Why would they call it a "Steam Machine" when "Sauna" was right there? I would have also accepted "Hot Box."

I think the How to Tie Your Shoes episode of Going Deep with David Rees (is he on BlueSky???) might be the best hour of non-fiction TV made in the last decade. I actually tie my shoes differently because of that show.

The 50 year mortgage is just a strategy to ensure any generational wealth a family generates from home ownership gets slurped up by the banking industry instead of being passed on to the next generation. It's a way to deny economic mobility. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Rosalind Franklin was only 37 when she died of ovarian cancer and she had ALREADY discovered the shape of DNA. She did not live to see her erasure by the Nobel committee in 1962. Anyway, fuck this guy and restore funding to the cancer moonshot, so the next Rosalind Franklin can live.

Be the White Lady Meat Shield you wish to see in the world. Cc @jackiekashian.bsky.social

Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Zohran Mamdani are all going to out-live Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Peter Theil, Bill Ackman, and most of the other oligarchs who have looted our political system for their gain. And so are most of us. Plan big. Organize even bigger.

As you celebrate Mamdani’s victory, I want to take in that it was not a victory for the Democratic Party. He won in spite of the party.

There are more of us than there are of them.

Once again: I am not sharing my drugs with your fucking kids

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Wait! I thought of another one: Comments from reviewer 3...

Results not statistically significant.

Da Share Zone really throwing me into an existential crisis about the mind/body relationship at 6p on a Sunday evening...

Raising funds for The Trevor Project + awareness of [fine examples of California's Gold] basically NOW at twitch.tv/mollylele

3.5 hour drive each way to spend 4 hours looking at houses? Sure! Why not?

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

This is the video essay, by the way, and you should all go watch it.

This light phone @thejenna.bsky.social talks about in her video essay on the Nintendo museum made me nostalgic for the span in the 70s/80s where companies were trying to accomplish common things with weird media. See also: the PXL2000 camcorder that used audio cassettes.

Between The Postal Service, Rilo Kiley, and The Format, this has been a hell of a couple years for fans of bands that haven't made new music in two decades.

i’m so old, i remember when going on the internet made you smarter

I saw this question on a different social media site and I'd love to see the answer here: What's the most unhinged reason you've DNFed a book? What made you go "nope, I out, sorry." I'll go first: met the author and he would not stop being a creepy fuck. Book went straight into the trash.

Scene: home interior, evening. 🎶::indistinct singing in the kitchen::🎵 Me: "...babe, what are you singing to the cats?" @francisfernandez.com: "NONE OF YOUR BIZNESS!!!"

I can't help but notice all the assholes are still here and NOT ascending into the heavens to the tune of trumpets...

None of these assholes are getting raptured this week because I am not that goddamned lucky,unfortunately.

I wish things were at least less stupid if they had to be so dire

Fitting that I watched Sneakers not once, but TWICE in the week before Robert Redford passed.

I am going away to the country this weekend and I cannot DESCRIBE to you how much I am looking forward to 4 days and 3 nights of friends, booze, and boardganes but NO INTERNET.

I learned a lot about some folks this week. Whew.

You gotta mourn the people who work hard to make sure you cease to exist or else we’re gonna think you’re immoral as we continue to work hard to make sure you cease to exist

Rilo Kiley, My Chemical Romance, and The Pogues are all playing in Boston tonight. This is gonna be a hell of a train ride home.

We have been in Baltimore waiting to connect to Boston on @southwestairlinecs.bsky.social since 1:30p and now our pilots have timed out. So... That's fun.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

I had to pay to check a bag on @southwestairlinecs.bsky.social for the first time today and I'm just picturing Herb Kelleher angrily chucking Love Nuts from heaven...

At some point, someone used my email to create an Equifax log on. It has taken weeks and several hours on hold to try to get this resolved. They insist there isn't anything to be done, I should just use a different email. Than my primary email. The one I use for everything.

It's a leftover-birthday-cake-while-soaking-in-the-bathtub kinda evening.

...why am I on Sexy Watto Bluesky? What minor tech deity have I displeased??

Live your life in such a way that the mere rumor of your passing doesn’t make people unable to sleep due to sheer anticipation

I'm not going to get excited until they play Swan Lake on the radio

I know it’s late but can someone please wake the President up and ask him if he’s dead?

So... Did we ALL just wake up at 2:30a?

Anybody else start their morning by showing their cat TikToks of other cats or is that just my special flavor of mentally unwell?

I had my annual dermatology appointment today (get your moles checked, kids!) and my doctor asked "what perfume are you wearing, it's really lovely!" and I, a 45 year old adult woman, had to tell her it was Barbie. Like, the Barbie perfume from DefineMe. This happens A LOT.

I fervently hope James Dobson has gone to wherever he thought women like me go.

I hate you, Spotify. Reading me for FILTH.

In related news: I am now Ride or Die for Odyssey Sims. She's so (comparatively) little and fast! 11 points last night. Her lash extensions give her extra aerodynamics!

God, I love the NBA. Those women are great at what they do and even though the Fever lost last night it was such an exciting game. I should check out a MNBA game someday soon. I hear they're fun!

On the sofa, talking about the smart thermostat, @francisfernandez.com: "A computer cannot be held accountable therefore a computer should not be all up in my bullshit."

Can't catch me!