I just realized that next year the Ray Wars will have gone on as long as the Thirty Years’ War

I’m going to lie down now

Lee Marvin staring down at us from Heaven

Good morning and remember that Lee Marvin is in Heaven judging you. All that stupid shit you do? Knock it off or do it bigger, louder, and weirder.

We’ve experienced this clinic firsthand - they train the teachers on actual kids, and it made a huge difference for one of mine

I love this account

Love that Corgi 🤣🐶

The ratio of bad things to good things in my life has just been way too high lately. The good things have only been a little less abundant, but the bad things have rushed in and more than filled the gap.

B 😝 p

The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio, 1610

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Mission Control: Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning, there’s one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-o has been living there for 4,000 years. It seems she was banished to the moon because she stole the pill of immortality from her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit, who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported. Buzz Aldrin: Okay. We’ll keep a close eye out for the bunny girl.

Apollo 11 mission, 1969:
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I think this is almost like hazing: some subset of people used singular “they” in elementary school and got corrected, and it stung, and now they are paying that forward

ok so the box labeled 'improv' has improv in it, that makes sense. the box labeled 'ttrpg' has... improv in it. ok. sure. why not. but the box labeled 'kink' must have..! also improv. fuck. one of these must have something else in it. hand me the box labeled 'polyamory.'

unpopular opinion: “A whole nother” is a perfectly good expression. “Whole” is an infix, inserted into “another” to intensify it, the same way “fucking” works in “un-fucking-believable.” It’s not just another thing, it’s a whole nother thing.

Overheard at the local hardware store: “I need help finding a screw of a certain size.”

It doesn’t make any sense! The outcome will be the same either way, and presumably they would still prefer the one they chose first. But they don’t want to vote for the choice that’s going to lose. Once I saw this, i understood a lot more about how “electability” becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Something I didn’t really get until I played Roblox with my kids: people want to back a winner so much, they will back something they don’t even want. Like if players are voting on a map, and the votes are split 5-3, everyone voting for 3 will switch their vote to the more popular option

I'll never not reshare this

I was in grad school with this guy! (We weren’t close and did not keep in touch, but still, this is nice to see)

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

there’s a race to make AI “too big to fail” before it fails

Def with the record, def with the record …

shakira kurosawa would be a great drag name

They do this to forsythias too

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Oh wow … so many! The thornbirds, the world according to garp, & shogun all from ages 9-11. An actual pr0n novel that I found on the sidewalk when I was 10ish. The Kent family chronicles at 12. Nine and a half weeks at 13. (Yet I never read clan of the cave bear OR flowers in the attic!)

Nancy Drew, The Hidden Staircase;
Janet Dailey, Enemy in Camp;
Dorothy Sayers, Gaudy Night;
Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness;
Dick Francis, Comeback;
Samuel Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue;
Elizabeth Moon, Herris Serrano
(So many more I could have listed … never mind the fanfic)

The winter soldier looking at the camera over some sort of weapon in a very hot way

Bucky tells Steve he likes to be called cute names and then reciprocates by calling Steve “chicken feets”

Sometimes it’s hard to tell whether I like Bucky so much bc I’m attracted to him or bc I identify with how socially awkward fanfic depicts him to be

If no one is reporting, where will the content come from to aggregate? If all the LLMs are just pulling from each other’s bad writing, there is no there there, it’s just a circlejerk of gibberish.

a man with a bandage on his head is talking to a woman while another man looks on .. Alt: John Cleese as Basil Fawlty, with a bandage on his head, urgently says, “Don’t mention the war!”

Been thinking about this all afternoon

I love that Mamdani delivered a fun, happy video about blizzard prep and then dove into Irish history and solidarity for a traditionally beer-soaked holiday