also they’re pretty staunch LGBTQIA+ allies who have put their money where their mouth is with respect to that on multiple occasions despite the singer’s and guitarist’s Mormon backgrounds (though tbf they did leave the church) so I must reluctantly hand it to them on those grounds

stridently: if you're going to mark the intended tone of your text when conversing online, you should do so like the elcor in mass effect indicated the tone of their speech: by describing it up front. or at the very least, never use "/hj" because I will never *not* read that as "handjob"

screenshot of a google image search for the phrase "if the hardcore band's guitarist looks like this you are about to die in that pit", demonstrating that this is not an original thought

I have some bad news for you

I had zero idea what my adult years were going to look like (which maybe explains why I feel like a 42-year-old adolescent. well, that and the second puberty) so I can't really answer this question other than to say that I didn't think donald fuckin' trump would be president once, let alone twice

I feel like Diddy Kong under the effects of the disease

lastvalyrian normal: using a fictional character's canon last name (ash ketchum) funny: using the name of the show as the character's last name because they don't have a canon last name (adora she-ra) very funny: using the name of the show as the character's last name even though they have a canon last name (finn adventuretime) extremely funny: using the name of the show as the character's last name even though the name of the show already contains the character's name (steven stevenuniverse)

saw a couple of people in the quotes trying to provide alt text for this, and while admirable, I suspect that out of all the people on earth there are only maybe about a half dozen who have the juice to make a textual description of this image hit the same for someone who can’t see it

nah they don’t fly off, the fart deploys the drag chute in case you’re going too fast to safely slow down under your own power

I feel reasonably confident that the reason for that is that there were more US flag patches than Canadian ones, not a conscious effort to erase Canada’s participation in the mission. Hansen’s Canadian Space Agency patch is clearly visible in the photos where he’s a subject

you know, you say that, but even at 42 I can still hear the 15 kHz whine of a CRT's flyback transformer, or at least I could as of a couple of years ago, which was the last time I used a CRT before I was like "jesus christ how did we put up with this sound, where's my retrotink"

I had never thought about this before but now the mystery is going to literally kill me

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

… safe for trans Americans to travel both within and from the US now. I have to admit I hadn’t anticipated him also bombing Iran, thereby spiking the price of oil and making it totally unaffordable too

randomly thinking about when I got really into euro truck simulator 2 earlier this year, I joked to a friend that thanks to Trump it might be the closest I ever get to visiting Europe. at the time this was just a commentary on Trump alienating our traditional allies and also how it’s markedly less …

always thought it was ballsy of them to name a product after the fatal flaw in one of their other products

don’t forget iPhones—they’ve done it since at least iOS 11—but I suspect the people who kneejerk react to em dashes with cries of “AI!” have probably never even used a hyphen, let alone an em dash

cleveworld

jeffy b’s trip into space fell significantly short of a quarter of a million miles, though

I'd never heard of gen hoshino before I played death stranding 2, but thanks to that game, "pop virus" is stuck in my head about half the time (the other half it's "raindrops keep fallin' on my head", which, admittedly, I did to myself by setting it at every timefall shelter I encountered)

I mean, yes, according to the cooperative principle and Grice’s maxims of conversation that’s the more likely interpretation, but I couldn’t resist a little devil’s advocacy

they didn’t specify WHEN they would’ve seen it

NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE AT A DOWNTOWN MOTEL NANCY: THE HOTEL MANAGER SAID HE'D GIVE US A QUARTER IF WE'D PASTE UP THOSE SIGNS DO NOT LEAVE KEYS IN THE DOOR DON’T LEAVE WATER RUNNING IN BATH TUBS IN CASE OF FIRE BREAK GLASS GUESTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PLAY RADIO AFTER 9 RULES P2-THE HOTEL MANAGER WAS SHOCKED TO FIND THAT NANCY AND SLUGGO HAD PASTED THE SIGNS TOGETHER AND OVERLAPPING THE SIGNS READ AS FOLLOWS DO NOT LEAVE GUESTS IN BATH TUBS NO DOGS ALLOWED TO PLAY RADIOS AFTER 9 IN CASE OF FIRE BREAK RULES

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
March 30,1944

turns out the song appears in a cutscene later (I might have encountered it sooner but I spend a lot of time doing standard orders and delivering lost cargo to max out my connections) and I feel I may have blunted its impact by hearing it so frequently

playing death stranding 2 and changing the music at every timefall shelter I encounter to "raindrops keep fallin' on my head"

thinking about the oft-cited reasons for the death of software Easter eggs and I have formulated a hot take: it was a mistake to let computers become so important to society that it became necessary to eliminate whimsy for the sake of an appearance of security and trustworthiness

it should be illegal to say something implying that you are about to end a phone call if you do not actually intend to end the phone call immediately after the person you're talking to acknowledges the thing you said

I need to figure out how to balance my desire to stay informed with my desire to not feel like I might as well go drive into the lake before things get much worse

I’m pretty sure if some dude really wants to rape a woman in the women’s restroom he’s not going to bother pretending to be a trans woman in order to do it

welcome to social media, where we have things you can't buy, places you can't go, things you can't do, people you'll never interact with as equals, and a looming sense that nothing will ever be ok again

schools are closed here today due to severe weather in the forecast, meanwhile I'm remembering the time my 6th grade science teacher TOOK US OUTSIDE while we were under a tornado watch to point out to us how the color of the sky changes when there are strong thunderstorms