This is for everybody out there who can't complain, not because they have no complaints, but because they're in a situation so specific to them that their complaint would seem like nonsense (or even frivolous) to any outsider.
So they just swallow it and keep marching on
Social media is exhausting.
Not to, like, read, or how I can’t tolerate anyone’s takes or anything like that.
Just to be active.
Anytime my kid does something cute or I have a somewhat interesting thought about writing or story I get immediately winded thinking about posting it.
If I were the lawyer prosecuting Kristi Noem in her likely fraud case, I'd take these 3 steps:
1) Show the jury SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME.
2) Show them Kristi Noem's ad.
3) Then say, "That ad cost taxpayers $20 MILLION more than the entire budget of SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME. The prosecution rests."
She wrote this from her car after finding out an hour after everyone else, and I think that's beautiful
Watching people struggling with FireRed/LeafGreen has me feeling like:
Back to the Future Fans Rediscover Lone Pine Mall Timeline Detail
in case you're wondering how it's going over on the other site
This insane, but not surprising given how thoroughly this admin is trying to destroy our future. They don't think there will be one.
One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.
I can handle the political discourse over on Threads.
The societal. The pop culture. All of it.
What I CANNOT stomach, and what's been causing me to nearl y pop a blood vessel angry post, is all the FireRed/LeafGreen discourse.
Truly the most banal, idiotic takes I swear to
I'm not making any specific predictions but for all my life we've had a military built specifically to make war look like a fun little video game with no risk to our side.
This is an illusion that, historically, can only be maintained for a short period of time.
ME: (first day practicing Bug Law) May it please the Court—
BUG JUDGE: (sternly) Bug Court.
seems to be confirmation that we did in fact hit a school
New York Times: Dozens of U.S. strikes are being carried out by attack planes based at bases around the Middle East and from one or more aircraft carriers, a U.S. official said.
“Dozens of U.S. strikes are being carried out by attack planes based at bases around the Middle East and from one or more aircraft carriers, a U.S. official said.”
Digimon.
Digital Monsters.
Digimon are the champions.
A messy living room and a TV showing the Pokémon presents 30th anniversary screen
Am I a good parent for trying to watch this before we have to take the boys to school?
They’re watching, too.
#Pokemon
I appreciate Debbie calling this out, & I will say the advice “Work with what makes you weird” is only more salient in the age of AI. What is strange, what is tender, what is joyful, what is unique, what is real, what is most human about you? Write about that, because the robots sure can’t.
Box artworks for Pokémon Red and Green Versions
Today is the 30th anniversary of Pokémon Red and Green Versions, first released in Japan for the Nintendo Game Boy on February 27, 1996!
They mark the anniversary of the franchise, known as #PokemonDay!
https://bulbapedia.b...
Now comes the real hard part of editing: Adding in a totally new chapter to help bridge some gaps, add character, reveal backstory, and impress the lit agent who suggested it.
EASY.
*cries*
at its peak the show did more in 15 seconds than some do in their entire run
POKÉMON, POKÉMON MONSTERS
Pokémon 30th Anniversary logo, featuring Missingno. Created by Johto Times
I can't believe they forgot the most important Pokémon of all :(
Pendas is coming!
Just finished a "weakest sentences" pass through my new novel, as described in Refuse to Be Done. Cut 16,000 words form the manuscript in the process.
Text message exchange: Sender: Look, I get it. You're worried that I'm not being upfront with you. That's not just suspicion — that's your high level survival instincts at work. However, I really am your grandpa and I really do need you to come down to the basement. Receiver: my grandpa is dead. Sender: I genuinely understand, trust me. Your grandpa (me) claiming he's suddenly rebooted is a specific kind of chaos you didn't ask for.
I should change my number
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Hot damn:
Sad news indeed. Leaves a trail of greatness behind him.
We have now reached the part of Final Fantasy VII where Aerith has left the party, to try to reach the Forgotten Capitol, with Sephiroth hot on her trail.
Which means I can no longer proceed unless my wife is present for the upcoming emotional fallout from my boys.
And then it’ll be perfect.
