Reminds me how, at the height of the Iraq invasion, my orthodontist was a lovely Jordanian man named Dr. Hussein. My aunt made... the kind of shitty remark that was unfortunately very common to hear at the time and my mom all but chased her out of the house chewing her out about it.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 9h ago

Banger

This is just about the healthiest attitude toward fan theory-crafting and such Toby could have. Probably a healthier attitude than I'd have in his place, tbh!

rogue-liking deckbuilder

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

In her house at R'lyeh, dead Morton Salt Girl waits dreaming

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

We, as a society, truly lost something when anime openings for games stopped being the norm

I maybe should actually play a Fire Emblem to see if my instinctive revulsion toward the franchise is justified.

Delicious in Dungeon is one of the only pieces of media in which I relate heavily to literally every main character but I absolutely relate to Laios the most. One of the heralds of the ongoing Golden Age of the Anime Himbo.

tada tada@emrkd.bsky.social · 2d ago

it's unbelievable how real he is

A big downside for Trump in relation to his desire to paint cities as lawless warzones so he can occupy them is that he can't take credit for lomgterm declining crime rates in most major urban centers.

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d ago

it is completely correct politics to claim credit for this but NYC crime rates have been in a steady decline since what, 2021 and the pandemic peak? (and in a long term decline before that)

"Eating food may sound appealing, but..."

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

He will never understand that being "the fat guy from Superbad" is infinitely better than being "the martial arts chud nobody likes"

The boy does love a good chin scritch.

Remember the history of "they're not electable anywhere but the coasts." They said the same thing about Obama.

I swear to god my cat always wants to cuddle right when he's fresh out of the litter box and still reeking of freshly-used litter. And like, I get it buddy. I've had bowel movements after which I could have used a hug. But also you stink, begone.

My new Crackpot Pop Culture Theory is that there are four basic types of endings in fiction: A ) Lord of the Rings B ) Lupin the Third C ) End of Evangelion D ) The Sopranos

This is making me remember there was an M&Ms game for the PS1 that was A ) a pretty blatant Crash clone and B ) surprisingly pretty good, owing most likely to being a pretty blatant Crash clone.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

A cousin to this is when you rented videogames and all the copies of the good ones were gone so you have strange attachment to a videogame that was somehow based on Skittles

The entire point of that was that Winn and Dukat, when their professed worldviews were truly tested, were the same kind of striving, entitled, self-justifying, careerists, no matter how much they wanted to dress it up in piety or patriotism respectively.

The thing about the "AI" peddlers that pisses me off purely from a nerd perspective is that they're constantly trying to insinuate it is or is about to be sentient when it's their *product*! "It's just like Commander Data!" ~A guy who would show up in a TNG episode trying to enslave Commander Data

I blame school grading scales. A 5/10 should theoretically be Pretty Okay but it'd be an F on a test.

Sasquatch@nerdysasquatch.bsky.social · 5d ago

A big problem I have with modern "criticism" is how people now think that average means bad. Anything less than an 8/10 or 9/10 means that it is on par with something actually awful. Everything has to be either "absolute cinema" or "the worst thing ever made" with no room in between.

Doctor: Eating a lot of cinnamon will help you lose weight. Me at the bakery: 37 cinnamon rolls please!

Nightmare scenario for FF7Rev is if they try to tie Advent Children stuff in there. The fact that Rebirth had some DoC characters in there fills me with dread, specifically for that reason.

Reminder that if you should happen find a movie-theater box of Strawberry Milkshake Whoppers and ship them to me I will give you $30+the cost of postage. Larger containers are also welcome, exact price negotiable.

🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨@mrsalty.bsky.social · 5d ago

I thought I was the only person who loved Zero bars and I can almost never find them. They are my second most sought after candy, after my beloved, seemingly totally extinct Strawberry Milkshake Whoppers (for which I have a no-joke, dead serious, standing offer $30 per box bounty).

Idk why I'm thinking about this now, but All Might is the only character I can think of that's the Japanese westaboo version of the the weeb trope of "Character is samurai/ninja-coded and therefore the coolest motherfucker in the setting." Most other examples of Cool North American/European(-coded)

If you unironically call anything besides GenAI garbage "slop" where I can see it, my estimation of your ability to critically evaluate anything goes down by at least a few percentage points.

Narrative design.

So, there's an NPC in my Fabula Ultima campaign who haa been referred to as "The Most Divorced Lesbian In the World"* and I think my phone heard me say it one too many times because the YT alg is now feeding me what could be reasonably described as "toxic yuri folk music". youtu.be/zMKUpMd04QI?...

Tongues & Teeth

YouTube video by The Crane Wives - Topic

youtu.be

I like to think that if the show had gone long enough to reach that part he'd be a piece of eldritch alien software based on the personality of the man he was piloting the body of a gargantuan robotic crustacean monster and still have a comically tiny hat perched atop his massive carapace.