Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

Been seeing "ahh" on a lot of things online lately and like what is that, what does that mean? Because it makes no sense in the sentences it's in. And apparently it's another way of writing "ass"? If you wanna censor word, just use asterisks like a normal person.

I have been getting the most round-about delivery routes lately. Last one came to Seattle, then went to LA before coming back to Seattle. This one was in Seattle and then went to Oregon. Hope it comes back soon.

Besides “Harold and Maude,” one thing I will always remember about Bud Cort is something I read about him when he spoke at Hal Ashby’s memorial in 1988.  He got up to speak in front of hundreds of Ashby’s family, closest friends, and co-workers.  His first line was, “I was Hal’s favorite.” RIP, 👑.

If only Don Draper were alive today. He would have never let advertising go to AI.

So. My partner suffered an accident that resulted in very significant injuries. While he is, thank christ, alright in the broadest sense, I am now an amateur RN/dog minder/kid chauffeur, so! I've restocked some prints to help keep us in pizza and pain meds. www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Weird, my matcha was supposed to get here today but I guess it saw Seattle and decided to bail.

Me, all day to my gen Z coworker: Have you ever seen the movie (insert movie title here)? Gen Z coworker: No. Me: *proceeds to give detailed summary of the movie as well as my personal thoughts* Gen Z coworker: Sounds cool, I'll check it out (never checks it out)

You know, people always like to tell me I look like I'm still in my 20s (I don't) but I think saying things like "What kind of soup would you like to have at a party?" clear up any confusion.

Same

Really not loving this trend of books set in the 1990s described as "historical fiction." That was literally only 10 years ago.

I am more likely to place faith in an academic's teachings if they have a really fucked-up hairstyle. To me, that says you're so invested in your subject, you don't even have time for personal grooming.

I really feel like the midcentury medieval vibes of the next Perils & Princesses adventure are locked in. Just a delightful twist on a high fantasy TTRPG adventure. www.kickstarter.com/projects/out...

100%

It’s a great time to be alive if you’re a piece of shit who hates consequences

Friends Marriage Penis

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

It is an absolutely delightful irony that the richest man in the world is universally acknowledged to be a huge fucking loser who not a single living person envies in any way at all

Middle age is primarily about opening a new kitchen sponge and going "this is much better"

Sometimes you don't really know what you're in the mood for but then you find a movie called Trucks and realize you're in the mood to watch Trucks.

Buy the new Rivulets single “Came” here: rivulets.bandcamp.com @rivulets.net

Oh man. Started to float into the air and honestly thought I'd got Raptured but I'd just smelled a cartoon pie on a windowsill.

David Letterman on his career mocking presidents: “Beating up on these people, rightly or wrongly, accurately or perhaps inaccurately, in the name of comedy—not once were we squeezed by anyone from any governmental agency, let alone the dreaded FCC.” Watch more: bit.ly/4n0Uv2p

There was a lot of this when that movie came out. The one I heard most was “would sleep with Redford for a million dollars” and the answer was “if I had the money, yes”

My #1 favorite episode. 💔

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

My seven favourite ways to wish someone good luck… 7. Break a leg (English) 6. Break your neck (Czech) 5. Break your neck and leg (German) 4. May your fishing be shitty (Norwegian) 3. May you get neither fluff nor feather (Russian) 2. May God not spare you (Irish) 1. Into the whale’s ass (Italian)

it must be so easy and freeing to think of politics as an academic discourse that does not effect you or anyone you know ever

All of these people know better.

#PWNonfictionPrompt: Using the catalog of your own experiences and knowledge, write an essay searching to answer what beauty is to you. What life events does the word conjure? #FromTheArchive: at.pw.org/Beauty

Remembering a conversation I once had with the late great Bryant Frazer: Me: "You know what the best Blondie cover is?" Him: "Is it the Alvin and the Chipmunks version of Call Me at half-speed?" It was.

It fucks me up that the youths have latched onto "Tubthumping" as the defining song of the '90s/Late 20th Century. Makes me wonder what the boomers feel was misrepresented by my generation.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

New Midlake slaps. @mangiotto.bsky.social

horrifying

One of the only interesting things about AI is finding out how many people in supposedly highly skilled, important jobs are complete fuckwits. Not just kinda stupid, but the level of stupid where they're the reason why we have the "remove cellophane before eating" warnings on Fruit Roll-Ups.

Brilliant. More white dudes using their privilege for good for once by not giving a literal fuck please 🙌🏼

Just noticed her body is identical to Odie's. That's fun

All of my political views and policy ideas have basically collapsed to "Punish the Villains" and I mumble it to myself every time I see a news article these days

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Fun fact: the bus at the end of THE GRADUATE also couldn't slow down without exploding.