My daughter @madepn.bsky.social has invented a great scale for the triviality - importance spectrum. It goes from “nothing burger” to “everything bagel”. I doff my hat in tribute to genius.

Hey geeks! Bea Wolf is ultra-discounted on Amazon for 2 days only: www.amazon.com/Bea-Wolf-Zac...

“Bullying” is not a word that needs to be reclaimed and self-applied. The thing it means is repellent and it’s important that we have a word that means that repellent thing, and not “me being slightly intemperate (bravely) on social media.”

And still do

Weird how last fall a bunch of people kept saying “the reason the media frames $X TOPIC this way is because they like Trump and they want him to win” but then turn around and do not apply the same logic to posters who spend 97% of their time attacking everything Democrats do.

I don't do Inktober, but I drew this digitally for you. #inktober #animation #Halloween

Actual Muslim organizations in the UK are unequivocally decrying the terrorism in Manchester and mourning the dead without asterisk. As opposed to masturbatory performative Bluesky let's-bomb-Walmart twats who see an opportunity to be edgy.

"If only you cared about ___________ as much as Kimmel." Y'all, it's not a matter of caring, it's a matter of *leverage*. Millions of people across the country all had immediate financial leverage to exert over Disney/ABC; that does not exist for a great many other issues, esp. regional ones.

i would like, for my birthday this year - it's not until next May but i'll accept the present any time - more people targeting opprobrium at Ezra Klein than at "Democrats" when Klein's entire animus at this point is built around elected Democrats correctly ignoring the shit out of him

but basically anybody, ever, working in this space ends every tweet in a tweet chain with "and EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT is doing this and worse than this, and this is why America is the source of all the world's ills", it's EXTREMELY fucking tiring

the frustrating thing is there actually *are* some specific Democrats who are signalling willingness to throw immigrants under the bus and it would be REALLY FUCKING USEFUL to be able to target and talk about them and why their strategy is bad and worse-than-counterproductive

Commodore 64 and good question. Anyone know?

Not ALL of my political opponents are Nazis. But Nazis are among those I oppose politically, and therefore SOME of my political opponents are Nazis. Ted Cruz says NONE of his political opponents are Nazis. Therefore: ______________.

"The Rapture" will not be happening tomorrow because "the Rapture" is not actually a thing and thus will not ever be happening. - @slacktivistfred.bsky.social at www.patheos.com/blogs/slackt...

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

At a Jon Baptiste concert and he is wearing a silk suit outfit that drapes and contours in such a way that we are currently trying to answer the age old question: is Jon Baptiste circumcised? Consensus says no and we’re actually pretty confident.

Witch King is on sale right now in ebook for 2.99US across various ebook retailers (I don't know if this applies to other countries.) bookshop.org/p/books/witc...

I am so very sick and tired of seeing this fucking tweet quoted like it isn't scaremongering luddite bullshit posted by people who are completely surrounded by technology but want to feel superior to folks who have a HomePod and a couple of lights that change color.

Man, I wish Pedro was better at picking projects. If he could read a script like he wears a suit, he’d be the biggest star in the world.

Terriers until I die.

See also "horseplay" and "pony play."

"Now they'll have an excuse to–––" Do what, things they're already doing? I swear some of y'all jump right into doomerism like it's an Olympic event and you're getting scored for speed & agility.

Call me an irredeemable know-nothing shitlib, but I think people should be able to be both leftist *and* not actively, aggressively antisemitic. You know, "big tent theory" and all that.

Just rewatched the first episode of James Acaster’s Repertoire and man, I don’t know that there’s a better standup working today.

14 years late I finally watched Jiro Dreams of Sushi. BTW, if you’d hadn’t heard, Jiro finally retired in 2023. His older son, then 62, took over as head chef. boxd.it/aZ2GSR

BTW, the appropriate reaction when the ultra-rich start doing untested biological experiments on their own bodies is to point and laugh. "We'll live to 140!" says someone who would be one of the first people to ever do that shit with no idea what the actual long-term consequences are.

I can

At My Most Beautiful off of Up. I know a lot of folks don't like Up but I think it's extraordinarily underrated.

Yup. There is no world in which "writing" a song with AI ends up with you standing on a stage in front of a crowd of people who are there to hear you perform. *If* that's your end goal, ya gotta learn and practice and there's simply no way around it.

My favorite musical boxd.it/aVy137

Ending sentences with French words is kind of my forte. I think it gives them a certain... je ne sais quoi. (I even put it on my resumé.) Sometimes I use them wrong, but do I mind the occasional faux pas? Au contraire! I find that linguistic mistakes are very baguette.

A life-long party hardliner like Cheney recognizing that you are the better option, crossing the aisle, and unconditionally endorsing you *against his own party* is an unambiguous victory. It speaks to the strength of your message, not against it, that it works so well even on an enemy.

Personally, and I understand this is disputatious, I view large portions of the broader progressive electorate being unable to recognize someone like *Dick Cheney* crossing the aisle against his own party as the victory that it is as a skill issue on the audience's part. And a problem.

As a Marine brat, I can confirm that "Police this area" (meaning, pick up all the trash, down to the smallest cigarette butt or shell casing) is the military equivalent of "If you have time to lean..." in that it's thrown at anyone who looks even slightly bored.

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

Oh cool, we're doing "But what about the children!?" but for AI. Surely this time it's not a moral panic with no actual unpinning. The fact that it looks, smells, and acts like the exact same moral panic over video games, comic books, dungeons and dragons, and watching TV is complete coincidence.

It would actually be pretty great if a person could say, “I’m glad Newsom did [X specific action]” without a bunch of other people acting like you’ve just been declared treasurer of the Newsom Fan Club and are showing off a fresh new Gav4Prez2028 tattoo.

I'm not sure if I count as 0th or 1st generation removed, as it was my parent's farm and I spent the last three years of high school living/working on it as well as plenty of visits back home in my 20s and 30s, but yeah. People's ideas of what farming actually is can be pretty wild.

Wrote a thing, had to share:

#15MoviesToGetToKnowMe 2001 The Princess Bride The Fountain In The Mood For Love Ikiru Top Secret! My Neighbor Totoro Grave of the Fireflies What Dreams May Come John Wick (shoutout @nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app) Emperor's New Groove Last Year at Marienbad Fury Road Goodfellas Harold and Maude

Evangelicals at the door: We'd like to talk to you about peace and love and the Good Word. Me: Oh, sorry, I'm taking the under on Pascal's wager but have a great day! Me: *gently closes the door on two very confused older gents*

I’ve been told (convincingly) that the State Farm part is a phishing scam and they are innocent bystanders. Which is even worse for Twillory, tbh. Were they hacked? Or are they selling their customer info to scammers? One or the other.

So it looks like Twillory (which I haven't bought anything from in years) is either selling their customer list or they've been hacked. And State Farm is buying lists and spamming. Just a heads up for y'all, do with that what you will.

I also own this shirt and it's one that I always get a ton of compliments on when I'm wearing it.

A friend, joking: Remember, Jesus is coming soon! Me: I dunno, He’s been gooning for so long he may have forgotten how…

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

I've said this before, but the recent genAI craze has absolutely turned me into the bad guys from I Robot, Bicentennial Man, etc. Those hunks of silicon aren't real people! Johnny Five gets a pass because he was obviously brought to life by magic.