"Okay, yes, he had a Nazi card but it was EXPIRED." Come on. Listen to yourselves.

Starting to think that skull tattoo was indeed a Nazi totenkopf all along and not just similar to one.

The Sheep Detectives was amazing. Really, genuinely moving performance by Bryan Cranston as a talking cartoon sheep.

Remember when people said muscular and skimpily clothed men's bodies (especially in relation to comics) were a male power fantasy and non-sexual? Are we still pushing that lie?

Even without replies, I should know better than to delve into Sonic discourse. Especially when I'm a "Lost World was actually kinda alright" person.

Transvestigating a person who died when I was two years old will never not seem weird to me.

Non-New Yorkers and non-Americans, I can assure you that we do not think of Madison Square Garden when we hear the acronym MSG.

I do not like attacking people for their immutable characteristics because I've dealt with that too often. People who devalue me and my opinions because of my facial hair, my weight, my voice, etc. So I won't perpetuate that mindset. Words and actions are the only things that matter to me.

It's been four years, why did someone raiding into one of those channels make my pain feel current.

Anyway, happy belated fourth anniversary to me being banned from at least a half dozen Twitch communities for being a burden-haaa I mean endless frustration.

Four years after that multi-channel ban, I still wish I knew what I actually did (that somehow took four years for anyone to notice or act on), despite that obviously being impossible.

Anyone still trying to earnestly make "male power fantasy" talking points with the new Marvel Rivals skin or have we finally got past that?

The biggest asshole ever: "I think you'll find it's an accountability crisis 😏"

Long ago, the world was nothing more than an endless sea cloaked in a boundless sky, reaching as far as could possibly be imagined. Then two great Titans came into existence. The Bionis and the Mechonis. The Titans were locked in a timeless battle. Until at last, only their lifeless corpses remained

help me its not working

The lesson here is don't post jokes, including jokes lifted from a movie he was in, on Bluesky.

My Held Comments section was a long scroll of "damn scots, they ruined scotland"

After all the discussion of Doctor Who being put out to tender and what that even means, it was a bit jarring hearing the phrase used in another context while rewatching Last One Laughing.

This franchise has truly taken off and become popular because it even has the median voter problem now

Weird how "the most sexless era of TV" has mainstream bonkbuster hits like Bridgerton and Rivals (the latter distributed by Disney).

Not sure if it's category 1 or 3: It's really Not Great seeing people who *openly admit* to have only seen like one movie post-Endgame talk so confidently about the MCU superhero movies (in narrative and arc terms). While also insisting that they're absolutely bored and done with it.

Jesus Christ before going all nationalist on public health in Europe and calling the entire continent murders and eugenicists (because it hasn't solved the brand new weather problem, created by the US establishment yet, after only about 4 years) perhaps compare life expectancy at least.

If Saharan Africa was hit by blizzards it would not be nice for Scandinavians to immediately accuse people there of murder because they hadn't got the right infrastructure, especially if Scandinavians had spent huge sums on causing blizzards in Africa

Anyway, it's not possible for hundreds of millions of people whose homes and cities were built in a time when it wasn't regularly as hot as this to instantly obtain and start using air conditioning. There aren't a load of AC units lying around unused that we can go pick up.

Yep. Bouie is pretending that there's a major opposition to indoor use of air conditioning, using someone talking about railways etc as "evidence", and then his followers are saying "if anyone in Europe doesn't have air conditioning it's just because of this stupid stubbornness"

Defence doesn't even get mentioned - funny that

"Media eventually ends, it doesn't need to need to be perpetual", I say to people angry at 8-episode shows with a follow up two or three years later. (Less glibly, I'm in an "it really depends" category when it comes to season lengths.)

If you're gonna be an American chauvinist while hundreds of Europeans die in this heatwave and climate crisis with insufficient AC or other means of staying cool, could you fuck off forever.

"esoteric against-the-text reinterpretation of the source material". Ahh, did you mean ostensible "fans" of Martha Jones who (checks notes) downplay her achievements on Doctor Who to say she was done dirty.

You literally cannot use air conditioning to make railway lines and power lines work outside their safety tolerances. That's not a thing.

the thing about air conditioning discourse is that it's like british food discouse is that it allows americans to do their weird xenophobic exceptionalist thing but, like, progressively

Oh, you like air conditioning? The thing that killed Chidi Anagonye? Interesting.

As a Brit, I am fine with air con. Air con at my local shops are bloody amazing and it's a definite lifesaver for western and southeastern parts of the States when I used to visit.

european buildings are hard to adapt for heatwaves because they were built in a time before america became a world leading carbon emitter rendering much of the planet uninhabitable

don‘t know if any Americans noticed when a block of council flats burned down a killed a bunch of people because the cladding they used was the cheapest thing physically possible? And then nothing happened? You reckon the guys building these flats are going to do an HVAC fit?

I’ve never, in my life, seen anyone in the UK say that AC units are an Asian or African thing, they’ve always been seen as a very American thing. Like that is not the view here, so the rest of the argument kinda falls apart from there.

Counterpoint: When your country, up until about 10 years ago, had relatively mild summers and relatively cold winters, it made more sense to frame your infrastructure around heating. Sadly, in the early 1900’s they failed to account for America gleefully ruining the climate.

"why don't you have AC?" " Well the units are expensive, electricity is expensive, building regulations often get in the way, window units like yours don't fit and landlords and freeholders are dicks. I'd love to have it though" "Sounds like you're ideologically opposed"

Am I allowed to say the weird adulation received by a certain media company CEO named after an obscure 2019 Trump line is kinda cringe?

Hot take: Celebrity Apprentice having Trump as a host led to the Celebrity Apprentice host becoming president, not Gamergate.

My bit for the AC discourse: everyone’s wrong. The main reason we don’t have AC in this country is because until the last few years you only needed it 3-5 days per year and it’s not worth the outlay of £350 for a portable AC unit so no one tried to sell them to us.

Don't worry gang, the Americans of Bluesky have a solution!

I suggest anyone being annoyed by the US air cons that you just start showing them photos of beans on toast. It's like garlic to vampires.

Have British people considered fundamentally restructuring every aspect of their economy and culture? That's what I'd do.

If I were European I would simply solve the heatwave using good old American moxie. But I will not use said moxie to solve the USA's intractable social problems because America is a real country and I am very busy.

Person who has a stake in this: "I don't have a stake in this but"

Even as a renter who spent literal years under leaky holey roofs, I would 100% accept "just get an air con" takes over "you call 25-30C HOT?" takes.