the gruel of the future—today!

tämyo kropnulaṃ skam pñintu ke ne kulypal yātlune

[crap-userrname16]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

why is chicken pot pie the only savory pie americans have? we must reintroduce the steak pie, the steak & ale pie, the steak & kidney pie,

[ukfrislandembassy]

Aye, actual British food ftw. We oughta bring tae them the good news of liver and onions while we're at it!

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

i think we have liver and onions. at like, silver diner? what we don't have is bangers & mash, or onion gravy at all

[ukfrislandembassy]

Man, babe, pet, I entirely agree with you (I even had some after dinner today) but I hope you've the real thing too?

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

we can get it at wegmans

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

coffee is not very good

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

i would like to live on the outskirts of a small city i think. but ☝️ the city has to have things. and there can't be too much traffic

[gummybearattacktheworldofdespair]

[therustyskull]

@ralfmaximus Showers that will kill you

[ralfmaximus]

Holy shit I thought this was a Sims bit or someone playing with CAD software, but the last few seconds knocked me out

[batbetbitbotbut]

@thebibliosphere I'm pretty sure you are the appropriate recipient for other people's terrifying home renovation choices

[der-unverantwortliche]

Wig

[responsibilitychan]

i found a cacik flavoured popsicle and i was expecting it 2 b sweetened like any other popsicle but its rlly not that sweet its very strange in a good way. cacik is yogurt mint and shredded cucumber its like a cold soup btw 4 those of u that dont know

[responsibilitychan]

the popsicle 👇i kinda only bought it bc it was the only green thing there and as usual everything green is good

[creekfiend]

i like "social ergonomics" bc like yeah. furniture is usually made in a way that's like "we think this is probably what is needed for a human to immediately perform any given task" and often we are wrong about what types of furniture or spaces will have a detrimental long term impact on our bodies. ergonomics ideally looks at the evidence of the impact on bodies and then works backwards from there to come up with design.

social ergonomics should mean looking at social structures and analyzing the outcomes they have re: human welfare, and then taking that information back to the design board and redesigning things to hurt people less.

this should also be a zine. someday. but that would require me being able to sit upright

[swordshapedleaves]

My partner is a game designer. He crafts experiences intended to elicit specific behaviors from thousands of strangers as his full time job. He often looks at social structures from this perspective in his free time and we talk about it a lot. and hoo boy are a lot of our systems not doing what they are officially meant to do.

[creekfiend]

i am thinking about this ALL of the time. maybe I should also be a game designer

[propelledbydisaster]

if you’re genuinely interested in game design you should check out Radiator Yang’s game The Tearoom (NSFW, unless you work at the Sucking Off Dude’s Guns factory).

I realize it’s weird to show up on someone’s post to say “you like game design. Have you played this game about giving head in a bathroom?” but it’s a really thoughtfully made game (see the artist’s statement, which is also NSFW) that is also about the effects of surveillance on communities. when, after about half an hour of play, I realized what mindset the game had deliberately cultivated in me, I had to turn off my computer and stare at the ceiling for ten minutes. and that’s Game Design, to me

[creekfiend]

oh thank you for that link to the artist's statement about this game, that was FASCINATING

[thestarpilot]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

why is chicken pot pie the only savory pie americans have? we must reintroduce the steak pie, the steak & ale pie, the steak & kidney pie,

[ukfrislandembassy]

Aye, actual British food ftw. We oughta bring tae them the good news of liver and onions while we're at it!

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

i think we have liver and onions. at like, silver diner? what we don't have is bangers & mash, or onion gravy at all

[tockthewatchdog]

[youzicha]

as an English teacher, I can attest that it is a heck of a thing to come across ["unalived"] in a student’s essay and explain, “This isn’t social media⁠—you can use the word ‘killed’”, only for the student to express discomfort with that (!), having internalized from the censorship algorithms that writing “killed” crosses a line.  I’ve also seen late Zoomers be shocked to find the word “regarded” in a reading assignment, because apparently that has become a euphemism on social media for a Word That Must Not Be Written (which itself started out as a euphemism)

Hm. Meanwhile, my kid (currently in first grade) has somehow been taught in school that "stupid" is a bad word at the same level as "fuck"—the "F-word" and the "S-word". He acts scandalized if I say it.

[discoursedrome]

a lot of these feel highly contextual, but euphemisms for killed are sort of universal, aren't they? The real issue is that saying "unalived" makes you sound like a TikTok influencer, so the teacher should set aside a class to go over the grand history of killing euphemisms and what they connote

[elancholia]

I think what's being noticed is that "kill" is being euphemized in contexts where it would not have been before and by people (or types of people) who wouldn't previously have done so

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

why is chicken pot pie the only savory pie americans have? we must reintroduce the steak pie, the steak & ale pie, the steak & kidney pie,

[tgatbc]

[kosmogrl]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

is anyone trying to make a 3d printer for clothes? you should be able to just print your own clothes. then they would fit

[vriskakinnieaynrand]