The Savvy Millennial™

it’s so cool how one side wants AI and humanoid robots so they can effectively have slaves and meanwhile the other side has been desperately searching for just the right new slur to use to express their condescension to these technologies

my brain has invented a ska cover of “Material Girl” that is now inexorably stuck in my head

Yeah I guess it’s more TNG-and-later Klingons, though in DS9 they kind of get real into raucous partying, wine, and opera, making them Space Italians

developing a theory that stereotypes about Japan come either from only interacting in formal business contexts or from only watching samurai movies, and those stereotypes can be divided respectively into “Vulcan” and “Klingon”

turns out a lot of people don’t like having it pointed out that the core allegory is fundamentally built on the premise that white supremacist talking points about certain types of people being innately dangerous are real and true

whoops! probably should have caught that early in production

At the Apple Store for a service thing and can’t un-notice that the Apple TV+ demo reel TV has motion smoothing on. This never would have happened if Tim Apple were still alive

the overall vibe of ChatGPT text is “someone trying very hard to write like someone who is a better writer than they are.” It feels very “work harder, not smarter”

Star Wars characters love to be named Bing Google

my half-asleep brain decided it would be a really clever idea for there to be an Australia-themed day-old baked goods shop, called Stalemate

Deltarune’s themes of the nature of reality, particularly regarding fantasy, are about more than whether things literally exist, but are instead about the way that we, as the audience, are affected by fictional characters. In other words, it fundamentally asks: is anime real?

Delta Elysium by @angusburgers.bsky.social

love the use of Chinese typography in the middle of writing “Tokyo, Japan” the wrong way

Star Wars characters love to be named Gog Eula

developing a Deltarune theory I call the Kris Knife Theory that states that the ______g _____t is a tooth of the great worm Shai-Houloub

YouTube Jorts

so when you hear the race result music on Mario Kart World does anyone else sing along “Chiliiii’s babyback riiiibs” or is it just me

Say what you will about Curtis Sliwa...

No, seriously, say whatever you want. Whatever you come up with is probably true.

@goodjobkaren.bsky.social just listened to the bit about Olo in this week’s episode, and thought you guys might be interested in the Eclipse of Mars series of optical illusions, which create a very similar effect by exhausting cone cells’ chemical emitters! www.skytopia.com/project/illu...

imagining a French guy exclaiming, with a perfect English speaker accent, “sacred blue!”

organizing a deadly showdown between news media personality Wolf Blitzer and Mega Man X boss character Blitzer Wolf

Had a dream last night where I was convinced that it was some of clever observation that you never see people talking about selenium nowadays

as a friend put it, so many people on Bluesky are stealing the exact same joke that "Drake vs Kendrick" is currently trending

I'm kind of that way about Cuphead and Skullgirls, honestly, which is especially odd given that I ordinarily love both genres

I lamented in a recent post that there is no summer equivalent to Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride,” but I now understand the folly of my ways after raising that there is in fact a summer equivalent, and that it is “Red Barchetta” by Rush

creating a revolutionary new cross-disciplinary field that focuses on all the ways you can play different subsets of a given cast of characters off each other in comedy shows, called sitcombinatorics

I have this vague suspicion that we're going to see a lot of stuff on the internet about Switch 2 GameChat leading people to casually catch up with friends they'd drifted apart from over the years

eating a whole baguette Lady-and-the-Tramp style

Had a dream that involved a time travel story where some criminal or something was being pursued into the past, from real-world present-day 2025 back to the year 2020, except it was 2020 from eighties movies, and this went entirely unremarked upon

whole section of the supermarket full of celebrity-based brands, called the Newman Zone

ICYMI Grapple Dogs is still on sale!! Come and play the game that people are calling 'wait, that came out?'