From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

When I forget I was cursed with instant testicular torsion after vocalizing numbers of memetic significance

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Its not a hot take but man the way the word "content" is used these days. A vile bit of late stage capitalist propaganda, lumping all forms of human creativity and expression into a single wastebin teaching the public to treat all art as disposable.

They told the Pope he doesn’t understand the Bible and then they quoted Pulp Fiction.

Catching up with Archer since I stopped at the coma seasons. Love how the last seasons turn the characters into a Metal Gear boss squad.

You could make a really kickass TV show out of World War Z but Hollywood only knows how to make 1 type of zombie story apparently.

Checking in on how Bluesky's servers are doing.

I once again stress that a ton of the Harry Potter fantasy world is just regular British stuff. You can just build actual train infrastructure.

guys...

Me in 50 years.

Love how we had this series of extremely contentious and contemptuous interactions with this website's higher ups where they pretty much told us to our face "Yeah we're using Al to code, you fucking peasant. Deal with it." immediately followed by a good month of very frequent outages on the website.

I installed Planescape: Torment on my laptop in French, and so far all the words I had to look up had to do with mutilation and death, so I'm pretty sure Google has me on some sort of list by now.

Crumbling Oolacile Township [Dark Souls] WIP made from bristol paper, cardstock, sketchbook paper, toilet paper and tea grounds

Millions of lapsed Catholics realizing that they have become realigned with the Pope against their will

My Weather Satellite is Too Cute! Even if Her Instruments are Outdated 🛰️

reminder

It's 100% the Twitter brainrot where you win arguments by reading Wiki summaries harder.

It will be extremely funny if Vance manages to get himself excommunicated before his book on becoming a Catholic releases.

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

My dislike for Atomic Habits grows as it keeps showing up in the YouTube thumbnails of every productivity bro hijacking my book algorithm.

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

News is now randomly generated, I am convinced.

That 'About Me: Video Games' grid sounds like a hassle. Every game is Deus Ex. Play Deus Ex. The game that needs a remake is Deus Ex: Invisible War. In the Deus Ex 1 engine.

But the main draw of these films is having Jack Black play a teenage girl and The Rock playing Danny DeVito.

Asterix using the Romans to make fun of the Nazis has super strange results sometimes. Imagine an actual D-Day movie with this as the main theme. 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkl5...

what the fuck is even going on

I knew 1001 Nights had as its framing device king Shahryar being betrayed by his wife. What I wasn't prepared for is how many separate instances there are of women cucking their husbands specifically with black servants. This is way more 4chan coded than HP Lovecraft. 😂

If you're a writer, and you use an AI generated cover or 'art' for your story, everyone seeing that HAS to assume you used it to generate the story, too. I know I do. #writing #fuckAI #writer

Van Gogh spent a lot of time in Arles, France. There's a restaurant that used to be a hotel where Van Gogh stayed and in a letter he wrote that the food was bad and they overcharged him for wine. Directly next door, sharing a wall, is this Dragonball-themed barbershop.

See, the value of Trump to the rest of the world is that he keeps showing what it actually looks like if "common sense right wing positions" were really implemented. I.e. so horrific that they're completely unpalatable even to most right wingers.

A very merry fuck Orbán into oblivion to all those who celebrate. #Hungary

1. I didn't even like the first Asterix movie (Asterix the Gaul (1967)) as a kid. Still don't. I mean the story is serviceable since it's based on the first comic, but the animation is so low quality, the music grating, and the comedic beats never hit. The characters don't even look on-model.

As little as I already thought of the man I'm in awe of what he's accomplished in 15 short months. Historic run. Basically threw away all his fire extinguishers and told every firefighter in town to eat shit, and then set his house on fire. We need a separate Mount Rushmore for morons

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

Wait, do Americans know what Asterix is?

I’m stealing bangers today

Wait if this means we get Gilles de Rais I'm SO on board.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Can the MAGA morons (but I repeat myself) who come over to Europe to preach about how "white people shouldn't be ashamed of our history" just stay in their alleged greatest country on Earth? Because if your political project is to repeat that history then you absolutely should be ashamed.

it's the month of giving

The French language is Vercingetorix's revenge. The Gauls resolved that if they would be forced to speak the Roman tongue, they would only do it in the most obnoxious, mocking, "Ooh, look at me, I'm a Roman!" way possible.

trad guys think they define true religion. they go "teacher, what must i do to inherit the kingdom of god? demonize trans people? persecute women as witches? bow before tyrants?" and when the pope comes back with "stop slaughtering human beings," the j.d. vances of the world dismiss it as normie.

We hope this picture of a guar will improve your day in some manner!