i don't do bad sauce passes
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will byers stan first human second
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
trying on a metaphor
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Keni
Product Placement
shark vs the universe
Peter Solarz
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cherry valley forever
Cosimo Galluzzi
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
Jules of Nature
blake kathryn
titsay
Monterey Bay Aquarium
we're not kids anymore.
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Just finished binging the Afghanistan season of Blowback and the craziest part of that whole saga is that no matter what happened in Afghanistan, somehow, Pakistan always ended up getting a W
Bad news for Pakistan: It didn’t last.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Afghanistan–Pakistan_war
2026 Afghanistan–Pakistan war - Wikipedia
rb and tag your favorite song that's not in english, japanese or korean
Out of Touch
Out of Touch Thursday
OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY
but im out of my head when you’re not around…
happy birthday.
this is the only out of touch thursday you can reblog this
Do you like this Video Game Song? #3049
I like it and I've definitely heard it before
I like it and it sounds familiar
I like it and this is my first time hearing it
I don't feel strongly about it or have a complex opinion
I don't like it and I've definitely heard it before
I don't like it and it sounds familiar
I don't like it and this is my first time hearing it
I love this video... going to put it under the read more because it sucks (cw misogyny, racism, unfunny 'comedy' question mark). probably don't bother actually watching unless you want the full experience. But it's amazing. The woman in the audience doesn't say a single word and the comedian just unravels. Her silence becomes increasingly unnerving to him; he starts making up things he imagines she would want to say to him, rambles about how even her friend is trying not to laugh (cut to her friend's expression which is just tired annoyance), spirals into a rant about how she wants to take away his freedom of speech, how she would freeze his bank account if she could, eventually fantasizing about her getting gangraped (with some extra racism thrown in there). It's art. She's so powerful. Why did he post this himself.
This is a simplified view, but the truth is more nuanced.
Do you like this Video Game Song? #2883
I like it and I've definitely heard it before
I like it and it sounds familiar
I like it and this is my first time hearing it
I don't feel strongly about it or have a complex opinion
I don't like it and I've definitely heard it before
I don't like it and it sounds familiar
I don't like it and this is my first time hearing it
we need to hold hands for tactical reasons and should consider the possibility that we might also need to strategically kiss with tongue. maybe more if the situation changes.
when she says something so classist you have to hit her with the proletariat stare
In 1997, local television in Kharkiv accidentally filmed one of the most iconic rave moments in history.
remember the era of mario party where donkey kong was framed as a sort of saint/angel figure in opposition to bowser. reliably & consistently events & game elements associated with dk would be like, direct opposites of those associated with bowser, but like, more than just being an explicit mechanical counterpart to bowser, dk was often suggested to be in some kind of infinite (manichaean?) struggle against him-- game mechanics associate them with night & day, have them switch places with each other (castaway bay, the way the dk/bowser spaces work in mp8, & of course clockwork castle where theyre all but transforming into each other), their actions in general border on divine interventions to turn the tide of a battle (which can jostle against each other, eg the train car stuff from mp8)... & like, the result is that wanton misfortune is signified by flames & spikes & enormous castles, in contrast to divine providence, which is signified by. palm trees & bananas. the devil is in hell, & god is in a tropical jungle. this was the status quo for 4 numbered entries
To this day, one if my favorite parts of Worm is how when Taylor is first going out in costume, she describes balling up tissues in her coin purse(that she keeps in her utility pack(not a backpack))so that the change wouldn't jingle.
And then, during the Echidna arc, she's held briefly by Miss Militia, who says she needs to look at Taylor's backpack. Taylor goes Actually, It's A Utility Pack. And Miss Militia looks through it and takes an inventory of the backpack, and then finds the coin purse. And she's like Oh, A Coin Purse... With Tissue Inside Of It? Oh! So It Doesn't Jingle! and you can hear Taylor going like
Happy two years of balled up tissues
Happy two years of balled up tissues
Happy two years of balled up tissues
Happy two years of balled up tissues
You can either be mad that you're not going to space, or do what the cool kids do. Realize that you are already in space, and just treat Earth as a bad-ass space ship.
First, let's look at what Earth is missing versus other space ships. Photon torpedoes? I have yet to see NASA pump any of those out, baby. Same for warp drive. Storage space? We got a lot more than any shuttle or rocket, so much so that we can just leave old ones lyin' around for kids to climb on. In fact, the only thing that real space ships can do that we don't is carry a couple of astronauts (wearing diapers, I'm just sayin') closer to the moon. I'd rather stay here. We're the ones in charge. Let the moon get closer to us. And then further away. And then closer again. You get the idea.
Now for the real point: Earth has all kinds of nice stuff that you'll never get on any Boeing-Lockheed tax-dodging baby burp-up, no matter how good they get. Unlimited breathable air, fresh water, grass. Cats. You can just go bother a cat without having to ask some asshole in Mission Control if it's within their so-called "mission parameters." And you can poop without having to be suction cupped into the toilet. That one right there is good enough for me.
Tonight, when you're feeling grumpy that you don't get to look at the moon up close, go on outside in the dark. Sit down under your favourite tree. And take out some binoculars. Look, the moon is getting bigger already. Say, it sure has a lot of room for parking, doesn't it? And no road salt. Maybe I've thought about this all wrong...
"What do you fear most in the world?"
"The Hater's Paradox," I replied.
Understanding the Hater's Paradox is simple: in order to truly, deeply hate something to its fullest extent, you must understand it to its fullest extent. Often delving deeper into it than the folks who actually love it. It is only with this level of extreme, in-depth research and study that you can infiltrate and destroy the critical centre of the object of hate.
Naturally, my worry is that I will represent myself as a small-ball hater of something worthy of that hatred, but through immersion discover that it's actually kind of okay. Then I'd have to go back to my friends and explain to them that I fucked up, and that they shouldn't be haters of that thing. In politics, this is called "flip-flopping," and it destroys an individual's reputation forever. In my friend group, it means that I would be teased for a week or two until they got distracted by a shiny thing.
That old Buddhist monk that I saved from a group of ninjas down at the bus stop said something about that too. He said that on their deathbed, everyone thinks that every videogame system is just as good as any other. At the time, I thought that was a pretty weird thing to say, because whatever PlayStation they were on cost way too much money, but later I realized he was right. You could get it for like fifty bucks once they stopped making games for it.
I walked out of that court-ordered therapy session with a better understanding of hate. Perhaps the coolest thing to do was neither to hate, nor to love, things based on groupthink. You could be an individual. A powerful, unique, beautiful soul that doesn't spend its entire time on this earth trying to figure out why Ford can't make a headlight switch that works. I mean, those rat bastards clearly didn't even spend an afternoon thinking about it.
every AI work tool out there is like "did you know you're wasting up to 90% of your time on pointless busywork that could be automated away? and i look inside and the "busywork" is like. learning how something important works or double checking the reading on the safety valve. AI companies love to say "why would you waste time learning that in the moment when, instead, you could always ask me about it later?" and it's like. the point isn't to "have access to that information", the point is to know it. The AI can only tell me how to fix that air compressor if i can tell it what the problem is, and even then its instructions might not warn me of potential hidden dangers or might not see that i've got my screwdriver on the wrong screw or might not even be telling me the truth. I need to know how the pump works. I need to know which lines lead where. I need to understand the system I am working with. If something goes wrong I need to know how to fix it, because by the time something tells me how to fix it, it might be too late.
someone please add the abigail sims poem chatgpt fucks my wife i am too high to deal with the results that duckduckgo search is giving me to sift through right now.
Fail Safe (1964) never stops being relevant.
Also if you've never seen Fail Safe please go watch it. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen, it remains a personal favourite to this day, and especially if you are of the conviction that old movies tend to be stuffy and boring, this is legitimately one of the most tense, gripping, edge-of-your-seat suspense dramas you will ever watch. Even having seen it a dozen times before i find myself white-knuckling the arm of my couch through certain scenes, and on top of that the direction, cinematography, sound design, and action are all amazing. This movie uses close-ups and the power of silence better then any other I've ever seen. I think about this pair of shots all the damn time:
It also just. Has a lot of relevancy still today, and it's one of the things I recall most frequently when thinking about the efficacy of AI in the modern day. It's not about AI, it's about war, and weapons, and posturing of nations, and the way that secrets and hatred and dehumanization of our enemies and the increasing reliance on systems and automation, not just by machines but by humans told to act under orders and stripped of their agency, lead us into a future that no one is prepared for nor capable of preparing for, with the potential for devastating consequences. And it's a movie where you want to watch the credits all the way through to the end to feel the full impact of what you've just seen.
also +1 for having a character using forearm crutches throughout the movie who isn't a villain or treated as lesser, but instead as a highly respected, thoughtful, and considered leader. the crutches are never commented on, just treated as a totally normal part of his character. better disability rep then a lot of shit today tbh.
Anyway, you can find it for free on the internet archive, here:
Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet
*touches five million footnotes* something happened here
