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a purple cartoon character is sitting at a table in an office ALT: a purple cartoon character is sitting at a table in an office

I missed the obvious self-set up for a Grimace joke!

It's grim, man, grim

So the town hall looks like it's made out of Mayor McCheese's corpse?

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy and happiness

"Let's replace the delicate tissue of daily human interaction with robots." Can't see any possible downside to that...

What is going on in your mind when your suggested use case is robbing one's self of coming up with a corny joke to send to your wife and make her roll her eyes?!?! Life's greatest joy, the entire purpose of civilization! And you're asking me to throw that away??

ELECTRICITY AND THE MOTOR CAR Green, black, white and red, with jazzy car and lightning bolts

Golden age of cover design

letting people call them “slide decks” is when things got out of hand. gotta go back to “power points.”

Straczynski expressed the highest regard for Trias and ABC, but he said that he believes "network paranoia" has led them to use Q5. "It is a truly insidious organization, I make no bones about it at all. A lot of their research and theories are strictly from voodoo, Straczynski continued. "I think they reinforce stereotypes--sexist and racist. I think they are not helping television, they are diminishing it."

In addition to Janine's new look, described in notes on one DIC character drawing as "generally less harsh & "slutty," she will have a warmer, more nurturing relationship with Slimer, a childlike comic character who sometimes dissolves into slime.

The show also will contain less satire and less subtle, sophisticated verbal humor. "I've written a few shows for this season, and they weren't as much fun as last season," lamented "Real Ghostbusters" writer Michael Reaves. As one of numerous examples of this change, the Q5 report notes that some jokes that writers had included about college days and "no intelligent life in New Jersey" would go over the heads of young children. A phrase such as "create the proper ambiance," the report suggests, could be phrased more simply: "Make this room look like a little boy's.

A remarkable 1987 article about “Q5”, a consultancy that, i’ve now learned, seems singularly responsible for the mass bland-izing of cartoons when i was a kid. I remember the sudden and mysterious Jeanine swap-out in The Real Ghostbusters! this explains so much.

www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

my favorite bluesky arguments are the long drawn-out ones where person a responds via direct reply and person b exclusively answers through quote-posts. it's like seeing two people arguing on the street with one person facing sideways and shouting into the open door of a baskin robbins

Everything is woman coded because the manosphere wants you to be a miserable bitter loser reliant upon a parasitic parasocial relationship with whatever fresh Hitler the algorithm vomits up. Beer with the boys? Taking pride in grooming your prize-winning perfect mustache? Girliest shit imaginable.

YouTube video by Ken Berg Spiderman (70's TV Series Intro)

Say what you will about the 1970s Spider-Man TV show, the theme music was incredible youtu.be/lMcCt2Ag4Sg?...

Shout out to Rachel Dawes. If she doesn’t distract the Joker, Sen. Pat Leahy is killed. VT Gov. Douglas (R) appoints GOP replacement in 2008. Only 59 Dem Senators in 2009. No Obamacare.

“The Dershowitz pierogi dispute” would be a great band name.

Toxins On Nietzschean Christianity. Plus: A belated take on Anora, and some recent writing

"American evangelicalism, however, is creating a Bible-Nietzche synthesis that explicitly preserves the worst of each while rejecting what is good and noble about either." benjamindueholm.substack.com/p/toxins#_

I mean, it basically boils down to 1. Have a real personality and 2. Treat women like human beings

How to be a man The right's narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?

Ok, I actually read the article and most of the advice is pretty solid, despite the dubious (but also maybe tongue in cheek) framing about "getting laid" iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon’s

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

no one:

absolutely no one:

Black Eyed Peas (c. 2005):

I've been there! That place is wild

1. Woman loudly sobbing during the scene in Titanic when they're floating in the water

2. Audience hooting and cheering at various points during The Force Awakens (if only we'd known)

Happy Birthday, Herman Melville! The author of beloved classics CLAREL, "I and My Chimney," and TIMOLEON was born on this day in 1819.

I preordered @philipchristman.bsky.social's book!

WaPo article: I lean left, but MTG is winning my respect

Sometimes paywalls that prevent you from reading an article are good

Guy who wants to sell you a thing says people will be disadvantaged without the thing

i honestly believe that if we found some way to communicate with crows we would have an obligation to give them the right to vote