Misfits Welcome!

A place for stuff and things, with the occassional bout of crappy commentary.

[chonny-jash]

the worst part about having a modern phone is accidentally pressing some cheat-code-ass combination of buttons to bring up the inbuilt AI software, adding to the statistics and making some tech billionaire company freak think I actually want that bullshit

[chonny-jash]

It has been brought to my attention that holding the power button is what brings up Gemini.

That's fucking crazy.

That sucks shit.

Fuck off man.

The fuck are we doing here.

[puffball920]

Settings - advanced features - side button and conk that shit away from there

I hated that setting soooo much too

[chonny-jash]

SAVIOUR

Consider this a PSA

It's an adjustable setting

[meangirlnurse]

[whoviankendokaqueenbeewithbooks]

lol

[fallout-lou-begas]

currently explaining "chap hop" to a coworker. they weren't there. it feels like a hallucination

[fallout-lou-begas]

so back in the late 2000s/early 2010s a bunch of reddit white guys thought it would be epic and awesomesauce to tongue-in-cheekly "class up" rap music by performing as antiquated british gentlemen dandies and rapping about only the most distinguished subject matters (like the "nerdcore" craze but so much worse, genuinely) and that's how you got shit as radioactive as this

[fallout-lou-begas]

this godforsaken website is so white that i really should have foreseen real human bloggers shooting for chap hop in the big 2026

[librarycards]

wild how this is a website full of people whose childhood “friends” only kept them around as irl lolcows, on-call therapists, and emotional punching bags. I’m sure this has done no damage to our collective online landscape whatsoever

[hotvampireadjacent]

https://twitter.com/birdtickler/status/1552657242909904897?s=21&t=q4JEDIALmV-cAjcoEOypdw

[littlemisspipebomb]

ok so I looked it up, and it turns out they made a track out of PVC pipes, down a hill. The owner didn't realise PVC expanded in the heat, so on a turn the track just fell apart and the dude inside went over a fucking free way and into a swamp.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

The funniest part is that the inspector was watching the whole time, and once the ball stopped he left without saying anything. Park management just shut it down then and there.

[baronfulmen]

"The ball cleared a small hill, briefly going airborne, then zipped right across Route 94, the two-lane road splitting the park. Cars honked and slammed on their brakes. If there had been opposing traffic, Frank would have become part of a real-life game of Pong, volleying from one bumper to another.

Still in pursuit, we followed the ball toward a small lake in Motor World that had been earmarked for a fleet of tiny bumper boats for children. The area wasn’t open yet, but the empty boats were being tested and floated on the surface. The ball soared over the grass and smashed into several of them, scattering the others with rippling waves from the impact, which launched some of the boats several feet in the air.

Charlie and Ken waded into the water looking for the hatch. After some difficulty, they got it open. Charlie pulled Frank out by grabbing him under his armpits like a baby. Frank crawled up the bank, coughing and sputtering. He splayed across the grass as we all stared at the ball, which bobbed in the water like it was attached to a fishing lure.

We did not ask for the inspector’s report, nor did we ever hear of one being filed. Ken Bailey returned to Canada. The snow-makers cleared away the PVC. Told to dispose of the Bailey Ball, they rolled it into the woods, where it remained for many years."

I don't know that this beats the teeth story, but it's pretty great.

[phillip-bankss]

grug dont have to change!

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[theonceandfuturetwink]

[souperluminal]

05.29 - Blue Blade

[depsidase]

[qqchurch]

[apricops]

that post about “you get bandits when you cut soldiers loose without pay” reminds me of the Thirty Years War, because one could say that beneath all the religious schisms and diplomatic jockeying, the heart of the thirty years war was “what happens when you have a state with just enough capacity to raise massive armies but without enough financial capacity to actually pay those armies” and the answer is that the line between professional armies and roving gangs of bandits disappears and every time you try to raise an army it just becomes another independently acting wildfire devouring the countryside. No matter how bad things get, every day I wake up and thank my lucky stars that I do not live in 17th century Europe. Or 17th century China. Or the 17th century Americas. Or basically anywhere in the 17th century.

[theoutcastrogue]

It's a loop, it goes round and round.

The bandit / irregular / soldier loop

The history of outlaws and assorted glorified bandits, and knights and assorted glorified warriors, has A LOT more in common than either of

[kottkrig]

I wonder how many times the average WoW player has heard the male human NPC aggro sound

[kottkrig]

truly a universal experience

[benchflip]

The human mating call is a truly majestic sound to behold.

[warcraftheritageposts]

Warcraft Heritage Post

[goodgirl-inc]

[goodgirl-inc]

nevermind post cancelled he's dead again

[zeitghost]

[socialistexan]

French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies of 'sadness' at 56

French-Iranian author and illustrator Marjane Satrapi, best known for the book and film “Persopolis”, has died of "sadness", members of her

This one hurt, her work had such a profound effect on my life, thoughts, and politics.

May her memory be a blessing

[c-53]

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[sanjipussyindulgence]

[fictionalgod]

MLP art by @onionpwder