It remains absolutely fucking mindboggling to me how many people will happily and cheerfully advocate for government suppression of speech as long as someone, somewhere, can convince them it will even mildly inconvenience someone they don't like among all the collateral damage

Every season. Taskmaster Episode 1: Okay, I know two of these guys and heard of another but we'll see about the other two. Taskmaster Episode 10: These five people are dearer to me than my own family.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

I broke someone else’s leg playing soccer in HS which led to me getting an xray which discovered a benign cyst in my shin which disqualified me from the Marines which meant I went to college instead of boot camp right out of high school where I knocked up a girl I met there and we were married 25yrs

Written by Uju ✍🏽@writtenbyuju.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What happened to you that changed the entire trajectory of your life?

The last person to drop Gina Carano that quickly was Disney.

Uncle Dana@danahorsewoman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

gina carano getting sent to the shadow realm in 17 seconds the weekend before the mandalorian movie comes out is extremely funny

I’ve been on vacation in France for the last week and all the stereotypes about rudeness are 100% true. I’ve seen the most obnoxious, over the top stuff, almost unbelievable. I’m talking about tourists, of course. All of the French people I’ve interacted with have been absolutely lovely.

Bluesky hot-take: Very few men are trying to get cosmetic scrotum enlargements, and sometimes (sometimes!) websites write articles featuring a small number of socially unusual people so we will click the button to laugh at them.

it is both true that the past was far crueler than we can imagine and also true that we can and should demand a better future, and there's no conflict between these things

I was chatting with some friends and the canard that this is the worst time in living memory came up and I just laughed and laughed. Literally, I was laughing so hard I couldn’t even argue with them.

genuinely good work from house dems who swiftly made clear that he can leave or he can be thrown out, but he’s going one way or the other

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Swalwell resigning from Congress

don't trust anyone who wants to return to the past. that place sucks

You may not know @taskmaster.tv. It's hilarious & joyful. I begged to do it, worked out my schedule a year ahead of time to make it happen & got to do the best show on TV w/ the loveliest ppl. Ep 1 is out &, trust me, you need this joy. All seasons free on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfH...

Season 21, Episode 1 - 'Cube is good.' | Full Episode

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also if you think "genre fiction but they're always horny all the time" is a new thing you CLEARLY never read Heinlein

I am trying to process existential threats that I have no power over and my only instinct is to run around and scream and, you know what. We have a lot to apologize to dogs for.

If you go see Louis CK or Kanye like the last 6 years didn’t happen, it will not be forgotten.

a man in a black shirt and tie is holding a pen and saying `` i keep a list of names '' .

ALT: a man in a black shirt and tie is holding a pen and saying `` i keep a list of names '' .

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In general, I'm annoyed at the idea that it's some sort of retreat from grandeur to see the brain as physical. You have, between your ears, the most intricate machine ever created, about which we are still discovering basic construction facts. Why does magic make it better?

21 seasons of Taskmaster seems like a lot but it's not nearly enough

Here's some art for any trans friends who would like it. Drop me a message if you'd like the high res emailed to you.

bob dylan is 84 years old, and i think it’s vanishingly unlikely he’s suddenly taken an interest in AI slop and patreon accounts

this sounds less like something bob dylan came up with and more like elder abuse, tbh

Consequence@consequence.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Bob Dylan has quietly launched a new Patreon project, Lectures from the Grave, featuring AI-generated monologues, fictional letters, and short stories attributed to historical figures—raising big questions about creativity, authenticity, and the role of artists in an AI-driven future.

graham’s a lying, warmongering racist who has over and over again demonstrated that he has neither honor nor integrity and you can easily make those cases on their own without this shit

it is specifically in my contract that i don't have to endorse or even learn about the politics of any author whose works i enjoy when adapted for the screen. if i read their books that's different but the Heinlein/Dick rule exists for a reason

Asher Elbein@asherelbein.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

“san francisco tech people who are on a first name basis with ezra klein and are comfortable telling him that they feed their diaries to AI” is not a group representative of any statistically important population in the united states

Sitting in a shitty wings place waiting for my order and they have the TV on. It’s the first time I’ve seen ads in a long time. And yet, the commercials could come out of the 50’s. Did you know that you can vibrate your way to fitness? It’s revolutionary and definitely not bullshit debunked in 1953.

Am I a dirty centrist Dem if I say “Fuck the 3rd way and fuck Hasan Piker too”?

Andrew Perez@andrewperez.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The centrist think tank Third Way is trying to cancel Hasan Piker as part of its broader campaign to marginalize the left. The good news is no one has to listen to this stuff. We should take note of the Dems who do. More at @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/third-way-...

So if some actor won an oscar but then they were mad at the film industry and they threw their award away in protest, that would still only be the second most famous oscar to live in a trash can send post

I keep hearing that Gen Z is better at identifying AI generated content. Maybe that’s true for videos, but it definitely isn’t for text. Really tired of being accused of being AI anytime I respond to something seriously.