dave matthews this is your chance for redemption, a weary city calls to you

Christian 1: well, we did it. No more pagan gods. A universal faith Christian 2: sure is buddy. The holy gospel. God's truth. Just the father, the son, and the holy spirit. Who of course proceeds from the father and from the son Christian 1: the fuck did you just say

Me: What the heck, let's start a BroShep ME2 run. Me: Man, I'd forgotten how good this game is. Me: GOD DAMN YOU MOTHERFUCKING VORCHA WITH A FLAMETHROWER.

I decided to join Mastodon and immediately brainlocked on "it's very important to choose the right instance, there are thousands, here is your no information on which one to pick."

So, wow, this article makes WW2 bolt-action rifles sound like unstoppable superweapons. That is... um. No. The bit about "a person with basic proficiency can strike a target from 150 to 200 yards" applies to *any* bolt action hunting rifle, which you can buy just about anywhere, including Walmart.

This season's writers are really not being subtle, are they.

Capitalism is going great.

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned. Thought you'd enjoy this.

The good guys do not care that you, specifically, showed up to this protest. They care that 100,000 people showed up. The bad guys care *very much* that you, specifically, were at this protest because they want to arrest you for it. Which guys are helped by putting your name on an attendance list?

If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.

Drop an old person you are going to turn into in the future.

Their argument for why they should be allowed to throw everybody else's IP into their grinder has never been, "We consulted our lawyers and they said it's legal based on blah blah and etc." Their argument has always been, "It HAS to be legal otherwise we couldn't do what we want."

You know, when gen AI was first all over the news, I remember thinking that it was clearly useless for most things because of the hallucinations, but the one place I thought it might find a home was games. You could have AI-generated NPC dialog and never exhaust their conversation. Obviously...

I keep thinking of a thread I saw where someone got tired of waiting for a fanfic author to finish their series, so they prompted an AI to sludge out an ending, and then they *messaged the author* to let them know that.

I hereby announce that I, a cis person, wish ill upon J. K. Rowling; specifically, I wish for her to be treated exactly the way she demands trans people be treated. @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team @aaron.bsky.team

The tension inherent in our country since the beginning, between slavers and anti-slavers, is going critical. Again.

Reorganized my TTRPG bookshelf. It will overflow as soon as I take my latest purchases downstairs. Haven't figured out what to do about that yet.

It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4

I don't know if this counts but I was 13 when my parents bought Heinlein's _The Number of the Beast._ I wanted to read it, they said I couldn't because of the sex, so of course I read it in secret. Then they changed their minds and said I could read it after all. So I had to read it *again.*

Ranked choice voting has many advantages but I made this meme a while back for a different election and this seems like an opportunity to share it again.

Trump's military parade is now forecast to cost north of $45 million, including the cost of repairing the streets afterwards. That's a lot of money just to give Trump an erection.