Dang, Crunchyroll down on a snow day? How will the weebs occupy ourselves?

Note to self... historical fiction in the style of a western... but set in Imperial Roman northwest Africa, circa 1st century AD...

This raises the real question: how would Mr. Freeze feel, considering a lot of his favorite puns now have new implications?

Fuck AI, invent me a warm glove with one of those touchscreen styluses on the finger

It's a shame that the entire genre of puns based on homophony is completely broken by the addition of closed captions.

Want to do a study to find out to what extent people who say "fentan-ol" are the same as those who say "tomb-eric"

Whoa Black Betty

Order of lady monks in D&D that specialize in thrown weapons, call them the Chuck Nuns

TIL this meme is from an episode about forming unhealthy emotional attachments to computer programs (in this case a holodeck character). Topical!

Why didn't Sauron install any sundials in the Dark Tower of Barad-dûr? Because shadows always lie in the Land of Mordor.

They should invent a HIPAA that doesn't require me to fill out and sign two pieces of paper so that I can get a third piece of paper created by one doctor signed by a second doctor in the same hospital.

Billionaires were running out of things to make us subscribe to, so they want to make our brains worse so that they get addicted to LLMs that we'll then have to subscribe to.

I deleted my previous posts about my harasser to protect the sanctuary, but I will not be using this bluesky account anymore if someone can threaten me here, via email, and on the phone without consequences. Bye for now.

*touches earpiece* Breaking, an updated report clarifies that he simply had blood in his torso, which is a completely normal thing that is technically true for just about everybody. Not, like, loose. In the blood vessels. Where it belongs.

Absolute peak "Google, you're drunk" is opening an email in Gmail in account #1, clicking a link inside that email to a Google Form, and the Form defaulting to account #2

Is he trying to get Earth to where it was in the run-up to Zefram Cochrane's invention of the warp drive? I.e. the aftermath of World War 3?

People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .

Doing your own translation of the Bible really reveals how much God is actually roasting Adam in Genesis 3:22, after giving him his first shirt. "Oh no, Mr. Big Shot knows good and evil now, watch out, he's practically a god himself! GTFO out my garden, nerd"

Hey Trekkies, is Discovery otherwise good enough to make up for that time they glazed the nazi billionaire? Trying to decide what to hit next after we finish Voyager.

repost to give those 2 or 3 followers who always like your weird posts a little forehead kiss & a grilled cheese cut diagonally

Most Honorable President Xi Jinping: as the precedent under international law has now been established allowing for the forcible capture of a foreign nation's illegitimate leader to stand trial under another nation's laws, I humbly submit a modest proposal,

Legionary legate in the Fallout show: *pronounces "Caesar" correctly* Same legate a few lines later: "prima noctis"

Oh yeah I recognize this music video youtu.be/Ywxm6zLEjFY?...

Stranger Things Season 5 "Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up". Directed by The Duffer Brothers

We should continue to value human-made art in the era of generative AI for the same reason we continue to value paintings in the era of photography. (Photography, at least, is also an art form, unlike...)

Watching Alien (1979) for the first time, and the speed at which they catapulted that man's body out of the airlock seemed a little disrespectful.

It's fun to know things the closed captioners don't. That's not a guitar she's playing, it's a bass! That ship is clearly at perigee, not apogee!

Bread-baking simulator that cribs the jiggle physics engine from a gooner game to model dough ball behavior

It's a two-days-before-New-Years miracle: they gave me the exact number I ordered

With the energy that AI "prompt artists" spend begging a computer to make shitty pictures, they could just, like write books and actually have a chance of being respectable.

After *checks notes* how many days?! Anyway, I now have a Linux Mint installation with a functioning graphics driver and internet connection, so put a tally in the win column. I even played a computer game that didn't crash!

"All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak...." ~Eco, Ur-Fascism. I believe AI is today's Newspeak.

This is the funniest shit I have ever seen. He kicks the dude in the beans and then mocks him

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

My computer, currently running Windows 10, every couple days: "Hey, uh, Windows 10 support has ended. You should really upgrade to the next OS." Me: "I know, why do you think I'm spending my free time bashing my head against the wall trying to get Linux Mint operational on this rig?"

Gift from my sister.

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

Take every function we like that capital does for health care, pipe it through a democratic government, and excise the useless leeches (health insurance companies) from the process. Shifting the tax burden from the working class to the capitalist class is a necessary but different issue.

Okay astrology people, what does your sorcery say about the fact that Jupiter is currently cruising past his son Pollux in the sky?

I love a good panini, but speaking as a bread guy, doesn't it seem like a waste of leavening?

Grading student work in 2025 has really got me feeling like Saw Gerrera about AI. Like, I'm paranoid about it, but they really are using it (in a way that's easy for me to catch).

"Whale-headed king" is such a banger of a scientific name

I type "the data are" Google Docs flags "are" as a grammar error With the full force of a man with an entire degree in Latin, right click select "the suggestion is wrong"

Find my friends? Bluesky, that's why I keep my identity secret: so you can't get to them and use them against me.

I hear the UN is going to ask the Vatican to send a priest and a seminarian to negotiate soon. Perhaps hijinks will ensue and they'll spirit Maduro off to some distant desert nation and win a race there.

The difference between "efficiency" and "effectiveness" is that perhaps the most effective way to learn the Latin word for a body part is to have surgery on it, but this is not an efficient way to learn a language. (This is a reflection on a thing that happened almost 3 years ago, for the record.)

It's the same old problem of "nationalism" having two sides: it can be "an empire is trying to crush our identity so we're resisting" nationalism or "our empire deserves to crush other identities" nationalism. It's all about context.

Saw that Mick was trending before I knew why, so this is a genuine relief.