note: bsky.app/profile/gell...

I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail.

Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

senator, what are you going to do about it? i called your office this morning asking for *action*, not bumping a video you made last year

hey, there’s a thing

i will vote for dems who say this stuff and act on this stuff! i will give them money! i will tell my friends to do the same! it is what i want from government more than anything else right now!

If you haven’t watched the video version of the pod in a while, I recommend giving this episode a shot! Our production has levelled up big time and I think it’s the best way to enjoy the show (with all due respect to our audio version, which will always be our main focus).

FunFactor X @mylifeingaming.bsky.social? Some people* are calling it the crossover event of the season.

*me

it’s so special!!

The Generation Gap Draft: My Life in Gaming & FunFactor rank the best games from 95-97 YouTube video by FunFactor Podcast

It's FunFactory Fuuuuuuuuuuesday!

In this very special episode, we're joined by the guys from @mylifeingaming.bsky.social to draft the best games from the Generation Gap era (1995-97) covered in our first season!

Chrono Trigger? Resident Evil? Super Mario 64? What are YOU taking first overall?

niiiiice.

they could protest. they could sit in. they could do literally anything.

my youngest grandson returns from The Waste. No food again, just metal scraps. But he's so proud, and wants a reward.

"Tell me again about The Great Before. Tell me why The Green went away," he begs.

"in the Before," I begin, "people had questions about who should participate in women's sports..."

(no insult to mainers, but you all *know* the one thing your politics is not is 'just like everywhere else')

lost in all this sauce is that mainers are not median/moderate/normal/representative of anything lol

I understand folks who are frustrated with space priorities right now in this dark & horrible time, but I also think it is hard for a lot of us not to be overcome by a bunch of truly earnest joyful nerds loving learning & discovery in an era so hostile to all earnestness, joy, learning & discovery.

The cia has done very bad things, but you kind of dilute the focus on the actual bad things if you make up wild shit about them like they’re Cobra selling terrordromes around the world through the power of celebrity architecture

My Spanish is just good enough to be pretty sure that I just read an assertion that Frank Gehry was a cia asset who went around spreading guggenheims for sinister purposes and, well, deeeeeeeep sigh

reposted with alt text because I fuckin love 17776

sanderson, iirc, was also the night manager for a hotel that didn’t need much night managing and so he could write for a pretty good chunk of the time he was being paid to night manage

From Clickhole's "Incredible! We Asked These Astronauts What It’s Like To Be In Space," Barry Wilmore: You never know true beauty until you see Earth from space, or true terror until you hear someone knocking on the space station door from outside. You look through the porthole and see an astronaut, but all your crew is inside and accounted for. You use the comm to ask who it is and he says he’s Ramirez returning from a repair mission, but Ramirez is sitting right next to you in the command module and he’s just as confused as you are. When you tell the guy this over the radio he starts banging on the door louder and harder, begging you to let him in, saying he’s the real Ramirez. Meanwhile, the Ramirez inside with you is pleading to keep the airlock shut. It really puts life on Earth into perspective.

One of the very best from Clickhole

okay SO much to report but let's start with how wild it was to be in a living room that skewed like 85% Catholic Grandparents for an event which began "as we all know, we are living under authoritarianism. and now, here is abortion rights advocate Dr. Maxine Dexter"

THE TIMES, THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'

witch hat atelier? more like whips ass atelier

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

ah ha ha, pretty sure!

what rules is that x dot com the everything app has spent all day weeping furious tears about how dare nate call elon “right wing”

right??

i'm so happy for you!! this looks incredible!

same thing i just did, @possibleworlds.bsky.social, so if you open an account just so we can report for impersonation, let us know!

absolutely yes yes yes

helllllllll yes!!!