im ready to outlaw Persona 5 music in youtube videos. we're retiring it for like a decade. it's long past time

THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.

ms. rachel is WEAK on the economy

The concept of a mixed race teen girl who can't even do her angst "the right way" and ends up LARPing incel shit and memorizing statistics about female shooters, until some genuine human connection snaps her out of it, felt emotionally "real." It's a flavor of edgelord I've known in other forms lol

I thought there was a ton of emotional truth to Zendaya's character. She's constantly running up against other ppl's expectations despite having a stronger moral compass than her friends/fiance. Her Black dad is the only person nice to her at her own wedding. No one really tries to understand.

A major thesis of the film is, if shootings happen every other day in this country, how many people consider it without going through with it? How many kids+teens will imagine themselves in that role before they've learned how to fit in? What, if anything, does that mean for them as adults?

I liked this movie and wanted to raise a few points. Race isn't mentioned in the script, but it's def considered in the filmmaking. The actor who plays Teen Zendaya is styled as less white-passing -- she visible doesnt fit the shooter "type" and that's obviously the point. You kinda pity her for it.

who?

i love when trans people end up balancing out gender demographics of certain hobbies. trans women bringing female representation to certain gaming spheres, for example, or trans men being into traditionally "female" hobbies. love the idea of trans people inspiring cis kids to pursue their interests

NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants.

Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare.

(🎥 Al Jazeera)

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.” ― Edgar Mitchell Image: Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation.

Waking up to the awe-inspiring images from NASA at the same time the US President is implying that he will commit genocide, I can't think of a better quote for the times than this one from Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell. I added it to today's Earthset image:

you know it's a bad day when you think to yourself "god I hope the republicans listen to Tucker Carlson"

it feels like such a massive concession of ground for ppl to be constantly defending "learning" and "gaining experience" as good things. like the teacher is letting their worst student stop the whole class dead every day.

she will fertilize our soil

people who want Pokémon games to be voiced are fools who don't know what's best for them. they're a risk to themselves and to others

Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”

im 30 years old and my boss just ruined my day by making us work in pairs. feels like grade school again

localization is a textbook example of something LLMs are terrible at lol. you need to understand context to translate, fundamentally

Webtoons is one of the worst things to ever happen to art online, so this checks out

not just the ableism, but the ignorance. the arrogance. the incuriosity of it all. to get to that conclusion, you'd have to make an effort NOT to learn anything about her extremely well documented life. to resist the opportunity to learn about another human's experience. makes me miserable dude

I learned that kids on tiktok are calling Helen Keller "a hoax" and keep thinking about it and getting pissed off again

they were onto you

I'd like to say to these people, and this comes from a genuine place of a lesson I myself had to learn:

It is all right to have these sorts of thoughts. But they're inside thoughts.

just as I'm really coming around on Timothee Chalamet, the world decides they hate him for wanting to be good at his job. whatever dude

i'm suffering the Millennial's Earworm (i have Nicki's verse in Monster stuck in my head)

sweatin like JK Rowling in a Holocaust museum

are they casting Doechii in animated movies yet? if we're still replacing voice actors with celebrities, she's obviously got it

it's not your first draft if you didnt write it dipshit

poor Crusty Gnome

YEAH it's been an ongoing issue in the building, fire dept broke open a wall and turned off the gas though so I guess my landlords gotta fix it now :-3