Been reflecting on the Mandalorian season 1 recently, and it feels very strongly as though it was written as a video game. Not that the show feels like a video game adaptation, but that the plot is paced like a AAA video game

Something I really admire about my 7 month old is that he can get sick and just keep on trucking with what he’s doing. He can sick his peas and broccoli up, all over himself even, and just continue playing on my bed without even notifying me When I get sick in my bed it’s a whole event, you know?

Nooo, I don’t want to be known for one of the most beloved and iconic comedies of the 2000s, I want to be famous as a massive tryhard loser instead

Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2d ago

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

This week: Fifty picks past and present--twenty-five new reads, twenty-five from the archives: critical-distance.com/2026/08/02/a...

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Youll have to forgive the president’s indiscretion, he is neurodiverse and also a minor

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Sen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."

The chainsaw-wielding Baphomet disaster robot is funny by itself but this extremely threatening screenshot from its website really takes the cake for me. Is it going to take my limbs if I don’t give it my job

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Been painting fun little alien guys recently, and I think I’m getting pretty good at it

“If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

The American Transgender Refugee Crisis

If this were occurring abroad, to an ethnic minority, we would call it ethnic cleansing.

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The 'Wife Guy,' read of Christopher Nolan continues to reap dividends, I think. Nolan's Odysseus hears in the Siren's song a truth about himself, his darkest and most secret shame. "What," we ask, "does Nolan imagine this could be?" Why, it's secretly not wanting to go home to your wife of course

Shockingly good episode of House of the Dragon, wow. I was absolutely riveted from minute one, they were appealing to me specifically with this one

The practice of AI companies secretly buying millions of old books (some vanishingly rare), scanning them for AI training, then destroying them, epitomises everything that is wrong with today's exploitative AI industry. 🧵 1/2

As a non-binary parent I’ve had to spend some time navigating what I want to be called - ive finally settled on wire mother

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This is obviously feudalism shit, but it is also NFT shit. It's DAO voting

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

I haven’t yet finished the film, my son only wants to watch it in 30 minute increments because he is an uncultured swine of a six month old, but this has been my primary issue with the film thus far. It’s so singularly focused on Odysseus’ man pain, how tortured and tormented he is

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled).

I am never, ever going to pay you to turn off tracking cookies, I will simply close your website

Hyping videos on YouTube is such a cool feature, I’m so glad that it’s there and it’s definitely good that they allow videos like these to be on the leaderboard

Yoda in the Odyssey like "Odysseus, go home you must,"

Who’s this diva

I think it’s a shame that people were so quick to jump on this as an example of corporate racism. People on the team were pretty quick to clarify that they don’t use AI, they all seem to fucking hate AI, and the presentation was thrown together by some loosely affiliated loser

Rick@combattlerrickv.exportaud.io · 2w ago

I dont know if this is brazen or it has just become so normalized that people who use the stuff don't see it anymore but the text that opens the final paragraph on the right on the big slides for your sdcc presentation is WILD

I feel sick to my fucking stomach reading about the attack at Berlin Pride. There’s nothing I can say that is of sufficient gravity, no words that can return what has been cruelly taken away

Perhaps I’m mistaken, but my understanding was that he was always both Scrooge and Ebenezer. That’s his name yknow

Doing the harder, better thing always winds up feeling good but it can’t be overstated how fulfilling it is to read my kid a storybook instead of plopping him in front of the TV, especially when I’m tired and the day was long

Africa is getting so hot that camels, animals that evolved to endure the hottest conditions on Earth, are beginning to die of heat exhaustion.

The finality of "that's resolved here," is deeply sad to me. The problem of needing to imaginatively engage with art has been resolved

Jacob Geller@jacobgeller.com · 2w ago

"the graphics have caught up with our imagination" is intended as a compliment but is inadvertently damning of the whole project. Yeah, the imagination of Halo no longer exceeds a high-resolution tree. Cool.

I unfortunately wound up not having sufficient time to invest in Marathon, but if you do, you should buy this game. It’s really fucking good

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2w ago

Marathon is 30% off, just saying store.steampowered.com/app/3065800/...

Jesus, reading the words “women can’t be ghostbusters” was like being yanked backwards in time by the ghost of Davis Aurini

Justin Avery Smith@justinaverysmith.bsky.social · 2w ago

“Historically accurate Odyssey” is giving “women can’t be Ghostbusters”

I think my favourite gag in Top Secret, a movie filled with fantastic gags, is when a guy loads a Tommy gun with a musket ramrod. It’s so unbelievably stupid. This whole film is just one sight gag equivalent of a dad joke after another