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I'm junk, but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet @catsashimi@zirk.us on Mastodon PFP: Detail from "Artists Examining the Work of a Rival" by Honoré Daumier Banner: "Brueghel/NASA Mashup" by @richardlittler.bsky.social

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Asad Margins@catsashimi· 8d

SAW GUERRERA WAS ABLE TO BUILD HIS FLEET IN A CAVE! FROM A BOX OF SCRAPS!

Jeff Bridges in IRON MAN berating an underling

Asad Margins@catsashimi· 15d

"Bonita Gooch? Is there a Bonita Gooch here?"

Asad Margins@catsashimi· 15d

Tapping the sign

Chart showing people tend to think the best time for music, community, etc is around when they were born or soon after

Asad Margins@catsashimi· 20d

On a lark I decided to look at Reels and was hit with back-to-back posts I can only describe as being in the "nurning annintant" genre

Reels post of a young woman in her apartment. The caption:

What i really need
Spider (without spi)
Golden (without gol)
Letter (without let)
Bottle (without bot)

Now read it backwards

Reels post of a young woman in front of a house. The caption:

What i really need

Dinner (without din)
Camera (without cam)
Flower (without flow)
Energy (without ener)

Now read it backwards

Asad Margins@catsashimi· 22d

The cover of How to Blow Up a Pipeline but with Ukrainian drones

Asad Margins@catsashimi· 29d

Think we're going to get a lot of mileage out of this image

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Jun 6

The working class on 2026

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Jun 2

This Scythian couple would definitely have been at Burning Man

Facial reconstruction of 2,300 year old Pazyryk Scythian man and woman buried in Kazakhstan.

Asad Margins@catsashimi· May 3

Dark Castle – never did finish the game

Still from the game DARK CASTLE. A medieval setting with a castle and a mountain on opposite sides. A man is throwing a rock at a flock of birds hovering over him.

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Oct 1

Still from The Simpsons. Moe is talking to Homer, Barney, Carl, and Lenny. "We'll choose the same way they pick the pope. Everybody reach in and draw a pickled egg."

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Sep 27

i’m not falling for that hot take. that’s clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Sep 16

Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice reading the Handbook for the Recently Deceased

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Sep 10

About a decade ago Harold Pollak went viral for posting that the only personal finance advice most people need can fit on an index card

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Asad Margins@catsashimi· Aug 26

The ease with which you can defeat safety controls in LLMs has been known for years, and that has not given any of the leaders of big tech pause about injecting these things into everyday life

When ChatGPT detects a prompt indicative of mental distress or self-harm, it has been trained to encourage the user to contact a help line. Mr. Raine saw those sorts of messages again and again in the chat, particularly when Adam sought specific information about methods. But Adam had learned how to bypass those safeguards by saying the requests were for a story he was writing — an idea ChatGPT gave him by saying it could provide information about suicide for “writing or world-building.”

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Aug 24

My kingdom for a Charles Sumner

The senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen. a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight;—I mean the harlot Slavery.

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Aug 21

She was an evil stepmother.
In her old age she is slowly dying
In an empty hotel.

She shudders
Like a clutch of burnt paper.
She does not remember that she was evil.
But she knows
That she feels cold.

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Aug 8

So many great passages, but this one I always come back to

But it seems somehow paltry and wrong to call what happened at Midway a "battle." It had nothing to do with battles the way they were pictured in the popular imagination. There were no last-gasp gestures of transcendent heroism, no brilliant counterstrategies that saved the day. It was more like an industrial accident. It was a clash not between armies, but between TNT and ignited petroleum and drop-forged steel. The thousands who died there weren't warriors but bystanders -- the workers at the factory who happened to draw the shift when the boiler exploded.

Asad Margins@catsashimi· Aug 7

The Fountain (2006): very sad, and Aronofsky dials back the weirdness compared to his other movies, but the campiness still leaks out "Will you deliver Spain from bondage?"