Ben Mooney

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Fuckin’ sick

just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society

Screenshot from reddit r/OneOrangeBraincell u/9813_RD 19h Title: Our golden boy tag: searching for service 📶 Photo of an orange cat laying on a carpet. His front paws are tucked up by his face. He has a slightly derpy expression. There's a piece of cardboard on his head. Someone has drawn the golden ratio spiral over him and it fits really, really well

my god he's perfect

Our managers were out of office this week so I imagine they just figured it’d be easy to get away with and they aren’t wrong.

But also it’s hard to train up new people for this job (tech support for our specific software) so that probably emboldens them somewhat too.

I assume she spent the second half of the show having been kicked out.

I went to a They Might Be Giants concert in the era of “Occupy Wall Street” and some lady in the crowd /spent the first half of the show yelling at the stage that corporations aren’t people.

Like.
These are old dudes singing about worms who play the drums. What is the goal here?

oh cool GPT-5 is released today. now even more things can suck ass

My job mandated a return to office at the start of July, 3 days in the office every week.

One month in and people seem to just be ignoring it?
I’m one of three people on my immediate team here today, plus two of the senior engineers.

Love to wake up early and commute for this.

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.

Millionaire American trophy hunter Asher Watkins, 52, was gored to death on the horns of a buffalo he tried to kill on a trip to South Africa.

Gonna have to play with this when I’m back home and not in an office, but this rules and I’m excited to mess around with it.

screenshot of the linked soundboard website

I threw together a free dummy-simple browser-based soundboard.

It uses your browser's storage (indexedDB), and has only the most essential features.

- Upload any audio file from your computer
- Doesn't work on mobile
- Individual volume sliders
- Infinite(?) buttons!

bugandmoss.com/soundboard

As a legal disclaimer I cannot verify that he got the brain worm from eating rotting bear meat. It could have easily come from swimming in sewage or any of the other things he does.

Me: <travels through time to 1992>

The people of 1992: what is the future like?

Me: Well, we were on the cusp of curing cancer with vaccines and then we stopped.

92ers: What? Why?

Me: It made an old man who got a brain worm from eating rotting bear meat sad.

92ers: The fuck?

Me: He’s a Kennedy

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

I think the only reboot that did it better was Party Down, whose reboot was one mediocre “food poisoning shitting in a bucket” joke removal away from perfection.

I was gonna spread out the whole season but gat dang it I ended up enjoying the whole season to the point where I just watched it all over two days.

Most reboots and revivals forget what made the original great. The King of the Hill team did not.

Video games are wish fulfillment fantasies, like finally impressing your negligent asshole father by rolling up various objects into an ever-growing ball while listening to J-pop.

Okay I’ve watched the first few new King of the Hill episodes and… it’s actually good? I’m enjoying it. It’s still got the juice.

World chess just placed restrictions on both trans women and trans men The International Chess Federation will stop allowing transgender women to participate in women's tournaments. The group said changing genders has a "significant impact" on a player's status.

All you need to know about transphobes/terfs/gender critical people is that they think trans people have an unfair advantage in chess.

The flag of suburban America “town” if they followed Eastern European Vexillology formulas

Tesla hit with $243 million in damages after jury finds its Autopilot feature contributed to fatal crash The verdict follows a three-week trial that threw a spotlight on how Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have marketed their driver-assistance software.

A hugely important verdict.

The victims were pedestrians, so Tesla can't argue they knew/accepted Autopilot's risks.

People walking, biking, and inside other cars didn't consent to be Elon Musk's guinea pigs.

turns out you can, in fact, take the sky from me

A screenshot from Homestar Runner Strong Bad, a shirtless dude in a luchador mask and wearing sunglasses, is holding a ping pong paddle for some reason. He is standing in a field. Text reads “where is that tape?” The tape is on the ground behind him. Homestar Runner is just barely peeking into frame.

Me playing THPS 3+4

I need to get an emissions test to renew my car’s registration and I had plans to do it today but forgot. Suddenly remembered and looked up the hours for the testing station 40 minutes after they closed.

Whoops.

You can’t win ‘em all.