Christina Holland
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Firebase JS at Google, wrote for Cracked. Blog posts, stories, and art at mortalwombat.info
Regardless of why he posted a link to the Odyssey or whether you can contort the Iliad to be about "fighting for princesses," like... that's how those edgy writers claiming their edgy new fantasy book isn't your grandmother's fantasy disparage the rest of the fantasy genre, which they haven't read
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Regardless of why he posted a link to the Odyssey or whether you can contort the Iliad to be about "fighting for princesses," like... that's how those edgy writers claiming their edgy new fantasy book isn't your grandmother's fantasy disparage the rest of the fantasy genre, which they haven't read
I just went to the Computer History Museum website because, well, that's not important, but I learned that on this day in history in 1983, Microsoft announced Windows. Which rolled out in 1985. Happy birthday to premature software announcements www.computerhistory.org/tdih/
What Happened Today, November 10th | This Day in History | Computer History Museum
www.computerhistory.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I just went to the Computer History Museum website because, well, that's not important, but I learned that on this day in history in 1983, Microsoft announced Windows. Which rolled out in 1985. Happy birthday to premature software announcements www.computerhistory.org/tdih/
This is actually a higher level of ignorance than Insane Clown Posse who merely didn't know how they worked
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is actually a higher level of ignorance than Insane Clown Posse who merely didn't know how they worked
So she's not going to participate in her own movement?
meanwhile, the fiume avant-garde lady of the NYC New Right thinks Mamdani is going to cause an artistic revolution for reactionaries
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
So she's not going to participate in her own movement?
Ok, so here's the thing
November 10, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ok, so here's the thing
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JCO: this shithead has never seen a movie and also he has a broken dick that doesn’t work
Elon: I have seen a movie
Elon: I have seen a movie
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
JCO: this shithead has never seen a movie and also he has a broken dick that doesn’t work
Elon: I have seen a movie
Elon: I have seen a movie
The Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous game has one of the worst game UIs I have ever encountered. I'm on my second playthrough
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous game has one of the worst game UIs I have ever encountered. I'm on my second playthrough
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the worst person you know just made three points
November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
the worst person you know just made three points
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Counterpoint: Foundation
books have no tech tree, no fog of war
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Counterpoint: Foundation
He's really proving her point in that this isn't about him having personally enjoyed the books, it's (1) books that make you sound smart or show everyone that you were right and (2) it's a service that summarizes books so you don't have to read them
November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
He's really proving her point in that this isn't about him having personally enjoyed the books, it's (1) books that make you sound smart or show everyone that you were right and (2) it's a service that summarizes books so you don't have to read them
It's interesting because as the article notes, Hertz is trying to purge its Tesla stock, and anecdotally a co-worker came out on business travel a while back and griped about how the rental agency foisted a Tesla on him that he didn't want and couldn't find a place to charge
Tesla's latest gambit: become a rental car company. As cars pile up in showrooms and storage lots, Elon is trying to rent his way out of a crisis. Good luck, bud. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall electrek.co/2025/11/10/t...
Tesla can’t sell its cars anymore so it is renting them now
Tesla is launching a new car rental program out of its stores in the US, as sales are crashing due...
electrek.co
November 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
It's interesting because as the article notes, Hertz is trying to purge its Tesla stock, and anecdotally a co-worker came out on business travel a while back and griped about how the rental agency foisted a Tesla on him that he didn't want and couldn't find a place to charge
I think one of my favorite social media joke formats is when you simply attribute a quote to a different person and totally change the meaning of a word in the quote. I think it's because unlike most memes you can't just mindlessly plug and play, you have to think from scratch every time
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I think one of my favorite social media joke formats is when you simply attribute a quote to a different person and totally change the meaning of a word in the quote. I think it's because unlike most memes you can't just mindlessly plug and play, you have to think from scratch every time
Re-reading the article about the libertarian experiment town that eventually failed and got taken over by bears and I'm sorry I know it's not a joke but way to live up to the stereotype www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
November 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Re-reading the article about the libertarian experiment town that eventually failed and got taken over by bears and I'm sorry I know it's not a joke but way to live up to the stereotype www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
So here's an article about the Edmund Fitzgerald, where they banned dives in 1995 because victims' families were upset but one investigator says he's "hopeful" now that the objecting family members have died and yay science? but that's a weird way to put it www.popularmechanics.com/science/a689...
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
So here's an article about the Edmund Fitzgerald, where they banned dives in 1995 because victims' families were upset but one investigator says he's "hopeful" now that the objecting family members have died and yay science? but that's a weird way to put it www.popularmechanics.com/science/a689...
I don't make fun of things about people's appearance that they can't change but why would someone with that head shape (fine, common) decide they need a hairstyle that makes their forehead look even taller (bad decision, pretty par for the course for her)
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I don't make fun of things about people's appearance that they can't change but why would someone with that head shape (fine, common) decide they need a hairstyle that makes their forehead look even taller (bad decision, pretty par for the course for her)
Not to let the media off the hook but it's a feedback loop in that they print what the masses want and there's lots of regular people out there that still believe if you run an expensive company you must have something important to say. My mom used to forward "wisdom from Bill Gates" emails to me
theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Not to let the media off the hook but it's a feedback loop in that they print what the masses want and there's lots of regular people out there that still believe if you run an expensive company you must have something important to say. My mom used to forward "wisdom from Bill Gates" emails to me
I'm going to try something different and steelman this. What are the scenarios where the "appearance" is misleading and his eyes are in fact open? 1) it's his second set of semi-translucent eyelids which he can see through, 2) those are false eyes for predators, real eyes are elsewhere
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm going to try something different and steelman this. What are the scenarios where the "appearance" is misleading and his eyes are in fact open? 1) it's his second set of semi-translucent eyelids which he can see through, 2) those are false eyes for predators, real eyes are elsewhere
All he had to do to disprove it was to just post one picture of a cat or mountain or say "just watched Star Wars again! Nothing like the classics!" but he couldn't
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
All he had to do to disprove it was to just post one picture of a cat or mountain or say "just watched Star Wars again! Nothing like the classics!" but he couldn't
I always expect Charlie Kelly's voice to come out of him
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I always expect Charlie Kelly's voice to come out of him
Walk Hard but about the life and career of Max Rebo and the evolution of jizz music through tumultuous decades of galactic history
ironically what makes star wars stuff best is when it is 'something else, but also star wars'
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
e.g. Andor, a British political thriller but also Star Wars
the Mandalorian, an episode-of-the-week Western but also Star Wars (when it was good)
November 9, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Walk Hard but about the life and career of Max Rebo and the evolution of jizz music through tumultuous decades of galactic history
Seeing how many people have a similar story (grew up conservative and became liberal due to being repulsed by awful conservatives around you) I'm surprised there aren't more thinkpieces like "fellow conservatives, we are driving innocent moderates to liberalism by being too rude". Only the other way
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Seeing how many people have a similar story (grew up conservative and became liberal due to being repulsed by awful conservatives around you) I'm surprised there aren't more thinkpieces like "fellow conservatives, we are driving innocent moderates to liberalism by being too rude". Only the other way
What's really weird to me is that the low-hanging fruit if you want to paint matrix multiplication as bizarre and confusing isn't non-commutativity, it's that there's two kinds of multiplication depending on if you use a · or a × which is rude after years of math teachers saying they're the same
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
What's really weird to me is that the low-hanging fruit if you want to paint matrix multiplication as bizarre and confusing isn't non-commutativity, it's that there's two kinds of multiplication depending on if you use a · or a × which is rude after years of math teachers saying they're the same
Why does it say "i" point and why is there a film camera next to"typed on a typewriter" and an eldritch symbol next to "film camera"
I have never done (9) (it's anti-social), (13) (Blockbuster never operated in my country), or (20) (those things were *expensive*).
I am teh oldz.
I am teh oldz.
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Why does it say "i" point and why is there a film camera next to"typed on a typewriter" and an eldritch symbol next to "film camera"
This is NOT a comment on the candidate, it's just what the fonts look like
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is NOT a comment on the candidate, it's just what the fonts look like