Something I don't see discussed much regarding Rowling / HP is WB's place in it all. They continue to work with her, they published the game. They're saying transphobia is fine if it helps their bottom line.

If you have siblings, you can't be MtF, because then you become their sis.

PSA: Walmart's Vivitar LED studio light can only be controlled by an app that no longer exists. And AFAIK they still sell them.

"No, you see, it's different than a train because..." proceeds to explain how their idea is worse than a train in every way.

It really is terrifying that we take a single driving test in high school and think that's good for the rest of our lives.

(Not so) fun fact...
Those little black traffic cameras popping up everywhere are owned by a private data broker (Flock Safety).
They use AI to track every car and map out your schedules, habits, and whereabouts.
Then they sell it to ANYONE.
There have already been cases of stalking.

BREAKING: Former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich caught taking MASSIVE* bribe from IMMIGRANT running for PRESIDENT*!
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I'm gonna guess it's a bad sign when I start to shuffle a tarot deck and it immediately gives me a paper cut.

So I don't know much about the Smurfs so correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Gargamel's goal to basically eat the Smurfs? And didn't he create Smurfette to infiltrate their town? So why doesn't he just, y'know, create Smurfs to eat?

Wanting to pronounce Van Gogh properly, but not wanting to sound pretentious.

I hate that I went from not being familiar with "Chesterton's Fence" to hearing about it daily...

I think this week's episode of @gamechangershow.bsky.social was my favorite of the whole series so far - and that's saying something! IMHO for sure a candidate for a new spin-off.

SEO has made so much of the internet unreadable to humans. Product titles on shopping sites especially are just word salads.

There's someone yelling somewhere in the apartment complex about how citizens are being disappeared, and I really hate that the loud, annoying, crazy person is 100% in the right.

The two missed opportunities of Panic! At the Disco: a Frank Sinatra cover album (Urie has the voice for it IMHO) and a James Bond theme song.

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day