Me looking for the last box of Girl Scouts cookies

this account is run by a human at NASA JPL who only posts real images with their receipts. it only has 11k followers compared to the 200k the ai slop space account has

Israel has killed more journalists in the last 2-1/2 years than any other nation in the 30+ years @pressfreedom.bsky.social have been tracking this.

Fellow YouTubers, what's one video of yours you feel deserves more views? Of course they all deserve six digits, but which one do you think more people should see? For me it's my video on the Kenneth Branagh Hamlet game. Such a wild thing to exist and be hidden for so long. youtu.be/Qm3LoWtVI1U

AT THE HEART OF MODERN CULTURE, A NIGHTMARISH VOID Me, in @currentaffairs.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

Can’t believe it ran like THAT for almost an hour without feeling any shame. I would have died of laughter if I had been a spectator.

Today’s read was “Hornytowm Chutzpah” by Andrew Miller, a comedic noir novel about a private dick helping a demon framed for murder. If you fondly remember the Beetlejuice cartoon, this might be up your alley.

Happy Superman Day! 🧵

Smart! Hang out where people are bringing out fresh flowers 24/7. This is why I live under a Cinnabon.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Great, now I have to explain to my kids that Godzilla - 0 still equals Godzilla.

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

Re-upping my Free Stuff Thread. Lots of free, RESTORED silent movies! Also read the replies, there's even more free stuff there.

The touching story about how a plumber discovered his own face. Plus fun fact: Luigi did not actually debut in the arcade version of Mario Bros. He showed up before!

“The general population can now eat up to four seafood meals a month from the lower portion of the Hudson River. The state also said anglers should stick to the striped bass; health officials do not recommend eating the carp or smallmouth bass.” A guideline made to avoid lawsuits & responsibility.

Read “Daidara” by Gohan Takahashi. Was it the “next Akira” as the cover promised? Not in the slightest! See the first page which feels inspired by Akira the movie, but not Otomo’s art necessarily

Christmas came early because I just found a stack of manga I had forgotten about. (Well, top left is a prose short story collection.) Curious about Daidara claims to be the next Akira. Doubtful but I’m willing to see what it’s like

“Chaos” by Moebius. Just two more art books from Epic to get. Hard to believe Marvel was putting these out at the same time Jim Lee was drawing X-Men.

Why yes, I did acquire another Moebius art book published by Epic Comics

Love sending off that last email for work at the end of the day, turning off my laptop, then turning on my home computer to settle in for my second job of checking the 1,000 emails the school sent out.

I’ve been waiting for something like this since The Night Comes for Us.

CEOs should have to take a 90% pay cut if they’ve mismanaged the company so badly they have to lay off 1/4 of the staff.

Really the best possible time, with the Strait of Hormuz closed and natural gas plants in the middle east exploding every day, to announce that you are going to pay someone $1B to STOP building renewables.

The sound of those hooves on the carapace must be driving that tortoise insane

Sad to hear about Sam Kieth’s death. Everything he drew was a visual treat. His post-The Maxx creator-owned work had such a unique frisson.

It’s funny to me that the Chuck Norris meme was, apparently, originally about Vin Diesel. My assumption is it was changed to Norris b/c his films were objectively worse, which made the meme funnier.

So glad I don’t have to compete with anoles at the club anymore

This is so well crafted. The humor is *chef’s kiss*

I didn't stop with segregated neighborhoods. A Duke study for Shame of Chicago determined at least $4 billion was plundered from Black buyers via overpriced predatory housing contacts while their white counterparts got equity & cheaper terms through mortgages www.chicagoreporter.com/the-plunder-...

At some point we are going to have to reckon with the fact that in our society individuals taking on enormous unserviceable debt is an irresponsible vice, but finance guys taking on enormous unserviceable debt to buy media companies, then laying the suffering on the workers, is a virtue.

Wherever you think Donkey Kong’s name comes from, it’s probably more complicated than that — both the ‘Donkey’ part and the ‘Kong.’ Like, for starters Shigeru Miyamoto probably didn’t create this character’s name. www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com/blog/donkey-...

Love how this is more than the usual political platitudes. This imbues the holiday with something much more meaning.

Hahaha jesus christ

Added some more Moebius books to the library. I already have Silver Surfer in the original issues and a Masterworks, but I love the Epic version. Epic was so good at hardcovers and collected editions

“STAAAARSSS…”

Got a decently priced copy of Ihatovo Monogatari for the Super Famicom along with a copy of the soundtrack that was released in 2023. It’s got those sweet 16-bit lo-fi vibes.

First time I saw 1337 and lol

“I keep shooting but I’m not hitting it!” “Just make sure you leave two rounds.” “Why, what’re you thinking?” “I’m thinking I’d rather not get eaten alive…”

“Bramble” by Luke Baker. This was a fun read. What if a video game was a book. Experimental in a good way. You can really envision the game as you read. “House of Leaves” was the theory, this is the praxis.

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

I’m not a practical FX partisan, but they have yet to make a CGI Jabba that looks as good as the puppet in RotJ. These CGI versions never look like they’re actually *there*

Chris Pratt as Garfield is a high bar to clear,but this might be the apotheosis of giving one of the handful of handsomely paying, recurring voiceover gigs to a somewhat-known on-camera actor instead of somebody who specializes in voice acting. There was no reason to cast this guy as a CGI worm.

Revel in Nintendo nostalgia as I attempt to track down the first instance of Nintendo crossing over one franchise with another.

Everyone so try hard to be a lyric in the next update to “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Man, they’re just wildin’ out in the ‘Couv

If I try to be charitable, I’m sure it was just a slip, but I wonder how many Americans believe (falsely) that Iran already has nuclear weapons. They don’t even have ICBMs, as far as I know

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

The first problem with this is the double spaces after the periods. Then there’s the rest of it

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.