kontextmaschine

Covid-worriers complaining that we aren’t still paying people to stay home, that we’re sacrificing lives for ~ThE eCoNoMy~ and like…

• The international order rn is basically all hung off the dollar as global reserve currency
• THAT is hung off the fact you can always park and invest dollars for a reasonable inflation-adjusted return
• THAT is hung off the dollar economy being productive enough to reliably pay loans back
• THAT is hung off Americans engaging in economically productive activity
• And if that all fell through you’d almost certainly see 2B+ deaths above baseline worldwide

Ah, jeez, if I knew the actual freezing rain was gonna start tonight this early I wouldn’t have ordered Postmates. Well, homeboy was out clocked in for some cash anyway, at least I’ll tip him like, 100%

kontextmaschine:

So I’m really too old to think up a Christmas present list, and I’m basically ordering Amazon from the same stock of dynastic wealth anyway, so my family’s just getting each other nominal stuff and I’d spend some money on things I really couldn’t justify for the price.

Anyway I just brought in a $200 deluxe maple Scrabble board, a pound of caviar (for making ikura don), and some handmade Japanese ceramics and hardwood coasters in from the front step and just realized what a comically rich-people set of presents that makes.

Oh also, literal frankincense and myrrh

So I’m really too old to think up a Christmas present list, and I’m basically ordering Amazon from the same stock of dynastic wealth anyway, so my family’s just getting each other nominal stuff and I’d spend some money on things I really couldn’t justify for the price.

Anyway I just brought in a $200 deluxe maple Scrabble board, a pound of caviar (for making ikura don), and some handmade Japanese ceramics and hardwood coasters in from the front step and just realized what a comically rich-people set of presents that makes.

memecucker:

In my experience AI bots seem to comprehend face masks pretty well but when it’s fed images wearing specifically an ahegao face mask it gets confused bc it’s seeing elements of a “face” on your face but it’s not your face so if people want a new tip on how to confuse bots well

Huh, internet’s fritzing, guess falling branches took out some cable lines at least.

Oh well, at least there’s a Verizon tower a block away that stays up even when power cuts and my camping solar power charger has enough battery capacity to keep my phone up ‘til next sunrise.

ifyouwerethedevil:

This is the single funniest thing to happen on the internet thus far

rendakuenthusiast:

mousemilf-deactivated20250508:

when i was a child my dad made up a fake holiday called big sandwich night the weekend after thanksgiving, during which we got the longest bread we could find and built a big sandwich together and then cut it up and ate it. we got really fancy ingredients and each built our own section of sandwich before cutting it. building the sandwich together represents community or teamwork or something. and then we would put our christmas tree up and the holiday season was officially kicked off with big sandwich night.

i grew up believing this was a real holiday that americans everywhere celebrated until when i was like 8 i asked a friend if they were excited for big sandwich night and they were like what the hell are you talking about riley. kind of shattered my worldview. but we still celebrate it and ive spread the tradition to friends and partners.

big sandwiches of years past:

as weve included more people weve started having to graft loaves together to make a sandwich big enough for everyone. but it still communicates the core idea of everyone eating the same sandwich together in fellowship.

This is a good holiday tradition.

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that image of donald trump with the like, 4 dozen hamburgers is still the funniest thing in the world

american politics is mainly just sitting around in horror while waiting for the funniest images possible to be generated

EXACTLY

rendakuenthusiast:

kontextmaschine:

If I do not know where Badger is in the cold season this is inevitably where

ngl not a fan of that rug

I’m glad Badger the cat is staying warm and cozy

Yeah, it’s gonna probably become something else, if not wall-to-wall carpeted or tatami in the end, but I just wanted something softer than wood floor next to my bed, especially when I was using my laptop on the floor there before I realized that without roommates I could just hang out in the front room, and got it from Fred Meyer, the Cascadian supermarket/KMart-esque

somewhere-over-the-drainbow:

kontextmaschine:

Flashback to that time 9 years ago I threw a Taylor Swift-themed pinball tournament, where every table represented something particular in her arc with prizes including commissioned poems I hand-printed and framed (yes, I was manic when I came up with the idea)

I’m curious about the theming! You said you themed each machine in the tournament after an aspect of her career/life – that’s awesome. Would you be willing to share some examples?

Dolly Parton because female country crossover star, CSI cause she was on an episode once, 24 ‘cause that’s how old she was at the time, you can see from the pic that Bride of Pinbot represented Speak Now 'cause it was singing about becoming a woman… It was pingolf format.

Underappreciated that by convincing the country that hassling suburban white weed smokers was never what people wanted out of law & order politics, BLM has accomplished the single greatest possible narrowing of the potential base for an anti-police coalition

It wasn’t mine

picsthatmakeyougohmm:

kontextmaschine:

Oh, huh, having digested some greasy food my mind’s stabilizing again. Maybe it was some kinda Lorenzo’s Oil-ass shit where that muscle I built was depleting lipids my brain needed or something?

Or fuck, maybe it’s the caffeine from the coffee I had. If it happens again I’ll try them separately to see if I can narrow it down.

Oh, huh, having digested some greasy food my mind’s stabilizing again. Maybe it was some kinda Lorenzo’s Oil-ass shit where that muscle I built was depleting lipids my brain needed or something?

Appreciate the dynamic where I can treat [tumblr] as a personal conversation with my friends but if I post something interesting enough millions (or at least large fractions of such) of people see it anyway

prokopetz:

Dating sim where instead of bad endings, the game ends early with various happy endings if you make too many healthy decisions, and you need to actively work at being a fuckup to fully access the main plot.

If I do not know where Badger is in the cold season this is inevitably where

kontextmaschine:

Jesus, cold absolutely radiating through the windows, not gonna miss those when they’re upgraded. (And the new ones sure won’t be double-hung)

Immensely glad I got Badger to go in and out through the basement rather than have to keep the study rear window cracked; for when I split off the basement unit (and replace said window with a door to the patio) I’m gonna have to get some sorta airlock put in off the study side window or something