David Hines

they made the mistake of damaging national defense infrastructure and then getting recorded on a conference call planning more of it

UK government let them get away w/ everything else, but evidently the Ukraine War & a suddenly less-certain US umbrella has them nervous: “we might NEED that stuff!”

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

For friends not on the other site: 4yo son has dictated his first story, and it is fanfic

specifically, it is *fix-it fanfic*

the fandom is Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad

An unpainted papier mache form

A goofy looking papier mache miniature hippo with ping-pong eyeballs

Mini hippo attached to a waterproof boot

Papier mache Moo Deng attached to boot which is now being worn

Late but here is my Halloween costume

Photo of the nighttime sky over a three-story house with trees behind it. The Aurora Borealis can be seen with waves of bright magenta red on the left and soft teal green on the right.

Photo of the nighttime sky over woods and houses. The Aurora Borealis can be seen as a big cloud of bright magenta.

Photo of the nighttime sky over houses with trees behind them. The Aurora Borealis can be seen as dancing vertical stripes of magenta that fade into soft sea green near the roofline.

WHAT

nah, Trumpites hate the national media and know Secret Service is in a better position to feed bs to it

looks like both parties screwed up but Secret Service is better able to play the game; we’ll see if that saves ‘em

oh no

“Who Wants to Live Forever”

yeah, there are some notable cases of people who have done car murder sprees, like a hit and run version of a mass shooting, but I think there are definitely more freaks like this particular guy out there.

immediate neighbors moved out and their landlord is doing a deep cleaning of their rental house

they were heavy smokers and — you know what it smells like when somebody cleans an ashtray? magnify that to THE SIZE OF A HOUSE

(I have LIVED with smokers and the smell wasn’t this bad)

picked up a copy of the first volume of Marvel’s ROM SPACEKNIGHT and man I forgot how awesome and tight comics used to be in the days before people started writing them like screenplays

more happens in Bill Mantlo’s first ROM issue than in a four-issue miniseries today

I didn’t expect to become so cynical about technologies to generate text, but here we are: a “coobook” purchased by a hospital, intended for use by patients. Note the “2000+ Day Recipe” panel. It is a lie.
#MedLibs #AmReading 1/n

lifetime asthmatic: fuck these doctors

a) we ALREADY DID THIS when they changed the propellant in inhalers like 15 yrs ago from BLAST MEDICINE INTO YOUR LUNGS to sickly lil spray

b) I use disc inhaler for steroid treatment; you breathe in hard to use them. GUESS WHAT YOU CAN’T DO MID ASTHMA ATTACK

PLANET OF THE APES opened in US theaters 3 April 1968.

THE SIMPSONS’s “A Fish Called Selma” first aired 24 March 1996 — 10,217 days later.

24 March 1996 was 10,217 days ago…yesterday.

We are farther from “Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!” than it was from PLANET OF THE APES.

Imagine an AI trained on Ao3. You ask it the capital of London and get back an erotic short story of Harry getting boned at King's Cross station by Snape, who has drunk a potion that gives him a magical penis growing out of his forehead.

oh no cannot unsee / unhear (from www.tumblr.com/smokiedokie/..., via the rec list)

just realized the porno version of REACHER would be called REACHAROUNDER

Christmas decorations come down on January 6th, or the 7th of you want to leave them up for an Epiphany/ Little Christmas / Nollaig na mBan party on the 6th.

An iconic still from the movie Whiplash, with JK Simmons at the left of scene as Fletcher, the drum instructor, with the main character, Andrew, replaced by Animal, from The Muppets.

Anyway, here's some artwork I prepared earlier.

Moose has an alter ego

presenting: The Little Blue Bear

You will be absolutely thrilled to know that the MSFT subsidiary that specializes in software to help doctors write medical documentation has a version of "co-pilot" that they are putting into the physician workflow!

My partner is HVAC guy, and when we’re watching movies and shows, he’ll watch someone walking through a house and he’ll quietly say things like “Honeywell thermostat.”

ME, full of Hanna-Barbera cartoon enthusiasm. “And now to solve the mystery of my missing indoor shoes!”
WIFE, eagle-eyed and unenthused. “They’re right. THERE.”
ME, “Great job, team! Another mystery solved!”
WIFE. “NO”

It's the "Humanoid-Anthro-Alien Sex Triangle" an increasingly hard to describe triangle graph plot thing the top is labeled "furries", bottom left is "elf fuckers", and bottom right is "monster fuckers" with various creatures defined in different areas such as the orc fucker subcluster and the vampires intersecting circle there's also the very important "post-furry contiuum intersection" which spans from living dolls to appliance fuckers there's also an internal kobold spectrum and there's "horny for minecraft" in its own non-intersecting bubble this now includes the "ROBOT FUCKER SUPERSTRUCTURE" which I just can't belive I had to add also adds a "clone fucking" bubble also adds the new "clown fucker pendulum" that goes from "clowns" to "klowns" and intersects the triangle also also also we've got all kinds of updates in this one including the CENOBITE INCURSION includes the PENTAGON OF SHAME for things that no one should have asked about ive run out of characters lol

This is it, the "final" version of one of the most important sexual technologies of the 21st century

It has the ability to unlock powerful secret knowledge previously hidden to society

Please direct people to this version

the amusing revealed preference is that university administrators believe the most important step in countering student radicals is not about shutting down groups or actions but about minimizing the inconvenience that the administrators could potentially experience personally

I've set up the balcony bar and am awaiting doors to open (and then for people to filter up to the mezzanine lobby) and while I'm up here I've gone and picked 11 films for a trucking film retrospective, using SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT as the turning point and the trendsetter

A boy on the shore.

Beach boy.

he wants to be president and is trying to appear like a judicious, thoughtful moderate

one day he will finish fourth in New Hampshire