Year: 2025
Log 84
How modern logos would look like in ’84.
Cool, but some of these fonts were not around in 1984 and regarding the Discord logo, there were absolutely no game controllers that looked like that in ’84. That would’ve been a joystick like this:
Pawddammit
I watched The Monkey earlier.
Good grief, what the fuck was that? Did they try to make a French surrealist film in American horror movie form? Consistent tone? Consistent anything? Who needs that? It was like a Twilight Zone episode blended with Evil Dead II combined with Top Secret.
I have no idea what to make of that film. It made me laugh a few times. It made me cringe a few. I have not the first clue what the filmmakers were trying to achieve there. It feels like a story told around a campfire except by someone mildly drunk, but you never see the fire nor the raconteur.
All I can say about it is that I don’t feel like it was a waste of time to watch it, but I also can’t really recommend it to anyone else. Its rating is “what in the hell.”
Toolbarrow
Here’s all the icons on my Mac Finder toolbar of the various little apps I wrote myself:
I like ’em.
Wealthy Americans Have Death Rates On Par With Poor Europeans.
Tariffs threaten to upend markets American farmers depend on.
The American Age Is Over. Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide. Such an odd way for it to all end. And stupid.
First OA-1K Skyraider II Handed Over To Air Force Special Operations Command. Cool plane. Not sure how useful it is anymore.
Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy. This is our Brexit.
America’s astonishing act of self-harm.
Bucking Trump tariffs, California will push to maintain global trade independently, Newsom says. Good. There’s a reason we moved here.
Vax Smax
Who knew that a movement who literally killed themselves to prove they didn't need modern vaccines would literally kill the economy to prove they didn't need modern standards of living
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) April 4, 2025
The stupidity, it burns.
Mega-kablooey
Tank crew of the @azov_media shoots at the Russian BTR-82 with direct fire from close range. https://t.co/Wt0bfZBz5k pic.twitter.com/vN599InKuI
— Special Kherson Cat
(@bayraktar_1love) April 4, 2025
Great goddamn. It’s not often that you see direct fire like that from such close range on an armored vehicle. At least it was an instant death for whoever was in that BTR-82.
That looks like a T-72 the Ukrainians have. Not sure of the variant. Can’t see enough.
Jurassic Snark
most people know that having some list of reqs is ultimately silly, but what’s interesting is that the list is so often “myself, but not beholden to reality”
implicitly, people forgive themselves for being so beholden, but not others!
— Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) April 1, 2025
That’s actually a novel and accurate observation.
It’s why I require that all my partners can fly unaided and can fight two full-grown T. Rexes at once.
Dec
Of new music, I now listen to more songs in non-English than English. There’s just more good music in Spanish, French, German and other languages than there is in English.
The signs of decline are exhibiting everywhere.
Miss Pax
The age of America is ending. We’ve somehow managed to strangle ourselves with no outside assistance.
The world that’s coming will be much more dangerous and worse. The evil degrowthers will cheer, though China, India and now Europe will be ramping up emissions more than the US ever would have, so it’ll be a net loss even there. The wake of our decline will stir into motion much war, much death, and probably a nuclear exchange or two before it’s done.
I never thought it’d all wrap up like this, in a pathetic suicide. But perhaps that’s the only way it could’ve concluded.
Joaquina – quise quererte
Un par de canciones de Joaquina me gustan un montón. Este video también está bien chido.
Meal Ran
Loser.
Any vehicle that I drive becomes a “real man’s” vehicle, even a pink convertible VW Golf. My scintillating aura spreads awesomeness over the entire vicinity.
It’s a thing.
Efficient light control: Meta-optics replace conventional lenses.
More Americans Can’t Afford Medical Care, Poll Finds.
The Slow Collapse of Critical Thinking in OSINT due to AI.
Worse Than McCarthyism: Universities in the Age of Trump.
Trump just imposed the largest tax hike since 1942 without congressional approval.
Trump tariff price hikes could start with clothing, cars and coffee. Prices are already increasing.
Right Change
It’s one of the best reasons to change
If two people are deeply in love how can they not change each other https://t.co/y1jUDmDYEp
— Simon Sarris (@simonsarris) April 2, 2025
That is true. My partner is the only one I allow to change me, because I adore and respect her. I trust her judgment and value her thoughts. If she didn’t change me and vice versa, we wouldn’t be doing it right.
For instance, she’s made me much calmer as a person and I’ve turned her into quite the little smart-ass.
Dep Derp
I expect recession in 3-4 months, depression in 6-9 months.
All because of the current administration.