Post a famous bathroom scene

Well this sucks. 😐

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

On weeks like this I sorta wish I could have a ‘trending’ list without sports. I don’t begrudge the sports people their entertainment, I’m just not interested. But I guess it’s culturally important and I should at least passively participate.

The power is out, so I’m drinking alone in the cold dark bored out of my mind and ruminating on how much life before electricity fucking sucked for night people. 😐

One of my favorite photo contests of the year. 😂

The fact that this headline is accurate for me says…something…since I’m close to much of my extended family and some of those family members are very interested in genealogy. 🤓😂

Oh god, Seattle Politics is trending. 😬😂

Explain your user name: A portmanteau of my first and middle names that’s also a reference to a long time favorite story. Plus my favorite number that’s incidentally my last initial.

What movie did you rewatch the most during its initial theater release? I’m pretty sure it’s either Return of the Jedi or The Jewel of the Nile…I remember seeing both multiple times but if I kept track I’ve forgotten.

Age yourself with a film you saw in the cinema as a kid

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Seals and Crofts

Definitely…and I rarely fuck it up the same way twice in a row. 🤦🏼

Oh look…it *was* the usual suspect. 🙄🤬

Yikes! 😂🤣

David Bowie Sound + Vision tour second row of an open admission concert It’s one of my favorite memories and an experience I’m *very* glad I had as a teenager because I’d die if I tried that shit now. 😂

I bought this book figuring it would be another in a very long list of interesting social sciences books I’d read over the years and nothing more. Instead I cried my way through long sections of it having never had anyone describe my experience of life so accurately.

Individually or as a group? Because if the latter sports is clearly the answer simply by virtue of numbers. But if we’re judging by individuals, comics fans have a real shot at the top spot. 😒

Today? Mini Thins! 🤧🫩

The Original Grimms’ Fairy Tales. I found the book on my grandparents’ shelf when I was 6 or 7 and it ruined the Disney animated versions. 😂

for my specific style of Totally Normal Brain, a person acting weirdly fawning and inexplicably congratulatory like an llm would make me immediately skeptical of anything they say, so llms emulating that behavior as an intentional design choice is like wow i fucking hate this.

I’m pretty sure that this is the first sci-fi (as opposed to fantasy) I ever read. I think I read it the year it was published, which would mean I was 7 or 8.

Legend Ridiculously 80s but still some of the best classical fantasy visuals I’ve ever seen on film. Plus Tim Curry playing the devil.

How likely it is to contain potato. 😁

This was, inevitably, under a story about gaming as a girl…but damn if it doesn’t put something into good words that I’ve been flailing at for years.

Settle the fuck down, Rainier, now is *not* the time. 😬

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I say ‘Oh! Gravity works!’ whenever somebody drops something and it’s been years since anybody recognized it as a quote from Fern Gully. 😂

The Watcher in the Woods. Creepy old Bette Davis made one hell of an impression. 😬

Can we stop with the supposition now?

Of course there’s a long history of this shit. 🤦🏼🙇🏼

This isn’t about deportation by any definition of that word…it’s a textbook call for ethnic cleansing from someone who may or may not have the ear of the POTUS at any given moment. 🤬

4-1-3-5-2-4 🤷🏼😂

I was the exsct audience the Ewoks were intended to appeal to in ‘83 and I’ve only come to appreciate their bloodthirsty cuteness more as I’ve aged. 😁

I can sympathize…because walking on eggshells sucks and learning to do it as an adult would be incredibly frustrating…but also suck it the fuck up, most of us already have to do that. 🙄

Good numbers to know in this thread.

And there’s the words for why so much ‘modern country’ music makes me roll my eyes…it’s “Christian rock but for guns and trucks instead of Jesus”.

troops can't even march in step at the Dipshit Nuremberg rally, my god. like the fascism is one thing but at this point we're just embarrassing ourselves in front of Germany

Am I the only one having flashbacks to the freak out about Madonna in the 80s and wondering why the fuck we’re still having this conversation in 2025? 🤦🏼🙇🏼

Group Icebreaker Games

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This is inarguably true. But being continually forced to center men in every conversation because if we don’t they’ll get violent is the definition of an abusive situation. 😐

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