Mr. Dark

Host/Writer/Comedian/Podcaster/Actor. Formerly of a lot of places, currently of my room. My opinions do not reflect those of my various non-employers.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

While I'm here, GO LISTEN TO MY PODCAST DEAR GOD I BEG OF YOU! Why look, here's a Spotify link now, although you can find it wherever podcasts live. New episode coming next week!

https://t.co/Ab8jHSFhq2

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@nberlat it isn't even the "killer thinks he's a woman" horror trope, which was absolutely a thing, and absolutely anti-trans. This killer thought he was a -specific- woman, not just another gender. Not a trope, not transphobic. Go pick on Texas Chainsaw 3.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@nberlat might be late to the game, but you've dragged (pun intended) me back to this dumpster fire to ask: have you even SEEN Psycho??? Transphobic? Bates thinks he's his dead mother and dresses like her. He isn't trans. It's not commentary on trans people. It's -in- the title.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@svpino Say it louder for the people in the back! In my career, most of the shops I worked in were Agile. No two shops used the same process. The moral to the story: everyone calls their process "Agile" because the boss read it in an article and it sounded good. Scrum is no different.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

I AM IN A THING! I perform the voice in the final entry in this selection of entries from Monologue Fest 2023! https://t.co/MkcBGx1EPY

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@AllCharisma The issue is abusing the term "terrorism" if terror isn't the goal. The latest? Very possible. Most? Madness driving people to kill strangers isn't terror, it's just madness. Terrorism is a specific thing, with a goal and an ideology behind it.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@RobledoReturns @Neptunesalad Except that even homeless advocates, like "The Soup Man" here in Dallas, are exceedingly clear: giving cash to homeless panhandlers keeps them on the street and addicted. Give them food, and donate to real-deal homeless assistance groups. The sign is mean but it's correct.

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@AlistairBarrie @neilhimself @RepublicStaff We're doing this weird thing with social media instead. It's not going well, but we'll see how it turns out. So far we've only had one attempted coup, could be worse. Best of luck with your new sorta kinda not really ruler.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@AlistairBarrie @neilhimself @RepublicStaff We actually like some of your royals. (Especially the ginger, he seems to be a good fella.) But I think a lot of us think you'd best make them tourist attractions. Meet and greets. And actually write that constitution. You can borrow ours, we're don't use it very often.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@Foywonder My parents had no idea what it was, no idea why 7-yo me wanted to drive all the way over to the Kansas side to see a movie because the few theaters showing it on the MO side were sold out, and were blown away upon seeing it. Had NO clue.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@ArielDumas @AllCharisma Spoiler: it also does it BADLY. Current "AI" isn't. There's zero intelligence behind it. Nothing we have can spit out anything resembling a usable creative work. We're YEARS away from that. Likely decades. They're betting the farm on a TOY that mimics human behavior.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@AlistairBarrie @neilhimself @RepublicStaff Man, I love you guys, I really do, but...your liberal democracy has a KING. I know I'm a Texan, unfamiliar with your wiley British ways, but that would seem to be a telltale sign of an issue with your "democracy" right there. "Royalty" don't blend well with "democracy."

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@DirtyEffinHippy Well, she's the bestest girl.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@FrankConniff Here here. Sometimes, the gag lands, and it just keeps landing. It's like the Ramones: they only wrote one song but it was a REALLY good song. Grew up with this guy making me shoot drinks out my nose. Bless him.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@ProjectLincoln "Come to Florida! Do business here! We want to team with you!" ::Florida's biggest employer casts a black woman as Ariel:: "WE MUST END THIS COMPANY NOW."

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@vmenendezb @LuckyMcKee Serkis doesn't have any. As in, his range is -oblivion-. It is Lovecraftian in depth. It is unknowable. To stare at it too long is to know madness.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@ReedTimmerAccu I don't know what I love more: that you posted a request for a pipe wrench in the middle of nowhere to fix a VEHICLE in the middle of the night, or that you GOT a monkey wrench to fix said vehicle.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@Neptunesalad "Say but." "But." "Say ton." "Ton." "Say them together." "But Ton." "Okay, now say button." "Buh-uhn." "GAH!!!"

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@Neptunesalad Nope. Strange speech impediment. Some people -can't- do the double-T sound. Had a friend once who couldn't. Her sisters could. We experimented. Could NOT. AT ALL. People from all over have it, or don't.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@deesnider Best we can do is lop off the extreme at both ends. As in, invite them on a 3-hour tour by boat, and send them away with 90 minutes of fuel. Let them sort it out from there.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@FrankConniff Animal Crackers. Early, converted from vaudeville, has all four brothers, is about 50% beautiful improv, includes the source of Groucho's theme song, Captain Spaulding, the elephant in the pajamas and so much more.

[Mr. Dark @MrDarkDFW]

@Nash076 Not really. Current SCOTUS has shown no hesitation to shut down stuff like this. They aren't the complete wackadoodle extremists everyone feared, thankfully. This is a slam dunk for Disney in every way, and Florida is going to owe them a massive amount of money.