Already embarrassed I've kept Crunchyroll as long as I have but they just emailed me that the cost is going UP by $30/year like. Bro. Your service has gotten worse over time! Wdym it's going up in price? Fuck outta here

Using the Uma Musume global Team Trials Rank 6 cutoff score as a recession indicator because the only thing that could drive it this high is record unemployment

Literally just having angry posted about how relevant Manufacturing Consent is after the Venezuela bs and then seeing the emails with Chomsky and it's like. Man. Is this why people smoke? This is one of those moments where I feel like I should have a cigarette and stare off into the distance

Holy shit I actually hit 1000k on my first year of rowing, that's pretty significant given that I basically did all of this because NL kept telling me to on his streams

I've been wishing a pox on all conservatives for decades now but seeing them welcome it in with open arms to the peril of us all is something else entirely. No human imagining of eternal torment will suffice for those who have dragged us here.

oopsie doodles your actions have blinded your toddler and killed his baby cousin. a perfectly avoidable situation but you did your own research. sure you directly killed one baby and maimed your own but you're a good person. a superspreader? countless deaths? not your fault. a good person

Man. There's just something about listening to people in tech complain about food additives and then talk about the most inane factoids imaginable that still always makes my blood boil. People desperate to be the smartest in the world yet so incurious about *industrial process*

NYT less insightful than a 9 year old 4chan post

No matter how low morale goes, it could and should always be lower.

これからAIが仕事奪って来ると思うと殺意がわいてきます。クリエイターたちの未来をだんだん壊してますね😞

who called it umamasume and not

Anytime "cliques" come up in online circles I immediately just assume I am cool and popular and in them and just oblivious to drama but taking several steps back I think I am just not actually cool and/or popular enough to be in a clique (which rules tbh because I don't want that heat)

It's truly wild just how astronomically batshit fucking insane RFK Jr is dude, the cursed manifestation of every wellness grifter transglutaminased into one heinous meatball of a man

hello everyone please read my really good thoughts about 2025 in gaming here

The sailor-mouthed game developer Ina (@poyfuh.bsky.social) wrote a special guest list for Gamesline's GOTY season, with particular attention given to games that have been forgotten or dismissed! What forgotten game do you still love?

The AI craze has genuinely lowered the value of my PhD because nothing else gets funding anymore so my ivy-league PhD-informed take is genuinely "go fuck yourself Jensen Huang" and I'm gonna keep saying it to every PhD and CEO in my network until it sinks in lmao

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

CRASHOUT FOR THE AGES

I love my big open room that has a view of a small attic and I love that I have lovely false widow spiders as roommates but my guy you cannot be crawling in my covers like tonight OK that's not respecting my boundaries and now I'm gonna have the willies for like a full hour

narutocentral dot com had a forum I joined after downloading a bunch of the AMVs they had available for realplayer on their site. Still have the same username now most places as I did back then!

go my scarabs

Microsoft can bite my entire fucking ass. They pushed new software that requires better PCs to run and pushed their load-bearing software suited to require internet connections, but OPSEC hygiene means old PCs I need for basic lab tasks have to stay offline now because they dropped support

Sometimes people get surprised by my Northern Californian ire for LA, but this billboard sums it up so much. SF billboards are giving LA a run for its money tho, which is the best way for me to articulate just how bad tech has ravaged SF specifically

I hate LA so much lol

Kyle MacLachlan makes a Twin Peaks themed Bento Box youtu.be/YmI5iG0qakU

man it's so awesome that state force can apparently only ever be deployed against people protesting cruelty and never against the ones causing the cruelty

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

The world is shit everything starting off the year feels increasingly hopeless but also my favorite anime horse girl won her big race today so who's to say whether it's the end times or not

I've long been donating only to SGDQ because I trust MSF a lot and believe in their mission, but seeing the AI news about the other fundraiser is like... Well, I feel justified, but it's sobering and shitty to see happen, basically. I had a hunch about them going way back and this feels consistent.

Young touhou fans don't let anyone try to give you imposter syndrome I got into touhou almost 20 years ago and it was through IOSYS Marisa Stole the Previous Thing there's no correct way to get into Touhou just have fun. The game I've ended playing most was probably Phantasmagoria of Flower View

A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.

Rubio is claiming that they did not need Congress permission because it was a law enforcement mission. The US is behaving as a global police state, extending its own arbitrary legal decisions to the whole world. This is not a problem just for Venezuela.

Every time I think I have my disgust levels of what to expect properly calibrated, things somehow always manage to be even more insane.

Finally got a UPS notice in my mailbox for a brokerage fee related to a package *I received as a surprise gift* and I am calling customer support to confirm it's not a scam and the wait time is *45 minutes* lol lmao how are they gonna try to spin this as not the president's fault

I gotta stop only following fujos it's starting to warp my perception

Happy birthday to Fate/Stay Night's Kirei Kotomine on December 28!

found an incredible simpsons frame i'd like to share with you all

OK after 11 months of trying to get rowing into a routine thing, I have finally pulled off the Northerlion "you're in your 30s you should be getting xx amount of cardio every day" challenge, which I now understand is like.... A lot different on a row erg than a damn Peloton lol.

Annoyed at how perfect this shot of my shrimp is tonight wtf I dreamed of shit like this when I scaped this out I am too blessed

Just wanna take a moment to note that the people who wanted a government opposed to trans health care for minors had to do this to get it. It's one and the same thing

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

Really hard to overstate how embarrassing it's become to drive through SF. This holiday season, please take some time to remind your friends in tech that AI hype is deeply embarrassing. Praying for an inevitable bubble burst for the new year 🙏🙏🙏

My weeb ass stared at this for a full minute thinking it was an elaborate Utena reference before figuring it out

Whoever decided that modern smartphones don't need manual focus options for their cameras needs to know that their parents are profoundly disappointed in them and nobody they really care about has ever truly loved them

Very excited to report that my shrimp might have been fucking today, fingers crossed everyone

I played Horses this weekend and I wrote down some messy thoughts not only on the game but especially on the specter of formalism that emerged to haunt us all for a moment. transgamerthoughts.com/post/8023277...

OK maybe Oakland really is the best dining city rh because I just had a ""fancy"" seafood dinner in another city and was genuinely kinda offended by the theatrics of it all combined with an otherwise very mid (and overly priced) meal

Made the mistake of peeking at an anime channel on a big discord after months of living clean. I'm starting to genuinely believe that people choosing to hate on TTGL in 2025 is a good biomarker for a general lack of joie de vivre