JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

I don't think Chekhov's gun necessarily needs to be fired by the next act. Maybe it could mysteriously disappear in the second act and in the third act the guy reveals he sold it to buy his girl a diamond ring, but it turns out she sold her fingers to buy him some bullets for his gun

I don't think people should call it Trump's Fyre Festival I think they should call it The Great American State Fyre

one bad thing that online does to me specifically is it makes me a lot less judgmental of people who are not that smart. It's fine online to just mute or block them and doesn't hurt anyone but you can't be rude to people in everyday life that are not super sharp but not doing anything else wrong

There's a lot of people on social media who are too dumb to solve puzzles but like to feel like they did, so they solve jokes and try to convince themselves it was a puzzle

Looking back on it I think my favorite thing about Inception isn't the rotating vfx or the dream gimmick, it's that everything they're doing is for a rich businessman to put his rival's son out of business, and that son spends the whole movie thinking this is a hero's journey centered on him

I think one big turning point for the internet was when you could just add images in your posts without having to host them first, which are words that might not make sense to many current users, but if you wanted to post any image on a forum you used to have to upload it to your own server first

Man all this discourse is really having me craving a shrimp burrito

What did y'all think anti-woke meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

This is interesting - one of the components of the theoretical scam that's the biggest stretch to me, and didn't materialize in the real scam example, is the faked AI video call. I feel like AI video is not quite up to 30 minutes of live convo scamming yet but no hard blocker that it can't get there

A lot of people don't know that isn't really the name he was born with, he got it because everyone kept responding to his anecdotes with "doubt that" so it's the first phrase that popped into his head when he applied for a nanny job

No joke, when I was a kid my dad was helping me with a science project and brought up the concept of safety factor/margin and it really stuck with me and shaped how I look at things and I really think a lot of basic engineering concepts are good for kids to have in mind for just regular life stuff

Why simply enjoy the funny joke when you can improve it with a bit of racism

As a bicentennial baby I find the whole idea of an America 250 celebration off-putting because it's just a big reminder that I'm going to be 50

It turns out Madison Square Garden is actually round. I don't know who to trust anymore

I can't stand it I know you planned it Imma set it straight this water gate ... I'm tellin all y'all it's sabotage

I think the reporters did just fine but man the temptation to say "ok so what are you going to do about what the baseball players wrote on their baseball hats during the baseball game"

I think there's multiple layers of people involved in viral sharing and the first layer is very online people that will share anything about trump's bad deeds but the second layer is the one that really makes things take off and they don't like things that are downers or harsh the vibe, like torture

I'm going to keep a running thread of words I've invented while attempting to do the Spelling Bee. This one is Timothée Chalamet if he wasn't very good

the rest of my life is gonna be every month or 2 getting a text or pm like "hey i saw your old tweet on ____ and it had a bunch of updoots and imbeciles arguing in the comments"

This looks like he's farting digital ghosts

Don't listen to this. I got hauled into HR last time I tried to date my direct reports. Something about a "power dynamic"

I don't think it's that weird, I think the "manliness" comes entirely from the position (most powerful office in the world, no consequences) and the whiny behavior is just the relatable part (whiny people feel "he's like me"). Logic: most powerful (aka manly) man in world is like me = I am manly

It bugs me a little that everyone is making quips about "doesn't she realize she's not white" like Asians being racist against black people is an ironic novelty. Like of course this is not the majority of Asian Americans but anti-black racism has been around our community a long time and it sucks

I had a gig to fly to Washington DC to teach a Nigerian prince (no they don't have a monarchy, it's not a political position it's some kind of local title) how to use a VFX software but he tapped out after 5 minutes of intro to Linux command line basics (cd, ls, etc) before opening the program

I, for one, think it's good that the Reflecting Pool has become the Obscuring Pool. Sometimes it's better not to see one's surroundings, which might be upsetting, and sometimes it's uncomfortable to be seen through. We all have things to hide. Know nothing and refuse to be known. How beautiful

dammit. just got out of a dream sequence. I was hoping for some wacky michel gondry shit but it was just the regular cast in spooky costumes saying all of the episode’s subtext out loud

Do you ever look at an online figure that is relatively successful and well-liked and you're pretty sure they're not what they seem like and you're like, I wonder when stuff starts to come out about them, what kind of stuff will it be, like harassment or plagiarism or what

I don't think writers should have to know it, unless they are in a strong emotional state. I think readers should know it

There's a type of person that successfully flips their ignorance in not knowing something into a damning accusation against other people for not having made it the way they thought it was and depressingly I guess it turns out you can ride that strategy all the way to the top of the government

If oil profits you would see...

Well I wonder what color that's going to end up

I think I remember one or two AI pictures that intentionally made me laugh, out of like thousands I've seen. I think the problem is a lot of people think "I have such funny ideas but because I'm not an artist I couldn't show them to anyone, until AI came along". But turns out the ideas were bad

The Reflecting Pool saga is funny but the riffs it's spawning on average are really bad and about half of it is people who are stumped at how to make a pun on the word algae but go ahead anyway

I don't think they're actually going to gas Washington like a supervillain in act 3 of an action thriller but the possibilities are fascinating to imagine

Wait why is "SQL Authority With P..." the source for how to solve a two guard logic puzzle

There are a lot of people that think Trump's main faults are that he is rude and uncouth and insults the dignity of the office or whatever, and that the fight against him should be treated like a celebrity beef on social media where fans on each side share spicy memes of what each celebrity said

They don't want you to touch it because it will give you powers

I think these guys would like it to be seen as "I'm so committed to 'biblical principles' I'd bravely lose my job over it" but I suspect it's a cover for "If I wear that rainbow stuff people might think *I'm* a [slur] and I can't handle that"

I see your Jelly Roll wedding headline and raise you one

The most important part is of course that this guy looks like a villain from the Willy Wonka universe but the other interesting part is that his company is responsible for the algae as it did the filtration system but another, also no-bid, company is responsible for the peeling liner

Well it became an aircraft eventually. We're blaming the missile for being early now?

One of the things about visiting historical places in person is you get a sense of scale that you miss out on just looking at pictures. For example the palace at Versailles is like tiny. I've seen bigger McMansions. Now the garden around it though, that's magnificent. Dwarfs that little building

People like this get together thinking "I like how he betrays losers. I think we get along so well because I also believe the strong should use and discard the weak" and just really misread which category the other guy sees him in

88 mile per hours?

Skill issue. I always prompt it to write papers in the voice of a cartoon pirate

Behind the scenes of The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

I think one of the worst sides of human nature that social media appeals to is letting you gorge on fish-in-a-barrel dunks so you can focus on how dumb/evil some people out there are so that you don't have to work on yourself ("ME? but I'm not CLOSE to as bad as they are" yeah that's how it works)

Finally found someone who actually needs this book a.co/d/0hqmeCrC