One of my personal conspiracy theories is that NYC bars blast really loud music to drive away the rats. No dance floor, just a bar, but the bass is trying to vibrate your organs into the 4th dimension. Always amazed the bartender gets my order right after merely the 5th time I scream it at him.

Guys, Gals, Nonbinary Pals -- Manic Pixie Stream Girl is back tonight at 8:30p ET. Say hi while I ease back into this whole "content" "creation" thing. We might mindlessly level in Classic WoW, but if we get to yappin', who knows what gets launched instead... www.twitch.tv/asclearascry...

I think I should make more than anyone at my job who uses genAI. If you’re an executive who can’t write an email or memo without ChatGPT, you should get a pay cut that goes to me, who can. I should at least get a monthly stipend equal to whatever AI subscription cost I’m not using.

What the hell did I see that disgusted / annoyed me so much in the BG of #3 😂

Headed up to PAX East with @foldablehuman.bsky.social! Come say hello at our table in Bandland!

I’m coming up on that dreaded time in every single person’s life. The Condiment Replacement Grocery Shop When all condiments align to be empty at the same time, so you have to replace them all in one go. It arrives but once an age, but when it does, it arrives with usury and weary resignation.

I am losing it over this “””hoodie“”” designed exclusively for business bros going day to night. I need to go to sleep, man.

Y'all, I have no words. I desperately need to know who in their right mind thought there was a market for this? Has anyone ever chose to do this?

I'm not a voice actor at all but I do think it would be fun to play a goon that yells "It's da Bat!" or a civilian saying "Thank you Spider-man!" at least once in my life. Something like that. Specifically for Batman or Spider-man, the two most fun comic book names to yell.

I'm using tonight's stream as a thinly veiled excuse to catch up with @foldablehuman.bsky.social, but first I GOTTA BANTER ABOUT THE XBOX STUFF SO COME JOIN US: www.twitch.tv/viking_blonde/

Really awesome dive into the current literacy (illiteracy?) problem. It's not just "booktok bad," it's really detailed, and I enjoyed the whole thing. Check it out! Please, for the love of gods, read a book. Encourage your friends to read a book. A whole book. youtu.be/IG5zrQxPICk?...

Little known way you can support your favorite authors: request your library get a copy of their book. Most libraries have a request process. Put in a request for that book. Via Libby/OverDrive, too.

All the Birds in the Sky is one of my newest all-time favorite books and landed on the very short list of books that broke my heart in the bittersweet way only kintsugi will do as a repair method. You should get this and read it.

There’s so much to be furious about, but possibly the most inane is Trump trying to slap his name on the Kennedy center, and remodel it — which having seen his gaudy, hideous, horrible fucking taste, I know just means a lot of gold and is going to fuck the acoustics in the space and I’m just livid.

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Forget hot dog/sandwich — is a burrito a hand pie?

You think anyone who has filmed a Day In The Life actually set up the camera before bed, and let it run to catch them waking up the next morning? Or do we think it’s always a get up > set up > get back into bed > mime wake up scenario? There’s gotta be like one person who did it the long way, right?

Legit question: Does McDonald’s own Connecticut? Why is the only food advertised on any freeway sign McDonald’s? Some specific rest stop exits also say Subway, but what the hell?

Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.

Friend has on an episode of MacGuyver as I come in, and MacG is hanging with a black mom and son. And just as I’m about to open my mouth and ask “Is MacGuyver… black? in this one?” I realize I was thinking of Quantum Leap…

*Someone* out there has to have found a piece of the Agro Crag at a garage sale or a thrift store, right? It has to have happened at least once by now. If not recently. That’s my thrifting holy grail, I think.

Just occurred to me if the 12 Days gifts are cumulative (I.e. on day three you receive three hens, two doves, and a partridge, in addition to the partridges on day one and two, and the doves on day two), you’d have enough to eat a bird a day for the entire year. 364 birds (minus Christmas Day).

Do I have any history nerds who know about historic Christmas ghost story traditions? I’m looking for works that predate Dickens’ reboot of the tradition, stuff people read to their families around the fire as entertainment during the holidays. I’ll ask my librarians too, but Google sucks now so…

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Is molasses the Canadian Vegemite? I never meet anyone who eats straight molasses, or uses it as a condiment, unless they’re Canadian or family from Canada. Maybe some northern states that touch Canada? People look at me like 🙅🏻‍♀️😬☹️ when I say I love molasses on toast, which Mémé brought me up on.

Did you know the President pays for the personal daily food in the White House? It’s not covered by budget. The President pays for it out of their own pocket. Only state dinners or similar events benefitting the political office are covered by taxes. Just some interesting facts I thought I’d share.

Emailed Southwest to suggest they carry some gluten-free snacks, and they wrote back and declined to do so. They suggested I carry my own snacks, though, which is definitely something that never occurred to me, a person with a food allergy.

At a certain point in an intimate relationship, you gotta ask them “If you had to kill me, how would you do it?” You have GOT to know how crazy your friends and partners are. You gotta know if you’re the crazier one. You gotta know how to foil their plan they definitely thought of before you asked.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

“How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!” —Leonato, Much Ado About Nothing

“0% woke shit” a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

Not to be dramatic, but there is a deep melancholy to this loss in ways that I think I need poetry to convey

In light of climate change, I petition to add dressing up in costumes to some summer holiday so we can be slutty without freezing. No moving Halloween. We’re keeping that. Just add costumes to something else.

WOW okay unfollowing her now. Was a massive fan of her work and respected her as a shrewd business woman but had no idea she was stealing young mermaid's voices and putting them in seashells.

*chortling through a mouthful of pretzels* video games!!

I'm getting old enough I either have aged out, or am starting to age out, of most of the discounted theater ticket programs. So obviously I'm biased. But I think they should also have discounted programs for single theatergoers and self-employed theatergoers.

I already respected ASMR creators as pros/sometimes even artists, but let me tell you that level of respect skyrocketed when I realized/confirmed that they shoot the whole video and then go back and frickin’ Foley their sounds back over the top of them. For these hours-long sessions. Just wild.

We need a Ring(tm)-dong-ditch, for the children. You can’t make people get up off their couch to answer the door only to have there be no one there anymore. The children have no pastimes. What’s the equivalent harmless thing you can do to someone’s camera doorbell that makes them Do Something?

Me, a sailor in ancient times, sailing my boat into the rocks like an idiot: Uhh a lady made me do it. By singing. Usually I'm really good at this

In 1800 Elma Sands’ body was found dumped in a well in New York City. When they found her discarded corpse, the first thing they did was perform a pregnancy test. This was standard practice when finding a woman’s body, because it was highly likely a suicide or murder was due to an unwanted pregnancy

-A living wage -Guaranteed healthcare -The right to join a union -The right to vote -The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family -The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence These are the foundations of real freedom.

We own a house collectively with a few friends and use it as a perk for our CEO, who lives there for free. Tenant is bombastic so when he started talking about building on to the house we shrugged. Woke up today to photos of him demolishing the house. That we own. Any lawyers have advice?

Halloween costumes are becoming even more an invitation to joy w/strangers. Pop culture is so fragmented, there’s few icons everyone knows. So when someone recognizes you as someone from some show out of ????? out this year, it feels so exciting to share — we both liked the thing! You’re my people!

Million myriad other reasons aside for hating AI being up in the job search process, one thing that deeply infuriates me in particular is that I never consented to letting these companies have my resume — or sometimes video interview responses — to train their shitty software that doesn’t even work.

Do the WoW children today know about More Dots? Have they been told of 50 DKP minus? Have the ancient texts survived? They love a crash out, so that last one seems ripe for translation to a new era

I know this is niche content and has only 🤏🏻 overlap with my usual audience, but I’ve been wanting a new hockey jersey for a couple seasons now and I am explicitly waiting for this Fanatics contract with the NHL to end because I refuse to spend jersey $$$$$ on fast fashion stitching and fabrics -_-

This week: -Three more universities rejected Trump's extortion compact -Over a dozen airports refused to play Kristi Noem's propaganda video -30+ press outlets refused to comply with Pete Hegseth's new restrictions The only way to rebuke Trump's authoritarianism is solidarity.

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What