I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

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My book, Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death, is 50% off throughout Nov with code CONFSHIP from the publisher’s site. Tell your friends! wipfandstock.com/978166670304...

The new Ursula K. Le Guin exhibition at Oregon Contemporary is a sprawling love note to Portland's most far-out visionary. The exhibition compiles her hand-drawn maps, and features a reproduction of her NW Thurman writing room... plus doodles of cats!!

Cranberry curd tart, ready for Thanksgiving.

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

Me slicing the jellied cranberry sauce precisely on the lines left behind by the tin can.

Toaster. The future is delicious.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

we do not deserve dogs

Why does US ESPN have such lame soccer coverage? Why can't I get news about teams in the English Championship on the US edition of ESPN? If I switch to the UK edition, the coverage is great. Why give certain regions less content, when you could just serve the same prime content to everyone?

There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.

Attending the Durham Durham Board of County Commissioners to follow the possible vote on the adoption of the RTP 3.0, a Unified Development Ordinance change for RTP. This is a potential big deal to modernize the Park for the future. I am a land use nerd so I can't resist watching .

There was a time in my youth when I would have been mildly sad that State lost, but that day was long ago. And as long as Will Wade is there, they can lose every game by a hundred points and I will not shed a tear. Maybe he should quit the shade, and worry more about getting his team ready to play.

This world carries darkness in abundance, shadows that stretch long and cold. Joy is the medicine that mends what breaks, the balm that soothes what aches, the light that refuses to be extinguished. Seek joy in each dawn that breaks—let it be your daily practice, your ritual. Gurdeep.ca/magazine

#BlueSkyArtShow #Small chapel in #Athens with a bigger building built around it. #photography #PhotographersUnited #mobilephotography #architecture

I’m at the prayer chapel. I’m at the Dunkin Donuts. I’m at the combination prayer chapel and Dunkin Donuts. #aarsbl25

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

A task I had been putting off all week resolved itself miraculously, and this is doing nothing to disincentivize my procrastination.

this is fascinating

I sitting here watching the Carolina game, and I still think Carter was the best dunker I have personally witnessed, but he rarely went to the rim like a freight train like Wilson does.

Forty years ago today, Calvin & Hobbes was first published. It's all fabulous but, as time went on, Bill Watterson decided he was going to make his Sunday pages the most gorgeous, creative, and varied of all. This is one of my favourites, partly for the use of the looooong final panel.

This is happening tonight! As an Oregonian author, it's kind of a dream come true to be able to share about my book at Powell's. www.powells.com/events/joel-...

I am starting to see many more terrible errors in sports journalism. Terrible meaning just obviously wrong and nonsensical information. Am I paranoid, or is this the sign of AI content?

This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, one of the greatest comic strips of all time, was born on this day, November 18, 1985 -- December 31, 1995. And Calvin's dad remains a beacon of inspiration to cyclists everywhere.

Great thread. I love when historians do their thing.

The fellowship application I was writing while this went down just got accepted. Next year, I will be working as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum in Munich for several months, researching the "Arts of Early Modern Screwmaking." On the merits of my project! 💪

Dr. Pep

I saw Predator Badlands with Beaurito tonight. If I'd never seen a Predator movie before, I would say it was a boring, overly violent kids' movie. Bearito said it was "mid." As a fan of the franchise, I have to say, it was disappointing and ignored everything that makes those movies good. Ymmv.

Manhattan Bridge - 1926 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3104518

It turns out that anybody can be a greeter at Walmart. You don't even have to work there.

you mean to tell me an egg planted this? truly inspiring

Morning walk with accidental arrival at sunrise. My morning for lucky accidents. Surprises me how different the colors are at different points and about 25 minutes time span.

Sheldon jazz band entertaining the crowd at Papa's pizza tonight.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

you don't have to read the article. the pope's four favorite movies are Police Academy 2-4 and Police Academy 6

Can I tell you about somebody else divine who got rebooted

This linocut that my colleague made for tomorrow’s Yiddish printing event @skeuomorphpress.org looks absolutely incredible

I came late to this cultural flashpoint, but I have enjoyed the memes and commentary. No, I have never read Oats, but maybe I should?

Even in the midst of this dumpster fire, there are occasional rays of joy. 😂

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

Gotta love those Tar Heels! #GDTBATH

I filled out an MTA lost property form, but if anyone saw a blue Mets jacket on the eastbound Q 45 today, or the Q 44 in either direction (I got lost!), Or at the corner of Main Street and Union Turnpike, or the southbound corner of Lafayette Avenue and the Hutchinson River Parkway…hit me up!

“Jerad,” they said. “If you could do a yearlong investigation on any topic, what would you pick?”

The Liberty Bell is actually, famously, breakable

Li Bai (Ri Haku), from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry (Shika shashin kyō) https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/208441

“The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!" 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical... There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness." ― Ursula K. Le Guin

We've never tried Gotcha Burger, but Eugene Weekly voted them best of Eugene, so I've the 2 best food critics here to see what all the noise is about.