Stranger sliding in to appreciate that excellent dog.

Just gonna casually point at your DMs, here.

A Boomtown Rats song, but that was a very early and atypical school shooter.

certainly evocative of the stuff I've been troubleshooting lately.

“CONAN HOLDS YOUR PRIVACY SACRED Our encampment processes personal data, wielding the power as cautiously as Conan wields his sword. Should you wish to cover your footsteps and forbid us from sharing your secrets, strike at the 'I wish to cloak my presence' rune. I WISH TO CLOAK MY PRESENCE”

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.

Keep doing it - it culls out the readers who can't handle the whole unfiltered "reading Tay" experience.

“Strange Fruit” by Billie Holiday was recorded exactly 87 years ago yesterday.

Plausible!

Looks like too much metal for an ebike. BEHOLD THE MYSTERIES OF TEH SLOP MACHINE

Heh.
I'm pretty sure I've avoided any kind of Newfie accent - my grandparents had the accent but I didn't spend enough time with them for it to seep in.

I know it's slop, but I am puzzled by what's smeared over the front of the engine.

Anyways, If they didn't want that engine damaged they shouldn't have hit ... is that a small mecha-warrior? Mini-mecha-Godzilla?

Oh god this. Like, what's the least populated district? (probably WY-01?) Fuck it. That's the size of a district, now. It's a *whole* lot more Reps, but also, so much more fair.

WOW. Utterly fabulous!

I love that description!

Absolutely.

ADE 651 - Wikipedia

This was one of my favorites - it was like a multi-purpose dowsing rod, but really expensive. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

This is great.

This is all delightful.
I would so love to see Columbo episodes redone with Lyonne in the role and nothing else changed. Give that woman a trench coat.

YES!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_M...

... Huh.

I might have to include Manic Monday.

Ugh.

I mean, you could always lean into the impostor thing...

BEHOLD!! YOU HAVE FOOLED THEM ALL AND CONVINCED THEM YOU FUCKIN RULE - TRULY YOU ARE AN ENBY TRICKSTER-GOD

(is 'god' inherently ungendered enough to use without a clarifying adjective? I'm not sure)

WOOO BIRTHDAY!

Ode to the Half-Broken Check out Ode to the Half-Broken - <b>In the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, forty years after the world nearly ended, a worn-out robot is attacked, and realizes old evils are stirring<br> <br>W...

Hey, new book drops 5/26, which is very close to my birthday, so if you can't bring me cupcakes, a pony, a vintage VW bus, or chocolates, you can just pre-order my book instead (-:

Maybe it will happen today.

And it is available in the size of an SE or even 12 Mini.

What the fuck did I just read?

Not just you.

Sorry, you’re telling me that something that doesn’t feel pain, doesn’t have lactic acid build up, doesn’t need adequate hydration or electrolytes, doesn’t need to pee, and doesn’t get tired is only 6 minutes faster than humans?

you’ve fucked up a perfectly good Roomba.