OK after brainstorming while rowing I think the answer of "what should I give up for lent" is a definitive "Bluesky and dating apps" because I have been converging on the latter as my primary evil stim and the former is a huge amount of screen time I don't need. See y'all in 40 lol
In some ways it feels like the last gasp of a dead vision of the internet and gaming culture. The best version of the Newgrounds Flash Game, but fundamentally a work that doesn't believe in anything. Lies in stark contrast to the incisive parody of Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator, e.g.
I will say despite this that like, a pre-gg-era one of these honestly hits different. I'm having a great time despite the aesthetic friction and honestly wondering how much of that friction I've gotten too used to avoiding in modern design... The grossness helps me take breaks more often too lol
a bunch of kuu-sama interact with the public. bystander: "what are these things? they seem pretty cool." kuu-sama: "is something troubling you? don't worry. i understand."
people are surrounded by and embracing kuu-sama "see? they are, indeed, friendly and gentle creatures that listen to all of our problems."
among the gaggle of other civic issues that Insight covers with a prescient sharpness, it's extra unbelievable that it has the called shot of ai chatbots, both in function and extent/speed of proliferation
My kingdom for a review of Mewgenics that earnestly and directly grapples with it as a "pre-gamergate aesthetic" game in perhaps the most consequentially post-gg environment imaginable. It's not just "gross-out humor" at this point, yeah? Like that surely isn't the extent of our analysis?
latest Never Post is great on adult performers in the parasocial age and what you're "selling." I don't think it's as historically novel as sometimes implied, but very helpful listening to interview subjects talk through it from the perspective of creators/industry.
www.neverpo.st/pornhub-goes...
People saying "kek" in 2026 like. What happened. Who hurt you.
always a weird feeling nowadays seeing someone very clearly come from the like 00's South Park "I'm apolitical" but it's the 2020's
it's not like, nostalgia, but probably my being too online means it often feels like encountering a, like, galapagos bird unfit to survive in most of the world
I did check tho there is an audiobook but it's so long but I might try
I can't even read the books I *like* how am I gonna reread my least fav of all time 😭😭😭
This fucking Wuthering Heights ad on KQED telling me it's the "greatest love story of all time" and just remembering how much I crashed out having to read it in highschool because I hated every single character in the book so so much
"But I do think culturally we are back to brunch."
This month in Dialogue, @austinwalker.bsky.social goes long on craft, industry, and doing the work.
I am working hard every single day to become photosynthetic. I truly think this could fix me.
The Super Mario 64 Health Meter at full, blue as a toilet tank with that corrosive cleaner added that you really shouldn't use cause it will wear down the seals in there
Not if you're a plumber baybeee
Oh hell yeah, definitely gonna grab this
I tried 10 minutes of trying to make a "Lacan Deez nuts" joke come together but then I check this guy's page and he just has a section called "phallus"
Big mood fwiw. Literally been journaling about this a lot lately. Weirdly has been helpful to suddenly see more clearly how much this is just like.... Human condition type shit.
I have a bold new proposal for a Nature commentary piece positing that the assumption that AI has hit "human" intelligence reflects not amazing advances in technology, but a rapid degradation of cognitive capacity within tech and finance as a profession
Already embarrassed I've kept Crunchyroll as long as I have but they just emailed me that the cost is going UP by $30/year like. Bro. Your service has gotten worse over time! Wdym it's going up in price? Fuck outta here
Using the Uma Musume global Team Trials Rank 6 cutoff score as a recession indicator because the only thing that could drive it this high is record unemployment
Using humor to cope with how much money and influence just absolutely inevitably corrupts all people in the worst ways imaginable
Literally just having angry posted about how relevant Manufacturing Consent is after the Venezuela bs and then seeing the emails with Chomsky and it's like. Man. Is this why people smoke? This is one of those moments where I feel like I should have a cigarette and stare off into the distance
Holy shit I actually hit 1000k on my first year of rowing, that's pretty significant given that I basically did all of this because NL kept telling me to on his streams
Blue tua, skeet on that thing!
I've been wishing a pox on all conservatives for decades now but seeing them welcome it in with open arms to the peril of us all is something else entirely. No human imagining of eternal torment will suffice for those who have dragged us here.
oopsie doodles your actions have blinded your toddler and killed his baby cousin. a perfectly avoidable situation but you did your own research. sure you directly killed one baby and maimed your own but you're a good person. a superspreader? countless deaths? not your fault. a good person
The greatest anime you've never watched: the girl reading this
Fate/Strange Fake has actually been very good so far. Exceeding expectations.
The insult here isn't that I think everyone should know these things, it's understanding that these companies pay people more than God to live in the Bay area and yet the culture created is so... ineffably shallow. The veneer of being smart enough to earn the financial inequality.
