Adam Bumas

A review of Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) It’s crazy; like a period of my life flashing before my eyes. It’s wonderful because it’s full of different emotions and facets. One of the big things for me is seeing so much of Linda, which is great...

The rare almost uniformly good comment section, on Paul McCartney's personal Letterboxd (yes, really)

letterboxd.com/pmccartney/f...

WAGE!
FUWY!
CAWNAGE!

THWOOD! Follow youw instincts! Aheheheheh

- Elmer Fudd 2077

Here's @bumas.bsky.social on dark woke.
www.garbageday.email/p/an-edgelor...

Discord itself isn’t helping with the misinformation. Their official announcement states the pictures used to estimate your age will “never leave the user’s device.” Despite this, after the usual exploits for faking these pictures were found, X users noticed that the platform is verifying some users’ ages with Persona. That’s a startup funded by Peter Thiel (him again!) that stores all the personal data it analyzes. Discord later said it was only using Persona partially in the UK, and they would only store the images for “up to seven days.” Which means, even in the face of all the backlash, Discord’s promise to protect their users’ identities held strong for about three days. There hasn’t been any update as prominent as the initial announcement.

Discord has already quietly broken its promise that its new age verification tools will keep your data on your device.

Here's the basics - read more behind the paywall in today's Garbage Day. www.garbageday.email/p/clavicular...

Handsome at Any Cost

Hey, @nyt-first-said.bsky.social, you've got your work cut out for you with this profile of Clavicular.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/s...

Thanks for the ping! This video gets at least one thing wrong: There ARE separate apps for TikTok outside the US on both Android and iOS. This isn't just Douyin, it's two apps both called TikTok.

Anything I say about the algorithm would be speculation, but that I know for sure.

403: Man vs. Man
404: Man vs. Nature
500: Man vs. Self

"For the good of upholding family values, men should be empowered by medical science to carry a mixed species baby to term!"

-Scott Adams (RIP) & Larry Charles

Dilbert mpreg update (thanks to @synnviks.bsky.social) - this is both Dilbert mpreg and Dilbert forcefem.

Note the bottom right cel - 1.7 million live viewers for Part 2.

Wikipedia descriptions for the last two episodes of the Dilbert animated series, where Dilbert gets pregnant.

I, for one, didn't know the short-lived Dilbert animated series ended with an mpreg two-parter.

We Were at ICE’s invasion in Minneapolis YouTube video by Panic World

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social and my reporting for this very different Panic World ep
youtu.be/8cjxGMJIAS4?...

There are plenty of other "pretty ring times" than springtime. When donuts come out of the fryer, for example

Beyond the discourse, though, it also convinced a lot more people to play the game. Data from SteamCharts shows that after the awards, the game’s concurrent player count went from a daily average of 14,000 to 45,000 within a few days. Sales estimates from SteamDB show that the week after the awards, Expedition 33 went from Steam’s 12th best-selling non-free game to number two, behind Arc Raiders. This is exactly what awards are supposed to do. Whether or not you think Expedition 33 counts as an indie game, The Game Awards are accomplishing their most basic goal of giving attention and distinction to their winners. This wasn’t always the case — from the records we can find, there wasn’t any comparable bump back when the awards were called the Spike TV VGAs.

As @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social reports from on the ground in Minneapolis, I'm holding the fort at @garbageday.email with our monthly Garbage Intelligence issue.

We have all The Game Awards numbers, including how much attention all those wins gave Clair Obscur.

www.garbageday.email/p/the-oscars...

I've spent months writing about how Bluesky's silent majority is mostly people here to draw and/or view horny cartoons. When I reported on this past week's dust-up over Isabelle from Animal Crossing, I knew I had to take a moment to mention the only contingent who emerged unscathed.

Last month, I diagnosed the problem with Bluesky as one of entrenchment. Virtually every user has migrated to the site from somewhere else. Since Bluesky prioritizes personal curation and confines algorithmic popularity to the Discover feed, it’s easy for your entire timeline to look the way you’re used to from back in the day, whether that’s Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook. And Molloy isn’t just a big Bluesky account, her posts stand astride all these communities — she’s a trans woman and prominent ex-Twitter poster who frequently writes about politics and media. The range — and rage — of the reactions to her post show what happens when all these subcultures that usually keep to themselves are forced to share the same reply section. “Old Twitter had its own pile-on dynamics, but the sheer speed of this felt different.” Molloy said. “I saw something I thought was funny and weird, posted about it, and within hours I was being called a Nazi and getting told I should die.”

@bumas.bsky.social spoke to @parkermolloy.com about the curvier Isabelle drama that's been tearing Bluesky apart all week
www.garbageday.email/p/the-sexy-a...

A bird of prey on top of a baseball foul pole.

Fowl pole

Thank you so very much to each and every one of Garbage Day’s 100,000 followers. It’s an honor and a privilege that I’m able to be so online for a living.

Trans stockbroker advising you to buy blå, sell haj

A chart titled "MrBeast Longform Video Performance, First 24 Hours (estimated)". The chart shows a decline in MrBeast's viewing figures.

We're currently offering a one-month free trial subscription to @garbageday.email's premium content!

That means that if you sign up today, you'll get to read our Garbage Intelligence report for free, including the Big Spreadsheet and - this month - a big statistical L for MrBeast.

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.

(Boston accent) Ack Raydahz

What does a consultant actually do? YouTube video by Good Work

Feet are feet are feet, and people who like that take what they can get. It's become a variably-ironic common practice online to censor bare feet online to not give up the goods, like in this @morningbrew.bsky.social video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZE0...

You're nowhere close to the first person to inadvertently show feet and suffer the consequences. DM me (or come on our show @panicworld.com) and I can fill you in you in on the sordid history.

The Weight of Water

The Shape of Water

Avatar: The Way of Water

The Chronology of Water

movies have given us so much technical information about water

Dying an influencer's death Here's your Garbage Intelligence for September 2025

Read all about it (behind the paywall) here: www.garbageday.email/p/dying-an-i...

Despite this, there’s one source of news about the shooting that’s gotten a lot of attention in September: Us, apparently. According to Graphtreon, Panic World was the fastest-growing Patreon in September for the “podcast” category, with over 1,300 new subscribers this month. Our own reckoning puts as as number 12 across the whole website — first place, of course, goes to a porn game with over 3,300 new Patrons — but we’ve never even come close to making our own lists before, so we think we’ve earned the brag.

Every month, we write about the most popular content around the internet. For the first time, I'm proud to say that we're on our own list! @panicworld.com was Patreon's fastest-growing podcast last month.

John Pork calling to the faraway towns

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