Keeping up with my 2026 releases, here's Nameless by @impossiblephd.bsky.social 🩷 So far this wins the award for "timeliest novel" as a dystopian set in Minneapolis released during the Renee Good newscycle. I decided to wait a bit to read the text without projecting current events onto it.

Going down a different branch of comics than a lot of the other quotes here, but hey, it's what I know. Spoiler warnings for Order of the Stick, Digger, xkcd Time, and Kill Six Billion Demons (also the nudity label is real for the last one, not just a fake spoiler-protecting one :P)

Two full years of tracking my trips to the gym, and I've managed to keep almost a 2 visits/week rate. Have been aiming for 3, but still proud of myself.

I always end up *staring in one of my marginalisations* when I see posts like this. There's more than I'd like, from all sorts of people.

jon (2017) (1/3)

Factorio having a "Restart" button right under "Resume", even with an "are you sure" prompt when you click on "Restart", carries with it some implicit assumptions about how often someone would want to restart their game of Factorio, which raises questions about what the devs thought at the time

Part of me wishes I could swing a gig as a 'general pundit' of this sort, who just has opinions, but a larger part of me thinks that the 'general pundit' is a concept that provides functionally no value. There are reporters, there are subject experts, but there is no 'general opinion expert.'

Everything I light my candle and open my ebook set to dark-mode in the evening I think this phrase now.

lmao

Therapy, a.k.a. "Alison tries really really hard to explain her thoughts in ways that make sense to someone other than herself."

Creatives don't owe you shit. They fundamentally do not owe you shit. They made something. You saw it. There was never any responsibility involved. They don't owe you a "better version" of the work. They don't owe you "less problematic writing". They don't owe you more episodes. You deserve nothing.

a movie that is functionally a hyper compressed, slightly more expensive season of a television show that is half kinda cute and half terrible whose legacy is forever marred by a right wing dipshit co-star based on a 20th century fox intellectual property? close enough, welcome back Serenity

In the final project for my Planetary Evolution class, students put together a concept for a mission to another planet. There were some thoughtful investigations proposed this year, and I loved hearing about them. And... Some groups really bought into having a tortured acronym for their mission. :D

If you've ever thought "every man wants to be a woman, that's normal" or "GOD, I wish I could do like Ranma do" then, ma'am, you have some introspection to do

Oh if you haven’t spent some time reading TFWiki it’s worth it lol. Check the article on “scale”

It's been years, but I'm still very amused that Magic used the transform mechanic on its Transformer cards, but renamed it "convert" because having Transformers transform risks genericizing the trademark.

Spartan, Peacekeeper, Gaian, Hive, Morganite, and the University/Believer dyad.

Like this discourse round started with a snide comment about trans women not "taking to the social obligations of being women well." Nobody should take to gendered obligations well! Fuck that shit and fuck you if you think trans women are uniquely obliged to smile and eat shit like good little women

People are calling this transmisogynistic and it sure is, but it has a healthy dose of just misogyny too. Has some strong "women know their place" vibes.

Arrive at bus stop, one minute later bus arrives. Arrive at train station, one minute later, train status is "All Abord". A less self-assured woman might conclude this means I should have left earlier, but I think it means I am a transit genius.

Oh, #WebcomicDay? I do those!⁣ ⁣ Read Spell X Sword, my modern fantasy comic about two gay losers falling for each other while making ends meet in the quest economy!⁣ ⁣ spellxsword.com

Just noticed my speakers' L/R channels are swapped. I'm pretty sure I set those up nearly a gender ago, so apparently I have like no directional hearing.

"In order to expedite your travel into the Imperium, Teixcalaan requests the following as proofs of identity: a) a genetic record stating your sole possession of your own genotype, unshared with clonesibs OR a notarized document stating that your genotype is at least 90 percent unique

I've been saying for a while that we don't have social media- we have parasocial media. We have media that flattens other humans into caricatures - into "content" to be consumed. We have media that presents us with a facsimile of community, as opposed to the real thing.

Think there's some environmental storytelling here with the differing presence and thicknesses of gloves across the shots.

#JustFinishedABook The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson. Jesus Christ, Baru. Like, great book, loved every bit of it. But... Jesus Christ, Baru

spheal's the most perfectly named pokemon. one look at it and you're like "yea. that's a spheal."

A visibly emotional Anne Hathaway responding to a trans kid--who named herself Ella after Ella Enchanted, and thanked Hathaway for her courage as an ally--saying "Ella, sweetie, I want to make something absolutely clear: It takes zero courage to love you"......now I might cry too

SOLDIER AT THE BAR #01: "So where were you boys at the Siege of Minas Tirith?" SOLDIER AT THE BAR #02: "On the walls with the Prince of Dol Amroth, when fire rained from the sky. Aye, that was a grim day, but we stood." SOLDIER AT THE BAR #03: "I was one of 'em who helped set Faramir on fire!"

Sweet! Enjoying Ascendance of a Bookworm, Witch Hat, and Daemons of the Shadow Realm this season. Don't think I've had 3 concurrent anime i liked since Frieren/Shangri-la/Apothecary 2 years ago. This is nice.

Holy crap

TIMELINE CLEANSE YOU ARE SCHEDULED FOR YOUR INJECTIONS OF GOOD NEWS

Recalling a year of sapphic witch art: SimzArt Torah

Intelligent

Liberté, Égalité, La Vie Grecque

Chrome Mobile switching the tab counter to ":D" past 100 feels passive-aggressive.

Alright folks - I've got a new writing project online! Strange Highways is an ongoing mechsploitation (adjacent?) comedy about the horrors of living in a dying nation that sold its soul to the auto industry. Very NSFW. Hope folks enjoy it! As of this post, four chapters and about 10k words are up.

me: ok im gonna get up at 7am. gotta go grab some breakfast. seize the day me at 7:04: oops ok get your head in the game rax. 7:30. at 7:30 it’s time to get up me at 7:41: ok so what had happened was

Speaking of popes, there was never actually a Pope John XX because Pope John XXI made a mistake and accidentally invented a pope who didn't exist.

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

What's your favourite Bible verse? (wrong answers only)

This is what I immediately think of whenever I hear someone say the word "phenomenon"

NEW BOOK REVIEW! An archeologist of information is sent to catalogue a sentient megastructure, but is trapped on a space station with her alien wife, teenage children, a secret murderer, brain-eating amoebas, a pirate blockade, and her ex-girlfriend/academic rival. Also the sun is about to explode.

Interesting post here about god mechanics on fiction. Made something click for me: one reason the "prayer powers up gods" trope is common in fiction is that it aligns gods' motivations towards setting up religions that look like our world's. press.invincible.ink/gods-cant-kn...

this but unironically www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil.

Booster separation confirmed