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This anti-piracy PSA was on every DVD in the mid to late 2000s. It tried to demonize piracy by convincing people that using bittorrent was as bad as stealing somebody's car. But as Wikipedia says:

According to the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, the announcement was unsuccessful, and was largely a source of ridicule. Likewise, a 2022 behavioral economics paper published in The Information Society found the PSAs may, in fact, have increased piracy rates. By 2009, over 100 parodies of the announcement had been created

Even though it came out halfway through the 2000s, it's still using the 90s grunge aesthetic. The font used is FF Confidential, created in 1992 by Just van Rossum.

FF Confidential is an allcaps font, but in place of the lowercase it has a more distressed version of the uppercase, allowing you to control how grungy it is by hitting capslock.

Just van Rossum is a collaborator of Erik van Blokland, who created the font formerly known as FF Trixie and now known LTR NCND, another distressed typewriter font that was popular in the 90s. (Also he is the brother of Guido van Rossum, who created the Python programming language.)

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did not know labubu was edible

La-HA! hit me like a fucking drug.

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I am so, so sure that my cousin meant to type something else, but I'm going to cry. Welcome to my bathroom themed bathroom... Pictures of other people's bathrooms on the walls... Little bathtub figurines on the sink... Soap dispenser shaped like a toilet... Life could be a dream... in my bathroom themed bathroom...

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A powerchair with tilt and recline is not the same as a luxury reclining sofa used for relaxation. It is a medical device used to prevent pressure injuries (which can become life threatening), and help with complex positioning needs.

I’m waiting for a new wheelchair cushion right now because my current one is incredibly painful after an hour or so of sitting in it. The only way to slightly relieve the pain and pressure is by tilting and reclining my chair all the way back so I’m almost lying down for a bit and then going back to sitting. And I’m getting so fed up of people making comments about it when I do it in front of them.

I’m not taking a nap, I’m not showing off, and trust me you don’t “wish you were me” right now. I’m in a lot of pain and at high risk of skin breakdown that could leave me bedbound for a while.

I’m very very aware that tilting my chair is drawing attention to me and I really wish it wasn’t. But I’m in enough pain and worried enough about redistributing pressure that I’ve decided it’s worth all the staring and annoying comments to get a tiny bit of relief)

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What I am hearing is that dinosaur zoo could be fine actually if they hired actual zoo experts to do it.

Have they done this version yet?

Watching Jurassic Park and I have Opinions on this place as a zoo. Feeding the predators live prey?? There's other ways to provide enrichment! Also that enclosure is way too small for multiple large animals like that! Electric fences? Ha! Electric fences won't stop a fucking goat! Where's the zoo experts? Who designed these enclosures?? Were all zoos this shitty in the 90s???

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My Wife: So earlier, when I was in Hell... [meaning: in Skyrim]

Me: :D I was in Hell too the other day! [meaning, in Fallen London]

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The argument of "trans men have privilege when they pass" is also so asinine because privilege isn't just "other men treating you nicer" it's getting unbiased and unrestricted medical attention, it's lower or no statistics of corrective sexual assault or impregnation, it's not having actual laws passed against your existence, it's not having to worry about passing in the first place, it's having historical figures retain their identity and not erased in some girl power misgendering bs, it's having your identity celebrated instead of treated like a loss of something pure.

If you think male privilege is just being treated like "one of the guys" in day to day life, you need to relearn a lot of things about privilege before you try to have these conversations.

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THE RED KINGDOM (PART 2)

READ PART 1 HERE/BUY THE ZINE HERE

Amrit Brar, 2025 / 13th Press

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The vibes here seem very similar to Mandrake, an upcoming game by Failbetter Games.

If you like these pictures, you should check out the trailer to Mandrake.

(I don't work at Failbetter nor am I getting paid to say things; I just genuinely like the stuff they have done over the years)

Art by Natcha Ngamtweerat

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man, he's lost even more weight for his new role. and he needs to gain all the weight back for dashing next year...please take care of your health no matter what...

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i stepped on the scale today and it said “bat”

it took me a few seconds to realize it meant the battery was out, but before i realized that i just said “i am not a bat” out loud

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Cancelled, The Collection is The Medium (@patrick_pound)

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Perfect gift for anyone who is always frustrated that their drinks order "on the rocks" is served with ice instead of rocks.

they should invent ice that doesn't float in your drink

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I used to work nights and when on rainy nights i'd bike under certain trees that jackdaws like to sleep in, I would notice a specific smell, that I have learnt is simply "wet jackdaw smell."

Now I am under the impression that plant/seed eating birds have a nicer smell (wet and dry) than for example buzzards. So I think wet jackdaw smell is probably not quite as nice as a wet parrot/keet/too smell.

Does anyone agree that there is a “wet bird smell” (and it’s awesome)

Oh definitely!!!!

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my favorite road sign is “falling rocks” like what am I supposed to do with that. what could I possibly do to avoid falling rocks while driving 70 miles per hour through an Appalachian ravine.

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The federal occupation of DC [12:30 local time, August 16, 2025]

Every black dot is a sighting of federal law enforcement and their friends from this week. Sourced from news outlets, Twitter, Reddit, Stop ICE Alerts, the Washington Post tracker, and more. This count should be considered non-comprehensive, occasionally inaccurate, and biased by limited data.

Some patterns are becoming clear:

The largest concentration of feds is around the White House and the nearby areas of the National Mall; these areas (including Washington Circle) were the epicenter of this week's homeless sweeps.

There's been a significant presence in Navy Yard to enforce the youth curfew that's in effect there until Monday, with a particularly large number of reports around the baseball stadium and the Navy Yard Metro entrances.

Other feds are focused on popular nightlife neighborhoods and transit hubs: U Street, 14th Street, Dupont Circle, Columbia Heights/Mt. Pleasant, H Street, and Georgia Ave./Petworth.

The feds seem to have set up a semi-permanent presence on the plaza outside of Union Station.

There's been several reports of feds + local police engaged in unusual tactics to either hide their presence (plain clothes officers in unmarked vehicles, feds driving cars with Uber stickers, etc.) or to project a presence where they don't have one (parked empty police cruisers with their police lights on for long periods of time; empty vans with shirts over the seats to make them look like they're occupied from a distance, etc.)