man! i think you would have been more appreciated on a college campus, we had a fair amount of good jokes floating around among the frat discourse and cafeteria food complaints
group chat roleplay idea: YikYak but it's a neighborhood of all Fun Weird Guys and exactly one minion meme aunt
yikyak was an unwinnable moderation nightmare, but when it was good, it was REALLY good
gravest Bob Nutting sin: getting called out as a bad umbrella safety example by the CPSC
ok, so, instead of doing the responsible thing and getting ready to move, i've decided to check something off of my bucket list: recreate The Photo
hacking and slashing through the Bluesky outage to announce that Quantum's season this year was so tight and everybody in Pittsburgh should go see 10 out of 12
I feel like your 30s is a time when you start to experience mild versions of a lot of stereotypical old people issues but you have to cover it up because you're still trying to project the image of youth
Cornell employee: oh hey u guys are back early
melittologist: bees haunted
Cornell employee: what?
melittologist [loading a bee smoker and getting back in the beekeeping van]: bees haunted
genuinely so excited about the Post Gazette news, I am really looking forward to receiving a print paper that isn't the Onion
(though I also love my print Onion editions)
film still from Josie and the Pussycats (2001) with the text "Josie and The Pussycats is the Best Movie Ever, Join the Army!" superimposed over parker posey and alan cumming
you can only call band promotion a psyop if the US government is backmasking military recruitment slogans
i'm here to count Luftballons and kick ass. and it appears I have a sizeable quantity of Luftballons.
Lol I'm 32 so I'm sort-of-not-really on the Gen Z cusp (I think most folks agree the birth year cutoff for milennials is '96)
I just mean culturally, I'm probably way closer to elder milennials than gen Z, despite me wanting to feel young
sometimes i try to pass as a z-lennial but I think the fact that I grew up reading all of these via RSS feed means I'm actually the youngest elder millennial
we were not made to know what KPI even stands for, let alone care about hitting one!!! the only three letter acronym I want to use at work is GTG because i gotta get outta heeeereeeee
an even sadder sequel π’
No beer menu - need solution. - $500
this is the new "For sale: baby shoes, never worn"
a lot of the engineers I know really want to be able to polish their work and take pride in it, but are forced to push out buggy "minimum viable" releases before moving on to another feature in a never-ending feature treadmill.
you can't work hard if the expectation itself is half-assed!
Meanwhile, Lester C. Madden was a Korean War vet from Bloomfield who just really, really liked Jaws. I think it's a really lovely memorial and a great way to be remembered.
Emil Winter was a sort of lesser robber baron. I wonder what % of mausoleum owners in Allegheny Cemetery were industrialists.
Pittsburgh punks know exactly where you mean when you say "meet me at titty sphinx." As iconic as it is in Pgh, it's basically a direct copy of F.W. Woolworth's tomb in NYC!
Headstone reading "Josh Gibson, 1911 - 1947, Legendary Baseball Player." The headstone also includes a cross. Two baseball gloves and a baseball are placed on the headstone.
TRUE! His grave was not even marked until 1975. I wish his story had a happier ending, he's kind of the Van Gogh of baseball
Eben Byers was a guy with a bunch of fake jobs like "industrialist" "socialite" and "golfer" and he drank radium like it was creatine. his coffin is lead-lined because his body was (and may still be!) extremely radioactive
a stately greek revival mausoleum reading "Byers" at the top.
a weird egyptian-inspired mausoleum for the Winter family. Steps up to the mausoleum door are flanked by two sphinxes with some honkin bazongas
The headstone of Lester C. Madden (Sept. 24 1931 - June 7, 1983). The headstone features a shark head with its mouth agape showing many teeth, reminiscent of the poster for the movie Jaws
Come to Allegheny Cemetery in beautiful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! We have:
β’ radioactive golfer mausoleum
β’ big titty sphinx mausoleum
β’ a fuckin shark
novella length, I'd say? it starts slow because of the unusual format of the opening but it gets going pretty quick after that
if you like sports, science fiction, and/or lunchables and haven't read Jon Bois' 17776 yet, this is an excellent day to change that
wikipedia talk page screenshot with heading "A barnstar for you!" The Special Barnstar For being the first user to edit Wikipedia from space. Congratulations, and thank you for your contribution, both on Wikipedia and in real life! HapHaxion (talk / contribs) 23:25, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
great notes on her Talk page as well
just realized Jon and I forgot about Εmigus-dyngus yesterday so I spritzed him with water anyway. A day late and a dyngus short.
A macro photo, side view, of a bright metallic green bee on a yellow, daisy-like flower, against a blue sky background. The bee is carrying a full load of bright yellow pollen.
If you're in need of a bit of color this morning, here's a metallic green sweat bee who wants all the pollen. Anza-Borrego Desert, California.
#Bugsky πΏπππΌ
a Highlights for Kids hidden pictures page, featuring a marching band staffed by various mammals including a pig, racoon, and fox. there are allegedly many irrelevant objects hidden in the picture including a seahorse, a fishhook, and a toothbrush.
nothing prepped me for IDing AI-generated images as well as these guys
note that there is the option to favorite an observation! but favorites are for "wow, this is a really exemplary photo/organism." not "these are some normal snakes but i'm so glad you shared them"
on the one hand, iNaturalist's UX promoting objectivity and discouraging tangential social media behavior is integral to the goal of the platform
on the other hand, sometimes i wish there were likes so I can casually say "hey man glad you found some snakes"
Industry fair banner for Allegheny shredders that reads: The future is here and everything needs to be destroyed. Don't fall behind the times.
One of the great slogans of our age.