For every debunker, there's an Apollo-gist insisting that the moon landing was faked.

The Special Metric Unit over at the The Scotland Meter.

The Rapture has actually happened several times but God can't find anybody worthy of His exacting standards.

Despite its American name, eggplant is neither an egg nor a plant. Technically, an eggplant is a berry.

Well here's someone who made good trouble in an unexpected way. There's so much we're going through that we've gone through before. Media archiving efforts are always radical. https://youtu.be/ZwRx7EeCDu4

Someone just referred to Fear & Hunger as "dollar store final fantasy" and it broke me.

Well here's someone who made good trouble in an unexpected way. There's so much we're going through that we've gone through before. Media archiving efforts are always radical. https://youtu.be/ZwRx7EeCDu4

Despite its American name, eggplant is neither an egg nor a plant. Technically, an eggplant is a berry.

unicorns and rambos

Cats who have just had their flea meds tryna get you to pet their neck.

I think I'm finally starting to get back some of my mental faculties. It's wonderful to reach into my working memory for a date I was just looking at, and my brain says, "Yes, this is the date, I am sure, you do not need to look again." Maybe soon I'll be able to remember longer numbers and […]

DEFCON announced their super cool badge specs on Reddit yesterday and all the top comments are just people complaining about how they did it wrong, without a single bit of opening critiques with "Thanks for your work!" One commenter said the announcement was just bullshitting and it was […]

don't forget to enjoy World Goth Day by listening to #kexp all day!!! https://www.kexp.org/events/kexp-events/world-goth-day-2026/

star wars guy named baco tell

I've started having some story ideas come to me again, after several years of me just saying, "No story, not now." I probably am still not ready to get back to it, but I will say some of these ideas are deliciously disturbing. I've been feeding my brain well during the hiatus.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@levelbot/116613541451614330 And another Fear & Hunger fan is born!

But then I went to the third party, and I was too full for more cookies!

“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend […]

[Domestic abuse, SA, feminist history] In 1980s America, when I was a child, there was this huge debate over whether men ever even abused their wives. And whether or not this or that kind of physical abuse was really abuse. And how much abuse was ok. The concept of emotional or financial abuse […]

When you reach 50, you begin to notice how the meaning of media is lost or charges over time. Sometimes this is done intentionally by those who wish to co-opt meaning for their own purposes (often to regain control after a culture has shifted towards something more liberating) and other times […]

> “You're unhappy that your economy doesn't work for you. You don't have freedom. You don't have an opportunity to express yourself. You've got friends that have been shot in the head because they're out protesting, and it's heartbreaking to see that these people are abused this way and have no […]

RE: https://ohai.social/@Elleaster/116608295249834083 I like this. Reverse Squid Game.

Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but my phone is suddenly having trouble spelling "guillotine."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FluentInFinance/116607504937682417 Uhm, don't half of Americans already pay $0 in federal income taxes? Or at least, pay less than what we put in? Isn't that what the 47% controversy was all about back in the Romney/Obama campaign? I feel like he's selling us back […]

tax rerun

Dwarf Fortress Parking Complex

Trainwreckquiem for a Dreamspotting

History of ME/CFS video. I'm sitting here taking a sick day after two rest days last weekend and a low workload overall watching random YouTube and came across this. Instead of being upset at my wasted day, I'm very grateful that my condition isn't worse than it is. Because with what I'm […]

Shake that decision-maker!

Him: Hello, I'm alling from All State. How are you? Me: I'm good, thanks. How are you? Him: I'm... good... you know, I ask everyone how they are, not a lot of people ask how I am. Thank you! Pitty the poor telemarketter.

RE: https://mastodon.world/@YakyuNightOwl/116602654737285480 I buy almost everything local these days. And just a reminder (because I keep forgetting too), you can usually special order something from a local store doesn't keep it in stock!

Call it what it is. It's not a "Male Loneliness Epidemic". It's a "Patriarchy Epidemic".

Typical summer vacation in the 70s. #heatwave #summer #humor #humour #cryptids #70s

It's funny when the "abolish borders" people also want to "break the larger country into tons of smaller countries." You know that having a large country effectively abolishes borders across a large region, right? Do you take for granted that you can just drive from Oregon to Maine without a […]

One reason I'm drawn to boho eclectic rustic chic design is that it can be very forgiving of mistakes and shoddy work. It's exactly like the scene in Daria where she gets a peanut butter stain on her jeans, and Jane says, "Don't worry, it looks alternative."

ProTip: If you add "wikihow" to your how-to search, you can avoid the videos and get right to written instructions for most things.

If everything is a model, then every story is fiction. Some stories are useful.

part of the reason for that is that our justice system is really racist...and I think that racist insurrectionists getting pardons at the demand of the racist president is an example of that injustice?

There needs to be multi part surveys in fedi so you can do follow up questions and generate cross tabs. Sure you can make a thread of surveys, but people oftentimes don't click in and the more complicated the more people just don't answer the follow ups.

RE: https://mas.to/@MinecraftSigns/116596231714538013 I've been watching enough Fear & Hunger streams that my first thought was, well what if you lose the coin flip?

like, my daughter read a bunch of her course texts in ancient greek rather than reading the assigned english translations because she wants to challenge herself and is interested. she's not using chatgpt to write her essays for her.

there are in fact students who are in school to learn stuff and who feel that using AI to do their work for them would be counterproductive.

This is one of the most wholesome comics we've made.

[Old internet lore, "bonsai kitten"] I was such a disgusting little edge lord as a teen. There are new little edge lords today. Just like the credulous and sweet 8 year old who is worried about the kitten we also need to help the little edge lords to grow up and be better too. 4/4

[Old internet lore, "bonsai kitten"] I now think it's kind of immature to have edgy humor like that. But, learning this has caused me to rethink the edgy contempt I had for people who were freaking out online about it. "This could cause animal abuse" Come on. It's a joke. But also, the person […]

[Old internet lore, "bonsai kitten"] I just discovered that for people slightly younger than me "bonsai kitten" can be a creepy and traumatic memory. I was in college when MIT students made a webpage where they pretended that they were putting kittens in jars to make "bonsai kittens" and I […]

Seen near Holborn Station, on the route of the Unite the Kingdom rally. The poster says it better than most speeches: When the scapegoats are gone, the borders are fortified, and the hatred has done its damage, the cost of living will still rise, the NHS […] [Original post on mastodon.online]