I played in a Star Trek RPG once, and I insisted on wearing a spacesuit every time we beamed down to a planet. Eventually the GM yelled at me, "come on, man, you have to allow the plot to happen."

One of the trivial answers to this question is just "because the shit you want to learn eventually builds on the shit I'm teaching you now." Oh, you don't like pointer/array symmetry in C? But you'd like to learn OpenGL programming, yeah? Well, I have bad news...

The Devil Within: actually really good so far. Rough. This is not a fun and upbeat movie. …holy shit, that's a real D. C. Talk song they just used.

Watching: Malice This is shaping up to be some Things-level shit. And we're scratching off the "showing a better movie in your bad movie" bingo-card square 5 minutes in.

I don’t miss MtG.

SCOTUS, which ordered Alabama to create a second Black opportunity district just 3 years ago, has lifted that order a week before the primary. The Purcell principle says courts shouldn't permit chaos too close to an election—it's now an open question whether there will even be a primary on schedule.

Didn't have the idea in time this year - and I'm not going anyway - but some day I'm gonna go to FWA dressed as the Deer God from Black Mountain Side, and I'm gonna marry the first person who plays along. THE CON CRUD THEY THINK YOU'VE GOT IT THEY THINK YOU'RE GOING MA-A-AD

Learning nushell has been going great. My first learning project was a script to download a podcast feed; that turned out to be really simple. Done in like 30 lines and an hour. Turns out nu is pretty awesome.

The XAI/Anthropic deal is big in many ways, one of which is that it feels like an admission of defeat from Elon. Can't create a model good enough to compete with Claude so suddenly you've become a service provider for the company you accused of Destroying Western Civilization last month

Spent a couple days off-and-on writing a podcast downloader in rust. Working with quick_xml was torture; never finished it. Tried a comparison in C#, which I also don't know: incredibly quick and painless. Done in an hour and a half, including learning how to do everything. Fuck rust, kinda.

I've been learning Rust lately, and it's not going great. I have a lot of gripes, but the one that's getting me right this second is how batteries-not-included it is compared to python. So many "how do I do XYZ" questions require external libraries, in cases that python stdlib just covers.

no tax on tips no tax on teachers no tax on first responders no tax on veterans no tax on law enforcement no tax on dog owners no tax on sports fans no tax on Pepsi drinkers no tax on Geminis no tax on people born on weekends no tax on blondes no tax on anybody with a middle name

> During the announcement, Rogan said he had texted Trump about ibogaine and the president responded, "Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let's do it." Mother of god...

At the age of 42, I have done it, I have achieved: I have replaced a toilet flow valve. Triumph!

Oh hell yes. The Ghost Beyond, we're six minutes in and we're stacking up the botched lines. And the special effeeeeeects. This is gonna be great.

Two things can be true at once. It can be true that conservatives are entirely dishonest actors -- lying authoritarian shit-heels in fact -- on free speech. And it can also be true that the liberal ultra-prog left are terrible on this issue too.

conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences

Mojtaba Khamenei slides into the room and takes JD out with a WSTR. Marco Rubio activates his ult to get the pick up, but he’s taken out by a thief drone with a claymore on it…

Aide: sir you were supposed to choose ONE of the talking points

Whatever the fuck Amazon Video autoplayed next had a long opening narration by John Carradine, followed by MST3K-tier acting and sets. I'm in for a riiiiiide.

Watching the second half of it. A: Jeffrey Combs also deserved much better than this. B: The Yog-Sothoth puppet is creepy! That is my first and only positive statement about this movie.

It would have been easier to talk to an Orz than H&R Block tech support, and probably more useful too.

the entire sequence is so predictable if you make even a minimal effort to understand the forces and incentives at play, but of course the American press prides itself on refusing to do that

Republicans in Congress are complicit. It’s okay to say that out loud

The Dunwich Horror (2008): someone made this. Every scene of this thing feels like the camera should pan out and show the real characters in the real movie watching this garbage.

Not only is this completely horrible from both a liberal and an environmentalist perspective, but this is also the complete abandonment of conservative politics from like 1950 to 2008. I know we all know this, but it's important to remember.

Boron: The Fifth Element

I can tell this movie is aimed at teens because this character is walking around a hotel parking lot with a loudspeaker and I think the viewer isn't supposed to want to kill her with a brick.

The fact that text-to-speech cannot make sense of “S’pht” or “Pfhor” is going to be a recurring frustration to me over the next few weeks, isn’t it?

In a year Trump has converted cabinet positions into little dukedoms, where you don’t do any real work but are rewarded with luxury jets and exotic vacations and VIP accommodations at major events, partying with the stars.

Child of Satan: ok, so, like 5 minutes in, and this movie is parody bad. Hell yes, this is gonna be an adventure.

Teacup: sweet fuck. I dunno. Would've said 7/10 or 8/10, but the very ending is... rattling apart. I lose sympathy for protagonists that are way less effective than the villains SO FUCKING FAST.

Soon.

Donald Trump stole hundreds of billions of dollars from you with an illegal tax and now he's going to pay companies back with billions more of your tax dollars, all because Republicans in Congress were too chickenshit to tell him "no"

I sense a disturbance in the force. as if a truth social post the length of Moby Dick is getting placed into the drafts.

I know this person is trying to make the opposite point, but this is actually a pretty good demonstration of how we know that AIs do in fact work.

Predator: Badlands Actually pretty good! It's a bog-standard coming-of-age story, but for that, I really liked it. The alien world is vibrant, we get some creative monsters and hazards, and they deliver a touching story with sparse dialog and emotive critters.

How did this one random sub-agency of DHS become America’s secret police force, with a larger budget than many entire states? We’re so stuck on this absurd theoretical debate over “do we need immigration enforcement” that we missed Trump building himself a vast paramilitary army

cross-posting from twitter, but: I will die in the cockpit of my Blood Asp. I commissioned x.com/ArtClodBruce and I think it turned out awesome. He is not a furry artist, so he was a little worried about it, but I think he did an absolutely amazing job. So, who dares refuse my rabbatchall?

Sorry, second braindead post where I yell into the void like a toddler trying to make friends: I like this song. It’s slow and sad and I love it. hippocampusband.bandcamp.com/album/flood It wants to do the whole album — which is all good! — but I’m talking about Closer.

I kinda like this song. It’s really catchy. doefriends.bandcamp.com/track/cantido …that’s it, that’s the thought.

I loathe the IBM workload scheduler. I cannot tell where their incompetence ends and ours begins, and I do not care. I despise all of it.

The Tormented: nothing happened. We had a second scene that would count as a plot point; I looked, and it's an hour into this 1:14 movie. 1:14 and they didn't even have that much material! I didn't know there was a "mafia cult" involved until I looked the movie up on imdb.

Son of a bitch. Kunimitsu, Bob, and *Roger*. I never thought I'd see the day. I guess I'm gonna play a lot more Tekken. Like, in the fall, when they release the kangaroo.

Watching They Whisper: this movie was kind of sweet and sincere... for 20 minutes. And then it got unintentionally(?) hilariously.

Mainly offered for @francoisdejeuner.bsky.social ‘s amusement.

I kind of honestly think it's a problem that stupid people take a lot of their worldview from art and media (rather than, like, the education system or news or references) and we haven't updated a bunch of our common canon or tropes.

I just saw a family going for a walk in my apartment complex where the mom and dad were wearing plate carriers. I have to say, I'm not a fan. It's obviously legal, but you've still told me two things: 1: you're more likely to be armed, and 2: you're real bad at assessing risk.

10 MPLAS Blood Asp. Man, I have not been that drunk in a long time.