R James Harvey

Anyone who did was fired for using the word "diversify"

Dear Meijer: I will never buy clothing from a place without changing rooms; who does that‽

Sounds lovely!

Ignoring geopolitics, where is your dream vacation destination right now?

Zelda Williams's comparison of generative AI video to The Human Centipede is the most succinctly accurate description I've heard yet

Cillian Murphy with curtain bangs reminiscent of Brooke's cat's cat

it is genuinely shocking how much rage @jay.bsky.team and the devs seem to have for their user base. suspending Erin Biba over an old post just because she’s been criticizing you is deeply fucked up. fix this shit.

Today, I went through a Taco Bell drive thru for the first time in months. They have absolutely perfected the AI order assistant: it was fast, accurate, polite, and seamless. The loss of jobs across the customer service realm is a little scary, but this is a tedious job that AI is actually good at.

YouTube video by Pixies - Topic Where Is My Mind?

This song is almost a punchline since Fight Club (with its issues and misinterpretations), but I still think it's cool: "Where Is My Mind" begins with the word "stop."

youtu.be/dmaTJqB0quY

I miss being able to have fun with these sorts of fantastical ideas. I grew up on The X-Files, wore out a book of short stories on demons, have a friend who reads tarot cards. It's sad to see the number of people who can't reconcile these things with the real world any more.

Dear gentle skeeters: I love you guys. Let's each pick a day this week and follow Skyla's example. Everyone here would benefit from it. 💙

Screenshot from the old Folgers coffee commercial where they've secretly replaced people's favorite coffee with freeze-dried Folgers

#NFL

We've secretly replaced the game ball with a kickball covered in motor oil. Let's see if they can tell the difference.

Freckles, Bella, and Pepper from Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)

Cast for the live-action Powerpuff Girls

#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/6
Shark - Jaws

"Blood in the Water" by Ayron Jones (2023)

Modern hard rock with some 80s/90s influences

I'd never heard this song before searching for something appropriate to the challenge, but this is a good one!

youtu.be/F8f4u7EMUoM

I think the most useful political activity most of us can engage in rn is to encourage as many people as possible to attend the Oct 18 protests.

I am a middle-aged white man who has never seen a Die Hard movie.

I guess I'm not fully awake yet. My brain read that as "TOCK-ay" and was sure it was Japanese in origin. Some sort of Samurai Dracula.

Explain your username:

In 2001, I attempted suicide, and spent the next three months recovering both physically and mentally in a couple of inpatient medical facilities. Since that time, I've gone on to live a happy and fulfilling life. "Alive again" for the first time, really, after recovering.

Oh, that sounds nice. Will definitely try it!

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Kat is out there getting thrown to the ground by ICE and calling for direct and actionable consequences to these fascist assholes. She is the model for what we want to see from politicians. See and hear your electorate, America. We won't accept anything less than Kat.

Bloons TD6 has been my go-to for relaxing in the evening for the past year or so

YouTube video by Young Pilgrim Music Gary Puckett & The Union Gap - Young Girl (Lyrics)

"Young Girl" by Gary Puckett and The Union Gap

youtu.be/D4GdVSm1uRs

The remedy for a president who both lies to your face and also expects you to make a deal with him is removal from office.

Attempted rapist told victim he was an ICE agent: Police sources Authorities in New York City are searching for a man who allegedly impersonated a federal immigration agent before trying to rape a 51-year-old woman.

abcnews.go.com/US/attempted...

Oh, yeah! 😂

@rawstory.com, your site is almost impossible to read on mobile; this morning it redirected to a *very* sketchy-looking site and I closed out, but even on a good day it's bad

meanwhile at the Riyadh Comedy Festival