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what is it with people living in Malaysia telling other people how to run their country?

Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com

Singer-songwriter GACKT, in a lengthy X post on how Japan is "moving in a different direction" than other countries, said "one choice" is for Japan to return to the isolationism it practiced for over 200 years during the Edo era. GACKT lives in Malaysia. https://buff.ly/4gq2XoC

Truth Coming Out Of Her Well To Shame Mankind

Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social

programmers in 10 years are gonna be real mad about not forming a union when we had the chance 20 years ago.

"NO WAY TO AVOID ROCKETS EXPLODING ON THE LAUNCHPAD" says country who built a rocket that never exploded on the launchpad sixty years ago

[extremely blackstreet voice] chat jippity

Naomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social

Announcement: chat jipiti

found this image and frankly its almost too on-the-nose

ONLY FIVE?!?!

so i just learned that Goya painted “Saturn Devouring His Son” on the wall of his house and it was later transferred to canvas. Imagine living with that thing painted on the walls of your home. Jesus Christ.

so we got to chattin about how google's dying and i made the point that we just need to start acknowledging that the web is changing and stop relying on others to keep content for us and do our own indexing (bookmarks) and mirror content we think is important locally and mystes & videonasty did this

i just learned that one of the earliest known sewage systems was built by the Etruscans and called the Cloaca Maxima, which is probably the best possible name for a sewage system. So big ups to the Etruscans for nailing that one right out of the gate.

my fix for boring, low-scoring soccer games is this: for every 5 minutes a game is scoreless, a new live ball is rolled onto the field. If a goal is scored and there is more than one ball on the field, the scored ball is not returned to play.

There, done, i fixed soccer. You're welcome.

so both my kids volunteered at the zoo for years and I hoped it would give them a respect for animals and life but instead it united them in their hatred. Over dinner they’d talk about how much of a bastard Mitch the screech owl was, or how much they hated the fucking tenrec.

Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social

nick, let me tell you about a man named richard.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com

“When you speed up the exchange of messages and information beyond a certain point, you actually overwhelm the mind’s ability to make sense of it all in a deep way,” Nicholas Carr tells Don Peck in Time-Travel Thursdays.

Nicholas Carr: Is the Internet Making Us Stupid?

A conversation about how online life has rewired our brains

my all time favorite vanity license plate was a woman driving a Volvo 240GL: BOXYLDY

hell yeah

what i look like when someone calls my name in public and i dont reconize them immediately

what kills me is that there is a 100% certainty that there's a dad named Homer who drives an Odyssey

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

i’m dropping my daughter off at school and instead of saying “have a great day!” it comes out as “have an extremely normal day!” and now I’m kind of pulled over on the side of the road trying to figure out what’s wrong with me.

impastor syndrome