Starris

if we're complaining about Mass Effect: it's fucked up that the guy who's in charge of all the Reapers is named Harbinger and the guy who's supposed to open the way for the other Reapers is named Sovereign

I've said it before, I've said it again: Bluesky has a disproportionate and extremely loud percentage of users who think it's morally righteous to abuse people as long as it's for a good enough cause, and an even larger percentage of users who specialize in justifying why causes are good.

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

Sometimes people want to become heroes so bad they’ll make anyone a villain.

Add incense, crystals, and dowsing rods to the Export Administration Regulations. Establish the Temporal Authority Regarding Occult Threats as a new agency under Homeland Security. Prominent mystics either get added to a DHS watchlist or recruited to staff TAROT.

Some people get into political activism not because they want to change their material circumstances for the better, but because they enjoy righteously condemning everyone who is not as morally pure and radical as they are. You cannot work with these people because they will never be satisfied.

Threads.

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Just because breaking a bunch of eggs is a key step if you're making an omelette, it doesn't follow that an omelette will always result when you break a bunch of eggs.

Extremely psyched about The Elder Scrolls VI, apparently it's going to have proper classes, arrow functions, block-scoped variables with `const` and `let`...

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

rip to those punished by the market for their rationality. but I’m different. and more rational. maybe more rational than the market

difficulty scheduling the follow-up session is also true to its inspirations

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

When the world gets you down, just remember the wonderful variety of dumplings out there...

This is a reminder that April is Procrastination Awareness Month.

Being married is easy, I don't know why people complain about it. All you have to do is ask what your partner needs, actually listen to the answer, then figure out how you're going to train a variety of woodland creatures to put ancient curses on their enemies. It's literally so simple.

Rabea Rogge, die erste deutsche Frau im All, hat einfach einen W20 mit rauf genommen. #PNPDE #Spaaace

This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society. And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.

In this era of institutional failure, it is fantastical escapism to explore a world of competent administrators who take injustice seriously. That's what a murder mystery is - a fable of social and governmental decency and efficiency. Take it or leave it.

Describe your favorite games poorly: * Nerd finds mysterious haunted trinket, uses it to play children's card games * Millennials undergo existential crisis around approaching middle age * Small rodent acquires gun, becomes hazard to society

I am going to be honest that if you aren’t sure whether or not it would be good if the fascists kill a prominent anti-fascist activist with whom you have developed an inscrutable parasocial antagonism, I really doubt the sincerity of your commitment to leftism or anti-fascism

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly: 1. The deal sucks. 2. Probably not as much as you think it does. 3. It’s good to be mad. 4. FFS, be madder at the GOP. 5. Strategy is hard. 5b. Timing matters. 6. The fight isn’t over. 7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)

yeah there is a 95% chance that each of us Finds Out via shitpost. which is why the natsec crew can either be upset about sports or cryptic but are not allowed both at the same time

Now that I'm no longer building the app at all ‒ not managing, not creating releases, not writing features ‒ I can finally ask something that's been bugging me for a while. What's javascript

My prediction is that in that scenario, he blames the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which puts out employment data. Calls them corrupt, run by Democrats, out to get him. Fires people there, insists their numbers cannot be trusted, White House puts out its own fictitious data to make Trump look good

Imagine being disappeared in one dictatorship, making it to America, and then being disappeared again

If you enjoy the SCP universe at all, or just good scifi, I highly recommend qntm's book. This was one of my favorite reads in a while.

There is one political party lining up to oppose Mamdani for blatantly bigoted reasons, and people of good conscience should vote against it at the local, state, and federal level

I told you we’d be back

AOC: The girls are fighting aren’t they

Siri, play “Bad Blood”

Curiously, my very deliberate, ponderous method of speaking truth to power seems to have left me speaking truth to the previous set of people in power, which just so happens to align me with the current set of people in power. What an odd confluence of events!

Unfortunately there are no current issues that demand courageous honesty that challenges our leaders. But if there were, you can trust I’ll be there, speaking truth to power (in two to five years).

Hey, I’m a prominent national news figure and I’m here to promote my new book, in which I tell you I’m boldly taking a contrarian point of view on an important news issue (of 2022) and standing up to powerful men (who have already retired). If only liberals would have courage like me!

A reckoning will not be postponed indefinitely.

And Palestinians

Some advice to the doom and gloom crowd who wanna speedrun straight to armed rebellion/dystopic hoarding - if I can’t trust you to show up to city council meetings and give public comment, what the fuck makes you think I’m going to trust you with a weapon at my back?