(Berlanti Productions pitch room) me: The Minnow. Just like Riverdale, teen show adapting a Sixties-kitsch property to the plot of a prime-time drama their parents watched, only except where Riverdale was ABC's Twin Peaks— Berlanti: The Minnow would be Lost? me (nodding): The Minnow would be Lost

You can't complain about toxicity driving people away from here until you can explain why the NY Times created a separate account solely dedicated to getting dunked on

build and maintain a massive set for future Star Wars projects while classifying it as a nonprofit enterprise for tax purposes with this one weird trick

James Carville when he's texting you for money

ah yes, the same reason the housing bubble burst in 2008: concentrated consumer effort

Here's how Lisp can still win:

Hutty the Hut

best thing about this Nancy arc is Olivia Jaimes canonically looking like the Unabomber

Jealousy cat

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new sequel to "babies are born worshipping unknown gods" just dropped

funniest possible context for borrowing a phrase from "The Happiness Project"

critically: not *knowing* is *not* the same thing as not *caring*

the ultimate purpose of the US public school system is to wean human beings on the capitalist system like cattle

there's little AI smears in some of these frames and I'm not even sure it wasn't post-render upscaling

if your goal on social media is just Improved Social Media Metrics you're using it wrong. that's antisocial behavior bro. bluesky might be dying for guys like you, but for people who actually enjoy writing and/or reading posts it's alive and well

see, it's funny *now*, but the thing they give you at Bluesky on day 1 explains that this is pretty much guaranteed to happen

really think a lot of this insanity ultimately boils down to two words: Capitalist Realism

thinking about how the early model of Bluesky didn't account for frequent deletions, and it got me pondering what I'm just gonna call "Gargamel's Heel" (because it's about a Smurf vulnerability): assume that any resource-intensive operation on your network will be exploited, for whatever ends may be

U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.

When a mutual who is annoyed by your posts mutes you instead of unfollowing

if you're going to be a federally-deputized cybercriminal you could at least use that to do something interesting like rob Terry Benedict

I wanna know the journalistic process for verifying the location of this trash can

Good at that price point for sure. And it's a lot of hot dog.

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miss piggy

Google moved AI answers to rank lower than actual search results

Yesterday I saw a guy smoking crack at the bus stop down town and I had the thought that it'd be funny to ask if I could bum a crack rock like I'm asking for a cigarette and I realized I gotta get back in the right headspace to be on public transit regularly

The gun? It’s tremendous, I have the best gun. The penis? Well I don’t know, I have heard many people saying that, it’s really nasty folks. Nasty penis.

big "cries when he gets hit in a pillow fight he started" energy

not even that the majority of that activity is automated, just that an influential enough proportion of the "active userbase" are reticulating automated Shrimp Jesuses granted enough algorithmic reach and influence to induce a diagnosable condition among human users evocatively known as "spam brain"

the thing that's super cool about the AT Protocol tech which powers Bluesky is that not only does it help anyone who wants to "replace" Bluesky (with an app that's still effectively Bluesky), but it also helps anyone who wants to *replace* Bluesky (with an app that's *not* still effectively Bluesky)

As many as 30,001 people lost their jobs this week

interesting how this screenshot of a post is "adult content" but the post in the screenshot isn't

normally I shut up about the numbers game because it's something I don't really notice or care, but I have to speak up here because my experience has been that the level of discourse on this site hasn't just been it keeping pace, it's been getting *markedly better*

We Went To The Waffle House And No One Knew You

"if the White House was so important to the course of the 20th century then why'd it never get bigger" mindset, these people have the same kind of brain disease as Trump himself

this is your website on vibe coding.

all of the lessons of the Trump era are the type you’d learn from a children’s book. you tried to use bullying to get what you want, but you alienated your allies, oh no! you have learned the power of friendship.

Pentagon has a flowchart they follow to make decisions, first question is "is it racist" and if the answer's "no" they don't do it

to extend @veryimportant.lawyer's "everyone is twelve now" theory of the political moment: all mainstream media now is The Onion

this appears to be the post language models generate to "meaningfully reply" to what I'm saying here; it feels like a smart comment, but no, it's just a regurgitated story that's happened so many times the robot *assumes Bluesky failed to learn the lesson it is specifically described as adhering to*

one of the finest posts of all time

we gotta send so many guys to the Hague

btw if you think the point of The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas is "it's good to walk away from Omelas" you are doing a full-on Garfield "huh, I wonder who that's for"