Mad Digital

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livid in immaterial worlds my posts are bad, but my heart is true he/him

"it's the heart afraid of breakin' that never learns to dance" - conway twitty in the hit single 'the rose', giving a heartfelt lament/cautionary word of advice for all the people who lacked the self esteem to participate in the burgeoning breakdancing craze of the time

Sometimes my google news feed will vastly overestimate my level of scientific literacy, every word of this headline is incomprehensible to me besides "of", "and", and "reagents" (barely counting that one though, because I only learned just now that reactants and reagents are different things)

Headline from nature.com

Stereoselective photometallobiocatalytic cross-coupling of organoboron reagents and diazo co...

toenail clipping is considered the more accessible game mode for newer players, as it allows the use of the dominant hand, or even both hands, on all nails. fingernail clipping is where high-level gameplay is more often seen, as players must be ambidextrous with the clippers to ensure success

Oh, your microwave's popcorn mode has three levels? My microwave uses roguelike elements and procedural generation for an effectively infinite number of levels, but your thing sounds cool too I guess

should be illegal for only the first couple of seasons of a show to be on torrent sites but not the rest (not the kind of illegal it already is, the opposite one that would be useful to me in this scenario)

all throughout season 5 of Fargo, we are led to believe the villain is Jon Hamm, but only in the finale do we find out that the most evil one on the show was actually Jennifer Jason Leigh

Jennifer Jason Leigh in S05E10 of Fargo, sitting across from a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit and saying "I'm the single largest donor to the Federalist Society."

kind of funny to encounter this for the first time on the same day i hear about bluesky devs using shitty ai code (i follow 253 people who are mostly fairly active, my following feed apparently just decided at a random point to start loading posts from 5 days ago and then spit out this message)

error message displayed in my following feed, which reads "We ran out of posts from your follows. Here's the latest from Discover."

since everyone is bummed about the smiling friends news tonight, here is a piece of good adult swim news that flew comparably under the radar last week: they green lit a new joe pera project!

key art for My Two Cars
Created by Dan Licata & Joe Pera

the tinfoil hat-o-sphere thinks tom hanks is in the epstein files and fled america because of it, despite the fact that tom hanks is currently in australia (a country which extradites to america), and the fact that he is still slated to reprise his role in a major pixar franchise later this year