Moose Jolly Holcomb

All I really want is a life full of side-quests.

my bandmate is a tattooer and i literally cannot count how many stories he has told me about having to talk customers out of an idea because of how it will be perceived — not just nazi shit, but any ill-considered idea in general. it's a service-based business!

Yeah like the thing is maybe he picked it off the wall, but a wall that is hanging up a Totenkopf as an example of a tattoo you can get definitely has some other pretty unambiguous examples on that wall too. Like it’s the sort of thing that hangs between a parteiadler and a variety of SS bolts.

This is making the rounds again, and I was amused to reread the thread and see that it was shortly before our book came out. Lots has happened in the past 10 months, but the message of this thread still holds.

Hiya! Anyone in the SF Bay Area/Remote need a cool programmer for your team? I've been messing with computers for over 30 years now, I can program anything with bits, and I've got a lot of experience with all sorts of different systems, environments, and languages.
wiki.averlong.com/My_Resume

this whole thing is incredibly insulting to everyone's intelligence, but i'll say, from experience, that if you get a tattoo which might have even the slightest hint of a hidden meaning, every rando who thinks they know anything about tattoos is going to mention something to you about it

Every day I understand more and more how this costume was fooling people

REGINALD: Hello, 911? Yes, my friend put on the mask from The Mask and now he's acting abnormally. BEARTATO (green): "I'M SSSSSMOKING!" REGINALD: Green, yeah. Real cartoony. Yeah, he's saying all the lines but he's not getting them right. BEARTATO (spinning in a tornado): "SOMEBODY PLEASE STOP ME!" REGINALD: I see. And that's the only solution? Mm hmm. No, I understand. Thank you. BEARTATO (hitting self with large mallet): "OH, BEHAVE!" REGINALD (shedding a tear while loading a shotgun) BEARTATO (dreamworks face): "DO *NOT* GO IN THERE!"

What a good movie that was. I wonder if they ever made a sequel.

lmao they're going to just announce Iran has unconditionally surrendered in a few days and have the lapdog press run it from there

In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.

Iran: look, it's simple. We literally just paint the silhouette of a plane on the ground. We literally just nail together some boxes in the shape of a tank. We literally just pull looney tunes shit. Their AI will make them spend $100 million to destroy $5 of arts and crafts.

the US: grok is this

They know that many people in the US will accept the killing of civilians overseas but will draw the line at high gas prices.

The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???

Killing people should not be something we do quicker than the speed of thought

the president’s stenographers are mad! but they said to please not put it in the paper (bluesky) that they are mad

he's also going to visit a highly glassy tech company office in Bangalore filled with the least happy people you ever saw who hate the office hate the city and hate their life and then he'll call it progress

The single most important thing a man can do to be an ally is give his woman friends permission to give dudes at the bar his number so when they call he can angrily say that's not funny because she died 15 years ago that very night

Happy Friday! 👻

white supremacy.

As I get older I’m coming to increasingly radical views like “eradicating peoples jobs is bad, actually” and “a necessary part of having skills is taking responsibility for the outcomes of those skills”

Hand-drawn picture of a boss from Gradius II, Famicom.

Hand-drawn picture of a boss from Gradius II, Famicom.

Hand-drawn picture of a boss from Gradius II, Famicom.

Hand-drawn picture of a boss from Gradius II, Famicom.

Just look at these illustrations of the bosses of Gradius II for the Famicom, from a guide in Beep magazine. How delighful, especially those mini moai.

This post made Chekov's Gun drool.

Pavlov's Dog - if you see a dog in act 1, it has to explode in act 3.

the woman who makes the bongs you see in cornershop windows YouTube video by Eleanor Morton

Woman who makes the bongs you get in corner shops
youtube.com/shorts/-SoFn...

Target is in a death spiral of their own making

Wars are extremely hard things to justify. It is intrinsic to what they are that they tend to death, destruction, and misery. Given this and some knowledge of history, one's default attitude towards powerful people purporting to do the world some great benefit by war should be extreme scepticism.

It's Rygel from Farscape. Hi Rygel.

thinking about him

Inspired by #QuitGPT, please join me for what is already the largest boycott of anything in history of all humanity: the #QuitCoke campaign

Already, fifteen million people have considered the thought of signing a pledge to #QuitCoke

Here's a video, with some discussion of alternatives to consider!

An ovoid robot with long, jointed limbs, pointing proudly at a wedge of Swiss cheese lying on the ground.

470) Dairybot. For vegans or the lactose intolerant, identifies food that contains dairy. Like this...uh...piece of cheese. Yes, well done, Dairybot. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Currently enjoying thinking of the macarena, but instead of "macarena" it's "brontosaurus". Obviously the dance involves your arms and hands being brontosaurus necks and heads, and you open your hands on "ay, brontosaurus" so it looks like they're shouting.

Stylized digital illustration of Mulder and Scully from the X Files turning to look at camera at something, flashlights in hand. A UFO is flying by overhead, highlighted by an X in the sky. There are other X shape motifs in the shape of the flashlight beams nd the tree bark.

Do you want to believe?

Guess who's been rewatching the X Files~