Starfield, the game where you fly your intergalactic spaceship from one part of a planet to another because text messages don’t exist “Hey I got the bad guys” “Cool now pop their ships in orbit” Why did I have to come back so you could tell me to fly away again in person

Best picture I could get and it’s still really bad but this was one of my little visitors last night

The internet told us it was cool to mock pedants and look where we are now You need us pointing out your spelling errors and your specious reasoning or the world collapses into anarchy—and not the fun kind “Humongus” balls, indeed

Sitting on my porch is like watching a nature documentary Random deer wandering through the yard, possums, armadillos, squirrels, all the bugs you could ever ask for, various and sundry birds (even turkeys!), bats, the occasional coyote (or possibly fox, can’t tell, too dark)

An Effective Altruist doing data center apologism, you say. Well I for one am shocked

Lifelong Nazi spots a new revenue spigot, adjusts their ideology by 5%, says they were only a lifelong Nazi because they were hypnotized by you-know-who. The finest minds online: 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

The first ten minutes of Jurassic World: Rebirth have not been encouraging

The Forgotten City mod for Skyrim has amazing atmosphere right out of the gate, how have I never played this? And it’s supposed to rain tomorrow? Yeah I know what I’ll be doing

Everyone knows UFOs only came here to exterminate the intergalactic bigfeet menace and pick up their sleeper agent Nessie, they have no other reason to be interested in this weird flat planet, too many lizard people

Reaching level 40 in Skyrim and having the traditional mid-level crisis: keep trying to save the world like a responsible adult or run off with the big titty goth girl Get in loser, we could have been halfway to Hammerfell by now

On the one hand people have to look like something but on the other having a movie producer tell you that they stole your face for a movie, here have this drawing of it that I made and signed and btw I’m not paying you, kinda seems like a slam dunk of a case

99.99% of the time the word you’re looking for is “averse,” not “adverse.” And for that other .01% you’re probably a technical writer writing some kind of technical document E.g.: I am *averse* to people saying “adverse” when they mean “averse” Different words, different meanings

Jurassic World: Dominion is like five different movies all crammed together like the voltron lions into a giganotosaurus of a movie which is a great value if you think about it, why watch one movie when you could be watching five at once

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom First impression: this was a really good Resident Evil adaptation It’s like they wanted a sequel to JW and they had a spec script for RE that someone sent in and they weren’t gonna use so they swapped out the zombies for dinosaurs and scribbled in the island scenes

Rewatching Jurassic World The thesis of this movie is that this movie has a thesis, and if you don’t like it that’s okay because it has another thesis, and another, and another! It’s like they say about the weather in [your state]: if you don’t like it just wait five minutes and it’ll change

The nineties were better in the sense of several extremely bad things not having happened yet

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

Just watched an Amazon delivery truck rattle over every bump in my neighbor’s driveway, no way it wasn’t on purpose Someone is having a day

Gerrymandering can be difficult to understand, but this graphic helps illustrate how it can be used to pervert the intentions of voters. Say Team Blue wins 60%. Depending on who’s drawing the map, that could mean winning all 5 seats or winning only 2 of 5.

by = ✍️ buy = 💵 bye = 👋 Bye Bye Bye = 💁🏼‍♂️💁🏻‍♂️💁🏼‍♂️💁🏻‍♂️💁🏻‍♂️

I promise you, I swear to you, this is the absolute truth: No one hates Richard Dawkins more than atheists. It's like if you ask for a court-appointed attorney and you're assigned a howler monkey covered in its own shit wearing a jaunty cap.

For no reason thinking of that bit in The Departed where the Irish mob’s mole in the PD is put in charge of finding the Irish mob’s mole in the PD Definitely wasn’t any topical political discourse that made me think of it

Begging people to read sci fi that isn’t romantasy so that Libby will stock more sci fi that isn’t romantasy

Weather app down 🤨

I don’t know which media outlets need to hear this but 1000 words is a blurb not a manifesto

Nixon: “I’m not a crook.” *resigns in disgrace* Trump: “I’m not a rapist” *goes back to manipulating the stock market and we’re all just letting it happen*

You said people were only mad because you were wearing a mask! You were clearly trying to deflect criticism from the beginning bc you knew you fucked up.

Members of the National Science Board, which the US Congress founded in 1950, were given no explanation for their termination

I’m not saying it was definitely staged but it’s weird how many people now have been competent enough to get past security only to completely biff at the last second

Now to check Polymarket to see who placed a large bet on POTUS dying at the WHCD

The funny thing about the trolley problem is that it isn’t supposed to be a test but so many people are determined to fail it anyway

People forget how irrational we can be. For instance, I wouldn’t buy a beast bar if I was starving because fuck that guy, I have principles. Rational? No. But we have entire very lucrative industries built around exploiting our innate irrationality.

Just firing the nation’s scientific review board for no particular reason, totally normal thing for a president to do, nothing to see here, thank you for your inattention to this matter

At last, rain

“Souls don’t exist” “But muh qualia” “That’s a made up word” “All words are made up” “Yes, BY OUR BRAINS”

I’m not bad at math I’m just using a mathematical device to illustrate that nothing means anything anymore Should have pushed back on “alternative facts” before they destroyed consensus reality

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“I have magical powers” is becoming a psychologically safer expression of American individualism than the bootstraps narrative

Why is quitting Bluesky to focus on his passion project, making handmade swimsuits for cell phones

For Earth Day I gathered a bunch of the random cinderblocks lying around here (for reasons?) and stacked them into an enclosure to use for composting

It’s crucial to understanding how gender is affecting our ability to rally behind a shared ecological vision

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” ~ Chief Seattle #earthday

Scientists should start wearing robes and speaking almost exclusively in classical Latin. I think this would dramatically improve society for obvious reasons that I don’t want to talk about.

I bet the hardy boys grew up to be crooked real estate developers wearing rubber monster masks to commit some kind of fraud and used their detective skills to get away with it in spite of those meddling kids. They probably have blackmail files on the whole gang

It occurs to me now that I’ve cut up old tires and filled them with expensive dirt to make raised beds that my cat will probably have a lot of fun digging up whatever I plant in there

I don’t like that robots can run faster than me now but if I’m being honest with myself they could probably run faster than me already. But I randomly smash into fewer walls so I still have a shot. For now.

No bird you don’t belong in the road this is people space stay in your own lane NO NOT LIKE THAT PULL UP PULL UP

Heroes < ideals