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Made a good sign to tap, feel free to steal:

dumb idea: The Backrooms as a housing development scheme. Think of the density! The ultimate in suburban infill!

taken from a Discord with permission: "The police try to pull me over in my Tesla roadster. I press the jump-jet button to make my daring escape. A cloud of dust gets kicked up around me. When it clears, I am lying dead in a twisted pile of metal. They ticket me anyway."

this is what makes me optimistic that the next Dem admin doesn't just become immediately mired in Malaise, because Trump has left us in the rare position of having a few "make life easier and prices cheaper" levers to pull.

On Discord today: "Shrek 2 is about lookism. Shrek 3 is about medieval succession rites when the king is a toad and the princess abdicated by marrying a monster."

[carefully crafting a letter to the deans explaining that the entirety of history from 5000BCE to 1945 is still worth hiring ~1.5 professors to teach about because actually it laid a lot of the intellectual and practical groundwork for the compressed air thrusters that have transformed our world]

My crackpot Sopranos Ending Scene theory: it was a broadcast glitch and HBO was so embarrassed over it that they NDA'd everyone to secrecy and forced a retcon.

Adding to this by saying that had Trump fizzled out as a joke candidacy in 2015, the legacy of the '16 election would be "what in god's name were Dems thinking by clearing the decks for Clinton?". I think the WI-MI-PA loss that cycle was baked in due to NAFTA bad blood.

youtu.be/XV1XOhH5nXk - new video talking about the demons in Frieren, alignment charts in fantasy vis-a-vis race, and the completely different set of speculative fiction that the demons are really inspired by.

I think I'm just wired differently, but so many activists seem to think that the challenge is "getting the message out there" rather than "cutting through the noise, avoiding being ignorable".

Stole this meme in 2022

The accurate statement of Trump's "acumen" is that he nearly bungled two elections that should've been layups and that a different Republican could have won 2020 (that was the phase where most world leaders were seeing a boost rather than the late-pandemic era).

Three websites. (1) Millennial poasters who left old Twitter and bounced off Mastodon; (2) MSNBC retirees graduating from Facebook; (3) Brazilians

I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!

Gonna start running Polymarket bets on "where did my Roomba get stuck this time?" (today was new, wedged between a cabinet and the patio door).

imagine a man who is cleaner than clean, before whom Mr. Clean himself would weep with jealousy.

Sony Computer Entertainment Japan headquarters, ~ 2015 "What is your pitch, Mr. Kojima?" "Naked. Norman. Reedus."

It's not impossible this or that Democratic politician won't throw trans people under the bus. But the fact you all were screaming that the actual literal transsexual in Congress was three Ronald Reagans in a trenchcoat makes it all background noise after a point, so I'll just get mad if it happens.

we actually have to destroy the alt-health industry in its entirety, much like we also need to destroy car dealerships

I heard this was a yuri anime but they didn't need to be this blatant about it (Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games)

This week on "Do Explain the Joke:" Old Tom, Real Old Tom, Dead Tom explain how meeting the audience's expectations can be just as good as subverting them.

Lowkey "Strategic Bombing Works" is the worst myth to come out of WWII.

On Friday We Dance

DC Elseworlds where Superman was named after the Soulja Boy song and not the other way around.