the dog had a ccl injury (surgery, soonish) and when we have to carry her into the yard go out (bunch of stairs) on her leash we says “dog
balloon!!”

song from 2012 being played for y2k night at the roller rink (i don’t think it should count).

and fell down again.

also man editing an excel spreadsheet at the roller rink (not “dilemma” style but still).

exceptionally uncoordinated and oblivious crowd at the roller rink.

🩵🩵🩵🩵

also a lot of schools go to howe caverns, but my class went in 5th/6th grade and many of the kids behaved so appallingly that we had to write letters of apology and the school never went back (i was polite and stressed out).

sorry, hancock shaker village and the shaker heritage society (where ann lee is buried). we have a lot of these kind of places.

a lot of this thread are like, interesting and strange factories and museums. around here it was a lot of various villages in a living museum style à la sturbridge village or hancock shaker museum. which are fun but also lol

encountered the closing credits for “Lassie” and inexplicably sobbing on a friday afternoon help

i’m not saying i don’t enjoy the movies but why is every female frankenstein take just manic pixie dead girl?

When we say no war but class war we mean that no one in Iran is poisoning our water or stealing our wages or kidnapping our neighbors. And the people who are? They're spending our money on killing Iranians

bangs complimented by a stranger at the roller rink.

Feeds, feelings, and focus: A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use - PubMed The resurgence of short-form videos (SFVs), popularized by TikTok and Douyin, has transformed social media platforms, with features like Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts fostering their widespread adoption. Although initially geared toward entertainment, SFVs are increasingly used in education, po …

basically says this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41231585/

the answer, as usual, is balance! sometimes the benefits outweigh the detriments, and it is wildly true that the quality and nature of the content is more important than the quantity. but also there is no useful control group and we need more data. there is a recent meta analysis on SFV use that

i spent most of january at work teaching health classes on social media for the second year in a row, & did a lot of reading and parsing research to prepare and then relay that to high school
students and i can confidently say that what ya’ll discuss is basically what the research says and supports

why do we have to pick seats when we bought movie tickets this is stupid.

just went to a different show and this happened again with the youth, truly middle school in line at the theme park velcro behavior, what is going on

i didn’t dislike it but, it wasn’t there.

thinking about this more and talking about it with my mom—it’s a good movie if you like vibes, but nothing about it is specific. the tree canopies and moss is good.

also the lines of hamlet the play are delivers too quickly and so clearly for the screen that i’m annoyed. performances from the mains and the children are pretty great.

cinematography is gorgeous, soundtrack & sound effects are great, it’s stupid that her hair is down all the time. besides the inaccuracy, it makes no sense for someone scraping about outside to always have their hair out, come on.

the book, for me, is much more about her relationship with her life: with her mother in law, the forest and garden, all her children, the town, her own conception of self, her husband, the world all at once. that doesn’t come through here.

Hamnet was good. my expectations were very high, and it doesn’t quite work for me as an adaptation of
the book—i think it it exacerbates the parts of the novel that aren’t as good, and as i suspected doesn’t focus as much on agnes’s internal life in favor of the marriage.

btw montauk isn’t a municipality and doesn’t have its own police dept (the town of east hampton covers montauk and it’s their pd). this is a nitpick but idc

like it still feels like s5 is an entirely different show and universe from the rest of the seasons.

anyway, they pulled it together a bit more for the finale but a lot of it is still pretty meh—there was no reason for the lead up to be that lousy and convoluted.

omg it’s maman

you mean media comprehension not media literacy, for the most part.

still ruminating on this, it’s just so bad? when it’s not inert it’s flailing, ugh.