“Was I weird? I feel like in was weirds. I definitely was weird. Then again, it was 12 years ago.” Meg says, being held by an ethereal being that represents… well you be the judge!
“Weird” (2022)
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
It’s ominous, thinks I.
A Wikipedia entry for Skateboarding dog, featuring the raddest dog on a skateboard. The caption below says: “Dog cannot grind” citation needed
also go see @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social live if you ever get the chance, so great.
wikipedians aren't changing "is" to "was" yet because the app is still operational but it's gonna feel so good to make that edit when it's finally time
The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."
It’s good to see that pockets of pure art still exist out there.
An Ewok playing an ICE and Border Patrol drumset.
This machine yub nubs fascists.
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
Share a ‘90s movie you think deserves more love.
Spider-Man speaks to a vampire with an afro and a Dracula-style cape. Spider-Man: NO, IT'S WORSE THAN THAT. THE MAD THINKER IS HIDING SOMEWHERE IN YOUR HOUSE! The vampire points at a painting Man: THERE! BEHIND THE PICTURE OF UNCLE DRACULA! Three panels of Uncle Dracula. In one we see eyes appear behind the frame. Panel from Spidey Super Stories #14 (1975)
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
“The most valuable thing to me in terms of my mental health is to read a poem or see a painting or listen to music which speaks to me, which breaks me open for a moment, and where I feel an experience honestly & delicately portrayed. That’s another reason AI can never create anything artistically.”
meme of PTA launching his “phase 1” (like Marvel) plan to release 4 pynchon adaptations over the years
saw this in the thomas pynchon subreddit lol
2 images from hackers as characters converse. "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." "Zero Cool crashed 1.507 systems in one day, biggest crash in history. Front page New York Times August 10, 1988"
Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.
Loose layers of bright colors with a cool pink and white embroidered cassock. Like a high contrast painting stepped off the page and into real life!
Went to the Jack Kirby exhibit at the Skirball yesterday and I am still flipping out at these costumes Mr. Kirby designed for a UCSC Shakespeare production in the seventies. Getting to see it in person. We should all dress like this.
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
![Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26 and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6waxgers6k753hgsmh2prmv7/bafkreicwreql25fxq3hliczfe3pgz6djdjbrvwbax2d2oyevjm73tb3voy)
Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26 and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.
I am heartbroken to hear the news that ROBERT E MCGINNIS has past away March 10th at the age of 99. One of the greatest American Illustrators ever is gone and not a single piece on the news anywhere about the man, his influence and his life.
a sign that says graham
@stoppodcasting.bsky.social hey it’s you
One thing I’m excited about for 2025. This might be it
spoke to the wonderful Mary Reber — who owns Laura Palmer’s house and plays a memorable role in The Return — about David Lynch, death, trauma, and the Twin Peaks fans she’s been connecting with for years www.vulture.com/article/mary...
THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2024
A video countdown
vimeo.com/1046284152
Watched Magnolia last night and unknowingly timed the frog scene with the NYE countdown, surely a great sign for 2025
I’ll bite.
Mr. Peanut, the would-be mayor of Vancouver, on the cover of File magazine from the early ‘70s.
A sign saying please do not touch the robot
