I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

Working in video games

Ahahaha, as if all EA does isn’t cost cutting to the bone and then wonder why skeletons can’t run

Back in my day, EA bought things and dismantled them, not the other way around

happy birthday to autumn and the best internet writing of probably all time!

I for one welcome the opportunity to be at a cognitive disadvantage. Sounds relaxing.

I fucked up my foot walking up the stairs yesterday and I have remembered it's nearly impossible to look cute limping. Nearly.

It actually goes hand-in-hand with another assertion I’ve been seeing go around lately that I fully agree with: if you’re at the point where you can walk into Restoration Hardware and spend $10,000 on a bed? What the all FUCK are you doing in Restoration Hardware. Go hire a local artisan.

Sam Altman: I see humans achieving omnipotence using dark matter by… 2030 maybe? That’s if OpenAI is given a quadrillion dollars Theo Von: Yeah Altman: Or, we may become a race of slaves, genetically modified to be harvested by robot spiders. That’s if OpenAI doesn’t get the money Von: Right

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

All of my work friends took today and tomorrow off so now I have no one to talk to about Taylor Swift and I'm mad about it. Like wym I need to just quietly do my job. Gross.

I brought my family to NYC to see the theater district. The first thing I saw when I exited the subway was a youth killing a dental professional, chopping up his body, and feeding to a hungry plant. So forgive me if I doubt that crime is down.

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

Just spitballing here, but cryptobros throwing sex toys at WNBA players on the court and other cryptobros and male sports commentators calling it funny and telling the women and their coaches to 'lighten up' both explains the 'male loneliness epidemic' and why I don't care about it.

Me, a tired 36 year old.

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Anyone have a cool 2m and want to see something interesting?

The industry would be demonstrably worse without Hollie in it so like… seems p important to me to check their talk out?!?

We have angered the gods. Bring back the Choco Taco. Play music videos on MTV again. Make movies under 120 minutes. Do history on the history channel. Only make cake out of cake. We must atone.

I’m constantly struck by how these people are SUCH fucking losers.

@twoscooters.bsky.social do you think I could implement this by gamescom y/n

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

Girls in your area Girls in proximity to your location Girls approaching your coordinates Girls have breached the perimeter Girls inside the containment zone, repeat, girls inside the

Yes, this website is for people who did well on the AP English exam and are chronically underemployed

Having your country absolutely destroyed feels so much worse when the people doing it are such massive fucking losers

Here. This managed to ignite my utter loathing of tech bros enough for me to write this. othermeans.io/p/get-your-f...

my name is cow and wen I kart and wen the Kong gets speedie start he cannot win I swear to hel I tayk my aim I throe the shel

Dating is going well!

My favorite stupid thing to find joy in right now is people openly mocking Lauren and Jeff’s absolutely atrocious taste.

Beanie baby mania is BACK y’all

I have now seen two different very elaborate stagings of Carmen and I have decided. I don’t like Carmen.

as a child I thought it was wildly unrealistic that Sims would immediately give up on all their goals and dreams if a single dirty plate was left on the ground but now that I’m an adult I understand that that was the most realistic part of the game

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

I made dole whip in my ninja creami and it was a religious experience in this heatwave.

Someone in the replies called this doordash for bears and I can't stop laughing

My neighborhood has a lot of celebs, so I regularly see them getting coffee or walking about. Every time I squint at them cause they look familiar but I think I know them & am worried I am being rude by not saying hi. Examples: Alexa Chung Daisy Edgar Jones Paul Mezcal Jonathan Bailey Saoirse Ronan

My favorite part of being on vacation is sporadically logging into this site, reading the Latest Discourse and making this face.

If Hideo Kojima can make Death Stranding all by himself there’s simply no excuse for other solo devs not to be making games on a similar scale

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

you guys are being very cynical about this but the real explanation is that bears and Bigfoot are buddies. They like to hang out and do stuff together

An astonishingly good book, just a spectacularly entertaining read.

Ryan from The OC, anti-crypto crusader, is one of my favorite running subplots in Hollywood

This is my go-to entry recommendation for fantasy fans looking to dip their toe into romance. Has never once failed to convert.

Whenever anyone talks to me this summer I’m just going to repeat the same 3 sentences over and over until they walk away.

Baby the drugs are doing him

I’m just a girl, standing in front of an airline, asking them to show her the seat map because I’ll upgrade my seat if there’s an aisle seat, but you best believe economy ✨delight✨ will not be so delightful if the only seat in the section left is a middle seat next to a toilet.