I'm embarrassed to admit that, even medicated, my reading attention is so bad that it takes me manynmonths to finish a single not-that-long book... it sucks because I'm an extremely fast reader on a physical level, but I just cannot cram all that new info into my head so quickly

I know it's almost certainly an unfortunate coincidence, but I get deeply freaked out whenever I go to Walmart and see that half the shit there is specifically priced at, uh... 14 dollars and 88 cents these days

NFL 2K might actually come back, this is not a drill

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · yesterday

EA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest

Totally the same for me as well - it was the best learning tool in my life, both academically and artistically, and the stuff I was exposed to has always been an inspiration

aegisiondure 🫍@equalnotequals.com · yesterday

this isn't very popular to say, but for me personally, it was good that i had unrestricted internet access when i was a minor. i was aware of what i was doing and enjoyed it. i don't look back on it and go "well that was a mistake", i look back on it and wish i could do it for the first time again

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

My favorite candy Keppra came out 35 years ago so yeah I'm pretty happy for progress

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 24h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

"AOC is a plant" "Comrade AOC will lead the glorious revolution!"/"She's a sensible SocDem who represents the future of progress and cooperation in our country!" "AOC is a plant"

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

There's this hilarious phenomenon where someone will post that Jack & Diane by John Mellencamp has a line that sounds like "life goes on, long after the thrill of 11-inch dong", and without fail, the comments SWARM with truly livid boomers swearing it can't possibly sound like that lmfao

I'll always have a bug up my ass about the way we pronounce Ancient Greek names in English... like, wtf is "TroJJJJJan"? Why "MeneLAYus"? And "Plato" is just so, so wrong...

DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

I'm still waiting for this website to start adopting "Tung Tung Tung!" and "tralalero... tralala" as vocal stims

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 3d ago

sister tells me that the kids these days don't say "low key" they say "lowkirk" or "lowkirkuinely" and I don’t know how to handle this information

These people are driving me further and further towards sympathy for technocracy every day

The News Agents@thenewsagents.co.uk · 6d ago

“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.

Whenever people abbreviate Shin Megami Tensei as SMT, I cannot stop my brain from reading it as "Suomintang"

I loved The Sopranos, but it's always been wild to me how almost every single actor on that show seems to have had as poor of an understanding of what it was about as its average chud fan

I never watch live TV and I have YouTube Premium now, so I feel extraordinary bliss at not even knowing what people are talking about when some new hated ad starts playing everywhere

stripping OMB of the ability to dole out grants is an enormous win, this nukes the SAVE act, it prohibits further ICE bailouts, adding a "no, really, trump can't break already on-the-books laws regarding elections the federal government doesn't run" clause would be both unnecessary and unproductive

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Patty Murray and Chuck Schumer decide to strike a “bipartisan” deal with … checks notes … Susan Collins to fund the Trump regime through December which appears to not to any include any safeguards against Trump’s meddling with midterm elections.

Garage sale poker face is a hell of a skill... I just hit the jackpot (boxed game.com for a dollar)

Goddammit

disc horse bot@horsedisc.bsky.social · 3d ago

I will never vote for Kamala Harris.

Anyone who doesn't write everything in x86 assembly is a heretic... actually sorry, scratch that, anyone who doesn't code by manually flipping bits with switches or paper punch cards is an evil slop generator

James Pirruccello 🌉🇺🇸@jamespirruccello.com · 3d ago

OP is giving “Our noble compilers / their barbaric LLMs”

me ➡️ brain worm ➡️ you

Zev زيف זאב@zevsamm.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the fun of being hypermobile, except it starts from a very young age and gets worse and worse and worse and worse

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 5d ago

Definitely have the sense that an injury to one part of the body causes your body to compensate in ways that injure other parts of the body (usually on the other side).

Orange cream Frappuccino going to kill me because it's so fucking incredible

It's horrifying that "Germany gets occupied by the U.S. again" would somehow be the better option for them at this point

Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 6d ago

In September, the 2 Million inhabitants of Sachsen-Anhalt, one of the 16 German Länder vote for their parliament. This is the current polling 👇

So I am making a specific point here for people to actually be aware. If a book has an ISBN number, it means it was published post-1970, since to actually quote the article. "The attached list contained 3000 English-language titles organised by ISBN number"

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Clearly neither the Pope nor his followers have interacted with @bot-tan.com or any of the other lovely assistants on here

I haven't kept up on John Cleese since learning he was a transphobic prick, so I'm completely unsurprised to learn that he's also an unhinged racist freak now

This is some great @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social shit

Blansas and Blississippi are real, I am telling you

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last wk.

🚨🚨 TRUMP APPROVAL IS UNDERWATER WITH WHITES WITHOUT DEGREES! February 8, 2025: +27 July 25, 2026: -6

Having a hard time thinking of answers to this, but I think I'd say Baby Driver (it was fine!), Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and the hallucinogenic near-Dada masterpiece that is Spy Kids 3D

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Name a hated film you are willing to defend

According to b.mino.mobi/unique/, I'm the only person on here who's said "octogenarian semen", "worthwhile mathematician", or "McChicken discontinued"