You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

we all know I have no life, so:

A color, macrophoto of a Robin perched on a branch in Virginia, during late April, 2026. The capture was taken during rain and the photographer snapped the photo at the split second a raindrop fell on the top of the bird's head, making it appear like a "natural" crown. 📸 Dawn Denise Boyer of Gloucester, Virginia

#WonderfulBirdWednesday

Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑
04/2026

#Birds #Nature
#FlawlessTiming 🌟
#FMSPAD
#SomethingThatFlies
#Birdsky #Wildlife
#Photography
#BirdPhotography
#Macrophotography

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

I blame myself. How has it taken me this long to realize that Star Trek Deep Space Nine's "The Siege of AR-558" should have been called (wait for it, sorry in advance)...

Apocalypse Nog

Happy birthday!

The caption “Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006” under a photo of a rat playing on a tiny plastic piano

And a very happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes to all who observe

I had a basal cell carcinoma spot removed from my forehead a couple of years ago and I am a pretty serious SPF user. PUT YOUR SUNSCREEN ON, FRIENDS! And get your bod checked out by a dermo when/if you can!!

(And also I’m still not over them cutting The Story of Chess from the new production.)

Listened to the new Broadway cast recording of Chess, which I love and cherish because it’s the cast that I ACTUALLY SAW, but I then had to immediately follow it up with the original, because Elaine Paige and Tommy Korberg make me SWOON.

*hugs* I have been struggling with my migraines of late as well, and it is the fucking worst.

Happy 50th anniversary to “All the President’s Men” — a film that owes its existence to Redford, who bought the film rights, developed the script and cajoled a reluctant Woodward & Bernstein.

I thought it was “a great character study,” he said later. But, for months, “they didn’t return my calls.”

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Come to this thread for the tea on a MAGA Pentagon adult Catholic convert threatening the first American Pope with an Avignon papacy, stay for “there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago.” Amen.

HAPPY LELAND MELVIN DAY!!!! Give your pup a smooch!

Love that Corgi 🤣🐶

That was a looooong summer. But omg so good.

throwback to a few years ago when easter, passover, and ramadan all overlapped on margaret thatcher's death day

And he is risen!

This one still gets me

Missed this when it happened but just a reminder that baseball is the best.

[P] I can never choose between these two

"We've got a beautiful moonrise and we're headed right at it." -Wiseman

"Humanity's next great voyage begins" #Artemis

On this Trans Day of Visibility, I would just like to say that trans rights are human rights and that celebrating the trans community as a part of all communities enriches every one of us.

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

Channing Tatum Is Writing a "Very Sexy" Romance Novel Channing Tatum partnered with author Roxane Gay to write a romance novel that she described as "very sexy." Read all about it, here.

Wha… what!?

Channing Tatum is co-writing a romance novel with Roxanne Gay about two people who make a pact to get married after 40.

www.instyle.com/channing-tat...

Carter: Colonel!
O'Neill (p90 pointed offscreen): come on, Daniel, what does it say?
Daniel Jackson: well if Im reading this right, they worshipped a being named "Miette", who had the power to imprison you for... one thousand years...
Teal'c: I believe it would be most unwise to awaken this "Miette"