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There’s not a single use of generative AI that’s worth even a fraction of the harm it causes.

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Rosario Dawson and I were born only a few days apart, though she is clearly aging better.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Look I'm sorry guys but I am 100% turning on you and siding with the gorilla. This isn't personal but I will absolutely stab you in the back.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Pope Taco IV

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Glad I came into the office today so I could hear a car alarm sounding unceasingly while trying to read. Definitely very productive time here.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

At my funeral, a screen is brought forward and a screen with an AI version of me pops up. In seconds it chugs through a lifetime of public and private statements to deliver a final statement: I’d like to thank my wife, Natalie Portman, for being there for me every time the Enterprise was in danger.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I watched The Taking of Pelham 123 recently and one of the best parts of the movie was its portrayal of the mayor of NYC, lol.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I enjoyed Thunderbolts, but they made a weird choice about Taskmaster in the first act and I can’t really puzzle out why they bothered using the character at all.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Two Big Lebowskis

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

What a bunch of fucking weirdos. That’s likely the only time in your life you have control over what they consume, and it’s actually fun.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Wilson Fisk brawling is always so weird. He just seems above all that. Calmly crushing a dude's head with his bare hands, to make an example or prove a point, sure, but any time he gets in a scrap with a super hero it feels wrong.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Astro City Volume 1, Issue 2 (1995) @kurtbusiek.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Probably going to go vote today, but none of the school board candidates look especially crazy, which is a refreshing change of pace.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Reading Crooked Cross by Sally Carson. It’s very good but oof. This was written in 1934.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Sinners (2025)

submitted 18 days ago • 53 comments

If you poke at someone complaining about mass transit enough times, you eventually get to the source of their whole deal, which is just that they had to wait in their car for 20 seconds at a train crossing.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I don't have strong opinions on the Pope, but imagine wasting any five minutes of your life in the presence of a creep like Vance, much less the last five minutes.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Sinners is great, strongly recommend.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

That’s the secret, Cap: the Silver Surfer was always hot.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I’d like to see if the kid would want to go see Garbage with me this year but it looks like standing room only and I just can’t do it anymore.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Took today off to fart around, as humans are intended to do.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

submitted 30 days ago • 374 comments

I only went for a little bit, but our local Hands Off protest had pretty good turnout!

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