It's marvelous to see folks' various interests and realms of knowledge. So myriad are the ways different people know and can explain how this is incredibly dumb! Folks of all stripes coming together to rip on this know-nothing ignoramus and I just think that's beautiful.

Hope Endgame re-release does crazy numbers. Like. . . Morbius re-release crazy

C'mon Kennedy Curse you have the opportunity for *immaculate* timing, here

Despite being a dude who is happily childless, I find this take so wildly ignorant to the point of offensive that it actively makes me want to buy Pragmata, a game which I've been happy to see doing well but had not previously triggered any real interest for me.

I feel when America is punished for its pride that the first plague sent by the heavens may be people who need help getting into the online meeting

I remember growing up there used to be whole years where I didn’t have to deal with tornado warnings. Now multiple a year, pretty much every year? Climate change once again getting a 0/10 from me.

One of the best exhibitions from my local art museum featured a significant quantity of publicly funded art from the New Deal. Hard to think of America now paying money to spur people through art to engage with the questions of modern existence, sadly.

Covid precautions always have and continue to to be intersectional progressive praxis. And no covid precautions continue to be…the other thing.

Oh man. To ride on the most elaborate ship to ever cross the heavens and then have to deal with getting claw-machined by some random helicopter? When I go to the moon and splash down after just load me on a pleasure yacht back, pls #Artemis2

This final group member responsible for the “front porch” it feels was maybe less “totally prepared” than advertised. #Arremis2

I’d never wear the band’s shirt to a concert but I am wearing my NASA logo shirt to watch (from home) the splashdown. Go Team Space! #Artemis2

As someone whose primary relationship with the House of York is with the version from half a millennium ago I was, in fact, shocked and incredibly confused by why such a book would contain that line.

Seixas!! 🇫🇷 Taken a moment with other sports goings-on to start getting back to watching the bike races, but Itzulia Basque is always a fantastic race. What an edition again: Seixas stepping on the stage in a huge way, Lipowitz continuing his ascent. What shall we see on the big hills, tomorrow?!

Being a history nerd is like the weirdest being behind on a TV series. What do you mean I am browsing YouTube trying to "avoid spoilers" about the siege of Constantinople? That was over 550 seasons ago

Good riddance, Reginald of Châtillon. I only learned of your existence yesterday and you’ve been dead over eight hundred years but you were absolute rubbish and I’m glad you’re dead. Wtg, Saladin. #Reading #BookSky a.co/d/0cHQtp46

wish

Same, same. Alas, it kept me and my garret-mate Marcello warm only the briefest of moments before more fuel was needed.

How could Chicago Pope let both the Cubbies AND the Sox lose on opening day?

I want someone to find the percent of thumbs down reacts to the new HP trailer but I'm also worried it won't be nearly high enough.

Mary Shelley: sup fuckers Poe: joanne was explaining death of the author Poe: what do you think, mary Shelley: death of the author eh? Shelley: [brandishing swicthblade] i think it's a good idea Rowling: i Rowling: i have to go

We are getting SO many opera houses getting endowment funded into perpetuity.

Me checking whether 22° feels like 6 is really THAT cold for a walk

Ended up being way harder than I'd have thought. My top 10, in no particular order: Final Fantasy X-2 Death Stranding 2 Mass Effect 2 Warcraft 2 Citizen Sleeper 2 Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth XCom 2 Shadowrun: Dragonfall Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (NES)

I have seen people reading paperbacks held in one hand while walking around. I believe them to be some kind of warlocks, perhaps sorcerors. Libro, on the other hand, is great for exercise time also being reading time for mortals like me. #Booksky

This feels to me like how we can't radiocarbon date objects post-1950 after nuclear weapons. I have immense respect for people who work to add their own brick(s) to the ongoing work of building scholarship in the world and this cheapening of the effort and contamination of the results is awful.

Excited to have bought a copy of _Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die_ both out of genuine interest and also to help keep this wretched creature in caviar and furs. <3 #BookSky

Had to make THREE phone calls today. My elder millennial soul wanting hard to leave for that shining and eternal phoneless place in the sky

9 games that made me. Really reflective of a lot of my taste from the last 5-10 years in particular, with some ones that had been big (Destiny + Overwatch in particular) omitted as I've pretty much hung those up. (made w/ my9games.com)

All these primary candidates for whom I did not vote have no idea how I relish recycling their flyers.

Balzac nails the ending. After a whole tale of his youth, finding a saintly woman to love, betraying her for the pleasures of the flesh, then fumbling both, we finally get the response from the woman to whom he wrote: "Holy shit, bro, you are MADE of baggage. We are not together anymore" #Booksky

The best one-sentence summary of AI bros I've read.

Bold of them to release a first look that skips straight to the SNL parody Kratos

Managed to limit myself to 3 books from the U Chicago Press sale

Just noticed the old guy who walks by with a walking stick has (today? regularly?) a pipe, too. Well played, old guy with walking stick.

Witcher 3 is an incredible game and I’m loving every minute of my re-play of it. A small thing about it that strikes me almost each day I play? That you can pause just anywhere at any time. Yes, thank you.

Had a weird pang of nostalgia for Star Trek: the Next Generation where they just call it Computer and no one pretends it's a person.

"Really, today it would seem that the roles have reversed, and women must devote themselves to men. These gentlemen are worth less and think more of themselves." --Honoré de Balzac, "La Duchesse de Langeais"

Starving Saints absolutely rocked my shit. A medieval castle full of (maybe) gods, mad folks, horror, and highly conflicted sapphic protags? Thank you, yes. #Booksky

Recently read "Gobseck" by Balzac and was bowled over. Seeing that the movie versions are (2x) Russian and 1 Czech production felt akin to when we had our minds blown by the Joffrey Ballet's production of La Bayadere, only to read how it's popular in Russia but rarely performed in US.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Age verification? When I was first playing video games you had to call a 1-900 number to get tips.

Hell yeah, Corys! US mixed curling into the semis! #Olympics

So frustrating to watch the parade of athletes on NBC. So many athletes and even countries skipped for ads. The Olympics are one of the great marvels of humanity but instead enjoy another American ad.

May have to add some mute words for the day so I can see it fresh when JD Vance gets booed at the parade of nations

I'm sure it's not intended, but this almost looks a monkey's paw wish: that you can speak to her again, but it's all you can do for the rest of forever. Wow, no thank you. (to say nothing of it being "AI" and not anyone's grandmother)

Tfw your Internet connection drops from your home office and your eyes light up with the hope of a new school snow day

An absolutely unbelievable read. Even as a terminally online person who has read endlessly about the various abuses of all varieties of egregiousness reading how impossible it is even for people with the government to put an end to them *for even just one person* bowled me over.

As usual, I'm mentally running from the big scary things by focusing on getting extremely petty and angry about smaller things

This is the way. One of my wife's and my fave sporting experiences was ski marathon a few Olympics back. Had never watched before and haven't since, but for one day it was heart-stoppingly thrilling. Well-earned fan faves for both men and women's pistol shooting, two years ago, too.