Some parts of Australia are recommending or requiring that roofs of new buildings be light colours. Not because it heats the surrounding area (which I'm sure it does), but because it heats the building itself, making it less energy efficient (needing more frequent air-conditioning etc).
Saying "guns don't kill people" is like saying "hammers don't nail wood together"...
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
We can’t have an accurate conversation about trans identity
cisgender white men with no friends remain far and away the highest-risk demographic for mass shootings. nothing has changed about this
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You can tell he was a music video director. And I mean that in a good way.
X3, T3, 13th Warrior: yes! T3 is possibly the weakest of the whole series, but still pretty good. (The rest: haven't seen...)
"Don't overreact" Me: 🤬
I'm using it a lot for music. (Via an ad blocker, naturally.)
No new pics, where I am mentally
👇 @vicunions.bsky.social advert. Brilliant. No notes 👊💜
Telling your queer kid they can't be queer doesn't change the queerness. It just means they make community online, turn 18, and you become the abusive relic of their past who refused to love them for who they are.
Years ago, they used to let you adjust the Humble share down to 0, but they set a minimum now. Back in the day, I bought SEVERAL bundles with all payment going to charity.
Martha Wells Humblebundle in support of World Central Kitchen. Highly recommend. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
“Oh but visiting her theme park lands is fine because I grew up on the books and loved them, it’s not me saying I support her.” Once again, this awful monster sees literally everything that you do and celebrate relating to Harry Potter as support for her view points.
Slavery was bad and it’s still bad to kidnap people. So let’s stop doing that too
"You must be respectful of those who oppress you and those who enable your oppression, otherwise no one will take you seriously." Uh, no. #transrightsarehumanrights
They're totally librarian poo
Several large Pictsies, a patrol of Guards, and a couple of Golems would make short work of them.
Well, now I have...
No, you're not seeing things — that really does seem to be #DoctorWho's TARDIS in the background of this week's #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds, parked on the ship's port nacelle while inside the scavenger ship (seen in multiple shots)
*European leaders press Trump to press Putin to agree to Zelenskyy meeting
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I'm still catching up on S1. But enjoying it.
Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker. Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path. Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.
(I mean, Tool songs in general, not those two in particular)
They're probably my least favourite of Brass Against's covers.
Is it liquid cooled? 🤔
Well, it's not a SMALL business 🤷
You never heard of Tag & Bink? 😱
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
Citizens of USA - be quick! When tariffs kick in, it will be very difficult to buy my pins. Best case they increase in price by 21% & worse case I will have to stop altogether. This could be your last chance! proudscience.etsy.com
That sounds like a euphemism... 👉👌
If you're actually interested...
Audiominimumwageemployee
Kilodeth Which actually gave me a great band idea: A band that plays chiptune covers of Megadeth songs... named "Micromort"
CRT Soundsystem
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Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are. Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com : softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...
That's something, at least... Still available at other stores?
Is it an Amazon exclusive?
I'm not a massive comic fan, but I occasionally get into one. I think the last one I read was Rat Queens (which I'm a few volumes behind on...). What I love in the Star Wars comics is Tag & Bink!
Maybe some sort of... change... in the climate? 🤔 You know, like a... warming across the globe? 🤷
hear me out here, what if none of it is a 'distraction' and they're just doing a lot of horrible shit simultaneously
I'm not blaming anyone... but that second part? Me. (I've got over 1000 games at last count - most of them still unplayed. So I'm only buying something if it's a bargain, or I'm *REALLY* excited about it.)
Flours!
We're watching Sandman, and picking at all the subtext that may have hinted at NG's hidden nature. (Only one episode at a time, rather than binging it like we did with first season, because we can't tolerate more than that at once)
Most of the space Nazi costumers are lovely people who raise money for charity. REAL charity, not "legal fund to defend bigots" charity.
It's well known that Gaiman has always had his "groupies". ("Had" in more than one meaning...) But that may have been the tip of the iceberg.
Oh gosh. 😅 Videogames, books, movies, TV shows, TTRPGs, miniatures to paint... I don't know if I'd describe it as a backlog exactly, but I own boardgames I've never played, too.
Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.
I personally feel a million times safer living next to trans people who just want to live their gender than next to cis men who believe they get to control me because of mine
No cheating, post your lock screen
What are they going to do - fire him? 🤷
I played a bit of HL1 Deathmatch, when my then-employer had occasional after-hours LAN games in the training room. I started HL2: Update a few years ago, but something about the 3d set off my motion sickness.
Starfire looks shocked 😱
I (don't) see what you did there!
I have the original, from before they went down the Monopoly/FunkoPop/Munchkin route of doing every licensed version imaginable...
Probably thinks "5g" is the same as wifi 🤷
Holy shit, I agree with these weirdos on something! Fuck aspartame
"Shuttling nuclear materials back and forth" - what, you think they plan to BRING BACK the waste? I'm sure that's one of the selling points... No expensive waste storage, and no neighbours to complain if the plant starts leaking radiation.
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Conspiracy theorists all seem so unbelievably dumb that I suspect they've been planted by a shadowy and nefarious underground organization to distract us from what's really going on.
Mum used to have a set of splayds. They're the best spork-likes. Pretty sure I've still got a couple at home... Along with a couple of "buffet forks", I think they're called?
My (adult) son convinced us to watch it recently. It was better than I'd expected.
Think less Door Dash, more taco truck. You could go to a local food place & pick up something.
You look a lot younger than me. And I'm not old, so therefore you can't be! (I'm "middle aged", allegedly. Rubbish! My brain says I'm still in my twenties! Just don't remind me that's how old my son is...)
Me, explaining (most of) my hobbies to my significant other.
In general, bluesky folks are nicer. Or maybe my block lists are just working really well.
You can share block lists. Is there something they do better with starter packs?
That kid is going to die tomorrow...
Brütal Legend is free on itchio for the next 666 minutes in honor of Ozzy Osbourne buff.ly/Rj8d5tl
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I started playing Neverwinter Nights several times - bought it new back in the day, now have the EE. Got through the first or second chapter, then stopped. Went back to it later, don't remember what I was doing, may as well start over... Last year, I finished it for the first time. 😅
Same! I made my character, talked to a bunch of NPCs, "quick, we're being attacked", died in the first combat... I'll give it another go sometime.
The choices for terminator designs make so much sense now that we see the direction a.i. is going and the brains behind it. - Male gaze oriented muscle guy with heavy Austrian accent - killer cop with no remorse - Male gaze oriented blonde woman - killer border agent with no remorse
If we were more like ewoks: we'd never have to shave anything ever and being fat would be a sign that you were morally superior because you consumed fascists
I'm looking forward to it. All my friends who've seen it, loved it. But I'm unlikely to go to the cinema. I'll wait for it to come to streaming (doesn't take that long these days...)
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Some God Damn Degree of Normalcy
Such a lovely smile! (Oh, the writer & director too...)
This was the order of events: 1. Paramount acceded to Trump’s extortion by paying a bribe. 2. Stephen Colbert calls his employer out for doing that. 3. Paramount fires Stephen Colbert for being honest about Trump. 4. Proving Trump’s bribe worked.
I took one apart... But it was our old one that was either broken or no longer wanted.
