I did too and read them alongside listening to the eps shelved by genre did on the series which I recommend as a big context-head

the shadow of the torturer books are still in print but in sets; covers still cool!

Yes it is thematically appropriate to mute the word "antimemetics"

Yet another one of these “using the computer to automate the fun part for some reason” things. I already put myself in the game it’s called character creation and it’s sometimes better than the game itself

Always remember a country is a construct we all agree on.
Therefore: What Is A Country FOR?

I forget the actual stat but nasa at its peak only cost Americans like a nickel a year. Imagine. I’m not good at numbers but it was a tiny amount. I’d give nasa a nickel to keep throwing nerds at the moon you kidding
I’d give em a dime let’s really go crazy with it take some. Idk. Readings.

we should be throwing more nerds into space to have a look about
nerds love that shit

My friend uses a sort of eye mask thing that they like “manta sleep”

There’s an app (on the Google home interface) the same way there is on your phone I don’t just mean casting it alright locking this thread for myself 🙃

Oh these have gotten discontinued and pricey since I bought mine. Sry.

One of the new oblong ones “chromecast with google tv”

I use a chromecast and it works great. There’s an app like on your phone or whatever

For awhile there cameo really meant something

say what you will about the west wing, but every episode is labelled in the first couple frames and I can easily compare it to a list and make sure I’m labelling it correctly on my Jellyfin server

x the everything wine bar

Santa Monica pier

🌱

I want fully staffed public pools, and libraries that are cathedrals to public goods and a society where walling yourself off with money is viewed as sociopathic.

MINOR PROJECT HAIL MARY SPOILERS, DATA FOR THE ARACHNOPHOBES:
I read the book and was more squicked out by the book description of a certain “spider” in the movie than I was by seeing it on the big screen. Theres some stuff there with the legs, maybe, but I was totally fine and I got a hair-trigger

you should go into this movie knowing
1. nothing
2. everything b/c you read the book
this plot does not survive well the vicissitudes of synopsis

hey heads up if you go see Project Hail Mary there are two tie-in ads that play before the picture that try their best to spoil the whole fucking movie

We’ve lost all concept of this, but government services are not supposed to be profit making enterprises. government services are not publicly traded corporations. They are, and I can’t stress this enough, government services

it’s so hot in LA even the cat has decided to sit in front of the fan

friendship ended with two wool blankets now box fan is my best friend :-)

Omfg just heard on @strictscrutiny.bsky.social about how WH bros shout out too big shoe sizes to POTUS, who gifts them shoes they don’t want and can’t actually wear.

We live in a dicktatorship

The #1 movie I saw last year where I was hooting and hollering about the cinematography in the same way I noted some of these editing noms

Fuck you let the man speak he helped write golden for fucks sake

My rule of thumb is they don’t ever choose the song they play but the’ve played *both* good movie songs from this year. So Like. WHO KNOWS

This Pullman bit really emphasizing how fucking nice it is to have things edited