Samuel McConnell (Earthman)

Capitalism is the economic system in which everything you enjoy is eventually owned by people who hate the thing you enjoy and hate you too

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

*wistfully* Remember when Netflix was like $10 CAD a month and you could watch Star Trek, Buffy, *and* Avatar: The Last Airbender on the same streaming service

godDAMMIT

between the catastrophic PHP vuln and the intermediate cert vuln and AI models that can turn a proof of concept into a bot net in like 10mins we’re in for a wild 24 hours

This bad boy can fit so many nationalized space companies inside it you wouldn’t believe it

The same political movement is simultaneously 1. Telling us "you can't undo AI, it's here, you can't undo a technology" 2. Undoing— successfully— the most life-saving single technology in history other than boiling water www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

We've all put ourselves in a panopticon.

Rewatching House with my wife. Just finished season 3. The camera director for the season finale had a field day with this episode.

And y'all know that it begins with a several-second lift of music from Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet?

Getting grammar advice from my first grader.

Couldn't do a FFXV collab without camping.

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

Holy shit! Find of the century.

we have this but for vietnamese restaurants with the same name

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

They do this in Wichita, KS!

This is spectacular, folks. We live in a moment in American history when the president and his administration are so racist and dumb that a toy company has to put out a statement saying: "OUR GIANT ROBOT THAT TURNS INTO A TRUCK DENOUNCES RACISM AND HAS NO CONNECTION TO THE CURRENT PRESIDENT."

I don't understand why people saying "The thing we're building probably will kill us all inside of a decade" need to be our friends. They need to be imprisoned.

STAR TREK premiered on NBC on this day in 1966.

"I posted years of information and photos of my kids to the data vortex, and now the data vortex knows these things about me! How could I have known?"

I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

It took me forever to get through the post-Heavensward quests, but now that I'm into Stormblood, I have some momentum again. This shit is good. I love liberation stories. #ffxiv

do you guys see the vision

A friend recently got a stent put in related to a kidney stone removal. My brother came up with this incredibly clever and useful mnemonic for remembering the difference between urethra and ureter that I have been laughing about all afternoon.

I think it's cool that fans rallied to change the name (and were listened to). But if they'd kept the original name Constitution and made the first space worthy shuttle Enterprise, that would have made the Enterprise Constitution class...

sorry to the haters but the CORRECT order to play the series is A Short Hike Big Walk Marathon

There's a beautiful new JWST image today of the Lion Nebula, the link to which I'll drop in the second post. But something felt missing from the original image, which is why I photoshopped in this rad 1990s planar shockwave from when Praxis exploded #jobdone

I want this one as a sticker.

planet's dyin', Cloud.

Funny, I didn't realize Ditto could learn Guillotine.

Stardust Speedway from Sonic CD (8850 Cover)

remember, be careful what you post on a day like this. If you do it right, you can get illegally fired for being disrespectful to Lindsay Graham and then win a massive lawsuit about 10 months from now and retire with 2 million in your pocket

Alternately: - Open Instagram - Delete your Instagram account help.instagram.com/139886812848...

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website.

For the people saying critics of Democrats on immigration from the left don’t have an alternative, I always say “go look at the Statue of Liberty, that’s our immigration policy.”

Couldn't be prouder of the five we made, but I had at least two seasons more in me. Wanted to hit up the Delta and Gamma quadrants. One more Vindicta holodeck movie. Meet a weirdly nice leftover Weyoun, more stories with the whales and Kayshon, T'Lyn and Ensign Olly. Lots of stuff.

My Polestar 2 is the most fun I have ever had behind the wheel of a car.