@jcrabapple @EarthToRia@mindly.social came here to say Singles. The one example I can think of off the top of my head of the soundtrack being more popular than the film.

What's your favorite childhood memory?

When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band. #welcometotheblackparade

Happy Solstice to all those who celebrate!
To those who don't, it's happening anyway, try to enjoy it.
Blessed be. #solstice

@dcdeejay @aristeon They learned to tolerate it.

If I ever find out the name of the surgeon who screwed up my transplant, I’m going to kill him with my bear hands.

@twwilliams @jalefkowit@octodon.social Yep. I had an air gapped XP desktop in my office for years because the software for managing user ID and QC data on a vital piece of lab equipment wouldn't run on anything more recent.

*Kidzbop song plays* my 4yo: they were 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙 to say "fuck"

Trying to decide if this page should mirror my (now defunct) #twitter or my more eclectic but #goth-adjacent #tumblr (cw: #pinupart) while also trying to be less "performative" here.

Maybe it’s time to start well-regulating all these militias.

Etymology fun fact: The arteries in the neck are called "carotids," from the Greek word "karotides", relating to the word "katotikos" (to stupefy) and "karos" (deep sleep).
The ancient Greeks used it/knew that compression of the carotid arteries would produce unconsciousness.

#etymology #histmed

For all it's advantages and faults, #Mastodon was not built to be a *new* Twitter. It was built to be *not* Twitter.

That distinction is important.

I must confess that when I was younger I expected the future to have more robot butlers and jetpacks, and less plague and fascism, but here we are.

It is mindblowing to me how clearly exponential #AIart is. I remember about a decade ago being amazed by image-to-text captioning, and here we are with text-to-image and it's getting better so damn quickly.

Here's Star Wars if everyone were babies.

https://www.reddit.com/gallery/zc746h

@pseudonymsupreme @GreatDismal Ainsley Lovebeer is a treasure, no matter the medium

The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words.

Genocides do not start with mass murder. That's where they end up.

Genocides & other mass atrocity crimes begin with words - specifically, with powerful people dehumanizing a minority.

Once they are seen as less than human, anything is possible, even mass murder.

👉 You can speak out loudly today for the rights of others, or you can stay silent & wait for tomorrow, when your rights will be taken away too.

This is, sadly, my entire collection of photos of goths driving tractors. #FarmCore #GothFarmers #HarvestedFromTheInternet #Goth

Apocalypse? buddy this is THE pocalypse

Wahoooooo!!! all restrictions on the DOJ / Special Master requirement for the #MarALago papers removed by the 11th Circuit!!

#Trump #MerrickGarland #Treason #BreakingNews

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/01/politics/mar-a-lago-special-master/index.html

the "danger of a filter bubble" is that you might, through tremendous effort, construct a useful, readable and enjoyable incoming flow without turds bobbling in it

this idea is strongly objected to by the turds

From the "Department of Mind-Blowing Theories" by Tom Gauld

#Facts #Science #Cartoon