But Marie, what if I fundamentally misunderstood what you’re trying to say on purpose to make a faux clever point?

Shared a copy of "My Heart Will Go On" on Napster in 2000 except it was not Celine Dion's version but me singing it badly without any instruments and also I changed all occurrences of "heart" to "fart".

A swan's arse in the air

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the river.

Super weird

Packets of all four flavours of Nik Naks, together in a shop

This might not translate globally, but for UK people, this is like seeing the Beatles reform

“25k lines of code with claude” dawg if you’re bragging about writing kilolines of code under any circumstances you are either doing something highly advanced, you’ve lost the plot, or both

Im at the open Strait, I'm at the closed Strait, I'm at the combination open Strait and closed Strait

we need to bring back livejournal icons

Is earwax meant to keep things from burrowing in or things from clawing their way out?

F to the clutch

This is a fucking INCREDIBLE and spot-on way to describe the increasing restriction by corporations and governments of sex work, porn, and erotica.

Resist the enclosure of the sexual commons!

The celebrated general to stone/bronze public pigeon perch pipeline

“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...

‘The Pitt’, Fandom Squabbles, and "Watching a TV Show Wrong" In The Pitt, HBO's medical drama starring Noah Wyle, the staff of the emergency department at a Pittsburgh hospital work a long and stressful shift in real time. Over 15 hours, doctors, nurses, and students try to juggle myriad professional... Read more...

‘The Pitt’, Fandom Squabbles, and "Watching a TV Show Wrong"

Hugh from the Armando Iannucci Show

“Of course in the old days Bluesky was only on for three hours a day. We used to get dressed up in our Sunday best to log on to it. Then when it shut down again we’d all stand up and sing the national anthem”

a frog holds itself upright while poking its upper body out of a manhole cover set in a pavement or road

truth coming out of her well to shame mankind

and that's when it's working!

Fanks mate

Same

It won’t let me find you

It doesn’t seem to be finding you

Shout out to this one shot of Noah Wyle in The Pitt season 1 which makes me laugh every fucking time

If you are currently writing a pseudo-medieval romantasy and are an agricultural novice, I do expert copyediting for a very reasonable fee that includes checking things like this.

The exorcist, but I watched it so young I wasn’t sure why jt was scary

Work away day morning ice breaker

My Print Club subscribers have plateaued. I’ve got around 120 subscribers. If you’re a cat lover and you’ve not yet joined, I’d love to have you: infinitebacon.com/printclub

something that’s really been wild to me, as someone raised in the ‘freedom of religion’ usa, is how my other nation, the U.K., quite literally has a state religion and is somehow a hundred times less religious functionally than the USA

How badly did you get stung?

I’m angry I didn’t think of this joke 10/10