I finished Little Dorrit! Good stuff. Also simultaneously sweet and unsettling that Dickens is clearly going through some personal stuff, and decided make up the world’s most perfect twenty year-old to give his middle-aged protagonist a romantic interest.

I still have no idea who won the Super Bowl. That’s wild to me. I was even on BlueSky during the game!

<pokes head in> yeah, this is dumb. we already have The Mist. do new shit.

Give Prank a follow, he’s smart and has interesting opinions.

just so everyone knows: my progressive Maine friends are still all in on Graham Platner.

Cmon now guys. If any Dem says anything besides shut down until this is all gone then there's no need for federal government at all. These are concentration camps. If you're too scared to say so then you're part of the problem.

"They triiiied to kill him with a forklift..." "Oh no, the Hitler museum!" "Trumpy! You can do stupid things!" (I'll be honest, I don't know what lines i use, I just like remembering them.)

(Sorry, being preachy tonight, it’s not worth much.)

y’know you don’t have to repost Trump. he’s not funny anymore, if he ever was, and he never says anything surprising.

Perfectly fine evening, but in one of those moods where I don’t feel -bad-, I just don’t feel anything else.

you all make me feel so fucking old.

oh of course. gross!

i wonder what once beloved celebrity will sell out their legacy to promote a doomed tech project _this_ year.

re-watching the QUANTUM LEAP pilot (for reasons), and I think this one gets overlooked as one of the best of its era: there’s this wonderful, gentle eeriness to it that’s just instantly engaging. Also, despite having just watched all of ENTERPRISE, I forgot how handsome Scott Bakula is.

do not like that they brought Jake in to Starfleet Academy. it’s not fair of me, but after the endless train wreck of PICARD, I want modern Trek to keep its damn hands off the good stuff.

Shaved to look more Russian. (It’s for a show.) (probably)

Playing Nioh 3. I have a certain “this is my trash” fun with these games—I love running around smashing shit, and I don’t think I have paid attention to a single cutscene so far. If there’s a story, it’s none of my business.

Here's my review of Nioh 3. It makes for an interesting comparison with Dragon Quest VII - both games are essentially content treadmills, with the difference that there's inherent pleasure in the basic thing you're doing while pushing the ball up the hill in Nioh. www.avclub.com/nioh-3-game-...

John McCain wasn't "one of the good ones." He was a jerk who occasionally showed signs of not being a jerk; those signs never lasted, and never indicated any sense of growth or change, but they were embraced by a media desperate to maintain the illusion that our two party system works.

He shut it down by being more subtle in his racism. He didn’t say “there is nothing wrong with being Muslim you racist asshole, but Obama isn’t Muslim.” He basically said “no, he’s not a Muslim, instead he’s a human being worthy of respect.”

oh god someone made a roguelite Picross game. THIS IS MY HOLE. I BELONG HERE.

Spider-man 2 A Simple Plan Evil Dead 2 Spider-man

everyone wish @amandawtwong.bsky.social the happiest of birthdays. a talented artist and a good friend, she's one of the best people i know on here: someone who uses social media in a way that improves everyone's life. long may she reign! ❤️🎉

The two best kinds of Muppet hosts: 1. People so grown-up and serious you can’t imagine them ever having been children. 2. People who are basically Muppets themselves.

mostly what it seems to come down to is people saying "i should be allowed to use AI to make something that i can sell," and pretending that this is somehow the same as making art.

The idea that technical skill is somehow an unsurmountable barrier to the production of art betrays a very, very limited understanding of what art is and how it's made. Marcel Duchamp is one of the greatest artists ever to live and many of his most indelible works are *about* the absence of skill.

...And there's the video!

Sam Reich

<nods> _exactly_.

It's a little deranging to feel on the cusp of something important when the people in charge think it's Wednesday and they're busy still trying to strike two-party bargains in a room with one occupant.

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

i'm working through stuff, romance-wise--trying to figure out what i actually need--but a low-key good thing about social media is having relaxed crushes on various people you'll never meet. nothing will happen, they'll never know, but i still get a "neat!" when they like my posts.

Yes let's do a deal with this administration lol Dems

this is great.

I rarely do this, but I’m hoping I maybe have enough of a following here that someone can help: I need to get in contact with Donkey Kong. It’s urgent

tired of making complicated arguments against AI. if i read something, i want a human to have written it. if i watch something, i want humans to have made it. you want to remove yourself from the burden existing by letting a button make slop? get a fucking therapist.

latest Lower Decks review is live for my patrons. this season continues to bum me out a bit!

i hope AOC runs for president, and if she does, it's going to be all out war against the GOP _and_ establishment Dems, and whoa i am already exhausted just typing this.

at the desk for the afternoon, both tired and (enjoyable) grumpy, so you can look forward to Takes Galore. here's one: i still don't give a shit about sports, and while i don't feel a need to mock them, i get annoyed when sports fans get pissy about being mocked. suck it up, winners.

"maybe this year, people will finally accept that Super Bowl commercials have always been vacuous, disappointing novelties playing on a nostalgia for some non-existent past where advertising wasn't bullshit," he said, and then went back to eating dirt.

…I legit I have no idea where this is from, but it’s certainly over-written enough to be me.

No one should ever ask this creature serious questions again. Rub his nose in the filth he’s made, lock him in his crate, and let the crate flow down the river to sea where he belongs.

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

another day ending in y, another chance to feel bad about being a heterosexual male. we suck! we suck _so much_.

trying to decide if I’m gonna be one of those guys posting pictures of myself and my cat for Valentine’s Day. I mean, that’s basically what I already am, but unsure if want to publicly commit.

so it’s obvious what they’re doing—creating tension by having an outsider come in and shake things up—and I know that she’ll have more depth, but it still harshes the buzz a little.

starting up the second season of The Pitt, and this new doctor… well, Samira likes her.

You have to be constantly hoping the cast all got tetanus shots; that they just found a house and started filming; that it was hot and sweaty and miserable; that somebody might have died.

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