It's the arpeggio in "Hallelujah" really doing me in.

"Let songs of joy break forth. Sing alleluia. Praise his name for evermore." With the occasional "Shout! Sing!" popping in.

Can't sleep. Have four bars from Handel's "Praise the Lord" stuck in my head.

Silicon Valley types broadly are addicted to the idea of "innovation". Is this innovation solving a real problem? Does it meet a need? Is it really innovative at all? Nobody gives a shit.

I have specific names in mind.

I cannot tell you how many times in my career, when strategizing how to market a product or service, the best ideas got shot down by execs who were remarkably stupid about how other people live.

Tech types don't understand how rich and how different their lives are from normal people. Everyone they know, everyone they work closely or socialize with, lives in the same cultural bubble.

They haven't talked to a regular human they didn't pay to tell them what they want to hear in 20 years.

Great piece that reiterates something everyone who is not a weird bay area freak or sucked into the AI hype cycle understands implicitly. There's no magic left, these people have barren imaginations.

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

Surely I have some train dorks

Bluesky friends! I’m hunting for a copy of Amtrak’s "The National" magazine (2017) featuring the Cleveland food scene.

My friend shot the cover photo and met her husband because of that issue!

I’d love to gift it to her, since they no longer publish it. Can ya’ll help me find this issue? 🙏🏽

A picture of a majestic humpback whale leaping from the seas with the caption “humpback whales are forming super-groups”, rather than simply admire the wonder of nature I am making a poor quality music gag

This is why whale punk had to happen

I think that's how a Goodfellas happens?

We use these giant categories that encompass and compress huge swathes of belief and practice that vary wildly, so we talk past each other.

We don't even know how much we don't know, hatred festers in ignorance, and we can't recognize our allies.

Thank you for this excellent explanation!

I am once again thinking about what a huge shame it is that religion is so important to how every society functions, but so very many people barely understand their own, and aren't curious about the others.

That is such a fancy cactus!

A wide bloom of light pink cactus flowers, sprouting from a bowl of cacti in one corner of a yard, with a green lawn visible behind.

The previous flowers, being shot from the right, showing a better view of the short, round cacti the flowers are sprouting from in the bowl.

If you need a little pick-me-up today, I hope this gorgeous bloom of cactus flowers I captured in my front yard last week lifts your spirits a bit.

I think that Mamdani’s remarks here are especially salient given that there is a current in the party pushing for cheap grace-based slopulism which takes power out of Republican hands and then does nothing with it

It may or may not prove to be the dominant current but it needs contested either way

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

The effortless definition!

I mean other than the lifelong effort necessary to be chosen for a NASA mission.

I am so good at whoopins and so bad at pancakes.

Nobody can make all these dang mules pull in the same direction.

The system is set up such that anyone qualified for the job can't get enough visibility to win, and everyone sufficiently visible is evil or an idiot.

20th C capitalism gave so much, but now the devil wants his due.

California is frequently a microcosm for the problems of the US as a whole, and this is definitely one of those times.

Huge, diverse, economic powerhouse that could do amazing things if it got its shit together.

But there's too much income equality and people are convinced it is unfixably broken.

Specifically regarding HRT, if I knew the new risk/benefit research and how much better my everything would feel on it, I would have started on my 40th birthday.

It's worth badgering doctors until they patch you up.

I sincerely like being 44. I do truly and sincerely have fewer fucks to give about stuff, and it is wonderful and liberating.

Admittedly, getting a hysterectomy, estrogen (patches and topical downstairs), oral minoxidil, and adhd meds in the last 12 months has helped my attitude enormously.

one day, joker's gonna learn how to curveball a basketball and we're gonna be in so much trouble

the "mystery probably cotton" is especially beautiful and it's only $45 for 12 2oz skeins and one 1 oz ball (shipping included)!

TikTok trend filming Gen Alpha hearing a CD skip and trying to troubleshoot it

Oswald was in fact a lone gunman who pulled it off, and the federal LE/IC apparatus got so freaked at the fact that *any whacko with a Carcano could just fucking DO that* that they wink-and-nudged at conspiracists for years to discourage copycats as well as obfuscating how easy it was for a rando.

screenshot of some of the donated yarn, as listed on ravelry

my synagogue's knitting group is selling a bunch of beautiful donated yarn on ravelry to benefit our upcoming 2026 warm clothing drive! ALL proceeds will be set aside for this year's wishlist!!

deets: www.ravelry.com/discuss/yarn...
the yarn: www.ravelry.com/people/mater...

I like when an actor who usually plays Weird Little Freaks gets to play a *different* kind of Weird Little Freak than the type of Weird Little Freak they usually play