You can’t convince me that a guy who has spent his entire late-career arc punching down like an elephant didn't understand cause & effect.

Not sure how I feel about the British Tobacco and Vapes Bill. I’ve never smoked a cigarette in my life. I hate tobacco. And Big Tobacco. But turning any drug into contraband feels like a step backwards.

Watching this government is extra painful as a teetotaler.

My dyspraxia makes first-person games ridiculously difficult, but God help me, I can’t wait to play Mouse: P.I. for Hire.

I don’t listen to true crime. Every true crime story involves a real person who deserved better.

Whenever someone tells me AI is here to stay and I have to get used to it, I think, “Challenge motherfucking accepted.”

Do you know how fucked we are when we recognize enemy propaganda on sight and still think it sounds more reliable than domestic news?

I wonder if my cats have agreed on which parts of me they’ll eat if I ever die, like a sort of feline Sykes-Picot.

Tracing back from an article I read about him, I think he’s about 84? But I suppose anyone who wears question marks all the time has to have a little mystery!

this is it right here. AI violates Vonnegut's number 1 rule for writers: "Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted." AI shifts the burden of effort from the writer onto the reader/audience and that is unacceptable

Ironically, the biggest ray of hope on American education is what I see in students. I only have anecdotal evidence as yet, but I’ve heard that they hate AI slop too.

Ancient legends are always like,
• knight meets bandit, kills him;
• knight meets knight, kills him
• knight meets stranger, kills him
• knight meets knight, they can’t fight yet for some reason, they get to talking, go out drinking, become lifelong platonic husbands who kill strangers together.

Or, hear me out.. The Lone Ranger and Domainer

I think it’s interesting what and how we hear about Abdulkarim from a culture that made a smash hit out of The Dukes of Hazzard, whose patriarch repeatedly stressed harming property, not people.

I think I’m way too self-conscious to appear in anything to be broadcast, but I’m thinking about becoming a math YouTuber. I don’t mind my voice being out there!

Matthew Lesko - Wikipedia

TIL the question-mark guy dresses like this all the time, even in his daily life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew...

Being freakishly intelligent has caused me far more problems than it has solved, especially in a world with long COVID and ChatGPT.

Darumi Amemiya I just don’t wanna end up too smart. Smart people have more things to worry about, after all.

This is far too true.

Takumi Sumino propelled by an explosion in The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy.

If I were in an explosion I would simply get thrown comically from the blast and get up unharmed.

Sánchez: “Shame on those who remain silent in the face of injustice. Shame on those who exploit workers, who criminalise those who are different, who turn rights into commodities, who defend elite privilege, who support war and violence in Gaza, the West Bank, Ukraine, Lebanon, and the Middle East.”

Para Bom Para Kuri Jugem Fishing Jugem Togezo Bomhei Hanachan

Appare Mantogame P-Pakkun Ponkey Bul

Raita Chibi Raita Noko Noko

Telesa Atomic Telesa Spook Telesauls

I forgot that most enemy names are different in Japan. “Koopa” just refers to Bowser, so it’s not nearly as confusing a word. The original name for Koopa Troopa is Noko Noko, an onomatopoeia for how they walk.

ラムネ開口の沈没船

The Sunken Ghost Ship’s original title likens this area to the opening of a Ramuné bottle. I’ve had dozens in my life and I still feel like I only ever get those suckers open by pure luck.

Mario dies falling into a chocolate lake in Super Mario World.

Augustus Gloop could survive what Mario couldn’t.

What’s been helping me is thinking of Tariq burning his boats. The removal of a bad option forces me to go hard toward the remaining good options. I’m in a healthy relationship now with someone who is a zillion times better for me. So I’m making a conscious choice to appreciate what I have.

I know this is a weird transition but that’s AuDHD for you: whenever one of my exes enters a new relationship, I feel that pang. That feeling I’m not proud of. But my past relationships ended because they were unhealthy and we weren’t happy, so I know I don’t really want to go back.

For those who don’t know (Americans), Tariq led the Umayyad conquest of Spain in 711, which is why Spain was a Muslim country for centuries. According to legend, after his forces landed on the south Spanish coast, he had all his own boats burned. This was how he prevented desertion.

I never liked the proverb, “God never closes some doors without opening others.” I prefer to think like Tariq ibn-Ziyad: sometimes you have to burn your own boats to force yourself to go all in.

I don’t fear Hell. At least there I’ll finally meet the Christian right without their privilege.

Something something and when this is over
I'll leap in my grave like the arms of a lover and go

I don’t fear Hell
Their baseball team is undefeated

If there's a heaven, I hope they're having fun
Cause if there’s a hell, I'm gonna know everyone

Albini: 2024