theBSDude

he/they, 30. Icon by askthederpvengers. I queue everything. TheBSDude, or "Thebes," is a cat-lover, audiophile, and grammar-enthusiast from the American NW. They're a multi-shipper that dips into multiple fandoms, but has particular love for Worm and rpg podcasts. Tags: friends at the table; worm, ward, parahumans; Thebes reblogs Korra; rwby. Spoiler Tags: worm spoilers, ward spoilers, rwby9

[targetedknowledge]

[alex-and-nova420]

made this into a gif bc i liked it so much. shark Denied

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

"Be about your business lil creachur"

"I shall shark elsewhere"

[podcastwizard]

one of my small joys working in customer service is reading out someone’s joke spam email in a very loud and professional voice over the phone. “i’m going to send you an email, it looks like the address we have on file is HOT PANTS DADDY SIXTY NINE at yahoo.com. is that correct?”

and always get a “sigh…yeah.”

[agnosticblowjob]

one time when i worked at a hotel i noticed that there was a reservation that day under the name Sweet Booty and me and my coworkers giggled about it. and then hours later some guy is trying to check in and we can’t find his reservation and he’s like “well my gf made the reservation, lemme call her” and he put her on speakerphone so she could read out the confirmation number and i was absolutely thrilled to ask “is it the reservation for Sweet Booty?”

[shimejikin]

you just know once the AI boom is over every corperation is going to be ovsessed with the idea of "no AI used at any point!!!" as a marketing technique to try and sell to an anti ai market, and you know its going to work on a Lot of people. disneys gonna come out with a new movie after the AI bubble pops like "and NO AI WAS USED unlike xyz competitor because we are a brand that VALUES true human work" and they're going to hook a LOT of people like that.

[shimejikin]

they're gonna "new coke vs coke original taste" this bitch and i just know it.

[crowboy-bebop]

mysterious stick appears out of thin air............

(hellgate osprey livestream)

[pitchburgh]

saw someone trying to roast this guy on reddit but all the comments were just like "fuck off, that's based"

nature is healing

[augustdementhe]

FUCK YEAH.

[homunculus-argument]

Randomly remembered seeing this random old black and white photo from like the 50s, pretty sure it was from Sweden. A picture from a morgue, of a tall blond man in some kind of an uniform approaching another man standing beside an opened coffin, clutching something to his chest while looking at the approaching man with a look of wary insult on his face. The caption explained that this was an incident of a police officer stopping a man from putting a bottle of beer in his father's coffin (his own father, not the cop's father) because for some reason doing that was against Sweden's burial laws.

I don't remember the details but I recall how the guy had the looks of a rough life written all over him, ragged clothes in contrast to the police officer's pristine uniform - though obscured by motion blur as he was rapidly approaching with hateful intent - and the much finer burial clothes of the deceased. A small, skinny man with black hair, holding onto the bottle that's about to be confiscated like it's something precious to him.

I felt like something wasn't adding up and went to the comments to see if there was additional context that was missing from all this, and there was: The son and the father were Romani, and at least at the time it was still very much a tradition in Swedish Romani culture to bury the dead with little gifts - not necessarily extravagant or expensive, but things that the lost loved one would have liked.

This wasn't about a mourning son being stopped from playfully paying his respects in a way that someone else thought indignified. This was about a man being prohibited from performing his own peoples' funeral rites.

[vvlpecvlae]

Had to go find the photo, it's indeed Swedish. Taken by Åke Borglund and photo of the year 1958, apparently.

Source: https://digitaltmuseum.se/021016531349/arets-bild-1958-tagen-i-stillhetens-kapell-tid-uppstandelsens-kapell-i

[homunculus-argument]

Holy fuck you found it.

I misremembered, it wasn't a morgue, those are empty church pews.

[vvlpecvlae]

After finding and posting the photo above, I did some more research and found out where it was originally published. Long story short, I now own a 1958 issue of Se, which was a Swedish magazine for photojournalism, inspired by Life and other similar publications.

The photo comes from an article on a Swedish Romani funeral in Karlstad (a city 300 km west of Stockholm). The text is pretty exoticising and othering, I won't bother translating the whole thing. But I will relay the most interesting information.

First of all, the deceased man is Josef Dimetri (1903-1958), who was a Romani chief. From what I can tell from the Swedish censuses, he left behind a wife and six children, ages 18-31.

Which means that the photo is a bit deceptive on its own - the chapel is still empty there, but the article states it was taken shortly before the rest of the guests arrived. Because there were plenty of guests - and there are more photos of them!

The article doesn't explain why the police was there, but it says they had to step in and break off some fighting and arguments that broke out between guests, which is more likely what they were there for (rather than just inspecting bottles). They can also be seen talking to spectators in the last photo, so staving off curious or hostile people might also have been a reason.

And most important, perhaps: While the policeman did try to stop him from leaving the bottle, the son shook him off and protested that "he needs it, he needs it", and "the tactful policeman" (as the article calls him) did not insist further. So it seems Josef Dimetri was in fact laid to rest with his bottle of beer.

[foone]

well we've got good news and bad news

the good news is that it turns out orgone energy exists, and can be generated by humans, meaning we can break the laws of thermodynamics and reverse entropy!

the bad news is that, thanks to last night's t4t orgy, your girlfriend has turned into a Kugelblitz.

yeah, she's a black hole now. Whoops. But hey, science was greatly advanced by her sacrifice, and we know for a fact she went out on a high note. Like, it's literally not physically possible for a human to orgasm any harder than she did (because of the collapsing into a black hole thing)

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

by はんくり/hungry_clicker@click_burgundy

[anarchistmemedistro]

[coolishfoolishness]

Or we could just accept that lying is the right thing to do sometimes actually, instead of making weird, backwards loopholes to convince ourselves we're telling the truth

[lilith-hazel-mathematics]

[magicalastronomies]

yanks launder their racism and xenophobia about other countries by putting them into the categories of either "wacky" or "shithole"

[magicalastronomies]

japan? wacky. russia? shithole. brasil? wacky. despite being presented as shithole, they actually think mexico is wacky

[heathcliffbot]

03/14/2025

[hymneminium]

[hymneminium]

This one decomposes very cleanly. There’s the base premise, “Heathcliff is using the exercise ball”. This is a little funny because cats normally don’t use the exercise ball but that’s not enough for a joke so the exercise ball needs to be made funny. One joke is to make the ball big, which is funny because Heathcliff is small and because cats usually don’t own large objects. Another joke is to put Heathcliff at rest on top of someone’s head, which is a recurring gag in the comic, and put him on the ball at the same time.

The base premise has a stock phrase attached, “The ball works his core.” Someone needs to say the stock phrase to a visitor.

So for the ball on head gag you put him on top of Grandpa Nutmeg’s head or on top of Grandma Nutmeg’s head. And for the big ball gag you have Grandpa Nutmeg explain it or Grandma Nutmeg explain it. This fills out a 2×2 table and gives us the four comics above.

Notice that there’s at least one year between each of these comics, and that the oldest one is from 2016. The series is nine years in the making. These are the only comics so far with this caption.

Maybe 1+ year from now we’ll get a fifth comic in the series. Iggy (the little kid) could say “The ball works his core.” to explain why Heathcliff is using the big ball. I don’t think Heathcliff would rest on top of his head though, he only does that with Grandpa and Grandma Nutmeg.

[heathcliff-semiotics]

@hymneminium your flock calls upon you for your wisdom

[hymneminium]

The comic arrived 14 months after the last one. I predicted “1+ year”. That was a lower bound. The median delay is 3 years.

(Disclaimer: this data is biased by reruns and right-censoring.)

I predicted Iggy would show up. He did not. On careful consideration I don’t think he could have. He doesn’t fit the caption. Iggy is whimsy-neutral: he describes wacky events impartially. Grandpa and Grandma Heathcliff are whimsy-mitigators: they comment on ordinary elements to downplay the overall wackiness. Compare:

“The ball works his core” is whimsy-mitigating. It’s funny that the speaker only explains which muscles the ball exercises and ignores Heathcliff’s species and the ball’s size.

To break out of the 2×2 matrix above you need to either come up with a third joke (tricky) or apply one of the existing jokes to a different character.

You can’t do the ball-on-head version with another character. Grandpa and Grandma Nutmeg are used up, Iggy isn’t suitable (I called this), and neither is anyone outside the Nutmeg household. Cats are known to rest on heads, the ball-on-head is exaggerated cat behavior, but they do this with people they trust. So it has to be the big ball version.

The joke has to take place in a location where people exercise. The speaker has to be familiar with Heathcliff’s routine. The obvious setting other than the Nutmeg household is a gym and the obvious speaker other than the Nutmegs is a gym employee.

The “Mid City Gym” location was used in a few comics in 2003, then resurrected starting in 2023. Same interior, same uniform.

A careful reader could have predicted today’s comic. (I’m not there yet.)

[thememedaddy]

[apricops]

at first the anti-AI outrage was merely annoying but the more I see people retreating to positions like "parents should have more authority to surveil their kids" or "more electrical/internet infrastructure is bad, Not In My Back Yard!" the more I'm worried that kneejerk anti-AI sentiment will be a great new way to trick casual leftists into accidentally becoming conservatives.

[charlesoberonn]

For the last time, everyone: Redshirts aren't actually incompetent, its the opposite. Theyre meant to die in order to demonstrate what a threat the villain is.

The joke was never that they were incompetent. It was that they were disposable. Usually due to bad luck more than anything.

[richardsphere]

[ankle-beez]

[orphanedsource]

I drew these for maid day, but I’ve always suggested a new element to goruope if you don’t mind considering it

[ot3]

guys as much as I believe ai will never in a million years reach the kind of ubiquity its snake oil salesmen want us to believe it will, it will not be going down in history alongside NFTs and the metaverse as a complete embarrassing failure in the same way and you're probably setting yourself up for disappointment waiting for it to happen. because the thing about NFTs and the metaverse is they were literally just rebrands of worse versions of stuff that already existed but, regardless of how you feel about what it does, gen ai actually Does do something. even if you don't want it to be it was a legitimate technical breakthrough. unlike "what if adoptables were on the blockchain" or "what if second life was shovelware"