40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

I mean if you’re going to campaign for something…

She’s right, but it’s even better than that. Even uninformed people can understand the premise of “tariffs put Funko Pops out of business”, and hopefully extrapolate that to “tariffs make companies fail” and then “tariffs are bad for the economy.”

Utah was criminally negligent with the puck in the neutral zone, the whole third period. Habs didn’t even try to run up the score; it was just handed to them.

THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦 PeaceLoveCanada.ca

This was the first of two absurdly easy turnover goals to end the game. Fun to watch if you’re rooting for the Habs.

It’s worse than that. For the first couple months, VHS tapes would cost $100-200, at which point only the rental stores were buying them. They’d come down to $20-30 a couple months later, at which point they were meant for sale directly to the consumer.

Well this is good news. The kid (who has no use of his right arm due to a stroke ~3 years ago) did great on the lessons for the Kirby Air Riders global test using his one-handed Nhuad controller, so I guess that’s going to the top of the Christmas list.

Remember: repost and quote-posts are not necessarily endorsements. But by god, this one sure is.

F yeah. Purple chips are back after two years.

Bugs Bunny, holding a free-standing door that in to the Chicago river: Over here Mr. ICE Agents! Right through here! A trove of innocent people! *a single file line of ICE agents going hup-hup walk off the and fall in to the Chicago river* Bugs Bunny: Where's Dave Matthews when you need him, huh?

Post you from a different era. I’m barely visible on the left, but this might be the only time I got on the New Year’s Eve credit roll at all.

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

In 25 years doing this job, I've seen Square Enix make mistakes, but the layoffs they just enacted, including extremely experienced professionals with whom I worked for over a decade, are the most idiotic blunder of them all. Today's SE leadership is making me miss Yoichi Wada.🤔

I LEARNED THE ANSWER TO THIS Chris's Steakhouse was a New Orleans landmark Chris Matulich periodically got bored, sold it, waited for the new owner to fail, and bought it back cheap The sale conditions: Can't move it, can't change the name He did this six times Then he sold it to Ruth Fertel

I throw up in my mouth a little every time I read something like “the originalist legal philosophy that the court’s conservatives today widely embrace.” What a crock of shit. “Originalism” is just a hand-wave for “the founding fathers would have thought whatever I think.”

Until her feelings include “my country should withdraw its military from Ukraine and start paying reparations for what we’ve done”, I really don’t give a rat’s ass what Alya does with her feelings.

A reminder: AI is a bad translator--it will give you in a pinch the meaning (if it doesn't get hopelessly confused) , but i will not create something that reads like a book. That's why we have professionals. (And everyone who's reread ai translations knows that it's faster going to rewrite them)

As someone who speaks at a lot of conferences: Don’t use Google Slides. 99.99% of the time it will be better to use Keynote or PowerPoint. It’s nuts the amount of times I’ve seen Google Slides fail, not load video, and flashbang the audience with a completely white frame after every slide.

happy total lanscaping anniversary day, one of the funniest days on twitter

A little bird told me that there's a comic here for you to read! Wondermark #1370; The Avian Informant (Part 1 of 2)

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

This was also my first thought when they named the team “Torrent”. www.reddit.com/r/PWHL_Seatt...

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

Can I get a “finally!” www.reddit.com/r/Rockband/s...

Their coverage rarely overlaps with my interests, but I’ve kept up a print-and-ebook subscription to Otaku USA for over 15 years as part of my policy to throw money at the western anime industry whenever possible. Their manga reviews have turned me on to a lot of good stuff, TBH.

rip gilson lavis, original drummer for squeeze. the opening of this is so iconic music.apple.com/us/album/up-...

Why is there still no solid third party Mac client for Bluesky? There are several for Mastodon, which has a smaller user base. Is because of technical challenges? Are developers holding off to see if AT Protocol has legs?

The movie is lousy, but there’s still enough of the original there to cut a cool trailer. youtu.be/3ge0navn9E0

Wow that’s a lot of data. Kind of amazed they keep this and have now made it visible to us. #NintendoSwitch

My advice to Republicans is that they even more fully commit to their strategy of gerrymandering their smaller number of +10 districts into a larger number of +5 districts. It's sure to pay off in 2026.

While y’all are in the mood for resisting fascism, reminder that the dirt cheap ($10!) manga-sized edition of “V for Vendetta” comes out today. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/v-for-vend...

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Has anyone considered teaching Nate Silver a new skill? Y’know, get the guy an O’Reilly or Prags book on Python or something? Maybe swap out his face and voice for an anime girl avatar and start VTubing? Something more viable than whatever he thinks he’s doing currently.

I think this outlier puts the lie to the premise that demographics and relocations could turn Texas blue in our lifetimes. The one-star-rated state will always suck, and we should shun it.

how about no

No, I'm not a lib. I just want them to suffer.

So glad I searched up Edmund Fitzgerald Tok again

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

ef is good stuff, and I didn’t realize MangaGamer still had the license. Of course, y’all know to buy directly from them and not frickin’ Steam, right?

It's me, I'm the guy that whenever I see a particularly good anime I'm like "I love this, but what would be better would be if it was run through the deflavorizing machine to produce a live action thing with American actors in it talking like a marvel movie, full of cgi that looks like total shit"

Wife and I threw a couple hundred bucks at local food banks to help get them through the Republicans’ SNAP tantrum. Yay, employer match.

This, but with a child who has spectacularly bad medical problems, so we have to keep our employer health care.

I often see people say "I'll never get to retire, and I hate to tell you this, but it is not a choice you get to make. Retirement is not "Ah, I have accumulated enough riches now I can relax and enjoy life!" It is "Fuck. I am too old to work and no one will hire me."

Moving Barstool Sports due east about 500 miles would be perfect.

WTAF, but in a good way.

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Legitimately interested in how they’ll ever handle Trump’s grave when the time comes. It’ll probably have to be under 24/7 armed guard, though I’d rather they just accept the inevitable and design an appropriate drainage system for all the people who’ll come out to piss on it.

I stand by my prediction that Switch 2 will catch up with the XBox Series install base (likely in the 30 millions) within its first year.