doing things to help the people who live near you is a very good way to abate your stress about the world at large. there is very little you can do to prevent the horrors far away, but there is so much you can do to care for your neighbors

also for your own good please don't stan real people

Really appreciate the metanarrative in the Coyote vs. Acme trailer that the movie was suppressed by the Acme corporation and is now only being released for tax purposes

hey if you're feeling mentally all over the place it's nice to read a book

This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

The Artemis II crew just gave us an 80's sitcom intro and it's absolutely hilarious! Freeze frames, cheesy grins, theme song energy. These are the four humans who are about to around the Moon. NASA said fun and we are here for it!

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

thundercat's music is so awesome. more artists should meow.

Trans people, if there’s anything you’re working on that you wanna plug or promote, reply to this post with it! I wanna see some trans talent :D

the animatronic being designed in a way that his nose pops off when he falls is great

this is unfortunately too common. and I get it, everyone looks like they're having fun, you wanna join in but even if you've talked at someone a hundred times, that doesn't mean 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 know 𝘺𝘰𝘶 and even if they do, that doesn't mean you're friends! bsky.app/profile/temp...

this is not only not prickish, this should be basic etiquette talk to people on here like you're talking to someone at a public social event: don't assume strangers want to engage with you, specifically. and if you're gonna approach, have a baseline level of respect and be prepared for rejection

The author's brazen fetish, presented with such hedonistic flair and and open pride it makes you feel a little embarassed for needing to hide your own passions behind self-effacing jokes in order to preserve a sense of safe, pseudo-ironic detachment

garfeild getting into his 2007 singer-songwriter feels

this is one of the few online videos that has genuinely moved me to tears. if you can, please sit and watch it in one sitting like you’re in a movie theater, i promise it’s worth every minute.

my cat was purring while heated rivalry was on the tv, guess she’s a fujoshi

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

CAESAR The ides of March are come. SOOTHSAYER Ay, Caesar; but not gone.

My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

locking the fuck in

Hey. Tell people when they do good job. When you like the stuff they make. When you like the characters they’ve created. The stories they’ve told. Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time. Trust. They don’t. Tell. Them.

things that are deeply painful being re-broadcast for the 72 or so hours the public finds them clickable is one of my least favorite technological “advancements.” because those of us most susceptible to that pain carry it a lot longer than a news cycle does.

it'll get better

Today in Japan it's National Cat Day. In Japan, cats say "nyan" rather than "meow" and today's date is 22/2 (ni ni ni) which sounds a bit like “nyan nyan nyan”. I don't need any excuse to celebrate cats & I've written about cats in #JapaneseFolklore & culture here: open.substack.com/pub/curiouso...

love when there's an article about how life is sustainable in the superheated waters surrounding a hydrothermal volcanic fissure on the ocean floor and then like six paragraphs in you find out the author's parents are chemosynthetic bacteria 🙄

Come on

world class belly

things woud go fucking crazy if me and an open minded woman got up to some bisexual Shit

my favorite song from my favorite album of the year so far youtu.be/-OW6gkIDeEE

If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so

And fellas, feel free to deploy any of these when we hear creepiness directed at someone else. I firmly believe that half of where we are with people saying quiet parts out loud is because people were met with awkward silence instead of polite but firm accountability and felt emboldened.

Very important Olympic update

humanz by gorillaz is such a god tier album

35 years ago today THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was released in theaters and the pull quote it received on this newspaper ad has never been topped.

We’re just normal men

my opinion on the Bad Bunny halftime show, and non-English music in general, is that i think a need to “be able to understand the lyrics” displays an embarrassing shallowness of the speaker to appreciate the voice as an instrument & to appreciate music as something other than a lyric delivery system

posting is harmless provided you don't take it seriously- the second you start believing you're doing Important Work, that's when the madness takes hold

I move this bed from a chair to the sofa at night and sleep with my arm draped over it. #CatsOfBluesky

Finally got this one out! Was hard to work on this amongst everything, but I hope it adds something productive to the conversation <3 youtu.be/OLWYR0eTm5I

yeah no shit

slept past 6am on groundhog day just to flex on phil connors

not just in art, either, there are guys who would go around obsessively fixing every clogged pipe in a 10-mile radius if they had the free time and social infrastructure to do so