I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠
X games on the tv at the pub. No interest but I see the ads. Like 2/3ds are for crypto garbage. We must destroy crypto
Time is moving very fast my friends. Make sure you are among people and places that fill your time with purpose and joy
also if we built many more big cities, the big cities we have would not be expensive anymore because it turns out that dense housing linked by mass transit is actually far cheaper and more efficient than suburban sprawl. it's just expensive now because there's a shortage of it
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · last mo.my dream america looks a lot like the "one billion americans" thing yglesias briefly pushed. vastly more people, with many more cities as big as new york and los angeles, all inked together by bullet trains
boy who has just learned that his company gave us the third off at 5:04pm Thursday
Great thread, go read the seven or so follow-up posts. My favorite bit was the low key comedy of introducing a new government functionary by on screen title and name, like it was going to be importantly enough for the audience to know and then that person never shows up again and we get 25 more
Daniel Dockery@dandock.bsky.social · last mo.Shin Godzilla's theme of a stuffy political old guard being both unprepared and unwilling to handle apocalyptic disaster and effectively forcing a proactive new group to take the reins is, ummm, pretty timely.
The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive
That video is fake. Cheetos are refined from pure Cheetonium mined from veins discovered below the Darvaza gas crater in 1971
If you know what Razor 1911 is, it’s time for that colonoscopy
I think this is really very important. You escape this by actually engaging with your priors even if it hurts. You can become better, and in the process believe that a better world is possible.
Very random question time: thinking of buying a used car and having it painted a different color. What does an oem level full car paint job go for? No damage repair, no special paints like metallic flake
Thinking about this hand gesture, is it one of those universal things that people all over understand? Or did I learn it subconsciously by seeing it done?
El Gato Astronomico@astrocat.bsky.social · 2mo agoWho decided jazz was to be spelled with two zs. Ridiculous
Increasingly I feel like absolutely everything around me is constantly messaging me to "optimize" and "improve efficiency" and this is all obviously motivated by the true aim of enriching the already wealthy and it's just so depressing and exhausting, these ghouls have sapped all the joy from life
Poob has dropped it mid season. You can’t watch it on Poob. It’s not on Poob. Maybe it never was. Maybe in our throws we were delusional with mania
