the quote makes sense with context but it's still a trip of a sentence

really digging this book called "The Slip" by Lucas Schaefer. the prose is really melodic and conversational without being annoying. It keeps getting compared to Jonathan Franzen but I'm enjoying this more than The Corrections - at least in terms of the way the narrative feels poetic and fluid

ririsu calls me into the den to show me an anime set aboard the RMS Titanic and the ship has a name that ends in -ia and not -ic and the paint scheme is wrong she lied to me and i want her cancelled

soooo something happened after an argument with my mother i informed her im moving to Illinois after this September. Her being her petty self demanding to have the last word, she decided im being kicked out on June 1st. So i need to stockpile as much money as i possibly can. #mutualaid #helpsky

is it time to read Silence by Shusaku Endo again? it might be. i love reading it just as the winter starts to become spring. i'll never not be amused by the fact that I am super pagan-flavored agnostic and one of my most favorite novels ever is a super intense book of Catholic apologism

Nine Sols is so peak maybe this time I'll actually finish it

i hate the term "problematic"

burgers from the greasiest greasy spoon you've ever seen. the place smells like an ashtray, the patties were definitely frozen, the cheese is pre-sliced american, and the fries were done in oil that hasn't been changed since the Reagan administration but by god that shit is fuckin delicious

i need to send a document pc: your document is in your ~/Downloads folder phone: your document is lol who the fuck knows and fuck you for asking. here, take this shitty vibecoded file browser with banner ads to find the one of fifteen different places your app could have dropped it you fuckin cuck

doing perfectly normal things like apologizing to my girlfriend bc i dreamt we went to pick up the third in our 'cule from the airport and I left her behind bc Maximillian Pegasus wanted to show me the VIP lounge bc I needed cheering up after doing something rly embarrassing in highschool yesterday

Obligatory

linkin park's crawling was written about marik ishtar from yugioh and you can't convince me otherwise

is there a reason why, web dev wise, whenever I have to reset my password on a website I have to prove my identity, verify my email, reset my password and then after all of that...you often still have to log in? you can't just take all of that proof of identity I just spent five minutes doing

the last thing I want to hear about my healthcare is the opinion of a cis woman who wrote a mediocre fantasy series twenty years ago and has been coasting on it ever since please do not put that woman on my timeline

Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

curling looks like fun

youtube: "You liked that video. How would you like to watch it again but this time with a pasty dweeb superimposed over it while he 'reacts' to it?" EVERY TIME

Can confirm. The Starving Saints was *incredible* holy shit unhinged sapphic religious torture cannibalism with magic and bees the start dragged a bit and I've never been *super* fond of present tense stories but I sucked it up cuz the vibes were 💋👌, characters great, and the 2nd half was stellar

i wonder what the venn diagram of "'AI will save the world and fix every problem' truebelievers" and "people who read fiction novels and philosophy books" look like there not being much of an overlap would explain why every single one of the first seems to think a chatbot is an embryonic god

spend a ton of money on cat toys and her favorite one is one of my stinky old socks filled with catnip and tied up closed

autotune the news vids going viral is a recession indicator

exploring fluxer (they let you try the web app without an account) and in the top ten recommended communities are - Linux Gaming - Yuri - Leftist Film and Anime Corner - a furry server early to tell but this place might have a lil bit of sauce

even if you don't watch hockey regularly, watch how sick this goal is

that winning goal in the women's hockey gold medal game was disgusting. like downright nasty. congrats to US Women's Hockey!

"ffx was the last universally loved FF" yeah, in hindsight. FFX was *hated* at first because it had voice acting and that clip of The Laugh was used to mock it endlessly. FF8 was hated at first because it wasn't FF7-2. I remember gaming mags ragging on FF9's chibi character designs.

also worth noting that these are DRM'd files and require Kobo accounts and that you have to read them through Adobe's shitty digital editions platform but I won't tell you that it's really, really, really easy to de-DRM these blog.purplepanda.gay/posts/instru...

it's time to d-d-d-d-d-dd-d--dd-d-d-d-d-d--insert epic techno remix or smn #yugioh

make sure you go to Adjust Donation and fix the default money allocation because this is a shame

last night I dreamed that Konami surprised dropped a full on remake of Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest and it was critically acclaimed but people were really mad because they replaced the "horrible night" line with "CURSE TIIIIIIIMEEEE!" and vuvuzuelas played through the entire night cycle of the game

"What radicalized you?" A French-speaking child, new to the US, struggling to make herself understood in my very multicultural library's art program. I said, in my very very broken HS French: "Bonjour! Bienvenue a Etats-Unis!" Her face lit up. She kept pointing to things and telling me the French

i love living with the fact that a huge amount of hobbies I've had for most of my life are going to be much more, if not completely, inaccessible because the richest people in the world need to be richer

another day another "just because they do it in movies/tv shows doesn't mean americans actually do it"

This would fix me 🐶👉👈

this post will be circulating long after i die date her mom

yeah, finished it. it had too many characters (and the narrator bounces between the like four different names each character is called by every other sentence like a dog with the zoomies) so it was tedious to keep track of who was who. it was a chore until I got to the hook (saving the mystery and

Mei coded characters

tho now w/ context it is kinda funny remembering all the handwringing about this book from like five years ago about how Gideon and Harrow's love wasn't "healthy" or some shit they're necromancer lesbians in a haunted castle raised by bone people nothing about this scenario is halal, susan

still not super 100% on it, but the back third is a lot more interesting than the first 2/3rds (now that half the overly large cast is dead and only the interesting characters are left lol) gotta say tho that is the most hilariously contrived reason to have a yuri pool confession scene ever

(I've generally tried to be less of THAT kind of Linux poster but this is one hill I will absolutely be smug on because it's such a important representation of why I no longer use Windows: customization is a big deal for me and being able to change where your taskbar is feels like the bare minimum)

good advice for life

im not a linux evangelist but people post on here weekly like "i miss when computers were more like the early 2000s and had basic software and i didn't have to pay attention to all the flashiness and complexity and updates" girl what you desire is running stable debian on a spare thinkpad

i want the kind of cojones it takes to release an ebook version of a non-fiction book at only one dollar off the paperback price but having replaced all of the pictures/photographs (very important for a true crime book) with "images cannot be displayed due to licensing issues"

"I thought the book was eh" the panda says before she spends three straight days thinking about it and can't shake it from her thoughts even as she's read two books since maybe I did like it

maybe she's channeling the energy of people who obsess over serial killers and mass murderers; the people who write to them in prison and collect mementos like funko pops desperate people who want to feel part of something big and monumental, even if it's tragedy.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

this made me snrk tho real black mage/fighter 8-bit theater energy

about a third of the way through Gideon the Ninth. It's....okayyyyyyy so far i guess i dunno

this is the shit that's melting your grandparents and your younger nieces/nephews brains

it's hard to describe the feeling of dread that comes over me when I see a picture of a couple of people in suits standing at a podium in front of an american flag "oh god, what now"

But what other verbs could eloquently describe "losing control of one's path and getting stuck like an unwieldy large ship in a canal"?