The internet wasn't a mistake.

It saved lives. It's allowed community. It's one of the best advancements in modern history for information.

The mistake was normalizing rampant cruelty and dunk culture and protecting predators and harassers over victims.

Plenty of time for Jonathan Lithgow to publish an accompanying coffee table book of apologia

I hope the portrait in the trash becomes a new tradition for parting Trump goons. We’ve earned it.

bariweissification

**PARADISE SEASON 2 SPOILERS AHEAD**

That was such a Final Fantasy Act 1 ending.

• Domed city, primary story setting, lies in ruin
• Mercenary nuclear engineer poets, led by a time paradox, save the people
• Scientists build god, god asks for the protagonist

“TFANYKO very much, don’t mind if I do.”

[plays 480p episode of Webster on last known DVD+RW]

"We have Operation Paperclip at home"

“the military hasn’t passed an audit” thing isn’t actually a real problem, but this budget request is an absolutely insane thing to release in a midterm where voters dislike the war *and* have strong fears about affordability and services

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Max Headroom decidedly less than 20 minutes into the future

Seeing how people fill every square inch of their garages in Los Angeles, this is pure fear made manifest

Listening to Sweet Charity by Mr. Bungle, thinking how @80sreference.bsky.social and I would have played the hell out of that on KUMM if we'd been there in '99.

I can't believe I have a legitimate use for this. I'm not even certain why I made it in the first place. bsky.app/profile/sull...

I'm to understand that a fetus is a person until the moment it's born, then, is that how the logic works?

[charlie_day_conspiracy.gif]

A recursive grouping, all of Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation.

BROKE: Gherkin syntax

WOKE: Gerber syntax

Book cover with sad Ultron below 70s style title, "Are you there God? It's me, Ultron."

Are you there God? It's me, Ultron.

The quoted tweet is giving me anxiety in a way I can’t quite articulate. Do only certain people get to have, and be paid for, ideas?

From championing AI over artists to cheering for the failure of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, we’ve entered a new age of backlash against imagined gatekeeping.

the algorithm that analyzes the music I like
decided I should listen to Fugazi right now
and it was right

Cool beans, I wouldn’t be able to vote

I hope no one needs an MRI this year.

The world's largest producer of liquified helium is in Qatar and is shut off. We just got a notice that our supply for the year will be at least cut in half.

No one could have predicted this (unless they thought about it).

If the end of the American experiment can teach us anything it's that some people will believe whatever they're told. You can build a concentration camp where people die on a regular basis and all you have to do is say "this is not a concentration camp" and they'll believe it.

People are confused as to why Platner went out of his way to walk back the apology when he found the establishment wouldn’t turn on him for being Naziesque and it’s the same reason JD Vance got on a podium on national broadcast & said unprompted that you don’t have to apologize for being white.

Firefly had a prequel, it was called "Out of Gas," and it was one of the best episodes of television ever produced.

The more we hear about the transgressions of our heroes, the more I start to wonder whether the very act of seeking positions of public leadership, fame and/or notoriety implies certain character flaws

It was reanimated Carter.

Digging out my old Intro to Psychology books and looking up the self unmoored from ego

I really want to understand the financial circumstances (vocation, generational wealth, etc.) of anyone participating in these services. How can it possibly be a growth industry if we’ve gutted the middle class?

On SandwichNet Day, there is a galaxy-wide armistice, and Discovery hops from quadrant to quadrant sharing the best of the best, as the Progenitors intended

There’s this whole other area of Bluesky that’s completely unknown to me, yet populated, apparently, by thousands of people