Plastictreeofdoom

Wrote this about two years ago, after the presidential election. Still correct, just call me Nostra- fucking-damus.

The effect of Ukraine blowing up Russian data centres has had on bot traffic might be overblown and may only last a day or two, but let's all of us take the time to enjoy the peace of not being instantly swamped by bots arguing with each other aiming to supercharge division

My son went to see Resident Evil yesterday, and we got into talking about the slow zombie vs fast and supernatural vs viral zombie split, and how you can clearly see an existing folklore split into two competing schools. This made me realise that 28 Days Later is the zombie protestant reformation.

My wife put on Pride & Prejudice & Zombies to watch with my daughter for a fun girls movie night. Turns out my daughter has never seen Pride & Prejudice so not only does she have no context for it, she's going to be VERY confused when she eventually sees the original.

My YouTube algorithm has decided to serve me up a ton of Nina Hagen, who I hadn't listened to before. Right now I'm putting her in the same bucket as Sleaford Mods - objectively annoying and borderline unlistenable, but there's just something compelling there that makes me enjoy it.

BREAKING: a whistleblower has just quit company wikiHow, warning that within ten years, advanced wikiHow illustrations may kill us all

getting owned by 9-year-olds at online multiplayer games?

My daughter celebrating her first three pointer in a game with a triple quarter pounder. There's a solid chance she'll end up in a meat coma.

He's off to the one place not corrupted by capitalism. RIP

LinkedIn serves exactly one useful purpose that AI slop is threatening. Just like Facebook shows which of your family are terminally gullible and Twitter shows which of your acquaintances are now Nazis, LinkedIn highlights which of your former colleagues are absolute, insufferable wankers

Was just very excited about a concert with QOTSA, Primus and Tropical Fuck Storm announced an hour or so ago. In between going to the ticket website and seeing there was pre-sales available and taking like 2 minutes to sign up an account to register, there's no more pre-sales. Fuck scalper bots.

It's baffling as to why, but a random surf club on the Sunshine Coast has one of the best executed mosaics I've ever seen... in their toilet

Let me be EXCEEDINGLY clear: the "round thing in your face" that gets you "sprung" in Baby Got Back is a woman's huge ass. I'm sick to death of seeing people on the timeline argue it's something else spherical or circular. This is the exact sort of erasure of women's huge asses Mix tried to address.

woke up this morning with the phrase, "Ork pronouns, 'e / 'em" stuck in my brain so there you all go

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

Just discovered that apparently half my engineering colleagues are listening to train noise playlists on Spotify. They're really not beating the accusations about engineers.

PDFs with 3d models in them can go fuck themselves - it's taken me hours to analyse something that should have taken like 15 minutes since they keep bricking my computer and at best take 5+ minutes to load. Acrobat is using 5.5Gb of RAM to open a 34Mb pdf. Fuck you, adobe

Ba ha ha ha

Had to catch the bus for a few days and I had more strange encounters than I've had in years. It culminated with the last bus trip. I'd been standing the whole way, and a lady who smelled overpoweringly like Listerine loud-whispered "YOUR CALVES ARE INSANE" in my ear as she was getting off

@weirdmedieval.bsky.social love the latest episode, just wanted to give you a heads up though. A few times in this and some previous episodes, the audio that normally plays in between segments (monks singing? Something like that) is missing, so there is a few occurrences of ~15 seconds of silence.

This is too goddamned catchy youtube.com/watch?v=_3Jn...

There is no McTry.

Now is the time of monsters, but even the monsters have been enshittified.

Perfect

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Just going to point at my post from a year and a bit ago, like a fat, hairy Cassandra.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

Apropos of nothing in particular, the Death Of Stalin is a great movie

@weirdmedieval.bsky.social I was having trouble trying to pin down just what I didn't like about Tostig Godwinson, then Aran brought up Erebus and it all clicked into place. Fuck Tostig!

To all actors who have played crazy tyrannical megalomaniac monarchs, I sincerely apologize that events have overtaken your parody and exaggeration. Please try harder to be unrealistic next time.

Oh god, I just realised that since the stupidest thing is always what happens these days, I would bet a small amount of money that when the US invades Greenland it will declare war on the Netherlands, because Americans are CONSTANTLY confusing it and Denmark. Is it because "Dutch" starts with a D?

Holy shit, despite being relatively well versed in nuclear history I don't know much about South Africa's program. I'd heard briefly about this guy but didn't know this part of the story, just a vague "he sabotaged it". Clever as fuck.

sauvignon bloc

I've spent the holidays relearning bass using my right hand (I used to play left handed, but my family got me an awesome right-handed 5 string without realising), and learning left handed guitar (an old, broken Magnum that I rescued from the dump), never played before. Confusing, to say the least.

Pissing off the entire world and then setting the precedent that it's cool to kidnap heads of state is certainly a choice.

Well, shit

When shopping for records as a Christmas present my wife said our oldest son's friends had been "getting him into rap, like Drake and shit". Because she's got a very odd sense of humour we're about to hear NWA blasted full volume at 7am

Nakatomi plaza is full of terrorists and yet this guy is still the worst

Yet another day where I'm getting closer to understanding where Frank Herbert was coming from with the whole Butlerian Jihad thing

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Author of the US National Security Strategy revealed...