The woman walking out of Costco with three handles of Jim Bean and nothing else is probably a good time

screenshot of a news article with the headline "Elon Musk declares X will be a fully fledged dating site with the year: report" from October 30th, 2023 and a picture of Elon Musk looking bloated with a stupid newbeard

they've got all kinds of AI Nazi waifus on X (the everything app), so I guess this one is sorta true

The America extrajudicial murder machine is very very bad

Using it to drone strike spam callers would be very very good.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Vale Stephen Biesty: Cross-Section King A few months ago I had the fleeting thought to write a post about Stephen Biesty, the DK books cross-section legend.

Incredible Cross Sections was a defining part of my childhood

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Please check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year.

I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.

Employer: we're having a meeting about the IRA plan My cool coworker and me sitting quietly in the back having completely misunderstood what they meant: Two IRA members in balaclavas and camo in front of the Irish flag

Hell yeah brother

Donatives for the troops
Incompetent ruler with no clear heir
Fading international prestige
Powerless legislature

Welcome back Crisis of the Third Century!

As someone working in the "fast-paced tactical mecha game" space, Devilition Crew is a really slick little game with a solid system and A+ aesthetics.

Also it's priced in CAD, so even more reasonable than the sticker price for those of us in hell

as a divorced dad this is not my culture and I reject it entirely

Oath of Moment is goddamn brilliant

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I'm sitting in a cafe that is playing Careless Whisper on loop and I may go Full Joker Mode soon

Becoming popular on a microblogging platform would fix me.

As an Elder Millennial, I give you generational permission to pull off skinny jeans, trucker hats, and an ironic mustache.

It's still 2005 somewhere

My "hardtack of the skies" are Southwest's grain-free pretzels.

Apparently you can grind a variety of roots and legumes into "I-cant-believe-its-not-flour"

And *every* Republican is cool with working with Nazis

Contemporary literature is awful because the CIA ran a psyop through the Iowa Writer's Workshop to wreck the revolutionary potential of fiction.

I'm taking a little break from the apps to focus on gaining Occult Power, but godspeed brother

If I were a data scientist with no ethics designing an app to make lonely people miserable while taking money out of their wallets, I'm not saying I'd make Hinge.

But what I'd make would be indistinguishable from Hinge

Most "epic" fantasy is just six bad novellas in a trench coat.

None of them has been improved by multiple points of view. Keep the focus on one main character, maybe two.

As a history knower, I can confidently say there are no issues with Not Paying The Legions and The Troops Are Hungry is a smart move for those in charge

also @matthewclaxton.bsky.social, going to reshare my family encounter with RAH

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Heinlein is one of my favorite raconteurs who explored a lot of interesting ideas.

Unfortunately, the fixed points in his fiction are busty redheads, twins, and turning little girls into wives in a way which is technically consensual and technically not incest, but feels really squicky

Canonically diaperfur

Don't laugh. These are veterans of the Battle of Burgertown.

"Yes, we'd like to put in a winning bid for that WMD"

Which my assassin character then stole. I escaped by jumping through hard vacuum from a starship to a waiting space taxi

My group is playing Eclipse Phase, and we're breaking the adventure with the power of mind-hacking, stealth, and very large sums of money.

Review by mburnamfink - Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion As someone who loves indie music deeply, this is a great book, one that chronicles the rise an...

Finished @chrisdeville.bsky.social "Such Great Heights". It was excellent!

If you have good taste in music, you have to read this book.

If you don't have good taste in music, you *really* have to read this book.

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