*From the other side of the bathroom door, voice cracking* "MOM, IT'S ANCIENT AND NATURAL BEHAVIOR!"

I will never block enough phone numbers to keep from getting ten fucking spam calls a day. War Games was about nukes ending the world, but it had already ended when they let the computer use the phone.

This was incredibly common back in the day. Elsa Lanchester wrote in her autobiography about how she would often be paid to play “the other woman” so couples could get divorced. She would check into a hotel with a man, he would leave, she’d spend a nice night at the hotel.

Go birds

If you want to see what happens when you call out a killer who works at A16Z, this is an email from a guy who *I used to work with* many years ago, CCing Penny. These dudes do not quit!

So those goons at LibsOfTikTok have gone after my Philly neighborhood's elementary school for hosting a Pride parade, forcing them to move the parade from the sidewalks to the schoolyard and bring in police protection to ensure that children are safe.

You know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

A powerful Pride month to you all. Stay strong and hilarious 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤎🖤

My main account (@cartamonir.com) has been suspended on the grounds that a post about my new website constitutes a serious violation of bluesky's policies around sexual/nonconsensual/violent content. This is overt censorship.

If you're reading this chances are I know you personally and you probably haven't read the Interface Series, but I can't recommend it enough. It was published as Reddit comments. It's incredible. I'm convinced it influenced Stranger Things. www.reddit.com/user/_9MOTHE...

Big co-sign

IDK I'm just a radical gender extremist who thinks Manhood shouldn't be seen as archetypal humanity and men aren't superior to everyone else and also misogyny is bad, all very niche positions these days, so...

(This is why masculinity is always in crisis, because it's in a perennial state of needing to be 'proved' through ritualistic patriarchal violence against the abject and effeminised. What is 'manly' is often synonymous with what is reactionary.)

Strange way to spell "ignored"

We could actually get in a very big website wide argument about this

It is completely insane that in our era of ever-more-common deadly heat waves, it’s still legal to *charge renters extra just to use an air conditioner*. In low-income housing, no less! These laws need to change ASAP. www.reddit.com/r/boston/s/U...

I take Jared's point but it's pretty easy to make effective reactionary genre movies. There were dozens released every year in the '80s and '90s, and some of them were decently good and/or widely seen. Craig Zahler makes them today. These guys are just unpleasant nerds who are bad at everything.

One of the scientists in the article is very careful to point out that it's still very early in the testing process and this could end up amounting to nothing, but even keeping that in mind, it's hard for me not to think of this as damn-near miraculous.

Scott Summers next to sliced summer sausage.

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Gotta make sure he's not on that Limitless

so anyway give teachers everything Defund ICE and give the billions to public schools

the problem with the shittiest billionaires getting so directly involved in space is how much it turns off people who just want to be excited by space

While we seem stuck innovating better ways to burn through tokens, actually exciting shit is happening in China. insideevs.com/news/797182/...

This has the energy of a someone about to announce that they're going to be a contestant on this season of the OAN version of Dancing With the Stars

JFC this one was a journey

Legendary wiki entry under Personal Life. RIP.

The Destiny voice actors just seem like cool people who enjoy their jobs. Enjoyed, now, I guess. 🙏

Nice (cantrip) Verbal component: say or write the number 69 in any communications format Result: 1d10 people will respond "nice!"

me and the boys are gonna follow this ghastly floating light deeper into the swamp if you want to join

Spending today feeling sheepish about having found the phrase "dicks out for Harambe" funny

They will need to appropriate minimum several hundred million dollars just to get the white house back to some kind of normality and sweep it for hidden cameras and listening devices and the media will cover the expense as their first scandal

Okay, bear with me for a second. Because I've held this theory for a long time. And I kinda feels like this confirms it. The death of Harambe was the tipping point of no return for the unserious right-wing turn of America. 🧵

I wonder what the other Ninja Turtles invested in.

i loved this place so much—got food here every time i passed through Boston, and it was always fabulous. Also, everyone working there was delightful & laid back

I guess it's not outside the realm of possibility that my life's purpose is to play Mortal Kombat Ii

also like, my measure of "wealth" now is how much of things going wrong you can bounce back from and maintain a basic standard of living. It is not about improving said standard of living. I want a house so I can't be priced out of my apartment. I want retirement money so I'm not homeless at 70.

They will lay me off, they will end my health insurance, they will raise my rent until I can't afford it anymore, they will destroy the tools I use by making them shittier or subscription-based or both; everything I depend on or enjoy will be Disrupted for some boy-king dipshit's funding round

2nd grade boys discussing what the biggest dinosaurs were

Cataclys...mal?

No it the fuck was not.

What you coddled simpletons don't understand is that the best Roiling Conversations are with nazis and have a 250-character limit

Me listening to Haim: This new sound is dynamite! And they're sisters, you say?

Destiny 2 has meant so much to me over the years. Here's some of the work I did for it when I was there from November 2021 to July 2024.

i like science

The site of the crime! This school (in Lexington MA) is where Kurt finally convinced me to try reading comics (despite my *significant* reluctance). If he and I had gone to different schools, I might have never made comics at all. So now you know who to blame! Check out the whole thread. 🧵

Every interview with a tech CEO youtube.com/shorts/ZseOJ...

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live, in order: Lemonheads Sponge The Roots Soundgarden Method Man and Redman Sarah McLachlan They Might Be Giants Neko Case Bang Camaro Magnetic Fields