Adam Bumas

Thanks for the ping! This video gets at least one thing wrong: There ARE separate apps for TikTok outside the US on both Android and iOS. This isn't just Douyin, it's two apps both called TikTok.

Anything I say about the algorithm would be speculation, but that I know for sure.

403: Man vs. Man
404: Man vs. Nature
500: Man vs. Self

"For the good of upholding family values, men should be empowered by medical science to carry a mixed species baby to term!"

-Scott Adams (RIP) & Larry Charles

Dilbert mpreg update (thanks to @synnviks.bsky.social) - this is both Dilbert mpreg and Dilbert forcefem.

Note the bottom right cel - 1.7 million live viewers for Part 2.

Wikipedia descriptions for the last two episodes of the Dilbert animated series, where Dilbert gets pregnant.

I, for one, didn't know the short-lived Dilbert animated series ended with an mpreg two-parter.

YouTube video by Panic World We Were at ICE’s invasion in Minneapolis

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social and my reporting for this very different Panic World ep
youtu.be/8cjxGMJIAS4?...

There are plenty of other "pretty ring times" than springtime. When donuts come out of the fryer, for example

Beyond the discourse, though, it also convinced a lot more people to play the game. Data from SteamCharts shows that after the awards, the game’s concurrent player count went from a daily average of 14,000 to 45,000 within a few days. Sales estimates from SteamDB show that the week after the awards, Expedition 33 went from Steam’s 12th best-selling non-free game to number two, behind Arc Raiders. This is exactly what awards are supposed to do. Whether or not you think Expedition 33 counts as an indie game, The Game Awards are accomplishing their most basic goal of giving attention and distinction to their winners. This wasn’t always the case — from the records we can find, there wasn’t any comparable bump back when the awards were called the Spike TV VGAs.

As @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social reports from on the ground in Minneapolis, I'm holding the fort at @garbageday.email with our monthly Garbage Intelligence issue.

We have all The Game Awards numbers, including how much attention all those wins gave Clair Obscur.

www.garbageday.email/p/the-oscars...

I've spent months writing about how Bluesky's silent majority is mostly people here to draw and/or view horny cartoons. When I reported on this past week's dust-up over Isabelle from Animal Crossing, I knew I had to take a moment to mention the only contingent who emerged unscathed.

Last month, I diagnosed the problem with Bluesky as one of entrenchment. Virtually every user has migrated to the site from somewhere else. Since Bluesky prioritizes personal curation and confines algorithmic popularity to the Discover feed, it’s easy for your entire timeline to look the way you’re used to from back in the day, whether that’s Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook. And Molloy isn’t just a big Bluesky account, her posts stand astride all these communities — she’s a trans woman and prominent ex-Twitter poster who frequently writes about politics and media. The range — and rage — of the reactions to her post show what happens when all these subcultures that usually keep to themselves are forced to share the same reply section. “Old Twitter had its own pile-on dynamics, but the sheer speed of this felt different.” Molloy said. “I saw something I thought was funny and weird, posted about it, and within hours I was being called a Nazi and getting told I should die.”

@bumas.bsky.social spoke to @parkermolloy.com about the curvier Isabelle drama that's been tearing Bluesky apart all week
www.garbageday.email/p/the-sexy-a...

A bird of prey on top of a baseball foul pole.

Fowl pole

Thank you so very much to each and every one of Garbage Day’s 100,000 followers. It’s an honor and a privilege that I’m able to be so online for a living.

Trans stockbroker advising you to buy blå, sell haj

A chart titled "MrBeast Longform Video Performance, First 24 Hours (estimated)". The chart shows a decline in MrBeast's viewing figures.

We're currently offering a one-month free trial subscription to @garbageday.email's premium content!

That means that if you sign up today, you'll get to read our Garbage Intelligence report for free, including the Big Spreadsheet and - this month - a big statistical L for MrBeast.

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.

(Boston accent) Ack Raydahz

YouTube video by Good Work What does a consultant actually do?

Feet are feet are feet, and people who like that take what they can get. It's become a variably-ironic common practice online to censor bare feet online to not give up the goods, like in this @morningbrew.bsky.social video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZE0...

You're nowhere close to the first person to inadvertently show feet and suffer the consequences. DM me (or come on our show @panicworld.com) and I can fill you in you in on the sordid history.

The Weight of Water

The Shape of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Chronology of Water

movies have given us so much technical information about water

Dying an influencer's death Here's your Garbage Intelligence for September 2025

Read all about it (behind the paywall) here: www.garbageday.email/p/dying-an-i...

Despite this, there’s one source of news about the shooting that’s gotten a lot of attention in September: Us, apparently. According to Graphtreon, Panic World was the fastest-growing Patreon in September for the “podcast” category, with over 1,300 new subscribers this month. Our own reckoning puts as as number 12 across the whole website — first place, of course, goes to a porn game with over 3,300 new Patrons — but we’ve never even come close to making our own lists before, so we think we’ve earned the brag.

Every month, we write about the most popular content around the internet. For the first time, I'm proud to say that we're on our own list! @panicworld.com was Patreon's fastest-growing podcast last month.

John Pork calling to the faraway towns

Your delivery’s here.

No One Knows What ‘Terminally Online’ Means Anymore The memes and online footprint of Charlie Kirk shooting suspect Tyler Robinson don’t place him neatly in a box, though many are still trying.

Chat, are we back (writing for @wired.com)?

The Kirk fallout shows there's a massive deficit in understanding what it means to be Very Online, which is a problem because if you're reading this, you are too.

www.wired.com/story/no-one...

Also, Adam wanted me to mention here that about 5-10% of the most popular posts on Bluesky — 1,000 likes or more — are actually just cartoon erotica. Which no one seems to mention when they talk about the influence of the platform.

Today's @garbageday.email reminds you that facts don't care about your feelings.

www.garbageday.email/p/nate-silve...

So I'm not a huge Movie News poster but Lizard Music was one of my favorite books as a kid - @danielpinkwater.bsky.social was the best kind of bad influence - and I'm surprised how much The Rock as The Chicken Man makes sense to me.

'AI slop' videos may be annoying, but they're racking up views — and ad money Critics say that "slop" videos made with generative AI are often repetitive or useless. But they get millions of views — and platforms are grappling with what to do about them.

Was listing to All Things Considered this evening on @npr.org on my physical radio and heard my colleague @bumas.bsky.social in this story! Super rad!!! www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

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