Why Was I Invited To An Island Off The Coast of Costa Rica By A Genetics Company? (With apologies to Dan Olson)

It really cannot be overstated that COVID happened, suddenly a bunch of absentee tech dads were forced to stay home where they saw their kids playing Animal Crossing while talking on Discord, then collectively decided to light a trillion dollars on fire to make Snow Crash IRL.

I need The Protomen to go back on tour ASAP

Pogo Alice shows up randomly in my feed every couple of years and it haunts my mind for days

my vtuber debut starting in 10min! debut.pearlgrey.io

We need you @dmbofficial.bsky.social. This is your chance for redemption.

42 years ago today, if Stanislav Petrov had just followed orders, we wouldn't have to deal with all this bullshit.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filling an IV bag from a murky puddle near Trump National's sixth tee. "The president needs parameciums," he tells the assembled media. "It's the only treatment proven to work in real testing." His golf cart is piled high with dozens of dead birds.

What's funny is that all these GenAI companies could actually just embed compression-resistant patterns into their output that would cleanly make their stuff identifiable, but they don't, because they don't want to, because they want their slop to make everything unusable.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor have removed their entire discography from YouTube Music. RIP

I was trying to do some research in prep for Nolan's Odyssey next year, but this profile of Ulysses was just 700 pages about the sublime agony of being, the inherent fallibility of perception, and the tyranny of the British. Also my epub seems to be corrupted, a lot of punctuation is missing.

Happy 21st anniversary to the Dave Matthews Band poop incident en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Ma...

The Meetup app has badly fumbled their estimations on what their customers are willing to pay. Every group I've joined has opted to migrate off app as soon as they are sent a bill to continue operating after the initial trial.

Whoever prevented Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt from airing on Adult Swim 14 years ago should suffer civil liability.

I got sent a video where the act of conjuring an AI chatbot with a curated personality for a specific purpose was referred to as "digital tulpamancy" and I can't stop thinking about it.

Weebs who consume exclusively anime will watch a mid show that just manages not to be aggressively bad, and they will call it a masterpiece. #frieren

If you watch a totally spoiler filled review of a movie on YouTube, add it to your watchlist, you can wait 6 months to a year before watching it so that you can forget all of the spoilers and it feels fresh. Been doing this with RLM movie recs for a while, with success.

Unironically playing the workout music from The Substance on the gym speakers

Reacher is literally a murder hobo

Reacher is very amusing to me because he is the very essence of what Tier 1 Operator online posters pretend to be in their minds.

Mike Duncan's Mars Revolution feels like a tie-in novel to a sci Fi video game, where the IP managers hired someone on the cheap to write the story of how humanity made the transition from our time up into the time where the video game takes place. But there is no cool video game.

I keep seeing these shelf separators at Barnes and Noble in my peripheral vision, and I keep having a double take thinking they're a Lament Configuration.

Beloved murderer canceled after old tweets surface

You know the "🔹AI Overview" you get on Google Search? I discovered today that it's repeating as fact something I made up 7 years ago as a joke. "Kyloren syndrome" is a fictional disease I invented as part of a sting operation to prove that you can publish any nonsense in predatory journals...

I can't find any showings of Nightbitch within 50 miles of San Antonio. Is this movie even real?

well i have prepared a pecan pie and well… i may have loss’d the plot. happy thanksgiving y’all! this is the before and the after is coming in 55 minutes

For years, I avoided watching ARCANE on Netflix, because its associated with the worst video game ever made, but I finally gave it a chance earlier this year, and it is undeniable that the show is fantastic. If only it didn't have the terrible Imagine Dragons OP song, it would be a 10/10.

@codyjohnston.bsky.social if you need a holiday for Thursday next week, that day is Petrov Day. The day Stanislav Petrov saved the world from nuclear annihilation.

The Ghost concert movie was okay. I still miss the old outfits. I get Tobias doesn't want to risk heat stroke every time he goes on stage, but bringing out the vestments and a tiny mitre for only one song per set just doesn't excite me like the old days.

Every article about Red Lobster filing for bankruptcy is "ha ha endless shrimp, what did they think would happen" and then buried ten paragraphs down is the usual:

Emma Stone won for the gross Yorgos movie. Over Lily Gladstone. Terrible

One of my coworkers looks exactly like the Cancer Jesus from the I Feel Better music video. I have to keep myself from breaking out into "I only want one night!" every time I see him.

There are videos of people walking around in public wearing their Apple Vision Pros and all I can think about is this youtube.com/shorts/h9qQ1...

Reacher is very amusing to me because he is the very essence of what Tier 1 Operator online posters pretend to be in their minds.

Found out yesterday at our polling location that despite my new home having a city address, technically our neighborhood is outside of that city's limits. So we don't get to vote for the mayor or city council for the city on our mail.

This is a B-plot from a @greatdismal.bsky.social novel.

I wonder how much data about patient experience is skewed by the fact that all hospitals in America are inherently terrible places to be.

I wonder when businesses and politicians will realize that sending unsolicited texts and emails just makes us gradually grow to resent them.

Time to watch Ghost Adventures with Zak Bagans

It's refreshing to not have sponsored content thrown into my feed. Hopefully it lasts a little while this time...