My grandfather, due to the influence of his horrible second wife, wound up in a Catholic nursing home when he was dying of Parkinsonian dementia. The nuns there were some of the cruelest, most overwhelmingly vicious people I've ever met.

"What will it take?" You tell me. You're the one presently not filing articles of impeachment. 🧐

Loss of signal. The crew of Artemis II are now the most alone any humans have ever been. I wish them well on their lonely flight.

In a fantastic example of not paying attention to the lyrics, the song in this video is about nuclear war. Happy birthday Sprout, destroyer of worlds?

I think that very many people honestly cannot conceive of other humans who do not think as they do, so they can't imagine a book not being about sex at every opportunity, and it never enters their minds that Tolkien didn't have a secret trove of Gandalf erotica.

I think it's super cool that I asked the planetary guy why he chooses not to use alt text correctly and he blocked me. Because people with visual impairments and slow internet obviously do not deserve to share in the wonder of science. 🧐

I'm watching Columbo, and he just said to an earnest young hippie student protester type, "I'm fuzz." Truly he is the exception to the ACAB rule. 😁

This all makes perfect sense (especially if you've followed anything that has ever been done in space), and frankly I'm glad they're using older, tested technology. I would assume the mission would end in tragedy if they were running on Windows 11. (That is not a joke.)

I mean... They all died. We know that, right? All the dogs and cats sent to space died there, horribly. Only the chimps came back, at least partly because there was enough publicity that, "No, we just left them there to bake to death while asphyxiating," would have been catastrophic PR.

I think that of all the things he's done that have not resulted in death and misery, I hate Trump most for making me ambivalent about a NASA Moon launch. I used to live for this. My first book was Mickey Mouse and His Rocket Ship. I had an Encyclopedia of Air and Space before I was born. And now...

I've said this before and probably will again, but: I currently cannot write (or read) due to a 24/7 migraine disorder. Yet if you gave me an "AI" that could write exactly the sort of thing I want to write in exactly my voice, I would destroy it. I want to *write*, not push a button and pretend.

A) Design a reasonable facsimile generator based on plagiarism that burns through all the planet's energy and clean water to ask questions, or B) Talk to a child. 🧐

This is what I think of when people say BlueSky is doing something good with "AI." How much death are your custom feeds worth? 🧐

He was trying to draw a clock face for another cognitive test....

I read this to my mom and when she stopped laughing (and cringing at appropriate moments) she said, "That's why there's only one of you." 😁

There's a weird symbol on my dad's Coke can, which turned out to be the World Cup 2026 logo, which includes the World Cup silhouette, which does *not* look like two athletes holding up the globe to my eyes. 🧐

This is fantastic. So assuming it survives, the reward for abandoning your humanity and supporting a genocidal transphobe will be watching people in their 30s trying to play high school students. 🤣 May it sink beneath the waves and take every attached career with it.

It's always the Russian judge scoring you a full point low...

One of my great-grandmothers was Sicilian. In Sicily the meat markets have a stall where you can buy a steaming paper cone of fascia, ligaments, all the discards of meat preparation. Next to that, what's a little McRib between friends? 😁

Back in the early aughts someone bought my house in Ultima Online for $150. I thought, what a rube, but I was quitting the game and wasn't about to turn down money for pixels. I just checked and my old server from 1997 is still running. That $150 was a better investment than the entire Metaverse. 😂

As the hagiographies roll in I think it useful to remember that Robert Mueller began his career by volunteering to kill people in a patently unjust war, and ended it by deciding a memo overrides the Constitution and the very concept of law.

Absolutely horrifying. What's also horrifying is how readily everyone does the administration's PR work by calling this "deportation." You cannot deport a citizen, and you cannot deport someone to a place they've never been. These are victims of human trafficking and should be recognized as such.

Oh, hey, I used to love that show when I was a kid... ...forty... ...five... ...years... ...ago.

I have no idea what it says about me that I figured it out as soon as feathers entered the picture.

you are loved, and we will win

If you read this thread and you think, "Hey, what do you mean 'you people,'" it's you. You're "you people."

Y’all…I just…the growing antisemitism on the left and the acceptance of it. The way people shrugged and ignored the synagogue attack. The way people made excuses. The endless Platner shit. The way y’all warp and defend Jew hate. The way you don’t even see yourselves doing it. It’s eating me alive.

It was winter the day before yesterday. It's mid-spring today. The day after tomorrow it will be summer. I'm sure this is fine.

This comment is so much better than the article, which makes destroying these robots seem like a bad thing and calls it "robophobia." They want to destroy a technology harmful on every level. That's true and proper Luddism. No general but Ludd means the people any good.

I've never believed you can separate the art from the artist, but you especially can't when the artist is laughing about how they'll use their art money to try to commit genocide.

Post a gif of who you wanted to be as a kid.

I guess Randy Walters is now, legally, a son of a bitch.

No, and also fuck off. Ghouls.

It may be a minor point, but by definition you cannot deport a citizen. That's called human trafficking.

Absolutely the fuck not. 🧐

I can't help thinking that those signs read, "No Irish or Italians Need Apply," and I will never stop being disgusted with the overall Italian-American community for squandering our chance at messages like this in support of a genocidal enslaver. Fuck colonizers, and may Ireland be forever free.

There is a finite, measurable distance between this and coming right out and singing, "Glory O, Glory O, to the bold Fenian men." What do you think? Maybe next year? 😁

I sometimes wonder whether things would be better or worse if Caesar had beworn the Ides of March.

This site is a hell of a lot less useful when everyone posts breathlessly about something and assumes everyone else knows what's going on. 🧐

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1) Watching the Sun rise with a dog dozing against your leg. 2) The call of mourning doves in fog. 3) Working on bonsai, when the world contracts to you, the tree, and the wind you imagine in its branches.

"Reform" literally means to form again. We need to reform the entire legal system and all its appurtenances in the original meaning: take them down to the foundations and start over. This is pure evil, and no system that permits such evil can be allowed to continue unreformed.

And yet no impeachment proceedings. 🧐

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

So when you play the Cute Michael Vick game, you're actively abetting the corporate surveillance state as it demolishes work and increases poverty.

In The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo says he thinks servants of the Enemy would "look fairer and feel fouler," and I confess I'm almost disappointed that this lot all look as foul as they feel. Shabby bargain-basement death enthusiasts. Put a little effort into deceiving us, guys!

I've started rewatching Babylon 5, and as always when I watch "The Gathering" I am infuriated by how cowardly the studio execs were. Cowardly and bigoted. Anyway, Original Trans Delenn is watching you. You don't want to disappoint him.

Because I am very smart and have excellent knife skills I now have a big old makeshift bandage on my left index finger which I did not quite succeed in lopping off. 🙄 This is why I don't let myself have super sharp knives.

I happened to see the "one does not simply walk into Mordor" meme again, and honestly it's one of the reasons I dislike the films. It should have been followed by Aragorn saying, "I have," and Gandalf saying, "Same here," and Boromir going, "Oh right, and I forgot my brother lives next door." 🧐

It does articulate it, but not in the way the author probably intended. It says the author would rather go to a Nazi bar and surround himself with Nazis and converse with Nazis and hang out with Nazis and be friends with Nazis than be annoyed.

Good thread, but I don't understand the need to qualify. Man gets a Nazi tattoo against the UCMJ, leaves the Marines rather than remove it, jokes about it being a Nazi tattoo for a couple of decades, is every kind of bigot, but he "may not have been an outright Nazi"? Just say "Nazi," dangit! 🧐