US-ians whenever basic infrastructure in the US is discussed, like railways: 'oh no could never work here, US is so different, so unique, so special'. Anytime it is hot in Europe 'lol, just do what we do, it's so simple, what do you mean your houses are built completely differently'.

it's always cute when Americans are like "LOL. Europe. we put aircon in ancient buildings ALL THE TIME it's easy." then you look and they mean sticking window units in some wooden buildings younger than my wardrobe.

Predator blood is the goo inside of glowsticks. PREDATOR BLOOD IS THE GOO INSIDE OF GLOWSTICKS YOU LAZY COWARDS.

…oh shit, yeah, that’s it, isn’t it?

When I say that Mumsnet should be considered a driver of extremism on par with 4chan/8chan and Kiwi Farms, I am not exaggerating in the slightest

Whenever people say "Games are being outsourced to sweatshops cos local devs demand too much pay" Follow up question should always be "How much does the CEO make" If execs made ONLY TWICE AS MUCH as programmers they could pay the entire team a upper middle class wage & still sell the game for $30

👓: For when people complain about how a show with a set start/end storyline turns out

With Deltarune chapter 5 coming out today, I wanna plug the dub I did of a @meltsmelts.bsky.social animation last year when chapter 4 came out because gosh dang it I still think I did a dang good job with it 😊 youtu.be/6bHoE5jiNJM?...

Excitingly the Seppo Bluescold scolding western europeans for dying in the latest global climate crisis heatwave instead of simply having expensive, power-guzzling US style heatproof infrastructure already installed is also scolding other Americans for not being from the same bit of America as him

This headline placing lost parking spaces before lives is a perfect metaphor

Hasbro doesn't seem to maintain a corporate presence here, but I bet there are other platforms you can tell them your expectations on.... Go tell them what you think 😉 investor.hasbro.com/contact-us also the platforms run by fuckfaces

Modern dating advice for straight women *used* to include asking men what their political party is, or who they voted for, but many men have gotten a clue. So the new advice is to ask him what he thinks of Skyler White, because many misogynists will be unable to restrain their opinions about her.

THIS THIS THIS! If I hear one more 'it's hot, take sunscreen!' message I'll scream. It's sunny and June, so take sunscreen. Whatever the temperature. It's hot so don't go out in it. Two. Different. Things.

As you boil in the heat, never forget that all those people who for decades have deliberately and maliciously disrupted efforts to tackle climate change are probably sitting comfortable in their large air conditioned houses. Houses funded on the back of lies/misinformation they helped propagate.

A "podcast" that is taped and released as video and features famous people is just a talk show that doesn't have to abide by union rules.

I’m also gonna note: I’ve actually never been to this hospital, or referred for an MRI anywhere. no apparent connection why it was me at all. ha ha, this AI just happened to pick out one of its haters

Well, fantastic, I just phoned UBC Hospital because I mistakenly got a text message about someone else’s MRI, and a nice person confirmed it was “their AI system” mixing up people’s health care card numbers

I'm so fucking tired of hearing that trans kids need to eat shit. That we need to let lawless bygones be bygones. That data centers get all our water and we just need to adjust to the future. That the Supreme Court is static and we just need to sit there and not have rights.

(Going unlimited also makes employees afraid to use it because when it’s an earned entitlement, an employee taking a vacation is a normal, expected part of the business environment. When it’s “unlimited”, it becomes a privilege granted only to the favored employees, and everyone else is a slacker.)

ESPECIALLY if they gave you unlimited PTO, because that is them pulling a scam on you. When you earn PTO and they lay you off? They HAVE TO pay out that PTO as compensation. When they go unlimited? Your PTO stops being earned, stops being a liability on their books! It INCENTIVIZES layoffs. USE IT!!

A reminder that other self-driving cars use expensive LIDAR to detect objects. Musk chose to go a cheaper route using AI to process images from cameras. AI is simply a very complex classifier that performs poorly in rare events, which is what a lot of driving is about

You'll know WHY it's on Substack (extremely reluctantly & solely to try to clear up a gigantic mess) if you read it. Almost a year after I left people are still filing fraud disputes against me & costing me huge sums in Stripe fees, solely due to Substack's lies about the ease of leaving their site.

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

One of the things I hate is that I cannot just google "is X safe for dogs" anymore because even sources I would have thought previously were safe are clearly using AI generated content.

What the Final Fantasy XIV Playerbase is Doing This Pride Month to Make the Cisgender Heterosexual Community Feel Welcome ggtribune.com/2026/06/23/w...

fun fact: they found the original digital master tapes of all the Reboot episodes that we previously only had in VHS quality, refurbished the extremely rare and expensive tape machines required to play the masters, and are currently uploading them to youtube for free in 1080p! youtu.be/inKdUICLmXY

More like Lucy Flawless

Completely tear up and rewrite car regulations. They need to be smaller, less powerful and slower. There's absolutely no need for massive SUVs and trucks on UK roads. Also drop the motorway speed limit to 60MPH and the urban speed limit to 20. Also overhaul E bike regulation.

The fascist isn't actually arguing, he's getting you to *think that you are in an argument*, an interaction where you admit the possibility that he may be right. He's getting you used to playing along with his game, instead of you going "fuck you get the fuck out of here shithead"

The fascist isn't actually arguing his nazi shit. He's getting you acclimated to thinking that his nazi shit is something that *can* be civilly debated with, as if it is a position that might have legitimacy, a belief you might come to accept given the right argument.

To all the impending Pathfinder Infinite writers waiting for the new society scenario guidance - Paizo has a NO GEN-AI policy. Not sure why I have to share this, but apparently I do. help.pathfinderinfinite.com/hc/en-us/art...

I feel like “the intended message is not remotely what appeared on screen” is also a classic RTD trope

I know from RTD’s interviews that he thinks people need to build connections in real life, to stop thinking online action is enough. But his fable gives the opposite message: don’t get involved in person because it *makes everything worse*.

Hey, been recovering from some stuff today so this its out a bit later than I wanted it to be, but it's SHORTS TIME! Monster Core Monday Cat edition.

truck hitbox power creep

Do not speak to me of "barriers to entry". Every act of creation is slicing out a thin sliver of light from the existential darkness of the human condition. You not being able to pick up a fucking pencil and risk failing does not even register.

no its not ableist to tell people to use a fucking dictionary when they do not know what a word means. Christ on a fuckin stick

“I wasn’t a member, i just went to Peter Thiel’s fascist hangout looking for podcast guests.” Yes, you fucking dupe, that’s why they had you there!!! So you’d feature their favorite pet fascists and type sentences like “While some argue this is fascist, the truth is a little more complicated…”

We take pride in telling stories with elements of the perseverance of the LGBTQIA+ community through the lenses of Pathfinder and Starfinder. In today's blog, celebrate our team and community members who show that even at tables full of fantasy, queer identities are very real.

"Be beige, not rainbow" is the outcome of librarians saying libraries should be neutral. We cannot and are not neutral, and we gotta stop insisting that we are. At this point, it is part of the book ban playbook.

It is wild how, across the board, our overlords are like "what if we made the bread and circuses more expensive"

A book might introduce you to new words and then where does it stop? What if there are new facts or worse, new ideas too?

This. The real threat with fascism is not it becoming an entrenched, stable power structure, it's how many people it can kill, maim, throw in camps, etc. before the house of cards collapses.

When Pride and Father’s Day are the same holiday. youtu.be/WANlg297AHU

it turns out there are Bridgets everywhere for those with the eyes to not see them.

I'll be honest, I've never really felt the same way about Death of the Author after learning its origins (Barthes was angry over a Balzac story about a chaser, written over a century prior, for referring to a character as a woman instead of a femboy no I'm not making this up)

With alt text, because this is important.

Americans have the right never to grow older. Americans have the right for things always being like they remember. Americans have the right for nothing ever to change. Americans have the right never to see anything new.

TIL that Vanilla Ice not only ripped off "Under Pressure" for the beat of "Ice Ice Baby" -- the goddamn title, chorus, and coda were all ripped off from a viral stepping routine developed by Black fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha! Asshole! Here's a clip of ΑΦΑ doing the OG routine in SCHOOL DAZE (1988):

I don't have any patience for the "but we're poor" argument for bands using AI for posters and publicity. Try to think back to roughly 3 years ago when you somehow coped without it.