I recognize that the perfect is the enemy of the good, but that's not going to stop me from wishing that Liz Warren, an otherwise decent senator, didn't have this horrible thing where she keeps going for KOSA, and I can't tell whether it's from naive understanding of its purpose, or actual malice.

The advantage of regularly looking at a couple of channels that are entirely in Japanese (hey, you don't need it for arcade game longplays, y'know) is that sometimes YouTube will throw something like this at me completely at random www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyc2...

"And another thing! You know what Brother Satchelmouth said when he come past the other p.m. - he said you boys was in here swinging when you shoulda been down at the meeting" #MusicAdvent www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0j-...

It's good to remember that this fan freakout campaign only happened because Gene Roddenberry intentionally leaked the plans for Spock's death to fans, out of retribution for being frozen out of development of the Trek movie sequels by Paramount.

I really hope Oprah Winfrey loses sleep sometimes

All opinions about AI aside, it's nuts. Like a D student who finally cracks the books only to fail the big test, and then wails "But I studied ALL WEEKEND!" Oh, did you? Fair enough, have a Clio.

Genuinely funny that the agencies behind two different poorly-received AI-generated corporate ad campaigns *in the last six weeks* have both responded to criticism by saying "Hey we worked really hard on this!" Insane way for a professional studio to communicate, "Sure you hated it but we TRIED!"

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

This scene would have been done a lot sooner if someone hadn't made the directorial decision to put so many characters in filmy negligees that have to be dForced to be usable

Alright I’m trying to officially understand why this man is negotiating peace treaties in Ukraine and Gaza AND doing hostile take over of media conglomerates and I have never once ever seen any media anywhere put an article out explaining to me why this man gets to do all that.

all the fake AI trash really contradicts one of the main ways we're told capitalism operates, with capitalists identifying wants/needs & developing products & services to meet those. turns out you can skip that step & just pretend. nigh everyone hates AI and it makes no money but it's everywhere

obvious the flattop is a piece of tin propped on top of a candle stub. you dont need me to tell you this

imagining an all night diner in a redwall world. little rat smoking while cooking on a flaptop. burned coffee in an acorn mug. the whole thing is inside a pumpkin

"This scene was originally only supposed to be two rows [half a page] but it's going to be longer now because I decided I wanted to put in strangeness and snark" -- me, as usual

Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.

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Apparently FIFA is being accused of a breach of ethics, which raises the very important question "FIFA had ethics?"

What is worse than an outfit you HAVE to dForce? An outfit you have to dForce with Start From Memorized Pose to get it to do right. This will only be meaningful to one person who reads it, but don't worry, the rest of you didn't miss anything.

Today for #MusicAdvent I was tied whether to give you Amber Papini's vocals (Hospitality) or Erika Wennerstrom's very different ones (Heartless Bastards) ... and while I wasn't looking, Hiromi Uehara snuck across the goal line. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3l...

The thing I try to explain the most to those who don’t live here is that the Nuzzis of the world live in Washington (the place that deserves your ire) and the rest of us live in D.C., a collection of diverse, mostly quiet, walkable residential neighborhoods with no federal representation

@nonelvis.com solved this problem by changing to Fluevog shoes, which immediately gave her an even more expensive problem

I'm pushing sixty so I've lived through the greatest punctuated-evolution of technology in human history, so there's a lot of these, but my favorite: I am probably the youngest remaining person who knows how to work with punch-card decks in computing. I learned this 1960s tech in the late 1980s.

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

You can tell the libertarians who got there via genuinely held principle because they’re not libertarians anymore.

A) omg beautiful B) lol what a landing C) bad morning for the fish 🪶

Images from films in which Mary Woronov speaks on the phone Woronov was BOTD in 1943 Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) Sugar Cookies (1973) Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Eating Raoul (1982)

I am brimming with holiday spirit

Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

SPOILER: Among other things, the upcoming Sleeper Squad (out in January) contains the Cobra Queen. And her wisp.

It's #MusicAdvent time! Apologies to those who were hoping for Go-Gos, Gorillaz, Geggy Tah, Guess Who, or Georgia Satellites. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVhi...

Making the butter-washed bourbon for Thanskgiving left me with roughly half a pound of brown butter, so half of that got used today in one of my fave cookie recipes. This one never misses, and I really hope that hint of bourbon comes through: www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/joys...

🎶Silver bails, silver bails, it's Christmas time in the city ...🎶 (I'm so sorry Nora please forgive me)

This coming in at only #656 out of 885 on @wxpnfm.bsky.social 's best cover song is a gross misjustice and makes me doubt my fellow XPNers. This song is EVERYTHING a cover song should be. (And yes, it was in my top ten). #xpn885countdown youtu.be/7kORTAjFAWM?...

A reminder that there is still no Gregorian moratorium on posting pictures of Veronica Lake in Sullivan's Travels.

Super Mario Bros. Deluxe includes a calendar that goes all the way to the year 3000. Ironically, this reaches much further than typical modern computer and smartphone calendars. As such, even now Super Mario Bros. Deluxe remains a good option to keep track of far future dates.

You know, you CAN just ignore everything Quentin Tarantino says. I promise you will miss very little of import that way.

TV show: “synaesthesia is very rare” Me: lol no you just have a weirdly culled social circle

… and he SERVED ✨

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

Casablanca Origins: Play It The First Time, Sam (A Cinematic Interactive Experience)

we do not have to pretend this is a legitimate question or power of the supreme court

that's not a thing. the supreme court can't "decide whether to uphold" a constitutional amendment. shut the fuck up

I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy

Women even told them, repeatedly! Even men told them! The CEO class ate too many paint chips as children.

What the fuck does the owner of Plumpjack Wines, who dines at the French laundry during lockdown, who dated Trump Jr’s wife, who looks like an 80s movie villain, know about acting fucking culturally normal

I have seen three recs for TRADING PLACES so far in the last two weeks and they have made me aware this movie was mismarketed back in the day. I've always assumed it was a prince-and-pauper fish-out-of-water comedy, ho fucking hum. It actually turns out to be about punishing amoral rich old farts.

For #MusicAdvent today I decided on Fountains of Wayne over the Flaming Lips, which means now I have to pick my favorite track on Sky Full of Holes, which has the coveted Album With No Bad Tracks status. This VERY narrowly beat out "Acela." www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpag...

Gruß vom Krampusnacht. Merry Krampus night, hope y’all been good or you’re going in the bag.

Welp, the Mammoth Scene That Threatened to Eat the Story is now fully rendered and laid out, and it's "only" four and a quarter pages, which is a relief, but does not make me lose sight of the fact that it was originally intended to be two pages at most.