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Ok if we exclude Palpatine who has the gayest lightsaber?

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onion not even doing satire at this point

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Astrology doesn't seem to work.

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why the fuck is it called the xbox 360 what does 360 mean???????????????????

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Day 1: What are you currently reading?

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lunlun’s reading challenge

hi everyone! it’s been a looong time since i created a challenge. with work, my german course and just simply life, i noticed that i can’t read as much as i’d like to. so, i, very suddenly, decided to create this challenge to help myself read more and by sharing it with you, to help you read more :] i think participating in a challenge is much more motivating and helps me do what i’m doing in a more disciplined way. to participate you only need to reblog this post and use this tag: #readingwithlunlun 

note: there’s no specific starting date for the challenge. you can reblog it anytime and start it for yourself :]

here are the questions/prompts: 

day 1: welcome! what are you currently reading right now? 

day 2: how many books would you like to finish throughout this challenge? 

day 3: describe your favorite book in three words. 

day 4: who is your ultimate favorite book character?

day 5: what would you like to say to your comfort character?

day 6: what is your favorite book from your childhood? 

day 7: what is a book cover that you think is very pretty?

day 8: which book made you cry the most? 

day 9: which book made you laugh the most? 

day 10: it’s been ten days! how’s the challenge going for you? 

day 11: what’s your most disliked book from 2024 so far?

day 12: who is your favorite author and why? 

day 13: what are your favorite book tropes? 

day 14: if you could go back and talk to a deceased author, who would you choose and why? 

day 15: what are the best books written in the 21st century according to you? 

day 16: what trait makes you like a character immediately? 

day 17: what trait makes you hate a character immediately? 

day 18: what’s a genre you always read? 

day 19: what’s a genre no matter what you’ll never, ever read? 

day 20: which book universe would you definitely want to live? 

day 21: which book universe would you definitely not survive? 

day 22: what’s your favorite fantasy creature? 

day 23: would you like to be a vampire or a werewolf? why? 

day 24: let’s talk about booktok. what are your thoughts? do you trust their recommendations? 

day 25: which book do you think everyone must read once in their lives? 

day 26: share a playlist to listen to while reading.

day 27: what will make you a buy a book immediately? 

day 28: do you buy books online or from bookstores? 

day 29: grab the nearest book around you, open page 12 and share the first sentence with us. 

day 30: the last day! i hope you enjoyed the challenge. how was it for you? 

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I'm sorry but. My fellow leftists. It's really important that you learn math. When you. They should have mandatory calculus (or at least algebra...) classes at the DSA. They should have mandatory calculus classes at the Maoist cadre. You can't. I'm sorry. It's really really important to know math.

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*meaning: how many do you as an individual own, not your household or family collectively. But I understand it can be hard to make distinctions; but if you CAN make a distinction, please do.

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The Four Horsemen of Pattern Recognition:

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stop living in california

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My cat just walked across the keyboard while I was using the grapher. I’m not sure exactly what he’s saying but I think it involves gay rights

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6/24/2025 | Tuesday

I haven't posted anything remotely personal in nearly a year. I've barely been on this hellsite in the past year. I've just been feeling so awful and have been so busy. But I'm feeling a little bit better, so…

I've still been reading a ton and working on math. I'm also prepping for around 16 hours of testing for a credential I'm trying to get. I sold my car and bought a hybrid, which I love. Brother M moved away, but we meet halfway a few times a year to attend punk shows together. Sylvia (cat) is 14, and Jack (dog) is 10. Oh, and I finally got a few precise diagnoses of autoimmune disorders, which have turned out to be positive occurrences since I ended up starting some disease-modifying medications.

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Short Story Recommendations

These all fuck me up to a varying degree of emotions

Crime

Philomel Cottage - Agatha Christie

Lamb to the Slaughter - Roald Dahl

Death and the Compass - Jorge Luis Borges

Horror

The Landlady - Roald Dahl

A Walk in the Dark - Arthur C Clarke

The Wife’s Story - Ursula K Le Guin

The Veldt - Ray Bradbury

The Hanging Stranger - Philip K Dick

The Colour out of Space - H P Lovecraft

The Spider - Hanns Heinz Ewers

Sad

The Life You Save May Be Your Own - Flannery O’Connor

A Small, Good Thing - Raymond Carver

Cathedral - Raymond Carver

The Haunted Boy - Carson McCullers

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin

The Chef - Andy Weir

The Martyr - Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

Jambula Tree - Monica Arak de Nyeko

The Rats Do Sleep At Night - Wolfgang Borchert

Sci-Fi

Love is the Plan the Plan is Death - James Tiptree Jr

The Last Question - Isaac Asimov

The Nine Billion Names of God - Arthur C Clarke

The Star - Arthur C Clarke

Reunion - Arthur C Clarke

The Commuter - Philip K Dick

Exhibit Piece - Philip K Dick

To Serve Man - Damon Knight

Brothers Beyond the Void - Paul W Fairman

What the Fuck?! 

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson

A Collapse of Horses - Brian Evenson

Some of Us Had Been Threatening Our Friend Colby - Donald Barthelme

Hopeful Monsters - Hiromi Goto

The Box Social - James Reaney

He-y come on ou-t - shinichi hoshi

The Garden of Forking Paths - Jorge Luis Borges

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang (just the entire collection bro)

Other

Broken Routine - Jeffrey Archer

A Man Who Had No Eyes - Mackinlay Kantor

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been - Joyce Carol Oates

The Lady, or the Tiger - Frank R Stockton

The Continuity of Parks - Julio Cortázar

The Dinner Party - Mona Gardner

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel García Márquez

On Exactitude in Science - Jorge Luis Borges