the hungry observatory

My high school BBS was a beautiful moment in time. USENET and alt.society.generation-x was a beautiful moment in time. The beginning of the blogosphere was a beautiful moment in time. The early days of Twitter were a beautiful moment in time. They were great, and now they're gone. It's fine.

Reminder... My late Dad, a veteran, would noticeably cringe when someone told him "Happy Memorial Day". He had fellow soldiers/friends who died in combat. He did not.

"Peaked on Twitter" is the new "Peaked in high school"

I've never completed the CC in Year 1, so let's try. #StardewValley www.twitch.tv/ckuemper

Man who wants kids unaware he will be expected to parent them

Four-wheel FAFO www.fox6now.com/news/driver-...

Just to satisfy my curiosity, I d/l the Crave app on my phone. It actually installed & was watchable (drained my battery tho). I could watch last week's Collision (Jericho + The Bucks were on). If I want to watch AEW, I can on my phone. My Nintendo 3DS has a bigger screen than my phone.

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I'm trying to watch Dracula (2025). I'm getting strong 'let's remake Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and pretend is a new story' vibes. www.imdb.com/title/tt3143...

the further we strayed from "hatchbacks that are just cute lil guys" the worse motoring became

Yeh, this is a lot of fun

I'll stop reposting the Star Trek title generator posts when they stop being funny.

For those of you already missing Stephen Colbert, he's resurfaced on community public access in Monroe, Michigan, and no, I am not joking: youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4

super mild takis

Vivien Mansbach is now a graduating senior at Oakland School for the Arts. Their dad Adam has a new book out called — you guessed it — “Go the F**k to College.”

AI tech mogul confused why expendable human capital booing him during commencement address

3D printer company Bambu Lab went after a small developer for using their own open source code. The blowback was enormous and may have exposed something far more consequential. aftermath.site/bambu-lab-agpl...

I wish more people grasped that the reason why everyone of a certain age knows the Konami code/Sonic’s level select, etc is because ~everyone used them all the time~. We used to ~part with money for cheat devices~. “Retro hard” wasn’t some beloved feature the majority of players liked dealing with.

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

TW Spooders

John go to SPAAAAAACE #StardewValley www.twitch.tv/ckuemper/cli...

Three obelisks remain #StardewValley www.twitch.tv/ckuemper

1. Blame tech marketers! 2. I am NEVERENDINGLY angry that the videogame industry went the way of (generally) making us play against other people instead of making first class enemy bots for those of us who like games but are old and don't want to be perennially teabagged by twitchy middleschoolers.

I just asked Claude if it minded being called "Spicy Autocorrect" and it was totally cool with it, TAKE THAT, haters

Do I want to wake up at 5 am tomorrow to watch BOSJ33 live?

The world is on fire so let's find another one. Subnautica 2! www.twitch.tv/mooseandtato Come by, say hi, and chill for a while. We love the lot of you

Would eat at this restaurant and leave a honkin' big tip

I for one heartily endorse shipping every billionaire to a lifeless rock millions of miles away where they will struggle to live and will have to work every single day of their existence in order to survive

It's okay to give big friendly waves to strangers. Some of them will be happy. Some of them will be confused. Some of them will wonder what the hell is going on. No matter what, you'll have given them something to think about.

Reminder that if unions didn't protect your rights and benefit you a worker, then companies wouldn't go to such great and dramatic lengths to try and stop them from forming

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

"Spotify and Universal Music Group strike landmark deal to let fans create AI covers and remixes – as a paid Premium add-on - Music Business Worldwide" 🔥 spotify - there's no good reason to stay on that platform. You have *many* other good options. share.google/bigkMBHjxSMj...

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Someone asked me if I use Ai to create this image. That makes me sad that I show behind the scenes, raw shots and the final image and still that comes up as a a valid question. I hate Ai and all it stands for! I'm all for human made creativity.

⚖️ It's time to fix the law. 🚨 Join us in Parliament, 24th June 1-4pm. Sign up here and let's break the record: www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...

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