First, you tell me to get a hobby; now it's an “appropriate hobby”.
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I transitioned in 2002 how am I still alive Glasgow, Scotland 🌟
The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
just remembered to do my shot! 💪 because I'm of a certain age I have the "Zydrate anatomy" song stuck in my head now
I’m sorry, they made that apology & retraction *without* having previously agreed with JKR’s lawyers that it would end the threat of legal action? Is anyone competent in charge at Amnesty???
Adam P Knave@adampknave.com · 4d agoAmnesty Int is about to learn - Appeasing the beast doesn't do anything but make it want more bites out of you. Giving in doesn't EVER work. It just makes you easier to digest. Fight and you can win. Roll over and you will be made an example of. Every. Time.
Finally saw I Saw the TV Glow and omggg the Buffy references! When Amber Heard opened that door I died 😍
t-shirt idea: just this and then goofy "I'LL FUCKEN DO IT AGAIN"
they should remake Goodnight Sweetheart but make every character a lesbian
trying to explain to my cat that she can't stop to groom herself when I'm chasing her because it "breaks the kayfabe"
Been seeing a lot of Oppenheimer clips on my algo and it just occurred to me an interesting take on the Manhattan Project in film would be shifting the focus from the much-mythologized Los Alamos to Oak Ridge where thousands of ordinary folks had to do the physical work of actually building the Bomb
larger implications aside it’s always funny when an LRB piece breaks containment because it’s like a crowd shows up with machetes on your porch and you are. an old Man whittling whistles or making cups out of willow bark
therapising myself by thinking of the most innocuous reason for "why did he react like that?" and going with that one
I refuse to learn the names of any new English prime ministers, it is a complete waste of effort to be honest
*trying to channel Lenin, failing* uh, I think we should Expropriate. all the boomers' model railways and GMT nerdslop boardgames. uh, to Me Personally
what I like about this place is the lack of algorithm, like on Twitter I could never tell if I was just posting bad or if I was shadowbanned. here I know!
"I feel that retro games are more retro than old games were, these days" oh Baudrillard you would have loved streamers
Looks better than Mar-A-Lago face. Or just less uncanny
bsky.app/profile/adam... we need the meaningful threat of a Climate Nuremberg Trial
Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot
Wile E. Coyote, despaired, takes a bucket of paint and a brush and paints a beautiful two-bedroom house on a mountainside. He paints a beautiful coyote wife in the window, and two adorable coyote kids running around in the yard. He tries to enter this new coyote life, but it is inaccessible to him
a little-known example of "blowback", the CIA-assisted mass killings in Indonesia of 1965-6 led directly to the Tung Tung Tung Sahur police station 60 years later
Age is not an indicator of a persons intelligence, i explain to the fireman trying to free my head from the revolving door