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Kevin Shay
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· Aug 30
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Stop trying to make Grandmagotchi happen
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Stop trying to make Grandmagotchi happen
You keep saying American Canto… but I think you really mean American Wonto
December 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
You keep saying American Canto… but I think you really mean American Wonto
Unpopular opinion: “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is a good song.
An all-time classic? No. Overplayed? Of course. But structurally, harmonically, melodically, lyrically... it’s a very solid song! If you were told Arlen and Mercer or Shuman and Pomus wrote it, you wouldn’t bat an eye
An all-time classic? No. Overplayed? Of course. But structurally, harmonically, melodically, lyrically... it’s a very solid song! If you were told Arlen and Mercer or Shuman and Pomus wrote it, you wouldn’t bat an eye
December 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Unpopular opinion: “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is a good song.
An all-time classic? No. Overplayed? Of course. But structurally, harmonically, melodically, lyrically... it’s a very solid song! If you were told Arlen and Mercer or Shuman and Pomus wrote it, you wouldn’t bat an eye
An all-time classic? No. Overplayed? Of course. But structurally, harmonically, melodically, lyrically... it’s a very solid song! If you were told Arlen and Mercer or Shuman and Pomus wrote it, you wouldn’t bat an eye
Just noticed that the New York Post has an account on here that gets as close to zero interaction as is conceivable for a major metropolitan newspaper
December 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Just noticed that the New York Post has an account on here that gets as close to zero interaction as is conceivable for a major metropolitan newspaper
Looking at Tailwind CSS for the first time and this (in a “Managing duplication” section) feels very wrongheaded to me? “It takes a lot of keystrokes to make changes” is not the only thing solved by introducing abstraction!
December 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Looking at Tailwind CSS for the first time and this (in a “Managing duplication” section) feels very wrongheaded to me? “It takes a lot of keystrokes to make changes” is not the only thing solved by introducing abstraction!
John Cazale. I’m not going to have much time to watch movies
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
John Cazale. I’m not going to have much time to watch movies
I thought he would Tom Goard on forever
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I thought he would Tom Goard on forever
Suckers they be saying they can platform Alan Dershowitz
Just in case you thought this was a ridiculous hypothetical, it’s actually a thing she did, and it’s racked up one thousand three hundred big views on youtube in the 7 hours it’s been up, so take that libs.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Suckers they be saying they can platform Alan Dershowitz
I am once again asking online merchants to make “Sleeve Length” a standard filter. I don’t want short-sleeve shirts when shopping for long-sleeve shirts, or vice versa
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I am once again asking online merchants to make “Sleeve Length” a standard filter. I don’t want short-sleeve shirts when shopping for long-sleeve shirts, or vice versa
A number of people have suggested this but honestly I think it’s just as important to ban the second person. Do not address me
my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person
November 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A number of people have suggested this but honestly I think it’s just as important to ban the second person. Do not address me
[whispering to date while watching A Man for All Seasons when a major character from the stage version fails to appear on the screen] Where’s Chapuys
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
[whispering to date while watching A Man for All Seasons when a major character from the stage version fails to appear on the screen] Where’s Chapuys
I once watched half a season of 30 Rock in reverse order due to a confusing DVD menu
Accidentally started watching Pluribis from episode 4 and was greatly admiring that it didn’t fuck around and got straight to it then towards the end I thought “wait when do they flashback to the whole setup” then checked and thought “balls” so now in two minds on whether to watch the first three.
November 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I once watched half a season of 30 Rock in reverse order due to a confusing DVD menu
I hope it’s tickets to “Oh, Mary!”
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I hope it’s tickets to “Oh, Mary!”
Dear Apple,
This is probably great news! However, I had not updated *my* device, so I can’t manage these new settings. Specifically, my approval of “12+” apps is no longer respected under the new “13+” setting (though 12 < 13, and my teen is in fact > 12).
Liquid Glass for me, I guess.
This is probably great news! However, I had not updated *my* device, so I can’t manage these new settings. Specifically, my approval of “12+” apps is no longer respected under the new “13+” setting (though 12 < 13, and my teen is in fact > 12).
Liquid Glass for me, I guess.
![Safety settings enabled for your teen
Dear Kevin Shay,
Screen Time and parental controls include a number of important tools to help you manage how your teen uses their device. When [...] updated their device to iOS 26.1 or later, two safety settings in Screen Time were enabled to help keep them safe: Web Content Filtering and Communication Safety.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreichenelnsfsou42hvbzn32kbrokeyk2kjupgcjbtsihh6us4qjy44@jpeg)
November 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Dear Apple,
This is probably great news! However, I had not updated *my* device, so I can’t manage these new settings. Specifically, my approval of “12+” apps is no longer respected under the new “13+” setting (though 12 < 13, and my teen is in fact > 12).
Liquid Glass for me, I guess.
This is probably great news! However, I had not updated *my* device, so I can’t manage these new settings. Specifically, my approval of “12+” apps is no longer respected under the new “13+” setting (though 12 < 13, and my teen is in fact > 12).
Liquid Glass for me, I guess.
Alan keeps providing opportunities to repost this www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ala...
Alan Dershowitz’s Grammarian Responds to Pierogi Incident
When the police arrived, they also advised Dershowitz to use non-gendered pronouns. Dershowitz was hesitant. “I’ll use whatever language I choose t...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Alan keeps providing opportunities to repost this www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ala...
Grandmagotchi
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Grandmagotchi
Hang on, her show is called “All’s Fair” and the character is named Allura? I have GOT to update this site one of these days www.staggernation.com/mf/
November 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Hang on, her show is called “All’s Fair” and the character is named Allura? I have GOT to update this site one of these days www.staggernation.com/mf/
Why is everyone talking about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and not The Wreck of the Hesperus (as illustrated by Wally Wood, MAD Magazine, 1954)? jeffoverturf.blogspot.com/2012/07/wrec...
![4 cartoon panels with lines from Longfellow’s “The Wreck of the Hesperus”
1. Then up spake an old sailor, / Had sailed the Spanish Main
[Popeye: “Spake?”]
2. [Popeye, his coat and hat blown off:] “I pray thee, put into yonder port, / For I fear a hurricane.”
3. [Popeye, his shirt and pants blown off:] “Last night the moon had a golden ring, / And tonight no moon we see!”
4. The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe / And a scornful laugh laughed he.
[Skipper, blowing a facsimile of his wife from his pipe:] HOO HAH
[Chorus of 3 sailors] Not wife! ...WHIFF!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreibzsqqcbr5qm2wgjxobth27fzxktm3ck7thmadyc6lfuqyrx3ustm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Why is everyone talking about The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and not The Wreck of the Hesperus (as illustrated by Wally Wood, MAD Magazine, 1954)? jeffoverturf.blogspot.com/2012/07/wrec...
You can eat blueberries at any time.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 AM
You can eat blueberries at any time.
If I never open this I’ll live forever
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 PM
If I never open this I’ll live forever
I’m not a doctor but aren’t these pretty different
![Alfred died on 26 October 899 at the age of 50 or 51.[164] How he died is unknown, but he suffered throughout his life with a painful and unpleasant illness. His biographer Asser gave a detailed description of Alfred's symptoms, and this has allowed modern doctors to provide a possible diagnosis. It is thought that he had either Crohn's disease or haemorrhoids.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cet4nxcnv2frhnrncyoopv4c/bafkreie73st34yjalq5pkt7pn5ngc6ghmdaascfulwkvw64xsdykmqhrxm@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I’m not a doctor but aren’t these pretty different
Who’s your favorite musician whose name is two methods of transportation? Mine might be El DeBarge
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Who’s your favorite musician whose name is two methods of transportation? Mine might be El DeBarge
What was the starkest vote disparity between adjacent districts? Perhaps Brooklyn ED 75 (Mamdani +60) vs. ED 49 (Cuomo +70)
November 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
What was the starkest vote disparity between adjacent districts? Perhaps Brooklyn ED 75 (Mamdani +60) vs. ED 49 (Cuomo +70)