I swear every dystopian tech development is like "Hey, are you OK with being this much not-a-person in our eyes? How about this much? One or two? <clicking noises> OK, how about now—one or two?" like I'm at the devil's optometry office.
third day in a row of having this song stuck in my head. what could it mean?
nothing like "preparing for IPO" to make all sorts of little things go to shit, ime
this year they reduced the company multiplier side of the bonus formula from 136% to 107% and the closest we got to a reason why was "if you read the rules we're allowed to do that at our discretion"
“Go talk to a librarian”
“No, it’s too slow.”
Who needs to think about topics or actually do research when you can ask an LLM to give you an answer plausible enough that you feel satisfied regardless of the actually truth?
(A lot of very smart people, sadly.)
silence, wastrel. To the sluggo manifolds with ye
i have been too online for too long to assume there is anything under the sun that _nobody_ finds hot tbh
so glad to hear it!
i hate that his forehead looks like groucho marx now
"i'm not too hungry, just the one halo please"
ha, no my brain just for some reason inserted the image of you leaving the appointment and the guy suddenly looking down and going ".....wait a second" (and surely someone somewhere is into that, takes all kinds)
their Toronto gig the same year was fantastic tbh
why does the phrasing here make me think you're going to be playing the equivalent of "got your nose"
i was there, and i do love it, but i still prefer The Menace
choosing to believe this was just one hell of a called shot
“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
I sometimes worry that too many people think being a good critic means being a self-righteous dick about every little thing and I think far too many miss the point that you can't critique anything if you don't know how to love something.
there's a reason that both here and tumblr something breaking containment is considered a curséd event
there's gonna be a fiiiiiiiiight
in the mall book store close to my university, they used to put her books in the "philosophy" section and it made me so mad. apologies to all the staff who made to move the books back when they found them again
a number of people on this website are only a few steps away from veering into this territory, make sure it isn’t you
An adorable raccoon.
also no disrespect to "Closing Time," but Dan Wilson being there and Low not being there feels like it was designed to upset me
how the fuck do you exclude Bamford
sigh. there's SO MUCH in there! we only had four hours, there was a whole building we didn't even get to!
I am glad when a friend and I visited last year we avoided doing almost all the basic stuff (except the big art museum, we obviously went there)
had not been following managerial stuff, glad to see we nabbed @nonoxcol.bsky.social that's a big get for us. we've got the talent, we've got the leadership, i think we can go deep this year.
