@metalsamurai.bsky.social
That doesn’t surprise me.
I mean, of course, if I think about it, Beavis and Butt-Head are Gen X, but the median age of MTV viewers being 56 feels wrong.
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Celebrate Tom Lehrer For His Music, But Also For Donating All His Works To The Public Domain
www.techdirt.com/2025/07/28/c...
It forces everyone to upload biometric data, banking details or official ID to untrustworthy third party services in order to view “adult” content, which includes politics, news, LGBT and health information on X, BlueSky, Discord, Reddit, Wikipedia(!), forums (as well as pr0n).
29.07.2025 10:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is exactly the kind of privacy/security disaster that is GUARANTEED to happen again and again now following the idiotic UK Online Safety Act.
daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
In case you can't tell what just happened, JK Rowling instructed her followers to take photos of anyone in a women's restroom who doesn't match their idea of Western feminine beauty standards. Short hair? Thick cheekbones/jaw? Too tall or broad-shouldered? You're now "a man" and will be harassed.
23.06.2025 04:06 — 👍 2825 🔁 1438 💬 86 📌 68
Congratulations to all the winners and the finalists!
The 2025 Locus Awards Winners!
locusmag.com/2025/06...
Sex, scandal and revenge: how a priest’s murder revealed a noblewoman’s bloody feud with the church.
Read this fascinating case study from the Medieval Murder Maps project.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Heinlein fans immediately nod and say “Of course, tee, tau and teh from Number of the Beast”
22.06.2025 08:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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22.06.2025 07:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0musk is genuinely not very bright
and it's never been subtle, which makes the 15+ year tech press effort to mythologize him all the more embarrassing
A writer stands at a Lost Property office, he looks irked. The office worker is saying to him: “Yes, somebody did hand in a manuscript earlier... But I'd describe it as a gentle comedy of manners rather than a biting satire.”
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books
15.06.2025 15:33 — 👍 691 🔁 135 💬 5 📌 8Actually, this isn’t true. No such play or movie was ever produced.
04.06.2025 20:48 — 👍 2644 🔁 281 💬 24 📌 49Whole thread. Seriously, if you don't care what the setting looks like and don't think it's worth spending time on, then why make your reader spend time on it? Just skip to what you *do* care about.
16.05.2025 18:37 — 👍 338 🔁 68 💬 8 📌 3
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Extreme metal vocalists use a completely different pattern of vocalizing than we see in other styles of music," says Dr. Amanda Stark. She and death metal singer Mark Garrett join us to discuss how to safely scream like a demon.
25.04.2025 19:07 — 👍 546 🔁 117 💬 23 📌 26Because the people that own it (me, extended editions) have definitely all watched it more than 6 times.
Either you can quote every line, or it’s “was it that long boring thing with the Dumbledore knockoff and the hairy feet?”
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21.04.2025 09:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0![Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone.
BECKY [on phone]:
Yeah, hiya...
2
BECKY:
Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs.
3
BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]:
Sorry what was your name again?
4
[Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.]
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility
5
BECKY
Sorry -
Your name is Easter…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
Eostre.
6
VICKY:
Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs.
7
PAGAN GODDESS:
Sorry love, what’s your name?
BECKY:
Becky
PAGAN GODDESS:
Well, Vicky -
8
PAGAN GODDESS:
If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here -
TEENAGE BOY:
Muuum…
9
PAGAN GODDESS:
….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too!
10
PAGAN GODDESS:
Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival!
11
BECKY:
You mean… Jesus…?
PAGAN GODDESS:
I mean shagging, Vicky.
12
PAGAN GODDESS:
Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4?
TEENAGE BOY:
MUUUUM](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiei7pigtocoghwiww3vhhm4lj2os2ifvc7yzggcj7jn6gresjpdkq@jpeg)
Scene is WAITROSE CUSTOMER SERVICES DESK. Behind it is a staff member, whose name we will soon learn is BECKY. She is dealing with a customer, for now out of shot, while talking to her manager on the phone. BECKY [on phone]: Yeah, hiya... 2 BECKY: Yes I have a customer here who wants to complain about the Easter eggs. 3 BECKY [putting hand over receiver while addressing the customer stood at the desk in front of her]: Sorry what was your name again? 4 [Pull back to show the customer is a very tall, green-skinned, PAGAN GODDESS, festooned with flowers. Stood next to her is her son, a normal human teenager in a hoodie, who looks mortified by his mum.] PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre the Pagan Goddess of Fertility 5 BECKY Sorry - Your name is Easter…? PAGAN GODDESS: Eostre. 6 VICKY: Your name is Easter and you want to complain about the Easter eggs. 7 PAGAN GODDESS: Sorry love, what’s your name? BECKY: Becky PAGAN GODDESS: Well, Vicky - 8 PAGAN GODDESS: If it was you who’d shagged the solar god of the Equinox to give birth to an actual living god - my son Darren here - TEENAGE BOY: Muuum… 9 PAGAN GODDESS: ….only to have all your efforts totally forgotten by history, you’d have a complaint too! 10 PAGAN GODDESS: Aisle four is full of products, with no hint of the true meaning of the festival! 11 BECKY: You mean… Jesus…? PAGAN GODDESS: I mean shagging, Vicky. 12 PAGAN GODDESS: Is it too much to see just a little bit of pre-Christian sex in Aisle 4? TEENAGE BOY: MUUUUM
Happy Easter
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I am watching the movie Heat and I wanted to check if the actress is a young Angelina Jolie so I went to google and-
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19.04.2025 09:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Teach a man to fish, and you'll probably get endless followup questions about technique and gear etc.
Teach a man to become a fish, and you'll never hear from him again
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...
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The very best of America’s shitposters are now outgunned by their Chinese peers. Balance of power has shifted.
15.04.2025 14:26 — 👍 13273 🔁 2449 💬 212 📌 149
Don’t try to pixelate sensitive data in videos - the tools to recover the original are easily available.
youtube.com/watch?v=acKY...
<phone rings>
LIDINGTON: Hello?
TRUSS <phone>: David! It! Is! I!
LIDINGTON *sighs*: Hi Liz
HAMMOND <next room>: Who is it?
TRUSS: It! Is! I! Liz! Truss!
LIDINGTON: It's Liz Truss
HAMMOND: Cool. Tell her I said "Fuck off"
LIDINGTON: Phil says hi.
HAMMOND <shouts>: I didn't Liz! I said Fuck off! /1
