Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 14hYou know, streaming one's final breath on a hospital bed to fund their funeral sounds like something a completely normal and ethical society would do. This would absolutely not validate sickos. 020
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Your association with a certain (alleged) hammer-wielding menace might lower your chance. Will you disavow? 130
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Counterpoint: Resident Evil, the Netflix series. 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Baldness finally seen as a positive trait, though? 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I had not seen the movie, and now I don't have to. I had, in truth, forgotten that it exists, and now I can forget again. 1100
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"It was almost okay with a dozen caveats." Got it. 020
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's also kind of funny and terrifying that they're basically saying "We did a crime and nothing happened to us. We're gonna do it again." So I guess it's now legal to tell a computer to improvise a crime? 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I wonder what the anti-abortion people would have to say about this. Oh, who am I kidding. They wouldn't care. 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 14/09/2026That's true. Does the game say anything about cops, or are they just an environmental hazard? On the other hand, in the Cyberpunk TTRPG, NCPD used to be a corporation that charges for services, but in the CRPG they pay YOU, among other things. It's a weird change that feels weird. 110
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I recently tried to get back into Diablo 4. Then I noticed that a friggin talent needs an expansion. I uninstalled on the spot. Last straw. I'm not paying for another Blizzard game. 010
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Oh yeah, but it's also been really annoying to see how many people today think of politics in general like it was fiction, that bombing one guy changes an "evil" society, or tweaking one societal knob produces the desired result. 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 13/09/202690s were different. You have quite a few movies that are critical of cops and policing, for example, presenting them as petty and incompetent, or downright corrupt. 5341
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 11/09/2026"I make her life a living hell, the humane thing is to euthanize her." Is that the logic? 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Did the allegations regarding Andrew Callaghan ever lead anywhere? Did we just forget? 100
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 07/09/2026That's not everything it does. Ignoring every mistake it makes, it learns to know us, our deepest urges. It's learning how to hack our brains, to produce just the thing we want to see or hear. It's learning how activate parts of our brain in the hopes of making us act in certain ways. 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Nahh. It's just that if we don't have anything they want, they'll only use soft(ish) power on us. No one is safe. 010
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I don't think they care tbh. Like Bezos himself bought The Expanse because he loved it so much, and glorified stuff that the bad guys did in the show lol. It might also be because in the show, imperialism is the bad guy, and he just didn't realize stuff done in its name is BAD. 010
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 02/09/2026To be fair, "17 hours of screen time" is not the same as "17 hours a day online", and even if it was, it can include productive things. 010
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I swear the answer would be exactly the same if asked "Are you considering nuclear weapons against Iran?" 010
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I just love the last(?) line in the movie, by Sarah Connor: "If a terminator can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too." Yeah, that is optimistic as fuck. 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Ah, yup. There's stickers too. Magnets sold out, it seems. Curious. 010
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Internet Etiquette with Erik might have those. At least he has shirts. Here: neongrizzly.com/collections/... 110
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Probably because they bonded on the island. Or was it the plane? Either way, one of THOSE gettogethers. 010
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Probably not the military, but military academies perhaps. What do you need highly educated officers for anyways? /s 180
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Every accusation is a confession. They never wanted free speech, they just love weaponizing liberal ideas to earn votes, only to destroy the same ideas when they get in power. 070
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The third world has been ravaged by conflict for decades before fascists got into power (again) in the West. What's causing it is basically us, buying valuable resources for a pittance, and meddling in their politics when they show signs of wanting to negotiate the arrangement. 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I think that these days it's more likely that either: 1) they're silencing these topics, because otherwise they'll lose their funding. It already happened in academia. 2) They're toadies who actually believe in "alternative facts". Both are terrible, just slightly different flavors. 1290
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Woman: Looking for a guy who can have meaningful conversations. This guy: Sorry, looking for a woman who appreciates intelligence. 020
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 16/08/2026And then he'll discover that Niemöller's poem had gotten to brown-nosing toadies. 010
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 15/08/2026All of that takes his precious time which is better spent taking drugs, posting on his social media site, arguing with his own AI and sucking at video games. PS. It's completely okay to suck at video games. 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I've heard a term "malicious compliance" used sometimes. 010
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Oh wow. In addition to other issues... What the heck is going on in northeastern South America? 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Oh yes, it's very common. I've done it when I was writing my first rpg stuff when I was like 12. Truly a rite of passage for a juvenile aspiring to be an author. Like Rowling :P PS. The text is so blurry in those pictures I can barely read the first one (my guess), and the second one not at all. 100
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 13/08/2026"real goths don't even coal burn" Okay, I can only guess what that means, but that man doesn't know what a real goth is. 110
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Yeah. I heard that also the other wizard nation names are basically what J.K. thinks Russian or Chinese sounds like. And that Harry is kind of an asshole, whose dream is to become magic cop. And a bunch of other "fun" stuff. 210
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 12/08/2026And they allowed Slytherin in as a valid house because... reasons? 160
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 09/08/2026So Hasan Piker is a problem for the Democratic Party, but Democrats campaigning for a Republican isn't? 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I don't know why, but putting "munitions" in quotes is hilarious to me. 020
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 01/08/2026But also... If someone doesn't physically release her, it stands. Isn't it exciting when the justice system operates on the whims of individual actors? /s 020
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A couple of months now: "ChatGPT is asking for access to your bank account. Should you?" 030
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 23/07/2026"Plant-based" is very vegan-adjacent, and not even mentioned in the article, so that's all Robert. Some secular vegans can become anti-vaxxers because they oppose animal testing (complex topic), or otherwise. Robert probably doesn't think all of us are like that, but nuance dies on social media... 161
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Please don't conflate this with plant-based or veganism, the article says nothing about it. As a vegan myself, I'm very pro-vaccine, pro-medicine, and pro-science in general. I've known people who are not, and while frustrating, there are organizations that reject anti-science ideas on principle. 1111
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 20/07/2026It wasn't aimed at you, but readers who might conflate feminism et al. with anti-man. Not sure how prevalent it is these days, but it was infuriatingly common 6-10 years ago. Just chipping in, as a man, saying that I'd be happy to see patriarchy (and other things in that vein) gone. 001
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 20/07/2026What this means is that fighting patriarchy isn't anti-man, it's a fight for equality among men. If we don't stop seeing each other as rivals, or our vanity will doom us all. 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Reminder: Patriarchy isn't rulership by men, it's a competition between men to rule. All men benefit over others, but the most callous benefit the most. They see others as allies of convenience at best, but usually just labor or soldiers for their wealth-acquisition. Patriarchy also harms men. 390
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 14/07/2026It's great, but can we also get the other songs from the teaser? 000
Village Idiot @mostlyharmless.bsky.social · 06/07/2026And yet, they live it, with their full conviction. They're calling the cartoon villains their real world saviors. Yet another case of truth being stranger than fiction... 000
