Dead musician band, heavy metal edition:
Chuck Schuldiner (Death): guitars/vox
Randy Rhodes (Ozzy Osborne): guitars
Cliff Burton (Metallica): bass
The Rev (Avenged Sevenfold): drums/vox
Now you go.
I still check Twitter a few times per week. Inevitably, some stupid shit pisses me off. Bluesky is self care.
What do all the white knobs do?
THANK you. Now us Jews can focus on drinking the blood of Christian babies and secretly running global events through Elders of Zion and not waste time refuting lies.
Obligatory photo. Gorgeous architecture.
I just bought a tv for the first time in many years and the first thing I did was put it in “filmmaker mode.”
i don't like using delivery services but i LOVE receiving ominous photos of my own front door from strangers
Sure I had my own issues growing up there and I left fairly quickly once I was old enough, but not for any of the stereotypical reasons. The reputation is absolutely unearned.
My hometown grew on the ease with which it is to commute into nyc. And then it thrived because people figured out it’s actually nice to live there.
That was before Hoboken got cool in the 90s.
Annual reminder:
Die Hard is about using impossibly limited resources to defend a tower from foreign invaders.
Die Hard is a Hanukkah movie.
Is that flop sweat or is he ill?
Folks mistake refusing to tolerate assholes for uniformity of opinion.
My house hasn’t ever burned down. Why am I ever turning my oven off?
Text-based, dial-up BBSs were cool at the time but no way do I want to go back.
On the flip side, the “early” kid tends to steal my sweatshirts. So, gun-to-my-head chose a favorite? Tough call.
“Person of the year” is not an objective metric of merit. It’s not a compliment. It’s TIME magazine editorial staff deciding someone was in the news a lot.
It’s about a 500 year old god wearing a fake mustache as he tries to win his followers back.
You can have that.
So many people are missing that point.
Edgelord = member of a cult dedicated to U2’s guitarist.
Just the same, when one kid is packed up and ready to go, counting down from ten minutes so we’re not late to whatever, and the other is running out in her socks, breakfast in one hand and all her stuff dropping out of the other hand, I wish they’d have met in the middle a bit more.
Don’t dress them the same, don’t give them similar names, speak to them separately and not as a unit, make time for each alone.
My wife and I have been fairly successful at this. We can see it especially now that our girls are teenagers.
If you’re parenting twins, especially if they’re identical, it’s imperative that you do all you can to encourage individuality & uniqueness. You don’t want them to fall into the trap of identifying so closely with each other that they see themselves as a single unit.
I had idea who Jesse Singal was until he came to Bluesky and literally everyone got mad. Now there are petitions going around to get his ass booted.
This is what getting older feels like. Someone you’ve never heard of materializes out of nowhere with a huge following and/or controversy.
Considering all other potential presidential candidates they have on deck have a combined charisma of an ill toad, they’re just happy Trump decided to run again.
I recommend Beggars in Spain. It’s a very good book. The experience of “normal” parents raising sleepless children is only the beginning, but spoilers: it gets complicated.
Seems to me that violent, mentally ill drug addicts should be helped so they’re not out on the streets, but what do I know.
Between accidental references to Gattaca and to the novel Beggars in Spain (in which a group of children are genetically engineered to not need sleep), this guy has some serious “torment nexus tweet” vibes here.
Gattaca is a delightful movie with a subplot involving sibling rivalry between a naturally born man and his genetically engineered, superior brother.
Beggars in Spain is a book about children who are genetically engineered to not need sleep.
Both are very good.
