This thread is a great example of social media as SOCIAL media, not a broadcast medium for reach or clout or clicks or one-way "engagement." Just a bunch of people who don't know each other IRL going "Check this out, you've GOT to hear this!" with genuine, contagious enthusiasm. A beautiful thing.
“ferry to the boatless” is an exceptional phrase
boy do I miss when you could go on the internet and see, in chronological order, posts made by people you followed
Sandman Slim is so good! I need to jump back into that series.
yeah I mean I love Mara Jade very much but it’s kind of hard to bring her into the continuity when Luke’s story is “became an angry monk” and not “married the coolest person alive after she tried to kill him several times”
we’ll always have the old Zahn books at least
## Ramble On
I love this song so much, and this version in particular is so good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca3VI4aGDjc
This one took me a second, but I love it.
I took some time off from all this nonsense for Lent and I see I made the right choice.
Star Trek The Search for Spock scene. Our Lord Spock is pictured in a white robe. He stands surrounded by his shipmates who are all older here than they were in the TV show. Sulu is smiling and touching Spock's chest for some reason. Uhura, Chekov, Scotty, and Bones stand close and all seem thrilled to see him, but are otherwise practicing self control and not feeling his chest. Despite being surrounded by friends, Spock is staring only at Kirk, for obvious reasons.
He is risen
I've generally had good luck at the one next to the art gallery at 40th and Butler.
"AC/DC for Ukulele"
"Still punk as fuck" he whispered, reaching for his four string
Turns out you can sometimes improve on perfection.
A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".
2026 basically
PĄCZKI FEED! bsky.app/profile/did:...
Why wasn't I aware of this hilarious little gem before?
youtu.be/dxpjzOLVRR0?...
The corner of a woven coverlet with a low-res portrait of George Washington. His eyes are super wide.
When he sees where we ended up as a country...
A detailed maquette of a dark, textured alien with a wide, flat head and large expressive eyes is positioned within the complex cockpit of a spacecraft, surrounded by intricate control panels and mechanical claw-like appendages.
Pilot in the show
Farscape (1999-2003): Pilot console, maquette / study model
That's the goal.
I'm a deeply flawed individual, but I bring joy to the world.
A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.
My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.
This Vonnegut quote is great news for me personally, a guy who is bad-to-okay at a bunch of things and only good at a couple
The Steam Machine has been delayed because stupid little babies can't stop using AI to write their emails:
aftermath.site/steam-machine-...
Okay, which Pittsburgh local is working for @mcsweeneys.net?
Quote with 5 jobs you’ve had:
- Shopping cart jockey
- CD hawker/battery upseller
- Computer lab babysitter
- Factory machine operator
- Software engineer
And Nadia is a gem! Exactly the kind of tech creator we should be supporting.
I love StoryGraph and I especially love it because it is NOT owned by Amazon
The publisher of The Inquirer says to the civic-minded people of Pittsburgh: here is how we saved our newspaper in Philadelphia, which is now profitable.
www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
"I believe our own experience over the past decade offers a template for success."
people are skiing down negley and snowboarding down rialto! amazing
www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh...
www.reddit.com/r/pittsburgh...
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
