In case anyone wonders how things are going in The Other Place

my cousin recently became a pilot, and we had a family dinner to celebrate. he gave a speech congratulating everyone for their own achievements. when he got to me he paused and said: "And John whos... been noodling around on the internet."

I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

not guilty :)

Neighbor Indicted in Murder of ‘King of the Hill’ Star Jonathan Joss www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

If someone will write a cookbook called "The Casual Depravity of British Cuisine", I am ready to buy it. Or I'd eat at a restaurant with that name. Whatever.

If you're outraged by the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of the Saudi Crown Prince, and not equally outraged by the murder of American Citizen, Shireen Abu Akleh at the hands of the Jewish "State", you don't care about either or Americans. You're doing politics.

No Rapist Left Behind

seen some people doing the "do not comply in advance" quote today without understanding that the words 'in advance' refer to something being optional. you can't disobey a court order. that's not complying in advance, that's legal compliance you would be stupid to ignore.

Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.

hey what if i use a machine that can't do math to help with my taxes

I love the fact that Elon probably had to call an engineer and demand the phrase “pathetic pussy bitch” be blocked from trending.

Windows may install malware, but Microsoft promises the next Xbox will be super expensive and won't have any exclusives, so it all balances out in the end.

You can love someone you love even if you don't love yourself🏳️‍⚧️ But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold. So take care of yourself. Your soul is beautiful.

We’re at the point in the Presidential approval polling cycle where they just throw up their hands and say “fuck it, we’ll just mail everyone a check”

Listen here God. You better let this wonderful man live to beyond 100 or we are going to have WORDS.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Minnesota for soliciting sex from a minor

From Lori Marino, founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project; also of @safinacenter.bsky.social (gift link). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1760cd5...

Women are watching abusive dynamics play out on the national stage and for many it feels very, very familiar to what they’ve experienced regularly— I hope midterms are a referendum

i just dont know

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

I quit the former Twitter two years ago this week, and I am here to tell you that my online life got a lot better for having left it. In two years I've not been tempted to go back, and I haven't felt any penalty in either career or community for not being there. It's nice to be here and not there.

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I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

Ginko trees also reek like semen.

Reevetoo? Reevetoo! Where are you!? #FF7 x #StarWars

Half-life fans: Wow I can't wait for Gabe Newell to announce Half-life 3 today! Gabe Newell:

Calvin and Hobbes is one of a handful of pieces of art that I sort of expected to leave behind when I grew into adulthood but instead continue to point at in increasingly desperate ways to beg people to increase their humanity

I have lost track of how many times some variation of this has shown up in fiction as shorthand for how horrific society has become.

I’m sure the rightwing lady is making content out of this and it’s genuinely such a good tactic by Kat here to just be like uh huh, yes keep explaining it, no I don’t want it, it seems very weird and sad, please keep going on though, explain it all, explain how normal this is”

The main thing watching modern Beavis and Butt-Head has taught me is we millennials might have been on YouTube from the start and thought we'd seen all its depths, but Mike Judge has seen deeper and every other episode is simply a show and tell where he takes us to the Lands Beyond the Algorithm.

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I’ve watched them gaslight for ten years, but I never thought they’d dismiss pedophilia based on the victim’s age. Yet here we are.

It’s really cool that when you say “ugh the disgusting sex story again” you have to clarify if it’s the horrible criminal one or the one that’s horrible but legal

Deeply ashamed just because you were soliciting a convicted child predator for advice on cheating on your wife my pressuring a younger colleague into sleeping with you while sneering at her and her work? Gosh Ross Douthat better write another piece decrying woke culture

Trump is a piece of shit and his supporters like him because they are pieces of shit.

Lovely getting to visit Desert Bus this year, and to properly introduce my boifriend of the last 9 months, Sephy! They/them are my favorite special person and have made my life measurably better (and sillier)

NPR used to be a place left leaning folks could look at and to. But now they refuse to call teenaged girls children. The underage women line is toxic and horrible. Underage women are teenagers at best, but they're children. They're children.

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Looks like it’s finally dawned on the world’s slowest politicians that their bosses are absolutely intent on either getting everything their way or crashing the bus off a cliff out of spite at not being respected and obeyed, taking everyone with them.

expedition 33 is going to win every single category at the geoff keighley game awards, but dont let that fool you, its not actually that bad

HOLY SHIT, ALS??!!

Me, 2025: "children shouldn't be exposed to gambling in video games" But also Child Me, 2005: "this is the greatest thing I have ever played"

Expedition 33 will win GOTY, the devs will make a speech about how they love and were inspired by JRPGs and how people should give those games a chance and the next day the press will be like "Expedition 33 wins GOTY and proves the west has STOMPED JAPAN IN THEIR OWN GENRE"

If you get to a trillion dollars you should have to start the game over from the beginning at a higher difficulty like your parents not owning a bunch of emerald mines or whatever idk that’s just a random example