My partner looking at me like "don't do it". I wasn't gonna do it!

Retreating from the dinner party as everyone talks about the "tragedy" of putting in parking meters. Not the time to fight this battle. 🥲

No no. I wouldn't have got it if you didn't explain it. Lol

That's ok, post it for me (I also won't understand but I may just like it)

Nice. I'm adding "What This Cruel War Was Over" to my reading list. Increasingly interested in the US Civil War. 😅

Anything fun on the summer reading list?

Who and what is this for? I think I know and the answers I'm coming up with are not good.

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is so much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
- Haldir in The Fellowship of the Ring

As God intended

I ❤️ cranes so much

"People love Threads" boggles my mind the most out of anything on this list.

Pretty sure I've been letting too much steam out to properly steam them.

Ok ok. So I was adding water but I don't think I understood why I was doing it. This has gotta cut my time down. Probably cooking on too low a heat too (but the nice thing is the onions need to be managed less).

Yes!

Some more math for fun.

A Rivian, with no gas tax whatsoever, does about 17 times the damage a Toyota Camry does on a single pass over asphalt. A Cybertruck does about 14 times the damage.

A Rivian does about a million times more damage then your typical cyclist.

It is disgusting how long caramelized onions take to prepare and how worth it the wait is.

For a multitude of reasons I am increasingly feel like I am living the good life and I am more and more motivated politically to make sure others can feel the same.

Don't ya just love cranes?

Obviously can't talk about it in front of the kids! But it is happening off-screen/off-stage. I mean, c'mon.

FWB

Time is just a construct coming to its logical conclusion

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Beefler (we can't give up, we're right!)

And likely not doing some drugs recommended by his doctors. At least he's not doing the botox injections that would prevent the degradation of his vocal cords.

YouTube preview, video titled continuous feed jar for infinite pickles. the thumbnail is a very satisfied man next to his 3 foot tube of pickles. unpickled veggies go in one end, pickled veggies come out the other end. it's not just functional, but beautiful and well made.

the face of a man who has achieved greatness and knows it

What a nuts final inning for the Padres

Love this.

From Reddit.

A large black-and-tan dog, Karl, sits upright in the front of a black wire dog crate, gazing directly at the camera. Behind it, a smaller brown-and-white dog, Beto, peeks out from the back corner.

Was wondering why Karl didn't want to go in his crate aaaand he was swooped.

Thank you! Awesome

Rorty just leapt to the top of my To Read list.