In fairness the god of himbos is also the god of beating the everloving shit out of Melkor specifically.

Ahahahahaha what do you mean the TECHNICAL ADVISOR to Bluesky just blocked over 300k users by following an ANTI-AI, AI HATERS blocklist.

Embarassing.

Yep. Can’t stand uncooked tomatoes. As much a texture thing as taste for me though.

My third grade teacher (back in the mid-90s) always liked the classic “rouge angles of satin“ example.

A black and white cat lies on the back of blue armchair with blue and white fan designs on it. The cat is resting her head on the cushion, one paw dangling over the edge and has a forlorn expression on her face.

This was the pose my cat was lying in when my roommate got up today after I left for my training thing.

My poor cat is not ready for when I have a real job.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.

This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

basically the point of Columbo having "scruffy energy" is not that he is necessarily *messy* or *untidy* (although that is an easy way to visually reinforce that aspect), it is that he is a human terrier nipping at the heels of privilege, and terriers are, by definition, scruffy little buggers

[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS

the word comes from the horrific Maine soda? I would have assumed it was a preexisting word that they used for the soda. Huh!

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

I wish there had been more customers like this when I was a teller…

My mother also banned gregorian chants! It was that era of the 90s.

I love that album. My dad apparently played it so much when my parents were first married that my mom banned it while she was in the house.

A black and white cat lies on the back of blue armchair with blue and white fan designs on it. The cat is resting her head on the cushion, one paw dangling over the edge and has a forlorn expression on her face.

This was the pose my cat was lying in when my roommate got up today after I left for my training thing.

My poor cat is not ready for when I have a real job.

My mildly thalassophobic roommate is playing Subnautica for some reason, and her yelps and “oh what the FUCK”-s are hilarious.

Hey, have you ever seen a duck crash a car? Obviously it’s the head shape.

Poking around it looks like its “safety –> mpg –> looks” for a lot of this.

So wait, those shapes aren’t a lower wind resistance/higher mpg thing?

OS 11. (It’s OS9 in Groucho Marx nose glasses.)

Ooh, or the iPod. (The original one, none of this touch screen shit or “color”.)

(Seriously though, a suite of office software and other basic programs that come with the OS and have cheap windows and Linux versions. Also iTunes working again.)

“Ah, but some unrelated thing called AI for funding reasons is useful to work on cancer research! CHECKMATE ATHEISTS!”

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

Macro photo in portrait arrangement — a jaunty little click beetle faces the camera while perched, dare I say in an optimistic posture on some stucco. His antennae look like a series of triangles. He looks curious. Happy. Hopeful. One supposes this is because he does not have a cell phone and does not read the news. All he knows is being a cool bug and also clicking his entire body like a weird awesome dude any time someone tries to Kafka his ass upside-down. I wish I could do that. Getting out of bed in the morning would fucking rule. Photo by me, Chuck Wendig

Good morning instead of enjoying clickbait let’s enjoy this click beetle

"I got smacked as a kid and it didn't do me any harm!"

Yes, it did, my friend - you think it's okay to physically assault tiny people who are weaker than you with no power and actually look to you for protection. You are, in fact, really quite harmed.

I had my one person “social pod” and I walked down to their place and back regularly. Worked quite well for me personally.

… my social skills definitely atrophied though.

OH COME ON

Ahh, the failing of pretty much every big conspiracy theory. “Sorry, there are HOW MANY people involved? For how long? And they all unanimously agreed to do this or…?”

(Thanks for the link btw)

Despite having had a Titanic phase and a “laughing at conspiracy theories” phase, I had never encountered that!

Bet it’s been around for a long time though. People have, alas, been like this for a long time.

… wait is there a Titanic conspiracy theory?

Eh. I suspect irrelevance hurts more for his sort- he likes to be mad! It’s part of the schtick!

To be ignored though? Forgotten? That kind can’t handle that.

Yep. We don’t need to retake things like that, just push them into the sun and forget about them.