"no. way.", apparently

ahegaolander

Such sights they have to show us

Collective noun, a crowdfunding of Nebulators

Two posts in a Bluesky feed. The first is @lindsayellis.bsky.social soliciting crowdfunding for an indie horror film called BLOW, with an image of the face of a blow-up sex doll. The following (unrelated) post is by @nickharkaway.com, and reads "Not today, Satan."

Synchronicity.

Nebulaters (frantically nebulating, eesh)
Nebules (NEBules or neBULES)
Bullies?
Bulas
Nebbishes

Nebbies maybe isn't bad, if a little diminutive.

robot dachshund howitzers for area denial

@tanaquil-optima.bsky.social Tell him about the mouse centrifuge and guillotine.

Yum!

How do you get it out of the blender and blades? Is it warm enough that it pours?

If love were enough, they would all live forever.

The soundtrack of my childhood.

"and we all must die!"

“Not density OR trees, density AND trees.” Better cities are climate action. URBAN Truth Collective

Remember, not density OR trees. Density AND trees.

Better cities are climate action. #UrbanTruth

Jeopardy writers going niche

bsky.app/profile/jfoy...

Can't read this without hearing the Captain sing "DON GIOVANNI"

I just saw PROJECT HAIL MARY and, dammit, we humans had better live up to the stories we tell about ourselves

An adorable gray cat with a white belly and the caption "If I were bigger I'd tear you apart."

hey, roko's basilisk? yeah, you, the hypothetical supreme intelligence that could exist in our future and be compelled to torment anyone who isn't in the sick little cult to bring about its apotheosis?

do your worst, you evil fuck. I'm right here.

Carrot-thulhu demands more souls, I mean, fertilizer

Here's a strange historical artifact: an episode of NOVA from fifty years ago, arguing for greater systematic preparation to survive a nuclear war with the Soviets, that's some of the most hawkish television I've ever seen from PBS.

youtu.be/j64mtjMTfIE

always

That's some catch

bsky.app/profile/jfoy...

jpreg

“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...

Lifts and separates the brain lobes

Oh. This is really bad, in specific and in general.

Wheeeen
yooooou
See four two nine
And BSky is offline
That's a DDoS