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throw off the shackles of Whamaggedon and embrace Wham Collectin' - try your best to hear Last Christmas as many times as possible!

four white plastic muppet-style busts of dante, moliere, aristotle, and shakespeare, 3d printed in the style of the muppet christmas carol

GUYS

GUYS

MY BROTHER MADE ME THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL BUSTS

Along with Escape from Duckov, I'm here for the duck re themed game genre

People will tell you that, in life, you have to choose between a grand piano and a dojo. Those people are quitters.

I think they should try this. Exploit institutional cowardice in their favor

Caption on back of photo: "Whisky in the garden with Thomas". Black and white cat stretched out on the grass with a small tortoise.

Black and white photo of probably ginger cat, sitting on a chair in a garden and yawning or yelling

Black and white photo of probably ginger cat, about to jump off a chair in a garden

Black and white photo of black and white cat in a garden

@catsofyore.bsky.social I am endlessly charmed by the fact that in the 1920s and 30s my family was taking almost as many photos of their cats as I do now with a smartphone

Epic Games sent a DMCA notice to my online stores for my geology-themed design involving a crossed pickaxe and rock hammer that said "PICKS...or it didn't happen" because they asserted that Epic owned all rights to artwork/mention of pickaxes, right before an SVP annual conference. Eric cost me $$$

Once again, my pledge to you, faithful voters - when I become all powerful ruler of the BBC, I WILL prune the Strictly results show to fifteen minutes. In, dance, done. If you're wondering what I'm planning to do with the half hour space that opens up in the schedules, I have one word. Cartoons.

While not a medical doctor, Dr Pepper does hold a PhD in neoclassical literary theory and thus deserves our respect

One of the best worldbuilding guides you can read is Tolkien's notes on translation, where he talks about the fact that *everything* you write is in practice being translated into English; is is no more anachronistic to use the word "September" than it is use the word "sword" or "house" or "hello".

People never really solved QA for manual code!

😇 I swear.

It's a perfect tribute to all the PlayStation games ever, in the form of a Nintendo game

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

I'm fulfilling orders for the next hour, if you get an order in while I'm here it'll be done today and in the post tomorrow. totallyflagulous.etsy.com

For the past six weeks, an AI Facebook account has been pulling my history posts on Instagram and slopping out new captions, so I’ve been feeding it poison pills and its followers are having meltdowns in the comments. It’s been pretty spectacular.

large building shaped like fish

not now babe it's infishtructure week

The X-Files is genuinely a timelessly good show, because when not focusing on overarching conspiracy plot, they would really just focus on a single concept and quite crucially, it would cast an incredible actor to center the episode around who would be utterly god damn captivating to watch.

Yes Madam's opening 5-10 minutes is a better action movie than 95% of action movies you've ever seen in your entire life.

Wouldn't help freelancers though, that's never eligible for this kind of insurance

#scd #strictly
Your pillow the moment you want to go to sleep:

How are there so many of these guys. How is this allowed

Now I heard there was a tiny box
Engraved with names like Minecraft Notch
And Brian Fargo and FourZeroTwo, yeah
But though it promised games for free
And mobile ports on your TV
It's a cold and it's a broken Founders' Ouya

My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane.

A plate of the same cookies.

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

This is incredible thank you @sesmith.lol here are some shrimp.

Mirror's Edge (2008, Multiplatform)

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

Conversely, deeply stupid contributions by the right wing must be regarded as good, according to the "unbiased" doctrine

As a consequence of this thread, I've learned Orson Welles felt so bad about people assuming Susan Alexander from Citizen Kane was based on Marion Davies, and the subsequent effect on her reputation, he wrote a foreword for Davies' memoir of her life with Hearst stressing that she wasn't.

thinking of this classic tweet on thanksgiving day