PSA: How to make Pinterest useful for reference gathering again.

…and his nurse says “he was, but you probably just didn’t notice. don’t worry, I’m not gonna piss in his corn flakes.”

he looked at me and I just shrugged and said “yup. basically. sorry all the same.”

my dad was a Jew from NYC and was shocked by the *overt* racism he encountered in 1960s Texas.

before my dad passed, he was admitted to the hospital and during a bout of delirium he asked his nurse, a black man, if he could get my dad “the good stuff”

it was the sort of shit I remembered him saying my whole life.

anyway, my brother apologizes and says “he didn’t used to be this way…”

still really proud of this piece - I wrote it before the theft software we've been falsely calling "A.I." became ubiquitous, but I think it still outlines all the ways these ghoulish processes are an affront to the dignity of the living and the dead.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

when you see how bug nuts people get with a few thousand fake friends and no money it makes total sense why otherwise normal people go completely mad with about as many fake friends but more money than can be spent in several hundred human lifetimes

disinflation wasn’t as rapid as anyone wanted but it was a solid trend.

anyone know what happened in April?

this is why there’s an arms race between sites like YouTube and Facebook, and ad-blocker widgets and browsers like DuckDuckGo and Opera with built-in ad-blockers.

if Zuck had his way, he’d get John Roberts to declare ad-blockers and cookie deletion unconstitutional

when you click an ad, the website knows which ad from where got you there. it knows how long you stayed on the storefront, what you bought, for how much, and how often you come back

unless bots are gonna start buying shit (won’t put it past these ghouls!) the business model collapses at this point

Somebody I used to meow

Holy smokes, I made the cover of Scientific American! 😳

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I’ve played D&D for 30 years, I would happily fly on a horse.

….I don’t even want to know

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I get yelled at for going near the lathe and you’ve been practically fucking the thing for a decade

just a historical note that the YRs led the initial charge of fascists into the GOP during the 1950s

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

The Big Unit Breakfast (2000-2001): After winning the NL Cy Young award, Diamondbacks pitcher Randy "The Big Unit" Johnson received his own cereal, essentially Honey Nut Cheerios. Proceeds went to Johnson's charity, "Striking Out Homelessness" which aimed to support the unhoused

this is exactly what I pictured. minus a neckbeard. which I’m sure he shaved for this black tie event.

porn created by consenting adults - bad, immoral

porn created by ripping off unconsenting humans of all ages - fine, great even