The Shmueliad

"Cat Dads are the best America has to offer" I type awkwardly, stroking Wally with my other hand

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

World Orogen — Procedural Planet Generator Generate realistic procedural planets with tectonic plates, erosion, climate simulation, and volcanic islands — free, in your browser. Export heightmaps for worldbuilding, games, and tabletop RPGs.

I feel obligated to let the world building friends know about this thing that procedurally generates geography and climate:

www.orogen.studio#096g5hlj5rwg...

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

I'm frankly surprised they haven't called it a "humanitarian intervention" yet.

I could've sworn today was February 30th.

I'll keep this one in mind for my next self-defense argument in a jury trial.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Make America God Awful

this user supports crows, ravens, and their agenda corvid haters unfollow immediately

Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going

our government combines the impulse control of pete hegseth, the intellectual rigor of rfk jr, and the attention span of donald trump with elon musk’s signature sense of humor

Unpopular Opinion: if the film adaptation is just going to *exactly* mimic the text of the novel, I am less interested in seeing it.

The point of adaptation is to *adapt* it. To change it for purpose. I am interested in the filmmakers making choices.

Hey so what's going on this morn—

Oh fuck.

My heart goes out to defense counsel.

Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.

man i am trying to win by saving what i love rather than fighting what i hate but these fuckers sure don't make it easy

At some point, the answer involves reset via guillotine.

Ages 8+

Or will you be a vampire, building your army of thralls to eradicate those cute but pesky varmints?

Will you play as a raccoon, fortifying the human houses and trashing the vampires' hideouts in an attempt to protect your food source and drive the dracs from the neighborhood?

The raccoons were living comfortably on the food waste generated by the wealthy humans in the Shady Acres subdivision. When the vampires moved in and started turning the humans, the raccoons' vital source of trash began to dry up!

RACS 'N' DRACS: a suburban nocturnal strategy game for up to eight players.

Living in a violent corporate pyramid scheme run by billionaire pedos isn't all it's cracked up to be.

re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice

richard scarry lowly worm in his apple car. a cute worm in a green hat and bowtie happily drives a car made out of a hollowed out apple with four wheels and leaf on top.

Diane 11:30 a.m. February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks

The prestige classes, of course:
Joker
Smoker
Midnight Toker

Picker
Winner
Lover
Sinner

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.