A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
I enjoyed The Odyssey (2026) but I have one historical nitpick. The phrase “Jiminy Christmas” is a minced oath for “Jesus Christ”. As the story is set around 1200 B.C. it is unlikely that Odysseus would have said the phrase even once, let alone the dozens of times he says it in the film
I know a lot of people have stopped paying attention to labubus which is fine but there is an important update: the newest ones have hair for some reason and look like hardworking divorced mothers from the 90s.
In my head you could substitute “it’s raining men” for YMCA at trump events and it’d be no different and no less funny.
I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
Me: I now have everything I need to finish this diorama Also me:
tonight i discovered that my mother has been nursing an intense grudge against Vanilla Ice for years, and I had no idea
Pet Shop Boys (uh, a lot) Nine Inch Nails CHVRCHES Lady Gaga Hans Zimmer Depeche Mode The Killers M83 They Might Be Giants Barenaked Ladies (but just until 2009 naw mean)
Simulflow (Jerrified)@simulflow.bsky.social · 3mo agoIntroduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live Duran Duran (x 2!) Ozzy Osbourne The Police INXS Bowie (x 2!) The Specials They Might Be Giants Howard Jones Nitzer Ebb Amyl & the Sniffers
Books like this are one of the reasons I think that our society started to peak in the late 70s/early 80s and then something happened that wrecked it all.
Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 3mo agoi bought this book for my godson (itll be a few years before he can understand it), because this book left an enormous impression on me as a kid. its the first time i saw vaccination explained, as an army you inject in your body to fight off illness. i hope he gets the same pro-science vibe from it.
I think about Kai on the weekly.
Andy Kelly@ultrabrilliant.xyz · 3mo agoSoftware should look like this again.
Damn. So Twitter could have protected me from having a strange virus that caused me to hallucinate a red cathedral hallway like the end of The Black Hole when Dr. Reinhardt basically goes to hell and also left me with an energy vampire on my back for six months? Cool!!
Racist dogwhistles aside, this is a spectacularly stupid insult. If I heard it tumble out of anyone’s mouth, I’d stare at them like I’d just seen a talking chicken.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: "I heard Hakeem Jeffries, a low IQ person. He's a very low IQ."
my wife just had a dream that there was something called the Oops App where everything you upload to the app is definitionally a mistake and I'm fuckin dyinnnng
Whenever I see the super angry Karen videos, they fill me with a sense of dread for precisely this reason. We are in a real pickle here, people.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4mo agothose Karen Crashes Out Over a Sandwich videos that are everywhere all the time feel like a sort of alarm system about how angry and frustrated the population is all the time, there's no way this many people are actually this mad over ketchup
“Chaos goblin” has entered the chat. Again. And again.
WIRED@wired.com · 4mo ago“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI's coding agent instructions. www.wired.com/story/openai...
i thought those books you got at the mall in the 90s with the characters named after you were the coolest thing ever and then i grew beyond the age of six
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 4mo agoJesus Christ, this is more dystopic than anything Philip K Dick ever wrote but it’s what the Russo Brothers want for your AI Slop future
![“Potentially, what you could do with [AI] is obviously use it to engineer storytelling and change storytelling,” Russo said. “So you have a constantly evolving story, either in a game or in a movie or a TV show. You could walk into your house and save the AI on your streaming platform. ‘Hey, I want a movie starring my photoreal avatar and Marilyn Monroe’s photoreal avatar. I want it to be a rom-com because I’ve had a rough day,’ and it renders a very competent story with dialogue that mimics your voice. It mimics your voice, and suddenly now you have a rom-com starring you that’s 90 minutes long. So you can curate your story specifically to you.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cbhnuflsctq2s7mu4iqcuauq/bafkreibajgqyg4mppmj4b3qgyk2tiwop57qov5gb2zakfsv7iyvqe4uh5q)
The sound of those cheap-ass bible pages just turning and a turning.
Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · 4mo agothis is one of the most painful silences I've ever seen bahahaha
One last thing before we go. Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. xoxofest.com
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XOXO was an experimental festival for independent artists and creators from the internet.
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One of the most telling pics of the year ... so far.
welcome to bluesky. all the national merit scholars are on here (sorry)