I seem to have rather unexpectedly gained some new followers recently. In the spirit of managing expectations, please understand that I will disappoint you in some way, and more likely sooner than later.

I get it, man. I get it. Even more so with each passing year.

Very good insight on how monkeys think. For an encore, let’s see if you can understand how actual humans think?

Endorsed.

Silent gen: we ate dirt sandwiches during the great depression Boomers: my dad died in ww2 and I got drafted to fight in Vietnam Gen X: leaded fuel made us psychotic and we started smoking at 9 years old Millenials: my parents are divorced and im bartender with a PhD Gen Z:

My homeowner's insurance company no longer offers coverage in California. Hooray! Fuck you, @GavinNewsom / @CAgovernor.

Hey @GWOTMF, let's save the taxpayer some money. Make the memorial a single Hesco barrier under a canopy. Inscribe the names of the Americans we lost on the bricks leading to it so the Politicians and Generals viewing it can remember the names they spent 20 years walking on.

I came across something on Humble Bundle tonight that I really wanted, but the author and I cordially detest each other (he writes damn good books though) and the sponsored charity is anti-2A so I didn’t want to give them anything. Turns out there’s a slider where you can just tell the people at Humble Bundle to keep all the money for themselves. And that’s kind of cool.

Riots? I don’t think they are, mate.

Hell yeah! Thank you, Larry! See You Next Tuesday! (Perfect timing, too- I’ve got a twelver of RWB Monster in the fridge and it’s almost empty. You saved me a trip to the store!)

The last few days of watching people argue and fight and bitch about who is or is not a Christian have absolutely made me happier than ever to have no skin in that game at all. What a fuckin mess you people are. I'm sure your Jesus is super pleased with the state of affairs.

When my kid asks me what graphics were like on the PS1, I'm going to show him this picture.

Meanwhile, Grok is pissed that I'm even wasting its time with this kind of thing.

Reminds me of drag racing with warships. Lots of fun, up until the point someone gets a dead whale wrapped around the shaft...

No, no. It has nothing to do with the breed. It’s all about the owner.

Star Trek is widely accepted as the gold standard of optimistic sci-fi, and yet, at the same time it’s one of the most effective horror collections ever made… And nobody talks about it. The franchise never tells you about it, the fandom rarely discusses it, but everyone has that one episode (and oftentimes far more than just one). Trek stapled Twilight Zone weird horror to American Optimism, or perhaps vice versa, and what kept popping out the other side was abject horror in a professional setting. A nightmare of the week anthology series that we tuned into religiously because it told us everything was going to be okay, but also grotesquely weird. On the surface it’s bright uniforms, hopeful speeches, and “infinite diversity in infinite combinations.” The heroes always win at the end of the day, after all. But strip away the science, the uniforms, the ensemble cast? You get body horror, cosmic dread, psychological torture, existential terror, the slow rot of civilization. Even the bureaucracy is out to get you in true kafka-esque fashion. Trek casually touches nearly every flavor of horror there is. What looks like episodic adventure television is almost always something far more unsettling once you actually think about it. And some of it supremely dark.