Such a great song. I love how Rachel belts. She has the best rock scream voice I have ever heard, and that’s one reason why “Wavebreaker” is one of my favorite songs I’ve found in the last year.
Chilli Beans. – School
Fun song, and the music video genre of “attractive Japanese women goofing around” is one I can certainly get behind.
Lowdrate
How are you actually supposed to end a conversation with someone you randomly run into?
This always works for me: “I have to go. Just realized I can’t remember the last time I gave my captive in the basement some water.”
Limitations
Most of the time when someone is telling you that you can’t do something and shouldn’t even try, what they are really saying, “I couldn’t do that.” It’s not actually about you. It’s about them.
Don’t let other people’s limitations be yours. If I’d listened to all the people people who told me the things I could not or should not do, I’d be dead or in a jail cell in North Florida right now.
BMP Boom
Countering the massive Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia front yesterday. https://t.co/A02QBZcoFa pic.twitter.com/2dOEUW5P9A
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) October 21, 2025
Russian ops are always so incredibly disorganized. What is even going on there? Yes, yes, it’s hard when you’re under fire. But those people simply do not know what the fuck they are doing. They are wasting so much for so little. And doing it all so very badly.
Shutdown With No Clear End Poses New Economic Threat.
Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried.
The U.S. Quietly Bails Out Its Banks.
Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents.
ChatGPT Should Make Retailers Nervous.
Nationalize the Defense Industry.
How Idealist.org Replaced a $3,000/mo Heroku Bill with a $55/mo Server.
Caved
Say what you will about the Obama Center (Templum Obamaeanum), only a few haters would deny that it is a splendid example of the late Harkonnen carceral style. pic.twitter.com/MUwibSDpqZ
— Adrian (@blagojevism) October 12, 2025
Wow that is some Dune-ass prison planet clownery. That thing is so ugly yo’ mama calls it “son.” Tapeworms recoil in disgust. Cave trolls refuse to live there.
Fail.
Sola
It’s a myth that a network admins are feral malcontents. I am a network admin and I haven’t bitten anyone in weeks. So there.
Edge Case
I’ve always been well off the beaten path politically. Though my views have changed some since then, on a forum I used to be a regular on back in the early 2000s the exact same dude around six months apart called me an “An unhinged loony leftist” and a “Prissy never-been-laid Republican conformist.” Because those sentiments were so apposite and opposite, I took a screenshot of the post but can’t find it anymore. Was probably on some CD-R that got corrupted before I had a real NAS.
There’s no tribe I am or ever will be a part of. I just can’t bend my thinking that way. I’ll always be at the edge, wrestling with the demons of complex thoughts and real-world exigencies. For me, it’s the only way to live.
Louvrely
People don’t understand the Louvre heist. No one steals anything like those thieves did thinking they can resell what was taken. It’s not like you can put that sort of loot on Ebay.
That stuff already had a buyer and was specifically targeted because that (likely) billionaire wanted it for his or her private collection. That’s the only reason to purloin items like that with no plausible secondary market.
Never Hap
I wonder how different a matchmaking event designed to make men have a good time be from one designed for women
— Misha (@drethelin) October 21, 2025
Never happen. Frankly, no one cares if men have a good time or not. Ever. Anything like this where men have a good time is seen as disgusting and unnatural, even if it’s something as simple as, “Men should not have to do all the work all the time.”
How a huge dinosaur trackway was uncovered in the UK.
Eliminating the Chinese Rare Earth Chokepoint.
Mortality in the news vs. what we usually die from.
Don’t panic about rare earths.
Scientists just cracked the mystery of why cancer immunotherapy fails.
Why five feet of building space can doom construction.
Reflexive impotence. Ever more apropos by the day.
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? Idiocracy approacheth.
Sur un petit nuage
The world might be doing poorly, but I’ve got no debt, a nice house, a big brain, the smartest and hottest girlfriend in the known universe, and muscles galore.
Yeah, yeah, things are pretty damn good.
Missing the Point
Whoa, this is moronic. Why people don’t use mass transit isn’t about crime, most of which isn’t reported anyway 1.
What causes people to avoid hopping on the bus or train is that they’ll nearly always have bug-eyed crazy demented people on there harassing and hassling anyone in sight. It’s worse for women, but nearly every time I’ve been on public transit in the US one of these sleazeballs is present too. It makes it extremely unpleasant. I don’t have any of that in my car, so my car it’ll be.
How you can just, like a fucking idiot clown, pretend this is not a factor, I have not a clue. But it tells me you’re being intellectually dishonest and disingenuous.
Mass Movement
Why do all my favorites have to get canceled? Midnight Mass was better than nearly all the other Mike Flanagan works. It was so textured and it had a frame story and was just so much fun.
And with The Peripheral being renewed and then canceled, I am truly verklempt. In that show I dearly love the scene where the protag Flynne gets annoyed that when she is not occupying it they keep her robot body in some ugly wooden crate. I don’t know what she was expecting with that.
Flynne was such a great character and one that I wish I’d gotten to see more of. However, I wouldn’t want some creepy empty body staring at me either, so I would’ve also stored her peripheral out of sight when not in use. But perhaps not in a wooden box.
To be more serious, Flynne feels it’s dehumanizing that her peripheral be stored in an ugly crate as the body she occupies is her for all intents and purposes. And that’s what makes it a great scene and setup: We can understand both her point of view and that of those who toss her empty vessel in a crate when she’s not “there.”
Two of my favorite shows, both nuked before their times.