Rye Bread

I repent I had not done more mischief

[olyphant-tim]

Kirsh in ALIEN: EARTH + text posts

[prncssguya]

my thoughts on alien earth

[vampiricjester]

i hate trying to explain why i like skyrim characters to people who dont get it cause its like YEAH they look BAD. its a 15 year old game bro. they are all ugly base game. they all have the same 5 voice actors. they have 20 lines of dialogue each. but u gotta look past all of that. you gotta look at the vibes man. if theres one thing bethesda does right its the vibes. everything else is bad. but you gotta ignore that. you gotta stop letting your brain take the wheel and give your pussy a shot. she will lead you to the most depraved yearning youve ever experienced in your life.

[bdalak]

the more i talk w/ leftist friends the more i start to realize that they think culture is only defined by food or "traditional" (i.e. "ethnic") garb and nothing else

mentioned how white americans do in fact have a common culture and they genuinely thought i was joking. culture isnt something only granted to the Cool People of Color. just feels like among progressive groups there's this dichotomy created in which only the virtuous oppressed minorities have culture and anyone who is privileged some sort of void cultureless being

[pigeonsplease]

When I visited Chicago, the very first thing to weird me out from the airport was… how almost everywhere had revolving doors.

I’m Australian. Sure, we do have those doors, but the vast majority of places in Sydney are automatic sliding doors or old-fashioned manual push/pulls because we don’t need to block out the cold and wind the same way here.

So every day I experienced a culture clash with something as basic as what doors were normal for me.

Americans who say they don’t have a culture are plagued with defaultism beyond belief. Culture isn’t just made up of costumes and language and the largest stuff, it’s constructed of a billion small things you do every day that you never even consider could be different because that’s just “normal” to your daily life. No one has no culture just because they’re not adhering to the biggest markers they can consciously recognise.

[the-library-alcove]

Yes, I have these saved for exactly this reason.

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[elodieunderglass]

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

[feyburner]

I love watching someone I follow specifically for being a pretentious well-read opinionated hater fall head over ass into an incredibly smooth-brained and mid media property. I’m being dead serious I genuinely love it. Reminds us to stay humble. All the essays in the world cannot save you from becoming singlemindedly obsessed with something that’s just kind of dumb.

[thememedaddy]

[smsomah]

Uyghurs; Xinjiang, 1929. Philips Christiaan Visser

[beardedmrbean]

[tenaflyviper]

Sam Neill (1947–2026)

Rest in Peace, sir.

[weaver-z]

It's hilarious to me that Al Capone was an amazing tipper. I get why it took so long to catch him.

[weaver-z]

Me and the other caddies watching Al Capone beat a guy to death with a golf club after he gave each of us the 2022 equivalent of $1600

[pmamtraveller]

Anatoly Kuvin - Date Night

[boykavalier]

Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh in Alien: Earth

In the script it said, "KIRSH, A DRY, SASSY SYNTHETIC ENTERS THE ROOM", in caps, in pink.

[projectcatzo]

It's nice to know that in the Alien Earth timeline we managed to preserve Ice Age 4: Continental Drift until 2120

[boykavalier]

Alien: Earth SDCC 2025 | Entertainment Weekly

[bishops-severed-torso]

i like to be prepared

[computerchips]

Kirsh is SO FUNNY to me because he so clearly walked out of one of the prequels that love to dramatically explore religion and science and shit. And he's been stuck with a bunch of kids who think they're the Goonies.