The most basic, intractable fact about mental illnesses is that you simply cannot willpower your way out of them. The only exceptions to this rule are the ones I have, which continue to disable me due to lack of determination and other grave personal flaws
“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”
"This week, Pope Leo XIV presented his first papal encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which addresses the tremendous moral, spiritual, and political challenges facing the world in the age of AI. It is perhaps the single most profound document ever released by a White Sox fan. Some, to be sure, will continue to champion Mr. T’s epochal “Treat Your Mother Right,” and verily theirs is a valid perspective; the pope’s essay, however, is an at least equally astonishing piece of work."
in 2026 i am wishing for all of us the energy of bilbo baggins, who was headhunted for an extremely well paid role he had no qualifications or experience for, blagged the interview, and within his first week found a magic ring that does the job for him
We've reached the point where we're eyeing very obvious murder houses with visible splatter patterns still on the walls like, "oh, what a bargain" because it'd cost less to buy and remodel a murder house than it would to fix the ongoing issues in this house.
And like, exorcisms are free if you ask the church so....
@thebibliosphere, I think you should ask about an exorcism for the CURRENT house.
(Admittedly, my impression is most churches will have to go through a bit of an internal bureaucratic process before they actually let a priest go in with holy water and optional relics. but...)
in Wales we don’t say ‘I love you’ we say ‘nid yw'r frechdan hon yn flasus iawn’ which means ‘you are my heart and my soul’ and I think that’s beautiful
yng Nghymru dydyn ni ddim yn dweud 'rwy'n dy garu’ rydym yn dweud 'this sandwich isn’t very tasty’ sy'n golygu 'ti yw fy nghalon a fy enaid’ a dwi'n meddwl bod hynny'n brydferth
another update: Amal El -Mohtar wrote a small article on her blog (https://amalelmohtar.com/i-tried-to-title-this-post-for-twenty-minutes-and-failed/), one which contains the words “[…] and the upshot of it all is that corporate marketing people at Simon & Schuster now know the name Bigolas Dickolas.”
I know it made it up to #6 at one point. Being a pre-existing fan of both Trigun and This is How You Loose the Time War made this especially enjoyable.
LMFAOO YEAH I JUST SAW IT HIT #3 been trying to keep this post updated but didn’t want to spam, and the speed at which these things have been happening is beautifully astounding so:
trigun, following bigolas dickolas, has also become a trending topic in business and finance
Interview with Bun (or Mr. Bigolas)
Crossover art (https://twitter.com/xxrat__punkxx/status/1656446745088278529?s=20)
thread of semi-current placements on the book
memes
and the situation very much escaping online confinement xD
A significant number of hours later (and too much to summarize):
Time War summary: reached #3 on Amazon overall, #1 (and 2, And 3) in science fiction romance, #3 in lit and fiction, social media presence overseas, and-
printing with a bigolas dickolas sleeve and so much more
Bridging the two: so many articles
slate article
techcrunch article
insider article
kotaku article
Gizmodo article
tor.com
polygon
and etc
And then on the bigolas dickolas trigun side-
And then after tweeting @ dark horse for a potential trigun maximum (trimax) reprint due to the eng verison being out of print for several years by this point:
so everything can now basically be summed by by this tweet!
(I don’t know if i’ll keep updating this thread considering how many branches there are and idk how much more this can escalate, but I’m keeping an eye on the situation so we’ll see!!)
For those asking what time war is about, per Mr. Bigolas’s post: DO NOT look up anything about it. Just read it.
For those asking about trigun, it is an amazing manga, anime adaptation, and new reboot anime.
its been over a year since all this first occurred, but felt it was necessary to tack on that bigolas dickolas declined the Hugo that the infamous tweet was nominated for 😂
"Sys how is your decent into fiber arts hell going"
Glad you asked. I have arrived at 'modern flax is Bullshit compared to what we had in historical textiles, the flax widely available for handspinning is basically the tow that would be discarded from textile creation and used with tar to caulk ships back in the day'
This naturally led me down a hole of 'why is the staple length of this stuff a bullshit 6 inches' and the answer is 'we have bred modern flax more for the oil than the fiber because cotton usurped the place of everyday textile thanks to slavery and the cotton gin'
Anyway, THIS led me to a rabbit hole that culminated in me finding flax seed bred for proper 30 inch tall plants for fiber, sold by some fellow minded nerds on a website that has not been updated since 1998 and you have to email them to buy anything.
I FAILED YOU ALL here is the site. You can also buy flax fiber from them. The PROPER shit, not the hot garbage ass tow fiber sold as flax top for handspinners.
'machine combing shortens the flax fibers by several inches'
This right here is part of why modern linen is a pale shadow of historical linen. Legitimately it cannot be properly replicated by machines. It HAS to be made by human hands if you want the best quality.
OK everybody, Easter's over, Passover's over, Pascha's over. Time for some seasonally-appropriate parody of holy scripture!
(Note: it is possible that this will not make sense unless you are familiar with both the Exodus and the 2004 Red Sox season.)
The Lord said to Schilling and Francona in the clubhouse at Fenway, “You shall take some of the blood and you shall put it on the sock, to fulfill the sign of the Red Sock that the Lord has given you. And the fans shall eat hot dogs on the same night; you shall eat them boiled in water, with split-top buns and ketchup. You shall not eat any of them grilled, or fried in a pan, but boiled, with beer, pretzels and Crackerjack. You shall let none of them remain until the morning; whatever remains until the morning shall be picked up by the ballpark janitors. This is how you shall eat it: your lucky jersey on your back, your Pedro bobblehead at your side, and your remote control in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. For I will pass through Red Sox Nation that night, and I will strike down every fan who is not watching the game, both human beings and pets; but when I see the blood on the sock, I will pass over you, and no Yankee fans will mock you, when I strike the Evil Empire.
“And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this observance?’ you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice to the Baseball Gods, so they will pass over and spare us, as they did not spare our grandfathers.’”
And the Yankees won Game 3, 19-8, and the baseball writers urged the Red Sox to hasten their departure from the playoffs, for they said, “We shall all be dead.” And the Red Sox and their fans existed in great darkness all that night, and one did not come near the other all night.
And on the day of Game 4, the Yankees drew near, and in great fear the Red Sox cried out to the Lord. They said to Schilling, “What have you done to us, bringing us out of the ALDS? Is this not the very thing we told you during the regular season, ‘Let us alone and let us settle for playing the Twins’? For it would have been better for us to finish in third place than to be swept by the Yankees in the Championship Series.” But Schilling said to the Red Sox, “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that David Ortiz will accomplish for you today; for the Yankees whom you see today you shall never see again. Ortiz will hit a walkoff for you, and you have only to get him to the plate in the bottom of the inning.”
Then the Lord said to Millar, “Why do you cry out to me? Tell the Red Sox to go forward. But you lift up your bat, and stretch it out over the plate and take four balls for the team. Then I will harden the heart of Mariano Rivera so that he will try to catch Roberts stealing; and so I will gain glory for myself over Rivera, Joe Torre, and all his coaches.”
Then Dave Roberts who was behind the base moved and went in front of it. And Bill Mueller moved from the plate and took his place on second base.
Then David Ortiz stretched out his bat over the plate. And the Lord drove the ball back by a strong east wind all night, and turned the stands into a madhouse; and the Yankees were defeated. The Red Sox pitchers went through the Yankee lineup on dry ground, their pitches hitting the corners on the right and on the left. At the morning watch on the day of Game 6 the Lord looked down upon the Yankees, and threw the Yankee lineup into panic. He clogged their cleats so that they ran the bases with difficulty. The Yankees said, “Let us resort to cheap tricks like knocking the ball out of Bronson Arroyo’s glove, for the Lord is fighting for them against New York.”
Then the Lord said to Derek Lowe, “Stretch out your hand over the mound, so that your pitches may baffle the Yankees, their batters and their batting coaches.” So Lowe stretched out his hand over the mound, and at prime time the seventh game began. As the Yankees waved at Lowe’s pitches, the Lord tossed the Yankees back into the dugout. And the Red Sox walked on dry ground through the game, the Yankee outfielders watching their balls leave the park on their right and on their left.
Thus the Lord saved the Red Sox that day from the Yankees; and Boston saw the Yankees defeated in Yankee Stadium. So the fans feared the Lord and believed in the Lord and in his servant Schilling.
Then Manny and the Red Sox sang this song to the Lord: “Jeter is playing golf, but this is better.” And the fans set fire to cars on Lansdowne Street.
my notifications are once again devolving into a spirited debate about the ethics of actions that could potentially make someone uncomfortable, and at risk of sounding like someone about to get a lot of irate anons I think we're frankly giving way too to much moral weight to hypothetical discomfort
the thing about discomfort is that it's an extremely nebulous category that can be triggered by virtually anything and that's far too broad a category to have any inherent moral quality to it. like. my mom was mad uncomfortable when I stopped shaving. that didn't mean I was doing violence against my mom it just meant she needed to get over herself. many such cases it must be said.
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