Goon a Movie:
Goon Girl
The Curious Goon of Benjamin Button
A Gooner Darkly
Goon Will Hunting
James and the Giant Goon

Here's a big-picture geopolitical thread on Israel's war on Iran - its possibilities, impossibilities, dynamics, and delusions. My goal is to give you a full big-picture view in one place, which is why this is a long thread. If you prefer drip-fed updates, skip this thread.

bluesky's problem with people who are unable or unwilling to recognize a joke is really just a twitter problem bluesky hasn't solved. look at the replies to this tweet.

People need to understand that half of Trump’s vote is a middle finger to the failings of the opposition party. And part of dealing with those failures is having an honest conversation about where those weak points are. I don’t take anyone seriously who can’t see this. We don’t have time.

Locked, loaded, and bricked up

I get hope then I look at Facebook comments

Love is Blind 10000% has a producer with a foot fetish

I love living in #maine I just passed a store advertising that they “now take credit cards”

They’re good and fun but Khruangbin is the Jack Johnson of our era.

- “chill” music, great for the background
- safe for everyone
- makes you appear like you have tasteful music choices

This isn’t knocking them by any means, but they’ve reached the “NPR recommended” level.

I think my biggest fear in all of this is what it’s going to do to the spirit.

On top of our futures, hope and principles are on the chopping block. What happens to a populace that’s economically and culturally incentivized to abandon their sense of community to get by?

If they were doing this to a single bank they would be immediately arrested but the Treasury of the entire United States doesn’t even have a guard at the door?

I’ve gotten shit for saying this in the past, but the reigning conservative attitude is playground bully. Not just mean, but juvenile. Adults should be embarrassed to partake in it. And I think at least some of this behavior is influenced by internet culture, which is dominated by actual children.

Weird how worried Wall Street is about DeepSeek, weren’t they just saying AI innovation is good even if it harms some people in the short term

Got a vasectomy and the doctors told me that I have “very cooperative sheaths” around my vas deferens if any girls want to hang out.

angry north americans text like sephiroth angry south americans text like liquid snake

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

it would kick ass if i could dedicate myself to just like doing one thing instead of jumping around between six different interests. also if i could have decided to do this ten years ago

the equivalence between income and intelligence is, in fact, the hallmark of this age, wherein the dumbest people are granted total control over society because they lack the ethical commitments to not hoard wealth for themselves