Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

Best municipal water in the world is in the town I grew up in. It does feel weird.

Turns out the replacement nibs were discontinued back in 2021 and I didn't notice because of a combination of me buying extras so I'd have replacements on hand and residual stock being available in local art stores, but now they'll be gone entirely.

Notice of Discontinuation: Copic Multiliner SP - COPIC Official Website We have decided to discontinue all Copic Multiliner SP products, which have Notice of Discontinuation: Copic Multiliner SP - COPIC Official Website

Shit. I am really, really, really going to miss these things. They've been my go-to pens for about twelve years.

Is pizza just a charcuterie board where you can eat the board?

Like it is such a banger of a piece of music.

I love how the Mortal Kombat theme gets to be *the* Mortal Kombat theme even though it’s not originally from any of the games, and any ad for a Mortal Kombat related project can instantly becomes a hype moment by deploying it even if the product isn’t promising.

Lea is not a real name, trust me.

You can do idolatry if you want; I’m not the boss of you. I don’t even have anything in particular against idolatry because I’m not religious. But those things *are* idolatry.

Building a simulacrum of divinity out of gross matter and then looking to it for spiritual guidance and salvation is idolatry by the way.

This skeet is about those generative AI models of Jesus.

Cartoons that had a mandate to sell toys and which the execs took no further interest in whatsoever often had more interesting and unconventional plot points than more modern, artistic, but less toyetic cartoons.

It's arguably easier than real academia because intellectual (dis)honesty is a non-factor.

A think tank is basically just "academia," but they get bigger paychecks because their job is to give ideological cover to big capital. It's just a big econ/soc/whatever department engaged in motivated reasoning to reach a foregone conclusion that is selected by moneyed interests. That's it!

When describing what it’s like to write, I tend to say it’s like deliberately putting yourself into the state of mind of “I have a word on the tip of my tongue but I can’t quite remember it, oh God this is killing me” and then staying there on purpose for the duration of the writing session.

There is literally no action that I personally can take that will change this outcome one iota. Hell yes, I’m disassociating.

That said I assert that stories where the diegesis is in harmony or fruitful tension with the metaphor are, in general, better than stories where the diegesis is just a stylistic flourish, and creators who only care about the metaphor and throw away the diegesis when it’s no longer useful are hacks.

By many worldviews this makes me a pervert.

I almost always find the diegesis more interesting than the metaphor.

Fucking biphasic sleep. I schedule eight hours of sleep per night and my body goes “We’re going to spend two of those waking up in the middle of the night to stare at the ceiling while you wait to fall asleep again and you’re *still* not gonna be fully rested when you wake up in the morning.”

I still think the only reason Finn exists as a character /at all/ is so JJ Abrams could give him that lightsaber moment in the trailer, so that when Rey turned out to be the Jedi candidate in the actual movie it’d be a surprise.

I love y'all but you gotta learn the value of saying "that's dumb" and then moving on with your day

Wait you’re telling me Endor and Andor are two different Star Wars things? That’s stupid.

De-Oshiified GitS is surreal to watch in motion, yes.

Not under the current owners. They put her in charge because they want a conservative network to push far-right ideas into the mainstream; anyone they would have chosen would have done just as badly, because the one constraint they’re attempting to impose is the thing that guarantees failure.

An underappreciated aspect of trans culture is that it gives us a window into what kinds of names adults would choose for themselves. All my trans friends have better names than babies are getting these days. New parents: definitely ask your trans friends for help naming your baby.

For the record, the Nazis are spreading terms like “zio” and “zog” into leftist spaces intentionally as an on-ramp to fascism.

This is what cryptofascism means.

They explicitly talk about doing this on their forums and telegram channels.

You’re being played.

When I was a kid I had a friend whose position on Doom was “This game would be better if the walls bled when you shoot them because more blood is more better.”

Tacky things are usually popular. We don’t see non-popular tacky things; they sink like stones. Those “Play now, my lord!” ads were everywhere because they worked.

Yassification filter is hated because it’s hideous and and tacky and a visual cliche and it’s a virtual cliche because it’s widespread and it’s widespread because it’s popular.