoyed to learn that the discovery makes him king of Vingulmark, with extensive obligations to restive thanes

The way the one baby owl Naruto runs away

My absolute favorite part of this video is all the guys who say “What is this?” You can definitely tell they were not warned to expect Elmo.

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS TO SHARE EXCEPT EUROPA - DON'T LAND THERE! BURMA SHAVE

The real value of social media is being able to post something like "The ass is the father of the legs" and potentially have multiple members of congress see it

Happy Mothers’ Day

"God bless America"

Two things can be true and I am begging so many of you to grapple with them: People with dementia have value and are loved, and having dementia is neither a personal failing nor does it render them useless AND Having noticeable dementia means you likely shouldn’t hold important public office

putting a napkin over my head and consuming grogu like the ortolan bird

The author sent me a copy, and it's really something to behold in person.

Sing to me of the dad, o Muse, the dad of twists and turns...

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

3yo told a stranger at the gas station I let him drink gasoline as a baby

It’s always “you’re autistic” and never “thank you for telling me everything you know about mega man”

So yeah, Kickstarters. I am backing the Breathless TTRPG and I want to make the case for why you should do so also, not based on the game but instead on the way the project is trying to fund. Linking here and then more explaining to follow. www.kickstarter.com/projects/myt... >>

A glorious Beltane to all who celebrate. 🔥

nothing punctures our wildly overblown sense of technological mastery like biology

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Mods are asleep, post celebratory pig pics

Liberals say that after Citizens United, the US ceased to function as a democracy and began to function as an oligarchy. They're wrong—after Citizens United, the US ceased to function as a republic and began to function as an oligarchy.

while i was in self-imposed social media jail i came across many things i would like to post but none moreso than this man and his fish

we all know I have no life, so:

When that second melody comes in (almost exactly two minutes in) it really feels like the proper 20th century is being born.

I love looking through the quotes to this whenever something like it comes around again. The guy on the left always looks like a sad thumb who just got laid off, and the woman on the right is shooting joy from every pore and looks like she just stepped away from a fun party. It makes me so happy.

Me: "What was that movie with the Dollar Store Slenderman and the kids..." @marshmallowknight.bsky.social: "FUCK THAT MOVIE!"* *The Tall Man (2012)

i am willing to rebuild my life around a statement that fucks this hard

Rabea Rogge, die erste deutsche Frau im All, hat einfach einen W20 mit rauf genommen. #PNPDE #Spaaace

Got in a little hometown jam So they put a rifle in my hand Send me off to a foreign land To go and eat the silver ham

We should have never doubted this man

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

Happy 25 year anniversary to Mikhail Gorbachev throwing out the first pitch at a baseball game at my high school in college station, texas

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.