This thread is so heartbreaking.

Archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer's 'Iliad' inside a Roman-era mummy The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of Barcelona and led by Maite Mascort and Esther Pons, has identified a papyrus conta...

This source explains better: phys.org/news/2026-04...
"papyrus placed on the abdomen as part of the embalming ritual."

(As it is, I do plan to finally rewatch it with my husband soon, but I want to finish actually watching Twin Peaks: The Return first before I risk it! 🤣)

These questions did absolutely nothing to help me understand the movie, and I was frustrated by it and thought I hated David Lynch until I watched Twin Peaks several years later.

So yeah, I'd love to remove all of my memory of all that and see it fresh now as someone who just loved Twin Peaks.

The 10 questions that were on the inside of the front flap of my family's DVD copy of MULHOLLAND DRIVE David Lynch's 10 Clues to Unlocking This Thriller 1 Pay particular attention in the beginning of the film: at least two clues are revealed before the credits. 2 Notice appearances of the red lampshade. 3 Can you hear the title of the film that Adam Kesher is auditioning actresses for? Is it mentioned again? 4 An accident is a terrible event... notice the location of the accident. 5 Who gives a key, and why? 6 Notice the robe, the ashtray, the coffee cup. 7 What is felt, realized and gathered at the club Silencio? 8 Did talent alone help Camilla? 9 Note the occurrences surrounding the man behind Winkies. 10 Where is Aunt Ruth?

Also the damn DVD we had, had no chapters so she FAST FORWARDED MANUALLY like it was a VHS to get to that scene EVERY DAMN DAY. It also had that list of questions under the front flap that was supposed to help you figure out the meaning of the film. I kept reading them and trying to figure it out.

Mulholland Drive. I have a complicated history with it - it was the first David Lynch piece I ever saw (I was probably 15 or 16), and I saw the second half of it at least 40 times in one summer due to my stepmother playing it daily from "Silencio" onward because she was obsessed with the song.

do u know how dangerous i’d be if i could finish things i start

Craft-Along is open! Please note that the dates for everything have moved up from previous years because Desert Bus has moved up from previous years!

I hear that shirt in your voice 💜

Nope - house too small with bad storage 😂

Return to the Moon Follow the Artemis mission to bring humanity back to the Moon for the first time since Apollo.

Need some Moon Joy? Check out the PBS special “Return to the Moon” that aired on April 15th. Now you can stream it here:

#NASA #MoonJoy #Artemis2

I think I had something like 11 offspring before I asked him what it meant 😅

My funny story about playing LORD is that I kept chatting up the bard in the tavern, and he would take my character upstairs and then suddenly my "offspring" count in the game would go up. I asked my brother (aged 12/13 at the time) what "offspring" were, and he thought that was THE FUNNIEST THING.

My parents met on CompuServe in like 1985, and then they were sysops for a local BBS which they taught me how to log onto when I was old enough to type (~6 years old). Through that I had an email pen pal in Australia and played the text-based multi-player game LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon).

The good ol "luxury" parts of the body: eyes and teeth 🫠

I’m glad the Unicode Consortium added the “melting smiley” emote.

I just wish I wasn’t constantly presented with so many opportunities to use it.

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Husband and I both did the online renewal this year and it was pretty painless and fast! It's better now that they've eased up the photo requirements a bit.

3 Screenshots from the movie "Mallrats" (1995): First, three young men stand outside a mall restroom, engaged in a tense conversation, one of them wearing a beanie and a stained shirt. Second, a man dressed in a makeshift Batman costume with goggles and wings spreads his arms while standing on a mall structure. Third, a brightly lit stage features a man in a light blue suit hosting a talk show segment with three seated guests under spotlights and pink curtains.

Apr 14th - The events of Mallrats took place.

📽️📅 Mallrats (1995)

Proof, in case people need it. Application sent in in February. Money ran out now. Will give an unredacted version to any mutuals who want it. (If you want to help, Venmo is in bio)

4 Screenshots from the movie "Apollo 13" (1995): First, a crew member inside the spacecraft looks concerned under red emergency lighting, saying, "We've got a problem here." Second, another astronaut responds in alarm, asking, "What did you do?" with the reply, "Nothing. I stirred the tanks." Third, a close-up of a mission control operator listening intently with the subtitle, "This is Houston. Say again, please." Fourth, a focused astronaut delivers the iconic line, "Houston, we have a problem."

Apr 13th 1970 - "Houston we have a problem". This was a deliberate misquote in the movie. The writers as thought the original spoken line of "we've had a problem" wasn't as dramatic.

📽️📅 Depicted in Apollo 13 (1995)

The Polar Bear King - Wikipedia

And "The Polar Bear King," when I learned the tale of Eros and Psyche in middle school I immediately went "Ah yes, just like that polar bear movie." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pol...

Why did my local video rental slash gun shop have all these Swedish/Norwegian fantasy movies??

"Mio in the Land of Faraway" where a boy is yelled at by his aunt for buying the wrong crackers so he is whisked off to a magical land where he is a prince and Christian Bale is his best friend actually.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mio_in_...

Yes, that is me among the undersigned on Fight for the Future's letter supporting the Internet Archive's work. I also donated $100 to the Archive in January, which seemed like a fair payment for the dent I've put in its server costs over the years.
www.savethearchive.com/journalists/

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I have known Amber since I was 11 years old. And, okay, I forgot to tell her this, but one of the memories I have from when I was younger with Amber is her asking me -because I had really long hair back then and my hair is a little bit wavy, so it curls up at the end-if I curl my hair to get it that way. And I was like, "Oh no, I don't." I was little. I didn't think too much of my hair like that. But she was like, "Whoa. It's really beautiful like that. You have that naturally." And literally, ever since that day, I have loved that my hair has done that, and it's literally all because of her. It's not like I hated it before. I just didn't pay much attention to it. But I need to tell her this. It's crazy that it's stuck with me for this long. I really don't have many memories of when I was younger, but I do have that one.

Photo of Alysa Liu as a child sitting on Amber Glenn's lap.

If anybody wants a bitchslap to the feels, have this snippet from Alysa talking about Amber in Cosmopolitan.

(source: x.com/samodeIkina/... )

Todd is a good follow

It’s a good question, let’s clear the air:

1) Disco is awesome, like 25 all-time classic tracks in a 4 year span,

2) Disco was hated because it was queer, brown, and black,

3) Disco was hated because it paired women and men in a different power dynamic.

4) “Disco Sucks” was a “ MAGA” test run.

My kid: "How many minutes are there in a year?"
My husband: "Uhhhhhh I'd have to do some math for that..."
Me: "MY TIME TO SHINE HAS COME!!! I believe that you will find that it's five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred 🎶minutes🎶."

And now...after the Artemis II success...this mess.

4 Screenshots from the movie "Apollo 13" (1995): First, a dramatic sunrise over the Cape Kennedy launchpad with the Saturn V rocket silhouetted against the sky, captioned "April 11, 1970 Cape Kennedy, Florida". Second, a close-up of a tense flight controller in mission control, wearing a headset and focused on the screen. Third, two women in the crowd, one emotional and crying with eyes shut, reacting to the rocket launch. Fourth, the Saturn V rocket lifts off in a massive plume of smoke and fire while a man watches from a distance with his back to the camera.

Apr 11th 1970 - Apollo 13, led by Commander Jim Lovell, launched from Kennedy Space Center.

📽️📅 Depicted in Apollo 13 (1995)

Text from husband while I'm upstairs:

"'Donald? Where's Donald!? HEAL ME!' Now he's getting the true kingdom hearts experience"