"Fat Pikachu Turns 30 Years Old Today" captioning Fat Pikachu saying "My Back Hurts."

(My son did not approve of this bird's manners.)
(息子はその鳥のマナーが良いと思わなかった。)

A white ceramic coffee mug. On the side, someone has drawn a simple bird, staring blankly into space. It is labelled "Bird".

The same mug, but on the other side someone has drawn the bird flapping wildly, with angry eyes and a wide open beak. It is surrounded by speech bubbles, but all of the bird's captions are obscured with a large green 'BEEP'. The drawing is labelled "bad words bird"

Morning doodle on coffee mug
朝のコーヒーマッグのらくがき

Comic. I’m at my desk, leaning over to the doorway, saying “Hey! Foghorn! Foghorn Leghorn! Get in here!” Foghorn Leghorn is walking past the doorway, “Boy, I tell ya, I tell ya, not so loud, boy. What, I say, I say, what d’ya want?” Next panel, I’m gesturing to my computer. “How do I find that really good manga you recommended? It’s an anime now? I keep getting Halloween costumes.” Foghorn leans over my chair, “well, boy, I say, I say, you ain’t typin the entire title.” Last panel, I turn around- “you said ‘witch hat.’ Foghorn gets in my face- “open your ears, boy!! ‘Witch Hat Atelier, I tell ya! I tell ya ‘Atelier,’ I tell ya’”

How I’ve Been Pronouncing It (Feat. Foghorn Leghorn, my… roommate?)

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Same, Kal, same.

Appreciation post for Nujabes, or Jun Seba. The Japanese record producer and DJ, known as a pioneer of lo-fi hip hop. He died in a car accident in 2010, but he left behind a legacy that still goes strong, to this day. ゆっくり休んでね、ジュン。君にはその資格があるよ。🎐

gYOZA bRAIN

[ 📺 | #dorohedoro | #ドロヘドロ | #art ]

That's not what unc means: aftermath.site/unc-aave-afric...

a drawing of a man with a gas mask on his face Alt: A gif of the character Caiman from the anime 'Dorohedoro', standing still and looking rather ominous.

#Caimanposting

Get a load of 'c 130 AD Rome' posts over here...

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If you can find a travel agent, they can do much the same thing (save you having to open eleventy-dozen tabs of comparison sites), and will let you roll your own combos (flights + rooms + rentacars) instead of a tepid selection of whatever overstock offers gocompare is getting paid to push on you.

something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us.

Maybe it's a kind of sunk cost fallacy-fear.

"I've always lived with one set of ideas, flavors, sounds and attitudes; but you expect me to believe I could have more? No, that'd mean the only thing keeping me from a richer life is my own fear. No! Everything else is bad and wrong, not MY choices."

I'm always surprised by how deeply people take in stuff when it's embedded in fiction/entertainment.

(Of course, there's no guarantee they'll come away with the perspective you'd hoped for rather than a burning urge to make the Torment Nexus but for real life.)

Astronaut in space suit surrounded by his beautiful family, including their dog

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud..

www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

Well dang it, I guess I like one (1) instance of new music now, please don't revoke my grumpy old person license

This album is full of big ol' put-your-whole-back-into-it, swinging for the fences songs and I love it.

raye.orcd.co/tmmch-listen

Dee-damn-lightful

a screengrab of a tired looking Homer Simpson in a video arcade playing a 'Slugfest' game machine and getting absolutely schooled by a child in sunglasses.

If most of the buttons work, arcade game machines pay out (with a fun game) like 100% of the time*.
The gambling machines? 5 second game over like 99 times out of 100.

* As long as you're not challenging kid Daigo or whatever. (But even getting 99-hit comboed was a learning experience.)

australian metric conversion stamps

australian metric conversion stamps

australian metric conversion stamps

australian metric conversion stamps

learning metric conversion via whimsical vintage australian stamps

Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.

Lonely young people are likely better off texting a random stranger than talking to a chatbot, according to a new study.

www.404media.co/chatgpt-lone...

Badass Scottish Ladies drag Margaret Thatcher on the day of her funeral YouTube video by EMPIRE TV

happy Ding Dong Day to those who celebrate!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOgd...

ピーナツを食べているカラス。(私の友だ。)

友達と朝ごはんを共にした。

Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

A lot of people dont like "death dates."

And I get it. Why focus on the day someone died - something sad - and not just celebrate the day they were born?

But for me, there's something a death date represents better that a day of birth doesnt do as well.

Reflection. 🧵