Yes it is quite a mystery

Here it is, your moment of zen.

thinking once again about how dem electeds don't idolize their own past presidents the way they do republican ones

Any night when you have to dig under the sink for a (somewhat expired) COVID RAT is, ipso facto, not a good night

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

Happy Presidents Day! it’s your yearly reminder that any time William Henry Harrison is name dropped, you have to immediately shout “he died in 30 days!”

[Me sowing] This story's gonna have an AERIAL BOMBARDMENT! It's gonna be really amazing! [Me reaping] Ah, shit, now I have to set up the fucking aerial bombardment scene

I like Sandie Shaw's covers better than her other work, and sometimes I think her covers are better than the originals. She does a clever thing to the lyrics of "Reviewing The Situation," and removing Ron Moody's hambone helps it. She improves "Sympathy For The Devil" just by not being Jagger. BUT.

People sometimes say things like “If I were the richest person in the world, I would cure cancer / solve world hunger / give everyone a home / etc.” Beloved, the fact that you would do such things means you will never be one of the richest people in the world.

This is totally non-standard for any publication. Every pub everywhere pretty much cleans up uhms, uhm, and vocal tics like that, which EVERYONE DOES. This is extremely intentional. If I was writing this I’d probably do the quote “this is of course a very longstanding policy of the United States”

The comments. My lord. The Venn Diagram of people who say "a woman can't be President" and say "Gavin Newsom 2028" is a circle AOC 2028

Tossup between the entire lyric of "Greenshirt" and the entire lyric of "Radio Radio." Back when the man was so edgy he practically vibrated. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMc2...

While I was not looking, @nora.zone got their entire account flagged as "Rude" ... and that meant it was finally time to set Rude in the moderation controls to Off rather than Warn, because the mods use Rude so capriciously that the tag has become useless/meaningless.

It's always fun when someone on DA discovers my archives there and clearly thinks OH SHIT A MOTHERLODE HAS BEEN DISCOVERED and then faves like twenty things

9 year old watching Indiana Jones: “I like that the music tells you when to be excited.” Lmao these kids give such casually devastating pop culture commentary, it’s so funny

kinda wild how there's basically no rich person who wants to build or preserve anything useful, not even "medical research to stop cancer"

They are trapped here with ussssssssss

It’s so funny how true this is and how pissed off the founders are this happened

Action and, especially, fight sequences are hard for me because I have trouble conveying activity and motion in still images. However, I believe this panel of Hanne decking Drusilla gets the point across with complete clarity.

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

It would solve so many problems if we stopped Stephen Miller. Like just tell him gay women of color are outside enjoying wealth & freedoms & when he goes to get em, trap his ass in a cable snare

Why is this story so slow to do? Well let's see. New scene. Find/hack together a vaguely appropriate set. Then load: - Drusilla - Two Prevost troops - Hanne - Holly - Alex - Two Bonisova troops ... and that's for a minor skirmish in the backcountry. (Oh and don't forget to dress Alex and his men)

also I would be remiss if I did not reference @katebeaton.bsky.social’s legendary comic when discussing a book by one of the Brontës

I redirect everyone’s attention to JIM MACKAY, a book-banning, Great Replacement Theory-touting hard right-winger who *has changed his name* to J. GORDON MITCHELL to run as a Democrat in Texas’ 17th Congressional district

I'll be honest, this isn't about AI at all, it's about the increased expectations of productivity put on tech workers due to a declining rate of profit. all these new tech cos have sky high 9/9/6 expectations for workers; AI is, like all things, just a convenient proxy for exploitation.

"We need long seasons because it's impossible to care about the characters without them." Skill issue.

Today I learned that Glen David Gold, writer of two of the best books I've read in the last, uh [looks up the publication date of Carter Beats The Devil and winces] twenty-five years, is on Bluesky.

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

And I expect you all to know which is which without peeking at the answers. (Unless, of course, you can't see the pictures, in which case you get a pass.)

I play a little mobile game called Cats and Soup. you start with one cat who sells soup while you’re offline and then you can use your money to unlock more cats. I have 81 cats. I think conceptually these guys are doing the same thing

wait until these guys hear about idle clicker games

the AuDHD urge to put additional context in parentheses in texts so others know there’s more than one thought happening at the same time

The Department of Energy National Labs have been converted into a research engine for the Universal Paperclip machine. Essentially all research is directed to accelerating the buildout of AI data centers no matter the expense to humanity. The initiative has the Biblical name of Genesis.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

I mean how long have we had maps on our phones? Now when I want to look up something nearby, my phone has to "think" about it longer to provide an AI summary that offers no meaningful benefit over the old search results

Simple tasks that were solved problems now are a hassle to deal with thanks to this stuff. And I think anyone who has optimism about the underlying technology should focus on fixing that because it's not helping your cause

If there's something wrong with my internet connection, Xfinity wants me to talk to a useless chatbot about it. The photo editing software that came with my phone is useless now. I get nagged about it every time I want to use my work email.

If I had to bet on the main thing that has radicalized people against "ai," and I am talking about the way that branding is CURRENTLY BEING USED, not whatever specialized ML utility you may have found for it, it would be in apps and tech they already use being made worse and/or inoperable by it

Frodo: "Uncle Bilbo.. of course, I'm happy to be back home, and to see our quest ended at last. But one thing troubles me still... Did you ever encounter a man named Tom Bombadil?" Bilbo: "Tom Bombadil owes me four hundred and fifty dollars"

I have some relatively long essays/rants I want to post, but the problem is, if I'm working on a story I won't spare the time to do that, and I'm always working on a story. However, that repost back there about Schrader and generative slop? Keep that in mind for when I write a particular essay.

He's like if Phoenix Wright was about ice skating, just a pure cartoon character. He choked at the last event and I hope he's writing about it in quill by candlelight, screaming at his team to leave him be as they knock on his hotel door to check in on him

If you haven't been watching the Olympics, this kid dresses like a vampire, wears a practice shirt that says "quad god" because he can do quadruple spins in the air, and the music he skates to has his own voice dubbed on top reading his angst poetry. He's wonderful, I'm really glad he's here.

trying to figure out how to decide if my pain is bad enough to need to go to the emergency room and reading the instructions on how to make doctors not treat you like dogshit kind of made me want to die instead so im taking my panic attack medications and seeing if that helps

Happy Valentine’s Day, comrades!

What these sloppers can’t explain is how or why anyone would pay to see someone else’s slop when they can make their own bespoke slop with the same low effort. They aren’t making movies, they’re making junk mail

“what are you willing to do to win?” typically makes people think of combative elements, but way more of the time this is what you’re gonna be called to do.

Roses are red Kudzu’s ill-mannered When it finally happens We’re all getting hammered

Based on what we learned from Tarima last week, I firmly believe Deltans in Starfleet take oaths of celibacy because everyone else finds the whole "family bathes you in milk and then you have to sing to them" situation a bit embarrassing.

the people clamor for the return of lina khan