A mnemonic device for remembering the Great Lakes

the markets seem pretty confident that the next year is going to be called 2026. i still think it’s gonna be glenn. my money’s on glenn

Crypto “replaced” with NFTs with VR trying to replace them briefly there with generative AI replacing all of that. God, the genAI bubble needs to burst ASAP but I shudder to think what the next big thing these blue chip chucklefucks will position next to inflate their stocks.

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

Let trans people be more than resilient and survivors.

Unfortunately, my New Year's Resolution is 240p

Best wishes for 2026, everyone.

I’d like to celebrate the end of this year, but I remember too vividly the impulse to celebrate the end 2016, as if the problem had been the year itself and we could somehow wait it out. Doesn’t work like that, unfortunately.

RFK: “Where did all this autism come from? It never existed when I was a kid!” “A Christmas Story”, a 1983 movie based on a 1971 memoir about a childhood in the 1930s: “This is my brother Ralphie. He has a ton of sensory issues and behaviors we don’t understand. Every family has a child like him.”

WANTED TO STAY UP AND SEE SANTA! WANTED TO SEE AND I SAW! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! JOLLIER THAN YOU THINK!

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I’ve decided not to do anything else with my Raven Guard infantry until GW releases the full suite of refreshed armor marks, so in the meantime, I painted a rhino. #SpaceMarines #RavenGuard #HorusHeresy #warmongers #miniaturepainting #WarhammerCommunity

Ten thousand fucking percent. Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness. In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

Perhaps the cat version of people going "Vromm". 😆

Becoming the world champion at a competitive activity by being so disliked that everyone else in the world concedes to spite me instead ow actually playing.

So like I am a horror fan but not a gorehound; I find torture porn uninteresting and don’t watch it. And I actively avoid real gore. But I saw the Divinity trailer and was like “Yes that seems appropriately gory for the subject matter” and it didn’t shock me in the slightest. Whatever.

In practice everything is necessarily always negotiable and always up for renegotiation at any time, but God damn do I wish a lot of it weren’t.

Very funny that Voltann grudge tokens are evolving into the perfectly fine mechanic markerlight, while markerlight is evolving out of being markerlight because markerlight is an outdated mechanic that needs to be replaced.

I can comfortably make assertions like “If they ever do a third season of Haruhi, one of the episodes — but, crucially, only one — should randomly be another Endless Eight” because I know they’ll never do a third season of Haruhi.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Chairon being officially dead in the lore feels like such an obvious setup to have him show up halfway through Space Marine 3 miraculously alive to save Titus's ass so the entire playerbase stands up and cheers and points, and then he gets a mini.

This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.

That one, Only Nation Where This Happens, and Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity are all in a three-way tie for first.

This one forever haunts me.

God, Hbomberguy’s “Foreshadowing is a literary device that—“ clip was a true gift to all video essayists.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Baudrillard is basically "don't build the torment nexus" for humanities majors, though I guess in his case maybe it's closer to "can we please stop building the torment nexus, whose blueprints I have included herein as a reference so you will know what not to keep building"

The wonderful [1] thing about blaming immigration for societal problems is it’s non-falsifiable—if you crack down on it and problems persist, you can always disingenuously claim you just haven’t cracked down hard enough yet. [1] God-awful

BRB, starting discourse about how viewing art on the Internet is morally bankrupt regardless of its origin because even if it was made by human hands, what you're seeing on your screen is not the ORIGINAL human-made digital file, but a soulless machine-made replica in your browser's Internet cache.

I really miss being funny.

Trans rights are human rights, even if Alberta is using the notwithstanding clause yet again to try and claim otherwise.

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

Metroidvania without a double jump, with ledges that can clearly only be reached via double-jump that imply unexplored areas beyond. Glitching into those areas reveals nothing beyond screen bounds.

Started watching MURDERBOT and now I don't wanna go to work, I just want to watch MURDERBOT, which is pretty much the plot of MURDERBOT.

"Seventeen" by Ladytron is twenty-three years old and still sounds like it could have come out yesterday.

There are two types of fantasy enjoyers, snobs and perverts. A snob insists that fantasy fiction can only be of real literary and human value if the fantastic elements can be reduced entirely to metaphor and the story still hangs together if you can remove them entirely. Snobs want to feel superior.

Replying to stuff on Bluesky with “@grok is this true?” is a pretty good bit, I’ll give it that.

Savage Beastfly II was easier than Savage Beastfly.

"We put some Virgil in your Virgil so you can fight Virgil while you're playing as Virgil. -Team Cherry, creating Lace

My Canadian husband talking about Toronto: I mean, it’s no New York City Me: NEW YORK CITY???? Him: …? Me: I’m quoting a salsa commercial from 1994 Him: why would I know that Me: it was for me

On the downside, I wrote a Kpop Demon Hunters fanfic. On the upside, at least it's very short. archiveofourown.org/works/73367261

If Neal Stephenson had written a Tron movie it would have seemed revolutionary when it came out but in 2025 it would retroactively seem to be championing generative AI in a way that ages like milk.

Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in

"This lycanthropy, this curse... I won't let it stop me. I'll defy this damned affliction, spite this accursed form, and lay claim to what I deserve!" - Werewolf who, against a vet's advice, is about to eat a very large chocolate chip brownie.

"This AI video is so bad! You HAVE to watch--" no I have to eat a peanut butter cup and have a little nap

Does pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis count as a long word anymore, or is it disqualified nowadays because now we just call it silicosis?

I know I'm always banging on about this, but food banks can do so much more with your donation if you give money rather than food itself.

I like the movie version of “Your Idol” better than the album version there I said it.

this man's name is written in the book of life