as always, disclaimer that I did not choose to work with Meta, their event planner rented the concert hall I was the technical director for at the time and I didn't have a choice, lol

Screenshot of a Facebook post from Daniel B. Thompson, dated April 20, 2022. Black text on a white background reads: Just produced an event for a large tech company (who might own this app) and gotta day, folks, that the "metaverse" is the silliest tech idea of my lifetime and these losers are dumping millions of dollars into what is essentially animation.

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Want you to hear what I’m about to say very well and let this bless you: every conversation is not for you. You are not the center of the universe to the point where your opinion is needed for every lil thing. It’s ok to not say anything.

But have finalized their acquisition of a warehouse in Salt Lake County (UT) per local reporting

Wanted to show you this post in English because it’s so good and we truly are a global village

blosh jackman

I still read his posts to gather material for my pet theory that Josh Blackman Don't Read Good.

JB? Absolutely not, you can tell by the constant typos. All he does is think "how can I make this about my two favorite topics: myself and groveling?"

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

I helped a friend prep and paint 20 feet of an 8-foot-tall wooden fence yesterday and thus today I'm reminded that I'm almost 40

the technocracy is here

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

My (then) 6-year-old Mormon niece said to me once that Jesus could do [impossible thing]. I, being both an ex-Mo and a pot-stirrer, replied that I doubted it -to which she indignantly replied, "Yes, he can, because Jesus is magic!"
I was like . . . well, you actually get it better than most, kiddo

It is so weird - even after living through BUSH 2: EVEN DUMBERER - to live in a reality where the president is publicly crashing out over a war he started in the Middle East and is Posting Through It with posts that give "racist chain-letter email sent to you by your grandma in 2007"

Stop, drop, take a minute, consider value, and roll

"Does it add value?" is a question more people should be asking themselves way more frequently.

please leave my kitchen

Andy Be Sheared

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

This is the town where I live. Pretty, stupid little place.

We do that sort of thing a lot in theater when we need to refurbish or to make a mock-up of something that isn't manufactured anymore. Micro-sized version of buying a car for parts, haha.

Can you find the same model/a model with the same cushions on eBay or something and do a swap?

I love a typo these days, because I'm like "a human wrote this!"

Clerical error and/or incompetence are the charitable options, as opposed to "we fed it all into ChatGPT and used to to do everything including drafting this unreviewed rejection notice."

What they did to San Francisco is one of the greatest man made tragedies to happen to a city. A hive of the most unfuckable losers wearing a beacon of culture like the skin suit from men in black.

Jane Don't was robbed.

I could consume any amount of substances on shrooms, for sure.

Yeah, I have an unusually strong natural tolerance for substances of all kinds and a tendency to build up that tolerance quickly, which was Not Helpful for a drinking problem.

For a lot of people, yeah, but I was pretty routinely getting this drunk at the depths of my alcoholism without any other drugs. Not to say it isn't also blow, but it's possible with just booze.

My paternal grandmother turns 100 on July 4th.