Its 2029, wake up, check phone, see the Houthis have hit EA's new Riyadh headquarters with a scud missile, go back to sleep with a slight grin on my face.
Lexabrö
@lexabro.bsky.social
He/Him. Conquers planets and doesn't afraid of anything. I livetweet movies and shows that I watch with the same frequency as hbomberguy uploads.
It always kinda scares me when i see people have saved one of my posts
Go back far enough and this is probably why life first moved onto land
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · yesterdayYou didn’t have to come out and SAY that you were packing up your ocean-crossing canoe to search across the seas for a new land just to get away from your awful family, but you know that had to have been a FACTOR for a lot of history’s intrepid explorers and settlers
Say what you want about the Bolsheviks but just ripping the bandaid off and getting rid of the Romanovs was the right call
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d agoYou've got to admire the commitment to the bit. Have we heard from the current Orléanist pretender?
The framing of these stories always (still!) catches me off guard. They "know" it happens to bad parenys but obviously theyd never consider themselves "bad parents". Which is ironic because that introspection would be the first step to fixing the estrangement.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d agoThe other category of coverage is *extremely* implausible first-person accounts from estranged parents. According to this woman, her son cut her off after she was mildly rude to his fiance's family a single time. There's no way this is the entire story. www.goodhousekeeping.com/relationship...
Yeah cold blooded is probably the best way to describe it
Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast@irhottakes.bsky.social · 3d agoSeriously though, the fact a dude literally fucking went kerslpat and everyone was like "Dang. Nonetheless, it's time for kickoff," is cold blooded. I mean Jesus. Wait until the guy is underground first.
Something something ethics in game novelizations
Isadora@rockdovelady.bsky.social · 4d agoThe consensus of the active player base who read it (even her fans): @tkingfisher.com didn’t play the game. I’d eat my hat if she ever finished Astarion’s character quest. Her responses to questions are nonsense & the book is offensive as hell in context. Goodreads keeps purging negative reviews.
Its only Champagne if its from the Champagne region of France, its only Wine if it comes from...Napa Valley?
Clare Blackwood@clareblackwood.bsky.social · 4d agoBREAKING: In bizarre public humiliation ritual, American politician reveals he does not know that other countries create wine
Idk man Id like to see an Ossoff/El-Sayed or El-Sayed/Ossoff ticket sometime in my lifetime
Not really the same thing but Im pretty sure Im the main reason the gas station near my building started stocking more Dr. Pepper
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · 4d agoSeeing an arthouse movie in a multiplex is kind of important to do if you want the multiplex to show wider varieties of movies. I didn’t see BLUE HERON when it was at Lightbox, I saw it at the Varsity Cineplex because I want them to program more movies like it. And THE DEVILS is there this week
Pretty sure we are all experiencing collective carbon monoxide poisoning
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump on Jon Husted: "I examined his ass"
I genuinely hope that the Scaramucci as a unit of measurement stays in the public consciousness as long as Gerrymander has
30k is a lot of money and the 500k only became "a billing error" because the victim fought it. It is entirely concievable that it would have remained a debt that they would have been expected to pay had they not had the wherewithal to challenge it.
Its insane discourse to watch. I, and most people i know in real life, make between 30k and 35k per year. A windfall of my entire expected yearly income would absolutley change my life
cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · 4d agothe reason the bloodless quants on this site are all back on "is $30k a lot of money?" is because they lost the previous "is $500k a lot of money to be told you owe a hospital for the birth of your child?" argument. it's all downstream of the same shit. argue about something else
Like every retro console, some favorite games for each, and the biggest CRT i can get my hands on
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 5d agoquestion for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?
Its "cool" if you just ignore like every issue this would cause if ever released on the road. Get in a wreck that damages those air tanks? Now youre sitting in a missile. Flight control stops working in a school zone? Now those kids are dead. Like seriously "cool" should not be our standard.
Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social · 5d agodo think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist
I consider it a skill issue on the part of *some* of my fellow leftists that they can't envision a form of socialism that doesnt rely on tying yourself to 20th century political movements.
Wannabe Apparatchik@apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 6d agothe thing that’s tied to this is the air of overwhelming pessimism which has consumed the western radical left, which is why “is the government we’re supporting even left wing” is no longer important to them. the socialist revolution has become a missed opportunity, a lost golden path
Look all im saying is that if youre trying to be considered a source of news you should probably proofread your fucking videos
"This thing that realistically cannot be done is more popular than this other thing that can actually happen."
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 6d agoTerm limits and mandatory retirement age for Supreme Court both poll dramatically better than expansion
I'm reading Dune: The Butlerian Jihad for the first time and I just hit the part where the robot Erasmus used this reasoning when he decided to murder Serena Butler's infant child in front of a very large group of enslaved humans and... ... it lead almost immediately to a galaxy-spanning holy war.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · last wk.Dario Amodei of Anthropic is Very Normal and Can Be Trusted With the Future of Humanity: “…in my case I'd say that I think an adult death is perhaps 2 or 3 times worse than an infant's death.” blog.givewell.org/2010/06/03/m...
The craziest part of this is I can see like 10 ways you could do this and it actually be a fun bit (or maybe my circle of friends is just deranged), but this guy had to be maximally insufferable about it
cait (and adonis)@cait.bsky.social · last wk.imagine getting an invite to your weird friend's pity party and realizing they've been seething with hatred and resentment for their entire life
I caught a block for this which is funny considering Im simply doing the same calculus that Effective Altruists apply to people without billions of dollars
