There’s really only one way to mark the 99th anniversary of Roger Moore’s birth

Literally everyone wants to see this.

hammancheez but spooky@hammancheez.bsky.social · 5d ago

Yall wanna see a puppy with hiccups getting mad

“We made a movie about polyamorous cult members who turn to white-collar crime. We cut the polyamory and also the cult.”

Ellery Weil@ellerygillian.bsky.social · 5d ago

They made them MONOGAMOUS. They made HIM the more besotted one! I have some embarrassing social connections to that circle and I’m REELING.

It would never have occurred to me to make a post-apocalyptic Pokemon game, or to add a volcano combat element to a farming sim. I’m sure glad it DID occur to the people who made Pokopia and Stardew Valley, though.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 6d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

Genuinely, the idiotic thing is arguing about DST at all instead of just changing schedules if appropriate.

BornToBark@borntobark.bsky.social · 2w ago

What the hell is he blathering about? He sounds like he thinks the bill makes more sunshine or something. Want your stupid golf tournament to end in daylight when days are short? Start earlier! 🤦‍♂️

Not to be pedantic, but neither did Scout. She was playing ham in a school play (also a sadly underutilized role these days),

Frankenstein Iscariot@deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 2w ago

The problem with society is nobody wants to be a ham for Halloween anymore

Is there anything cozier than a dead body in a small town? @ellerygillian.bsky.social on why we keep coming back to murders in charming villages, from Midsomer County to Three Pines, and how the setting has evolved with our tastes:

The Enduring Appeal of a Fictional Murder-Town - Reactor

Why is a sleepy hamlet full of dead bodies so soothing sometimes?

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I agree with this, but also… there’s something so spiritually impoverished and sad about it. Like, Aaronsons ”signs and wonders“ are things that AI has done that are impressive by human standards, but pathetically small potatoes for something he wants to literally deify.

It was my first week of fourth grade. The teachers were clearly scared, but what was actually happening kept trickling in bit by bit, and par were picking people up. When my carpool came, we sat in traffic and could see the smoke from the Pentagon.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

"September 11th was 25 years ago" -- Ted Cruz defends Trump lying about his response to 9/11 but suggesting he might not remember because it was so long ago

It’s worth remembering that there were very much serfs still bound to a lieges land within Marx’s lifetime.

Ellery Weil@ellerygillian.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There’s a lot you can say about Marx, but the man had absolutely no time for primitivist nonsense and understood capitalism for all its ills as a MASSIVE improvement over feudalism.

Just don't get a penguin to do your due diligence. Expert swimmers, atrocious fact-checkers

Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton

Not to be unkind, but this professor is being foolish. You give an assignment requiring conversational and social skills to *this particular cohort of students* and when they struggle, assume the culprit must be AI?

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are very gradually going to start realizing with horror how completely we have fucked the brains of an entire generation.

Possibly unpopular opinion, but… that stuff doesn’t have to start in high school, or even college! I’m a millennial, and did absolutely no partying in high school, some in college, but 23-4 was the real *start* of my Shenanigans Years

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 2mo ago

kids today are literally confused about whether "partying" was real or an urban legend

Imagine, if you will, a wealthy couple with a Park Slope brownstone. They live there most of the year, but spend summers at their mountain house in the Berkshires, over the MA border. Literally nobody says they shouldn’t vote in NY—and this is the same thing.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Well, that's a new one. "College kids should be able to vote to overcome the wishes of the people who actually live in the place where they go to school"

This ties into a weird Online norm I’ve seen where insecurity is bad, but admitting to certain flaws is downright taboo. Say you’re lazy, say you’re struggling, say you’re messy, but if you admit to being uncool, overeager, or anything but smoking hot, how DARE you.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i think the more that a posting community posts stuff like “stupid person’s version of a smart person” “old out of toucher that wants to be young” “loser that is pathetically trying to show they’re not a loser” ….the more you can infer that community suffers from very obvious insecurity

Fast fashion isn't aimed at the poorest (though they certainly can and do buy such things). It's aimed at people who can afford to constantly buy clothes; people who could buy fewer higher-quality items and collectively they don't.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

Hyper Excited Otter Standing Up

ALT: Hyper Excited Otter Standing Up

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The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky.

In the same way that being bitten by a werewolf make you a werewolf, arguing with an academic makes you an academic

This is true, but I think it’s easier to talk about when you add quantity into the mix. I’ve read SHEIN discourse, and a big chunk was about how “you can get 10 SHEIN dresses for the price of one high quality one.” But 10 dresses aren’t a need! People just like volume!

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 2mo ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

Most of the land in most farm counties is owned by 1-5 families. They run the place like their own personal kingdoms. There is SO much resentment and straight-up fury about this in rural areas. The fact that no political party's even really trying to speak to it is wild.

The fact that this article was even written feels like more evidence for my Theory, “AI is mid, and the discourse around it is just The Crypto Bubble: Once More, With Feeling”

I’ve seen those opinions, and frankly, I think they’re inane. Mobility can mean many different things—often, it amounts to “fleeing.” Pretending that only people privileged enough to move into an ideal environment are capable of/should move is dumb.

Samoht@sam0ht.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I agree, however I think there's an opinion that 1) mobility is a privilege, and 2) the *places* need protection from being "left behind". Thus saying "on your bike" and urging people to seek opportunities elsewhere is seen as somehow unsympathetic / unrealistic / uncaring.

Date: What do you do? Me: I'm a kleptozoologist Date: Isn't it cryptozoologist? Me, stuffing my pockets with lobsters from the tank: that's a common misconception

OTOH, the new ones were unrealistic because what do you MEAN the BABY TRICERATOPS PETTING ZOO was a largely unpopular “baby” attraction. I want to pet the triceratops!

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · last yr.

Jurassic Park is a perfect franchise because the question "why would they keep doing this" is answered by simply asking yourself if you would want to go see a dinosaur. Of course you would want to see a dinosaur.

The pink fairy armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus) is just this little guy. The smallest of the armadillo family, they live in the deserts of Argentina, burrowing through dry sand with giant paws, almost as fast as a fish can swim. The armor is greatly reduced, but the pink fairy has THICK FUR.

Summer is For The Monsters: @ellerygillian.bsky.social on the international seasonality of horror movies, and why we gravitate towards kaiju, werewolves, and zombies in July while putting off demons until fall:

Monsters in the Summer, Ghosts for Fall: Why Are Our Fears Seasonal? - Reactor

Horror often reflects our broad cultural fears, but is it also seasonal?

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Maybe it says something about my social circle, but this is completely unsurprising to me? It’s like saying “I met some Unitarian Universalists, and they were all liberals!” Like, yes? I’d imagine so.

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

culture war is evolving to a strange place. went to a craft night and the conversation went from discussing witchcraft (as though it were real) to disparaging antivaxxers within like five minutes. one woman, my new hero, blurted out "they lobotomized the wrong kennedy"

Also… did none of these people ever talk to older relatives? My grandparents were married in their early twenties, had a beautiful marriage of nearly seven decades, and had exactly two children with a four-year age gap. Heck, my great-grandparents were similar.

William Adler@williamadler78.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Her "model" for "ending the fertility crisis" is for women to marry young while they're most fertile. OK, except there's still a decent chunk of people who would deal with infertility even then. My wife and I were in our mid-20s when we started having this struggle. In her world, we don't count.

LORELAI: mom! You can't go after her just because she's trans EMILY: I don't care that she's transgendered, Lorelai, I'm not a troglodyte. I care that she dresses like a tart and is trying to steal my chair on the DAR board! RORY: it's a very affirming hatred