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@Cluffalo It sucks that TikTok has weaponised this even further. Every third video is an 'entitled boomer did an unreasonable thing at my work' ragebait skit. I'm sad that we've reinvented the comedy sketch just to make people vicariously angry, and it turns out to be incredibly popular.

@CarnunMP @Aella_Girl Fully automated luxury space communism is cool, though. A world where nobody has to do uninteresting rote labour to produce survival basic necessities for society (unless they actually want to do that) seems like a good place to live! Especially since you can opt out if you want.

@Aella_Girl A command console for all physical aspects (sex included) as an inbuilt, bioengineered aspect of every human is one of the things that really stuck with me about Banks' Culture novels. I love the combination of transhumanist tech with a society that genuinely trusts its citizens.

@Schaffrillas Concerning implication that Jack Miladin is literally sending his mate Goliath to pillage Canadian border towns

"Oh yeah we just need a chase scene score for this kids' animated TV episode, nothing fancy" [Julian Nott, ascending bodily, channeling Dvořák]:

I love that Sam Vimes' attitude to his recovering alcoholism ('one is one too many') feeds into his personal morality ('if you do [bad thing] once for a good reason, you give yourself permission to keep doing it for bad reasons'). GNU Terry Pratchett, miss you

RT @dioscuri: I keep coming back to this insight.

@Schaffrillas All the Kojima fanservice characters are naturally played by Miss Piggy in progressively more impractical outfits

Does, uh, does this person expect senior establishment politicians to come out in favour of political assassination? Is the claim here that shifting the Democrat's official line to 'lol, it rules that this guy is dead' would be a net vote winner?

@mealgrrl Squelchies

@awawawhoami Yeah an alarming amount of people are revealing their wokest belief and it's basically just the exact ideology of Kira from Death Note

@tunguz USS Chicken Caesar

RT @Interrobang_2: gary larson has an incredible talent for making the dumbest nonsense really funny just by delivering it flatly https://t…

RT @Orbital_Perigee: please stop doing this shit. you’re being incredibly disrespectful to the victims of actual fucking colonialism. colon…

It feels like Disney took on board the big Lion King criticism that the photorealistic CG animals couldn't facially emote as clearly as 2D animated ones, but were also *really* committed to the photorealistic art style, so now the lions in the new movie all look Like This

@TobiasIlskov @RobertKennedyJr I admire the effort, but I suspect trying to explain the notion of 'the dose makes the poison' to a bunch of antivaxxers will be, uh, challenging

@vanillatary I can (kind of) understand refusing a treatment yourself on ideological grounds. But arguing that other people who want and genuinely need it should be denied it on those same grounds - or openly hoping it fails and harms them - seems just straightforwardly evil.

It's fun that the biopic market has become so saturated over the last decade that we've reached 'Robbie Williams but also he's a monkey' and 'what if we made Pharrell out of Lego'

RT @instonveevinder: gender essentialism in hobbies (“weird girl music” “men don’t get fiona apple” “female rage cinema”) has been a disast…