Disease being the #1 killer of all soldiers throughout time is only because all those guys were woke and gay and vaxxed

this is always the worst feeling yet it's a must in any meaningful attempt at an endeavor

Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It

Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It theonion.com/man-finally-good-enough-...

AI MAGA girl

This MAGA girl in your social feeds? She's AI-generated, cooked up by a scammer. @ejdickson.bsky.social has the goods:

www.wired.com/story/ai-gen...

no violence just sent to a place where nobody ever sees them or hears from them again save for the person who's job it is to like deliver foodstuffs to the island they're on and even that person not allowed to talk to anyone about it

i'm sorry but every influencer needs to be sent away forever

being an editor in my creative life and a data guy in my professional life means accidentally using the wrong spelling of "graf/graph" constantly

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

Publishing contrarianism for contrarianism's sake is killing us.

Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces a criminal investigation by the Justice Department The Southern Poverty Law Center says it’s the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation and faces possible charges over its use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

There’s a Simpsons bit early on where one of the writers of itchy and scratchy tells the boss “I actually did my thesis on life experience!” and it reminded me of that hah.

And that the follow up to her performance was “actually I have a PhD in break dancing” was just 🤌

Every time I’m reminded of Raygun (dancer) I am almost delighted with how insane of a series of events it was. Not something we’ll see again, I think.

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

sure it's a tool of social control and surveillance owned and operated by fascists, but it writes work emails for me. on balance who's to say it's good or bad

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

The social media pivot from chronological timelines to popular-first was done at least partly to throttle real time organizing

The luxury apartments nearby have a dedicated podcast studio lol

ANCIENT GREEK PRO WRESTLING PROMOTER: ok so you're going to be what's known as a "heel"
ACHILLES: fuck you

Most of the torture on the torture game show comes from the producers running a torture game show badly.

The most dispiriting part of the show is that the psychological torture of the contestants comes not front the premise (which is bad enough) but from the desire to execute said premise as cheaply, swiftly, and thoughtlessly as possible.

First you go to a cute walk with your wife by the river and see some funny duck, and next thing you know 2 weeks later you're taking an online ornithology class and birding in the sleet beside 12 people who woke up at 6 AM to stand in the middle of a swamp to see a weird bird with a long neck.

I mean it’s basically the game show version of fyre festival except they lit more money on, uhh, fire

I watched Dan Olson’s patreon video where he reviews the actual beast games show and the show is actually nauseating. A sick world we live in.

A screenshot of Tomodachi Life showing a Hank Hill Mii and a short Doug Walker Mii smiling at each other

Tomodachi kinda hittin

Trentley Da Vinci, current rightsholder of The Mona Lisa, promises that the legacy prequel will expand the beloved IP's cinematic universe, addressing longstanding fan inquiries about the origins of the character's enigmatic smile.

Death? You mean the most terrifying thing in the entire world?

Like fuck shove that guy in a locker if you find yourself in possession of a time traveling delorean

If you think I’m cool now you should’ve seen me in my early 20s when I was like “I only wanna work for a media company that does sponsored content for the world’s top brands 🤓”