You couldn't make Blazing Saddles today. But I could

biological sex is purely political rhetoric, not a scientific consensus. it's almost exclusively used as a rhetorical cudgel against transgender people. conceding that "nobody believes that biological sex is meaningless" is validating their argument

Canadians and Northern USers, you would be shocked how well these work! Please, please, if you have the time and the money, make one.

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If a director doesn't continually add scenes to their movie after it comes out, I'm sorry to say that's a dead movie

Solar energy is good! Solar triumphalism is very bad!

this literally made me cry

when I die I will be banished to the place where local TV ads go after they stop airing. my doctor told me this

This is how to speak to every single one of those sycophants.

Everything is connected. The people suffering the most from wildfire smoke are homeless. Next, still housed people who can't afford to weatherize. In the heat, people without or who can't afford to run AC so they simply keep the windows open and pray. Universal and free electricity is a necessity.

I just want to smoke weed and play video games

The rash of AI replacing games that it can't really do is now making me wonder about other kinds of automation. Like, I've always assumed that the robot welder arm that replaced 100 human welders at the car factory was, at least, good at welding cars, but I don't actually know that.

I relate to Hayao Miyazaki. Not because of his work but because I would also disown my son for Tales From Earthsea (2006)

(shounen anime voice) But--You can't sacrifice the queen! She's been by your side the whole time!

in video games the word "survival" means clearcutting a forest to build a fortress and "cozy" means starting a small business so you can eventually earn enough money to clearcut a forest and build a fortress

fwiw, fascism scoops out your brain with a melon baller, so none of these people can be considered "smart". they all believe and are motivated by absolutely ridiculous conspiracy theories and transparent falsehoods.

It's always Salinas

Im annoyed with the literacy crisis because im finding that sometimes you can explain something to someone in heavy detail and provide them with reference material and all that will do is make them angrier because they cant comprehend what they were told or read what they were provided.

I got sober about five months after Craig Ferguson did this monologue. Must’ve watched this clip a thousand times in those early days. Hard to remember now, but not many admirable people talked publicly about sobriety circa 2007 — or had compassion for a young woman in crisis. This was invaluable. 🙏

it is time to stop writing to please the least fun person in the room

Just got stuck on a loop with a customer service bot. "I'm sorry, I didn't understand you. Please answer the question." It never asked a question. Very uncanny.

Reupping this and the reminder that just a furnace filter on a standard Corsi-Rosenthal box is very capable if you can’t find get an air purifier for your house. aftermath.site/3d-printing-...

Robert Peanuts (holy shit)

A record number of Democrats voted to stop sending more aid to Israel. This didn't happen by accident. It happened because millions of people spoke out, organized, and refused to stay silent. Our movement is making a difference. Keep organizing. Keep building power.

Why is every post on the internet like this: Person: This thing! You: I agree! Person: Fuck you! Go sit in a corner and think about what you've done.

may I indulge my pet kvetch people rightly condemning Serkis's comments about Middle Earth (and by extension his understanding of that place & its lore) are still gonna watch the fucking movie because no one can bear not having a take to make this shit stop you have to stop giving it the oxygen

*Disembodied computer voice* Oof! That's a bad one. Current Skeet Streak: 0 Personal Best: 1

Fuck Marry Kill be like: Harry Styles, Mr. Rogers, Elon Musk

I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.

it's not an own to point out that all these fucking guys trying to deny trans people their hormones are so into HGH and whatnot. they don't care either way about 'gender affirming care.' they want to be he-men and they want trans people to die. to them the two projects are perfectly coherent

L M A O

it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing

Depressing, but worth reading — I had been thinking about “the hologram” in regard to podcasts about books since 2022 lithub.com/publishing-h...

The internet does this thing where people have photographic memory for what happened six months ago and then a complete wipe of anything older than that. I was once scolded for bringing up an article that had been a recap of a Discourse (“We talked about that already!”) I had been in the hospital

Every day is nonbinary day if you're not a coward about it.

women are naturally worse at jeopardy because on the savannah they were gatherers whereas men's job was to know the state river of Indiana

we were too harsh on video games using cel-shading

This wasn’t on her issues page, and I think we can all agree that’s why the primary went how it did

Abolish time altogether. Ban the clocks. It's all an illusion.

This is it. The most boring (complimentary) way to say this over and over and over again. Start every speech with this. We need this to become the default moral stance, and it sadly is not.

(plz don’t block me, i’m stoned)

They should invent an apartment complex without annoying assholes.

My most selfish reason for supporting UBI is that there are a whole lot of incompetent people who are forced to work to survive and I would like to stop interacting with them.

Lindsay Graham’s only deeply held value is a genuinely erotic love of war and Trump has the foreign policy of a generic Republican, it’s like wondering why Gollum supports a president whose only policy is giving him the ring

"it is what it is" is undoubtedly the GOAT thought terminating cliché. nothing else even comes close. it just is what it is

Free healthcare would solve so many problems for people in this country. So many.

QoL feature request for video platforms out there: Multi-track audio streams, so that I can personally choose how loud gameplay and streamer voices are.

Antisemites citing the Talmud as "evidence" of what Jews believe is always funny because it's roughly equivalent to printing out a decade of Bluesky posts and going "this is what autistic people believe"

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences