The Reports of Scrimfish Are Overstated

History, Queer Stuff, TTRPGs, Yakuza, Disco Elysium, Black Sails, John Constantine: Hellblazer. Ya know, a coherent blog. Listen to the Primary Attribute podcast I make with friends!

[imjustheretoseetheprivateblogs]

I'm rather disappointed that this website did not ever adopt "the police shall receive no sandwiches" as a shorthand for ACAB

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

original url http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/4354/

archived on 2009-04-28 08:26:02

[xxxxactly]

Brutalist maze, Seattle

[3liza]

its called Freeway Park and while it is one of the most interesting single examples of Brutalism in the united states and im proud of it, it is so poorly designed in terms of public safety that it has been renovated twice(?) but continues to be geographically troubling, as its design has facilitated a lot of murders over the years. it was the subject of a funny but gruesome article in the STranger in 2002 called Topography of Terror. the city doesnt keep official tally of how many murders or assaults have happened IN the park but two men in their 30s were stabbed nonfatally during a robbery there earlier this year, for example.

[commiemartyrshighschool]

Suspect that building mazes is perhaps not conducive to public safety, outside of minotaur isolation scenarios.

[theside-b]

[3liza]

[70sscifiart]

Taglines from science fiction covers

[morleycigarettes]

Does anyone else think it’s funny they are using “Carl Busch” instead of CSM? Not even Carl Gerhard Busch - just Carl Busch.

No one calls him that 😆

I assume they think excluding mention of cigarettes is more child-friendly. It’s just so funny.

[nudityandnerdery]

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So, there’s a post about how Bertie Wooster’s “what ho!” is a corruption of Beowulf’s “Hwaet!” And @fremedon​ and @oldshrewsburyian​ wrote up some things I decided to voice.

[alphacrone]

as a child i assumed that martha’s vineyard was a fancy private vineyard owned by martha stewart and the reason rich people vacationed there was because they were friends with martha

[findsilver]

“Well, I’ve heard of him myself, in England,” said the doctor. “But the point is, had he money?” “Money!” cried the squire.

—  Treasure Island,  Part I: The Old Buccaneer, Chapter 6: The Captain’s Papers

[mangonetics]

they should add some trench warfare mechanics to football

[sumeria]

they did this in riverdale in s5

[mangonetics]

y'all were fucking serious???

[puddox]

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

[yuriinullification]

holdon

what the fuck is going on in this site's backend

[mrsandman42069]

[catwyk]

... and PEOPLE turn into FUCKING SHRIMP

this is my submission for the @zineoftideandflesh !!! if you saw it before no you didnt!!! i may not be posting that much about it these days but if ever there were a series to make its home inside me, its the silt verses. thanks to the wonderful organizers and the talented community that make zines like this so much fun to be a part of :]

[charitydingle]

Some Like It Hot 1959, dir. Billy Wilder

[zineoftideandflesh]

The river rises!

Siblings! We have gathered here today to celebrate the finale of our most venerated Silt Verses; as the Trawlerman spoke through Jon & Muna so many years ago so he speaks through us today and orders us to deliver this gift to you: Rejoice! He asks, for we have appeased him with this offering.

(in a hushed voice he thanks everyone for their wonderful contributions. a meal this filling will last him for an entire year….. probably)

He invites you to share the table with him:

Will you take the offer?

https://zineoftideandflesh.itch.io/of-tide-and-flesh-2

[kyuubiskeeper]

[glorious-spoon]

spent forty-five minutes today helping an 87yo woman who does not own a computer or a cell phone try to set up an email account so that she could then set up a second account in order to access benefits. went with protonmail, because they don't require 2fa, but it turns out that while you can still make a protonmail account without authentication you can no longer use it to create OTHER accounts without it, and the benefits page she needed to get to required both an email and a cell phone to create an account anyway. asked if she wanted to try going in person to see if someone there could help her, and she said that she had, and they'd directed her to the website. she tried signing up with her landline, but of course that didn't work because you can't do SMS authentication that way. finally ended up writing up detailed instructions for how to log in and authenticate her account so she can drive to her severely disabled daughter's house forty minutes away because that's the only person she knows and trusts who has both a cell phone and a computer.

anyway i fucking hate mandatory 2fa and i think the people responsible for it should have to spend a year navigating their lives with no cell phone and no internet access beyond the public library pcs. fuck.

[musdswo]

this is about how it's sort of implied that they wash clothes entirely by hand on the houses (using constructs) which means camilla saw a washing machine for the first time ever on new rho