@dropout.tv Tonight, 12/31/25, my wife is starting "Yes or No" at 11:41:30pm, so that @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social will shout "I CANNOT WIN!!" right at midnight. Tell me that doesn't sum it all up. #happynewyear
Do you WANT to this is how you lose the time war? Because this is how you this is how you lose the time war.
That would be His Holiness Sucrose II.
This is what I was trying to ascertain without exposing my poor, overstressed brain to, you know, information about the world.
My condolences to all my Catholic friends on the passing of Pope Francis. He will be missed.
I love the live video of "Running Up That Hill" from 1987, as it brings together three absolute LEGENDS of 80's music: Kate Bush, David Gilmour, and Tony Franklin's hairstylist.
Yes, boundaries are important for self-care. And yes, they can be weaponized, which harms both the other person and your own efforts at self-care. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtkJ...
Can’t really say I understand the significance of recent astronomical findings, but it sounds like the Big Crunch theory may be making a comeback? This has got to be good news for SF writers….
What is it with content creators suddenly creating pieces of content that all start with, "I WAS WRONG ABOUT..."
*Torgo theme plays while people scramble to place their orders*
In case any particularly rich person needs a birthday gift idea for me.
Team Carlyle here.
Politics aside: Can you imagine a more hellish fate, existentially speaking, than being, say, in your mid-50s and thinking and acting like a grade school bully? What can one do in the face of such a normatological atrocity but be profoundly grateful for one’s own life and life choices?
Why? I’m a human! I’m a human male! #brooklynninenine
I celebrate the little victories. Like getting my car fixed. Like attaining a new level in my video game. Like teaching my Guinea pig that chin rubs do not mean you get to snack on my finger afterward.
This has direct relevance to my life. (Childhood me is flabbergasted that I’m saying that about a news article about cartilage.)
I'm (re-)reading the same thing right now, tag-teaming with "Pride and Prejudice," but also half hoping my Kindle breaks from falling in water so that I have an excuse to buy a Kobo.
(re: an Amazon delivery)
Her: What's in the box?
Me: Pain. Stop! Put your hand in the box. I hold at your neck the gom jabbar. This one kills only animals. Your instinct will be to remove your hand from the box. If you do so, you die.
Her: What's in the box?
Me: Diphenhydramine.
Take that, North America!
RIP Gene Hackman, truly one of the greats. Very tragic that his wife and dog passed away at the same time -- I'm hearing that it was a gas leak?
With JavaScript's help, I managed to download and archive 1,700 of my Kindle books ahead of today's scheduled digipocalypse. Next step: buy a Kobo.
(Incidentally, I landed on reading "Terra Ignota" during the day and "Outlander" at night. That should eat a good portion of the year.)
Loving this late February thaw. Maybe the groundhog only saw half his shadow?
My options:
1. Read "Outlander."
2. Re-read "Too Like the Lightning "
3. Re-re-re-re-re-read "Guards! Guards!"
4. Hit random on the SCP website. Read. Repeat.
Whaddya think?
Right before falling asleep last night, I saw that Terry Pratchett's Discworld books were on sale for 1.99 each, and would be so for the next 15 minutes. I bought a few. I woke up this morning to find it was more than a few. Way more. Great A'Tuin help me.
I have a slightly different take on what the ultimate answer is, but yeah, basically this.
Do you need a hug?
Per NASA, the odds of 2024 YR4 impacting Earth have gone from 3.1% on Tuesday down to 0.28% today. (It currently has a larger chance of hitting the Moon.) Let's create a society where such news is greeted with relief rather than disappointment, what do you say?
