McNutcase

Lot of good books in here, and a heck of a good cause to raise money for.

I know my electric book has a fair few duplicates on it, but I'm happy to add to them with a good bundle.

Fluffy gray tabby asleep on his back, curled in a comma position- with his magnificent tail sweeping up around him, and the very slimmest crescent of pink tongue poking out past his solitary fang.

anyway good night

if you want to win, you need the democrats to be analyzing "which candidate is most likely to win" and "what are the policies most americans want?" and not "well, this person's been with us for a long time" or "what if we alienate these billionaires?"

"You're gonna pull aggro"
"OK."

Really driving home the "this is a government entirely of sex offenders" thing.

I don't like the "hallucination" language that has emerged not because it's humanizing or w/e but because it belies the simple fact that every result an LLM has ever spat out, even when incidentally correct, is fundamentally hypothetical

Trans folk: "Fine, we won't vote for your genocide-thirsty asses unless you cut back on the genocide."

Dems: "Why would we do that? We don't need you, you don't matter."

*after they lose*

Dems: "This is all your fault for not voting for us!"

That is so much not the image "Bubba Fish" conjured in my mind!

In my perfect imperium, any film doing this would be required to pay every living actor they could have cast in the role the full salary they'd have earned for it.

I do wish I had space to get back into vinyl.

YouTube video by Paul Stewart Guided tour through the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin 'parasite fighter'

I still want to see the thing in person, but I'm glad guys like this are around.

If one is looking for left-FP ideas from electeds in the US, could do worse than follow the lead of Ilhan Omar, who has repeatedly put forth a repeal of the Hague Invasion Act as a core necessity for international rule of law. US alignment should not function as a backstop against justice for crimes

Discord be like

Violets are blue
Roses are red
Someday it will happen
And he will be

Heh. I had literally never heard of this particular folk ensemble until I saw the CD at Rasputin's, but this is EXACTLY the sound I was expecting from "John Renbourn's Ship of Fools" (Renbourn was hugely prolific, and pretty much an automatic "buy anything I don't already have" for me, so...)

I guess my other option is see if ewaste has something I can do necromancy on. Would be fun, I'll admit, but I'm trying to avoid a hobby here, I have hobbies already.

Disturbingly plausible cursed game design ideas...

Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury.

Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.

Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.

Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.

Be done with it.

Most of what I'm looking at doesn't even appear to allow a swap-out. What I'm after is a writing toaster to throw a Linux on, and apparently "bring yer own SSD" is a premium feature nowadays. I'm about ready to roll the dice on a nevahoidovit brand SSD for the laptop I have...

A black cat is curled up on a white and grey stone floor. One shoulder and ear are pressed against a wall. His front paws are crossed over his back paws, such that his body creates a vaguely triangular shape.

the triangle of concern

... does goddamned ANYONE nowadays make a laptop you can expand the storage in, or is it all just "you get what you get" black box devices?

A cast full of generational talents, tbh, and written by those similarly talented.

I love that scripts ended up with annotations of "Paul doesn't have to say this line if he doesn't want to" thanks to that talent for expressive facial reactions.

Case in point, Zeiss, excellent optics, used forced labor during WWII, built optics for U-boats. Also, the part that ended up in East Germany was making custom cameras for the Stasi, so doubly cursed.

The aesthetics of the 3.5" floppy are immaculate.
It's peak consumer electronics design from the company that brought you the Walkman a few years before!

I could write a book on the design of just this floppy, and how it's so much better than the 5¼"/8" floppies that came.

Also has anyone told Wade that this exists?

I'm amazed that this exists.

YouTube video by RodrigoYGabrielaVEVO Rodrigo y Gabriela - Diablo Rojo

(if you're not familiar, here's a video of them absolutely shredding, shot extremely stylishly)

Like, I am NOWHERE NEAR their level of guitarist, but instructional videos? Yes please. I want to get better, and I love their playing.