It's been a week since we lost her. I miss her

I keep getting distracted by what appears to be a waning gibbous moon hanging in the southeastern sky when the sun rises during the climax #NerdProblems #Sinners

Every morning, the queen asked her magic mirror to show her the most beautiful person in the world. The mirror replied "To whom?" "The miller who made the flour for my bread," the queen would say, or "Whoever spun the thread my shawl was made of". The mirror would show her, and she'd be amazed.

I keep getting distracted by what appears to be a waning gibbous moon hanging in the southeastern sky when the sun rises during the climax #NerdProblems #Sinners

Still on sale for a few more hours!

Anyway, gonna go watch Sinners again. What a cool movie

The full performance of “I Lied To You” from ‘SINNERS’ at the 98th Oscars. #Sinners #Oscars2026

This Caturday, meet the black-footed cat. It’s the smallest wild cat in Africa, only growing ~8 in (20 cm) tall & weighing ~4.4 lbs (2 kg). Nevertheless, its hunting success rate is 60%—and has a recorded kill rate of 10-14 prey per night. Photo: Patrick Ch. Apfeld, CC-BY-3.0, Wikimedia Commons

So I've had this theory for a while now that Taylor Swift has No Imagination and that all her songs are autobiographical to some extent, but the one she sings about being a mafia don having his protégé whacked is challenging that theory

I like Boze, but she seems to be disappearing up the prestige asshole lately. This is not a good comparison: fictional teenagers from 2 centuries ago to real teenagers today. Today's teenagers have different points of reference, but they have a lot of culture to filter through

I like Boze, but she seems to be disappearing up the prestige asshole lately. This is not a good comparison: fictional teenagers from 2 centuries ago to real teenagers today. Today's teenagers have different points of reference, but they have a lot of culture to filter through

You know how people always post about how their cat is the sweetest? They're wrong. Harley is the Sweetest Cat

Got some bad news about this chunk yesterday. She hasn't been eating, which is alarming because she is a bottomless pit usually. Turns out it's an inoperable tumor in her throat, so Harley is not long for this world. I've been petting her every time I go by; she's very confused

Got some bad news about this chunk yesterday. She hasn't been eating, which is alarming because she is a bottomless pit usually. Turns out it's an inoperable tumor in her throat, so Harley is not long for this world. I've been petting her every time I go by; she's very confused

... yeah, I'm out. These jerks don't need ME while they play out their trashy little drama

I should update this thread! #MST3k

So what with The Discourse I realized I had never read Wuthering Heights. So far it is doing nothing to disabuse me of my suspicion that 19th-Century Gothic authors were only theoretically familiar with the concept of children

Ohmygod! #Booksky! Did you know that if you order @oliviawaite.com books from @ballastbookco.bsky.social, you can get it personalized AND request a small doodle? I GOT A LITTLE FLIP BOOK OF A SHOOTING STAR, PEOPLE!!! I was promised that the doodle would bring joy & WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED! 💙📚🌈

[people dicking around in the theater after the show] "Were you folks planning to stay for the next show?" "Oh, no, sorry, we just had a baby!" You WHAT.

sure you might have seen my name in the big pdf that got released titled “list of draculas currently operating in the united states.” here’s why that’s NOT a big deal:

I did the math for him paying for every American's groceries for an entire year. It checks out

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

This actually is one of the things I REALLY want to ask terfs about. Where do fictional characters fall on their """"biological reality"""" chart? How did the Whimsical Wizard Lady choose pronouns for the characters who only existed in her imagination? They don't have physical chromosomes!

As an autistic doll lover (probably those things are related) and anthropology nerd, I'm frankly FASCINATED by the weird nonsense surrounding the Autistic Barbie Doll Rollout

Watching #StrangerThings fans spin up an elaborate Secret Good Ninth Episode Conspiracy Theory because they didn't care for the finale is ... kinda baffling. You ask me, the finale was satisfactory, but I think ARGs and the expectation of orgasmic fireworks finales have broken fans' brains

Damn. Whatever's in those Epstein Files must be pretty fucking egregious

Meanwhile, on Twitter, I made a critical comment on the post that became Today's Main Character, and it was popular so I got trapped in a slapfight between Main Character and his other critics. Poor dude's decompensating over there; thank goodness he turned off replies

holy fuck

Good for Reuters for changing their headline. Pressure works. Grok did not do this. Elon Musk did.

I love Starcrash, but Avalanche is another absolute banger for S11. I'm not sure why, but it's so EARNEST, and it has delicious drama with a made-for-TV flavor. Also, I had to bust in on my sister and show her the Hybrid B-Movies host segment because it was KILLING me #MST3k youtu.be/-9AZZJyCLlY?...

#StrangerThingsFinale #Spoilers AHAHA the final boss actually WAS a bitchy Elder God spiderkaiju and not just some disgruntled psychic twink. Thematically a little confused, but very on point for a D&D-centric show. They just couldn't resist #StrangerThings

How many people are listening to stuff like that right now and going "...that's it? I thought socialism was... supposed to be bad." Mamdani is a bell that cannot be unrung. That's why they're so scared of him.

Fun #StrangerThings theory: the warping of spacetime is leading to some REALLY SPECIFIC time-dilation effects, such as Holly Wheeler ageing 10 years in a 4-year timespan

Oh, hey, #StrangerThings5 actually pulled this thematic relevance out! Good for them

I get tired of the complaints that Stranger Things is derivative. I have described it as watching the Darmok aliens trying to tell an original story, which probably isn't for everybody, but I think pastiche is a legit way to tell a story!

The show portrays that frustration WITHIN itself a few times, usually with Dustin losing Steve at some point and having to go back to basics, but it's also evident in the writing itself. You can feel the writers' frustration that they've lost their audience

The older I get the madder I am that I was lied to about who the Black Panthers were my entire childhood. www.tumblr.com/mxwhore/8044...

#WordOfTheDay #ConlangWOTD #Conlang #Lexember Polaran for Day 31, WATER: cho [t͡ʃə] - "water" From PP tsúke. A surprisingly controversial origin word, all things considered

#WordOfTheDay #ConlangWOTD #Conlang #Lexember Polaran for Day 30, ICE & COOLTH: tsóíkasító ['t͡sɔɪ.ka.si.to] - "refrigerator; icebox; freezer" From Tsinesnassan tsi`oikasit`o, "oh thank goodness, it stays cold."

#WordOfTheDay #ConlangWOTD #Conlang #Lexember Polaran for Day 29, MINERAL DYES: dzálkóí pkú ['d͡zæl.kɔɪ pku] - "Prussian blue; [Fe4[Fe(CN)6]" Translates to "shocking blue" or "startling blue." The name actually comes from the accidental creation when a dyer was trying to create a red dye!

Overexplaining is a famous autistic trait, because we've run into a million scenarios where people DON'T pick up what we're putting down if we go at our normal pace. We have to slow down and back up, and we realize we've been assuming that everyone is with us when they might not know the BASICS

When you remove the shorthand and try to spell it it longhand for the uninitiated, you get clunky scenes struggling to articulate their point, like the Escape from Camazotz climax where Max tries SO HARD to convince Holly that she already IS Holly the Heroic #StrangerThings bsky.app/profile/amel...

I should update this thread! #MST3k

One of the best MST3K episodes and worst space operas ever is now free on YouTube. Glad to see it acquired from Netflix. It's like watching Galaxy Quest in reverse. Jonah kills it with the musical number.

When you remove the shorthand and try to spell it it longhand for the uninitiated, you get clunky scenes struggling to articulate their point, like the Escape from Camazotz climax where Max tries SO HARD to convince Holly that she already IS Holly the Heroic #StrangerThings bsky.app/profile/amel...

It just feels like a whole heap of critics are complaining that #StrangerThings makes its point too well.

#WordOfTheDay #ConlangWOTD #Conlang #Lexember Polaran for Day 28, PLANT DYES súnglé ['suŋ.gleɪ] - "greenthread dye; orange" Abbreviation of Shubawothir 'súngléór súthen,' "greenthread dye." Popular as a dye and as a drink throughout Polara, though the drink is known as chúnro!

#WordOfTheDay #ConlangWOTD #Conlang #Lexember Polaran for Day 27, ANIMAL DYES pórwósó ['poɹ.wo.so] - "carmine dye; carmine red" Another borrowing from the textile-rich Shubawothir! This is an abbreviation of Shubawothir 'pórwósór súthen,' "cochineal dye"

It's not reference for reference's sake, though those are fun; it's a major theme of #StrangerThings. They have specifically written into the show that the kids use fictional analogies to interpret and relate to the stuff happening in their lives

#WordOfTheDay #ConlangWOTD #Conlang #Lexember Polaran for Day 26, EGGS: wízhó ['wi.ʒo] - 'egg (fertilized)' wogaú [wɔ.'gaʊ] - 'egg (food)' Usually these refer to dragons' eggs; see Day 24, MEAT, for context. It also might refer to other animals' eggs bsky.app/profile/amel...