And they usually have slightly different goals now to make a 1:1 comparison in skills difficult

Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.

inspired by a friend's skeet: how the Peanuts characters would respond to the Kobayashi Maru test

Charlie Brown: accidentally self-destructs his own ship trying to raise shields to go into the neutral zone

Linus: Cheerfully, nobly sacrifices self, crew, ship

Spouse: I don't normally go for women, but...

dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

Hell yeah

I know what that is and hate that I do. Also hate the term, just call it fucking trail mix like an adult.

re: the gundam movie

I rly don't care about the actor selection or what the plot is or what happens to the fandom, I just hope the movie doesn't have imagery that gets picked up by alt right idiots that are desperate for cool iconography they can steal for themselves

Truly when @maxgladstone.bsky.social & I wrote the book to ostensibly contain the multiverse we did not foresee it finding a mirror in the world of its reception

Contrasting Kenji Mizoguchi's pre- and post-war films.

Oh yeah, that's the secret. Fortunately we have a speciality spice store we could source it from, but we had a couple disappointing attempts before we got some.

Currently, no. But had they ever? 100%

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

It was nice of you to give that dead woman another chance

Me today when installing a new door.

Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.

Is NPR re-running articles from like 1991?

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

On top of reasons of role deconstruction and bodily autonomy, this is one reason why it's so important to many people in power to eradicate trans folk.

If you're secure with yourself, feeling good BEING yourself, they can't tell you you're broken and then sell you a "fix"

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

That was what I thought, but according to the wine book, no

Let me think back to some of my more catastrophic injuries

The New Yorker, "Wondering why people are pining for old technologies - CD players, VCRs, Walkmans. What's behind our longing for inconvenience?"

Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

i used to work in the manga industry, both as a translator and as a letterer, and let me tell you something: typesetting software already has every tool you need to do quality lettering about as quickly as possible. "AI" won't do it faster than a competent indesign user

Done. I got the 80s gamer

I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk
I am a Divine Being
You are an Object
You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue