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Review by docbadwrench - The Left Hand of Darkness I read this so that I could be ready for Angela Collier's book club stream. This is quite an i...

Finished this book today. Thanks @acollierastro.bsky.social for prompting me. Was fun. Looking forward to the book club stream.
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A real life door that desperately needs UV texture fixes

Have you ever encountered a door in real life that desperately needs better 3D texturing? This drove me nuts. I wanted to fix the UVs on this all day.

My last four films watched

Check it out. I actually reviewed the last films I watched in time to do this thing. #lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd

Microsoft: "Stop saying Microslop!"
Also Microsoft:

I'm perfectly fine with Pepsi. And I'm perfectly fine with Pepsi being fine with Pepsi. Good for Pepsi.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

I had a lot of fun with that one.

I think Pinto referred to the horse, not the bean. 😃

For the next stretch goal, Mike should have to unwittingly destroy another alien homeworld.

I knew I wasn't good enough. I am only 5 raccoons

If only I lived in the Vancouver area... Or had a valid passport... Or wasn't sick... Or had a flying unicorn...

YouTube video by RedLetterMedia Who Framed Roger Rabbit - re:View

I'm home sick and determined to watch only things that don't angry up the blood. So here I am. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgnN... @redlettermedia.com

Yeah. Like when I say "It hurts when I X" and they shrug and say "Then don't do X."

RiffTrax Makes MST3K! — Four NEW episodes in 2026! Mike, Kevin, and Bill are heading back to the Satellite of Love for Mystery Science Theater 3000: THE RIFFTRAX EXPERIMENTS!

I just backed RiffTrax Makes MST3K! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/rif... | Is it the nineties again? Oh, wait... that's right... (gestures at literally everything on fire). STILL, pretty frickin' cool!

MST3K Trio Discuss Return Focusing on "Classic Bad" Movies & More Radial Entertainment reunites Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett for MST3K: The Rifftrax Experiments - with "classic bad" films.

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Drunken Seahawks Fans Climbing Space Needle

Drunken Seahawks Fans Climbing Space Needle

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

Neat infographic.

Wave of the future, everyone.

Drowning man meme: Panel 1: "Struggling animation industry" Panel 2: "Adobe" Panel 3: "Animate will be discontinued" Panel 4: Man drowns

Sign the Petition Keep Adobe Animate accessible for all users

One of my favorite Twitch streamers uses Adobe Animate every day to make his art. What @adobe.com is doing is a complete gut-punch. c.org/hKbc7Ft8d5

Groundhog Harassed By Dipshits In Stupid Hats

Groundhog Harassed By Dipshits In Stupid Hats

Amazingly not an article at @theonion.com.

Yup. Not an easy time to have a big heart. 🫂

I was online before the Internet.

Everybody: "We hate AI"
Satya Nadella: "C'mon guys! Quit it! Quit iiiiit! ... MOM!"

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate ...the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice. ACLUWI DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

One of these signs conveys the overall quality of the restaurant and the other one tells you how well the restaurant meets food safety standards.