David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Just disgusting.

Remember when plants vs zombies was the best mobile app for a decade and then EA put out a sequel that was pay 2 win garbage? And then they kept putting out crap? Man, that sucked

As I often do, playing FE engage, and I have tiki equipped to Kagetsu, and whenever you attack while engaged, they make their dragon forms so enormously cunty that it is so weird how FE as a series is very bad at LGBTQIA+ stuff because some queen animated that FOR SURE

Man, fire emblem engage is so much fun. So many cool options, and I fully support the use of DLC after the midgame twist. It could be a perfect game if it didnt necessitate the start button during almost all cutscenes and speaking segments

I remember seeing a gross lede about that AI "actress" about how she can be anything, especially a virgin (paraphrased but that's what it said essentially), and all I could think was, "this guy has NO IDEA what happens to a LOT of AI image generators." Iykyk

Honestly one of the only reasons I would start praying again

I messaged a friend who I've known since high school about a song from a memory of ours, but after many years of thinking, "oh this is a funny story" I now realize that maybe the guy saying "booty booty booty" to her in a convention center isn't whimsical, but actually horrible harassment...

They say never meet your heroes but you should absolutely have (as) healthy (as possible) parasocial interactions with them on social media because it is usually a pretty interesting, if not wonderfully hilarious, time

Hilda needs to stand up for her boo

I don't remember what i said at the time, I more than likely jumped to conclusions off the back of drama YouTubers, which sucks considering how much "you're wrong about" I've listened to, but it seems like the Completionist just made a few bad calls then got dog piled for them and that sucks

I every year do a listen through of modest mouse's full discography during the late fall and winter (depending on how badly adhd hits). The new(er) albums-anything after good news-are less wintery but long drive and lonesome crowded west especially HIT in wintertime

When I see the 4 hour length on a @shaunvids.bsky.social video essay and I gotta throw up my hands like, "goddamn it! Guess im splitting my attention between AT LEAST 2 things for hours today."

No new pictures, where you at mentally?

relevant life lesson from comics on this one

Hey @moderation.bsky.app REINSTATE @lexialex.bsky.social NOW. Suspending her is unbelievably vile.

Shoutouts to the fact that next September 10th all the memes will be about a white supremacist getting merced and i can finally forget the other thing. We're free people!

civility is when a white guy calls for minorities to be eliminated in a calm voice while wearing an expensive suit

This was 3 weeks ago

Tonight I constructed one pretty weird parasocial repost, and then felt overly weird and immediately deleted it, and in its place I made a different reply on another person's post that was still a little weird but much more acceptable. It's the little steps we take to improvement

5 more years of Fodland discourse!

The fact that the new fire emblem looks like a mix of 3 houses art and the more classical style of updated art from engage is making me excited. Also, great value alucard is such a wild choice. Lol

Why the fuck am I gonna buy mario galaxy 1 and 2 AGAIN?!?

Everyone should see this. There is no reasoning with this, no debating, no finding middle ground.

It’s such a frustrating experience to spend so much time struggling to convince people to give even a single shit about the lives and welfare of other people and suddenly be lectured on MY lack of humanity over a guy who dedicated his entire adulthood to making people hate each other more

He hated Black people, he said women should be subjugated and forced to have children, he said gay and trans people should be murdered, he said Jews control the government, he said schoolchildren should die to gun violence. He said these things GLEEFULLY. He made RICHES off saying these things

it's beyond fucked that Charlie Kirk explicitly wanted millions of people to die—we know this because he said so, many times, and of many different groups—and in fact had dedicated his life to evangelising this exact end, but it's people making fun of his death that are the problem?

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

Case and point that he should have fucking died

Call it an evil opinion, I know he's literally a human being who can change and be better, but how come the fascists like Charlie Kirk survive while hoards of children die? We couldn't get this one piece of good news?

YOOOOOO MY GOAT ORDINARY SAUSAGE! This man is the most wholesome degenerate. Love him to death. Mr. Sausage 4 lyfe!

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

I've sent my top man for the job

I just watched the video and read the wired article...why the hell are people upset with Taylor Lorenz?!? She is only making good points that are true. Why is Instagram trying to smear her to me rn?

look, my skeets this weekend have mostly been about wishing death on donald trump and rudy giuliani, but that's not hate. that's love for their enemies -- the people. praying for the death of trump is an act of love. i'm just a big teddy bear.

One of the few aspects of bisexuality, I headcanon EVERY character who is not specifically designated straight or gay as bi because I believe everyone is a little bit queer...except for my wife oddly, who is one of the most straight people I have ever met

I can't tell if this is the funniest I've ever been, or if it is stupid and terrible, but I genuinely think it may be the first option

He is the worst Chris.

A text message I just sent my wife. "No one tells you entertaining babies is easy. All you gotta do is sing the wii mii maker song and shake your head around. Free smile everytime" This is 100% factual

I've had the survivorship bias plane model explained at length but honestly this diagram makes WAY more intuitive sense because I am a pervert and not an aeronautics engineer.

Slightly diminish a band: New to me (Does this scan as a Brand New reference?)

leftist ska band sending their trombone player to infiltrate FBI headquarters because he’s got the nicest suit but he keeps almost getting caught because of the trombone

Shoutouts to fire emblem engage for having terrible, hamfisted designs for the characters and plot, but having some of the best gameplay in modern FE

Environmental storytelling.

One of the most irritating things about this whole "Well you'll get along if you don't talk politics" is of course I fucking will, I am a cishet white man with a Protestant background. They love me. They just want to harm literally everyone else in my entire fucking life.

Shoutouts to the 10 year old child who, on my way home from picking up soft serve for the fam, resolutely told me to wait and roll my window down, and with the most serious face asked me, "you wanna see me pop a wheelie?" On his bike. HELL YES I DO AND IT WAS A SICK ASS WHEELIE

Yeah, I like gooning... Eating CRAB RANGOONS BY THE HANDFUL!... oh....oooooooh you thought...I was talking about extensive self pleasure... I wouldn't admit that on such a public forum... You gotta hit me up on Discord for that

I'm glad that people seem to be reacting to children starving to death in Gaza but I'm confused about why it's taken so long. Like did people really believe bombing so many residential buildings was to hunt for Hamas? Bombing every single hospital? So so many UNRWA shelters? The refugee camps?

I really didn't want to cancel like Skywalker but boy, another log on this Jedi's funeral pyre