Photo Silksong (a video game) on a TV. The player is talking to Creige, the bartender in a location called Halfway Home.

yo Creige what the fuuuuuuuuck is wrong with you cellar dude

These are the thrilling things happening in my house. I also cleaned the inside of the vacuum and decided that everyone in this house needs a buzz cut.

I'm burning through old Patreon posts of Maintenance Phase while I clean lately.

I was regrettably sipping a soda when Michael Hobbes recalled a six-year-old saying, "Mike pees the most" to him. I was so unprepared for this, I had to use all my power to not huff Diet Dr. Pepper through my nose.

I'm watching this season of Bridgerton and I care about one thing and one thing only:

LET. VIOLET. BRIDGERTON. FUCK.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Similarly the rise of synthetic oestrogens in the water supply affecting wildlife is not due to the urine of women who're taking the pill but farmers feeding it to cattle for milk.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

The story here is not about Obama talking about aliens. It's about the media hyperventilating and writing dumb headlines about Obama saying entirely reasonable things about aliens. Thanks to conspiracy theories in this arena, we have culturally lost the plot.

The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.

bsky.app/profile/nvie...

It's been hours and this is still up. I need you all to read this phrase and understand that it's an official image from the makers of the most commonly used operating system on the planet.

continvoucly morged

FAA orders merit-based pilot hiring as Trump DEI crackdown continues The FAA is mandating merit-based pilot hiring, citing 'allegations of airlines hiring based on race and sex' to comply with Trump's DEI policies.

Ah yes, commercial aviation, an industry ravaged by DEI, where 1 in 10 pilots might not be a white man

www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding?

Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

Whenever I start watching an instructional video about technology and the instructor isn't a man, I try to follow them. The instructor in this Kubernetes isn't on socials but they call out on their site that they like Maintenance Phase. I'm like !!! I want to follow this person, if they were here.

today I saw a dad at costco deploy a high-risk “fine, I’ll buy you this basketball hoop if you can make this shot” maneuver to his young son only for the boy to swish from like twenty feet away. net barely moved

I’m crying I love Deanna 42 year old Canadian figure skater so much

she retired as a teenager because of her injuries and then came back as a pairs skater and no one believed she could make it to the Olympics but she DID!!!!

WOMEN IN THEIR FORTIES ARE AMAZING I LOVE US she’s our mascot now

This morning, I got distracted while eating cheese because I remembered that the laughing cow is named Elsie and is married to Elmer the cow on the glue labels. To doublecheck that I hadn’t hallucinated that, I looked it up and fell down a dark internet rabbit hole.

Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to.

It is WILD how people are pissed off because a random daycare - in a place where there was a school shooting less than six months ago - isn't letting random adults *with cameras* into their buildings to "see what they're doing."

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

a very important PSA for millennial parents of young toddlers:

one year and everyone is so sick of your boy that Virginia is starting to look like Massachusetts and a democratic socialist won a million votes in NYC, get fucked

If we learn nothing else tonight, please PLEASE let's learn that the American people were NOT won over by an absolute firehose of the most vile dehumanization of trans people. Please @democrats.org, for the love of God and all that's holy, let's FINALLY start refusing to throw ANYone under ANY bus.