>VERBOSE Maximum verbosity.

all yall make jokes about couples and their nonromantic third wheel having fun together, but im the one getting treated to food tonight by the couple im nonromantically third wheeling. you wish you were me

I'm sorry I read this as "necromantic third wheel" and went on a very rapid powerful imagination adventure. hello lovebirds I'm the skeleton here for breadsticks

The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen

[Image description: What it says on the tin -- er, on the copper -- but more: The writing is in vertical columns each centered on a line, running down from a horizontal line, giving the effect of a delicate curtain of beads with an irregular bottom edge. The individual characters resemble triangles and circles and are connected with looping spirals and curves. The wooden frame is stained the blue-green color of oxidized copper, contrasting with the polished red-brown surface of the copper itself. /end description]

I think that part of what irks me about AI being used even for "small" stuff like meme graphics (aside from all the larger problems obviously) is like.... the time spent on it was part of the humor. "this is a silly inconsequential joke but I had to stop everything and spend 5 minutes making it" was, at least for me, part of the joke. Someone really took time out of their day to make me look at something silly they took time out of their day to make. Now it's like someone took time out of my day to make me look at something no one even made. Stop wasting my time if you aren't wasting yours too.

A story set in a pre-internet era, about someone accidentally finding themselves in the ownership of a small printing press, and starting a recreational hobby zero standards newspaper The Local Bullshit, which consists 100% of articles written by the printer's friends, all of which are random shower thought rambles of whatever the fuck they were thinking of at the time. The magazine inexplicably grows an audience of people who enjoy reading this physical long-form version of one dork squad's group chat, whose members are somewhat confused but flattered about suddenly being regarded as some sort of a cool exclusive social clique, instead of just being a bunch of weird nerds.

This sorta happened to me a little bit. I did a zine in high school (so, mid-90s; not exactly pre-internet but early times for most people when home dialup service was just catching on) which was just this kind of "my peer-group's bullshit" content. The "printing press" was me with a gluestick and then a photocopy shop, and the audience was not that much bigger than the writers ourselves, but hey. People occasionally slipped money in my locker to pay for a copy, so.

You will not die at the hands of quicksand. Ask me how I know this

Please, how do you know this?

quicksand does not have any hands

Oat milk was discovered much more recently than you may have known. Like many now-familiar technologies, it was found by accident during the Apollo program when NASA learned what a zero-g environment does to goat milk.

the situation with harry potter is kind of unprecedented in some ways imo because it is maybe the largest media franchise in history to be created & owned by a single person who still has direct creative control over it. who is also a billionaire with significant cultural/political influence. like the usual "no ethical consumption under capitalism" type excuses shatter on impact when the bigoted author in question is logging onto twitter every day saying explicitly that when you buy the tim hortons ravenclaw donut she is using your donut money to fund the genocide of trans people. like with big franchises usually there's at least a little more diffusion of responsibility than this

[Image description: A color drawing of a lucky cat (maneki-neko) in a cute cartoon style. The cat has one front paw raised next to its face. Its coat is blue with darker blue spots, and pink inside its ears and pink claws. It is also wearing a pink sleeping mask with closed eyes drawn on it, and clutches a pillow in the other front paw. The pillowcase is decorated with yellow shooting stars. /end description]

I had seen the first drawing before on Artstation posted by Sean Michael Bell, who says "I refined a rough sculpt of the figure and the chicken for Plastic Creature Lab"... I had assumed the drawing was his too but I guess not! When I first came across it I thought the drawing was actually better than the final result (maybe some of the facial detail got weird in the transition to plastic, idk exactly what it is). Very cool to see the other two drawings!

If you are attracted to a girl it's important to show her sinister artifacts and relics