GIBBY HAYNES We used to go into the Banshees’ dressing room and take the Gouda off their deli tray so that we could say we stole Siouxsie and the band’s cheese. It’s a pun—the highest form of humor.
The Butthole Surfers are culture
I am not being hyperbolic or glib when I say I do not want to live in this world.
I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call
Yet again: reading long form fiction and nonfiction widely and frequently helps with this. The primary conversation around so many canonical texts from Paradise Lost to Lolita is exactly this. That the majority of Americans don’t read is a problem that touches so many aspects of our lives.
He’s not wrong. This place I live is pretty easy on the eyes.
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.
Iran just reportedly hit an Oracle data center in Dubai and i can't stop thinking about how good it would feel to see my tax dollars spent firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at data centers.
We all do harm by being.
Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
That has to be the coolest baby announcement photo in the history of babies. My word.
Congratulations!
I hate how stupid everything is.
The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’
This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is.
So now all of our rights are in jeopardy.
In honor of Mr. Rogers’ birthday, here’s your regularly scheduled reminder that the quote of his you keep sharing, that in times of crisis we should look for the helpers, was for his audience of children.
We’re adults now. We’re supposed to *be* the helpers.
I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!
It is absolutely no wonder these myopic, self-absorbed lunatics are actively destroying society.
I’m closer every day to leaving tech altogether. The inexorable crush of LLMs, the callousness of the culture, the diminishing value of doing versus the elevated status of the result. I’m already in a second career and rapidly approaching 50. But I don’t know that I can stomach much more of this.
i cannot believe we are into year 2 of the groyper regime, the camps are open and the state is revoking id's, and we are still getting "oppressed minorities are kinda rude on the internet :/" hand-wringing
yeah we're a little tense right now, believe it or not. fucking shut the fuck up about it
Democrats are on the path to winning this year, but it is by default. The party has done a horrific job on politics from almost the minute Trump was defeated in 2020. So, sure, they are winning right now — but it’s because we have no other choices. Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
But we can’t possibly afford canceling student debt or universal healthcare or a national election holiday or high speed trains or a federal single payer system or renewable energy infrastructure or a universal livable wage or universal pre-k or…
Brother, the time each day I already spend in that particular fantasy would alarm and amaze you.
An opinion that makes you a fringe radical in this country is that the life of a person who is not an American citizen is not an abstraction, and is worth just as much as that of an American citizen
Really disappointing to discover I was correct six months ago.
I genuinely believe our drifting away from this over the past half century or so is a direct cause (of many) for the situation we find ourselves in.
Stop literally everything.
Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.
fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
Genuinely, what the FUCK is a politically correct war? What’s this ghoul even talking about? We’ve effectively been at war my entire adult life and not once have I thought, “At least no one’s calling the children we’re bombing the r-word.”
