I remain charmed by the music reaction genre and especially enjoy this account of a classical singer/vocal coach who has become metalpilled. She has recently started listening to Prince for the first time and watching her in real time realize he was a genius delights me youtu.be/nnnbJPS2tEQ?...

Oh, bless (thread) :

Man, this is good :

It's finally out: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine #5, featuring my contribution "Staku-ra's Hoard" - in which a seaside waitress joins a crew of reprobates (her ex among them) on the hunt for a cursed treasure! Please enjoy this piratical adventure! newedgeswordandsorcery.com/product/new-...

“The decision was made to exclude me from the filmed production of Swan Lake because I was told my brown skin would disrupt the aesthetic.” ~ Misty Copeland When folks gripe about DEI, remind them who benefited from shutting out dancers like Copeland. That pattern runs through our whole history.

Oh, bless (thread) :

"Women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts."

Oh, bless :

He was so, so good.

Quality nerditude right here:

Sigourney Weaver & Alan Rickman. Galaxy Quest (1999) Behind the scenes 📸

Aw, man, Daniel Woodrell. He was the best.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

Question for Pluribus watchers: who would the Collective send to your door to convince you that you needed to be a part of it, a la Zosia? A friend of mine and I have decided that Cate Blanchett (her) and Natalie Portman (me) would come a-knocking.

We are thankful for lap.

Woman and Cats — Will Barnet, 1962 Pencil and charcoal on thick cream wove paper 578x702 mm

Dragon

Quality nerditude right here:

New baby smell

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Holy bejeepers:

I am going to find Jon M. Chu and stuff a light meter up his nose.

Officially asking now for author folks (and reader folks) to tell me about the new queer holiday romances coming out this year—I don’t know why I’m having trouble finding them this year, but I am. Drop 'em here, please. (Bonus if low-angst; also happy for sapphic—this is not just a dude zone).

This is equal parts "oh, bless" and "OH MY GOD" :

Re: Pluribus E4: Vince Gilligan is clearly out to get me, a grumpy middle-aged blonde lady who lives in Albuquerque, personally.

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

"Excuse me, but have you heard the good news about our lord and savior, Huitzilopochtli?" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%C4%A...

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

What sound do frogs make, according to different languages. So far as I can tell, in Latin, frogs ('ranae') croaked ('coaxō'), which also appears to be their onomatopoeia for the frog sound: coaxō 🐸🏛️? It's 'croá, croá' in Spanish?

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Today is Sextidi the 26th of Brumaire in the year 234. Brumaire is the month of mist. Today we celebrate pistachios.#JacobinDay More information on pistachios

You could literally do a horror anthology based on the different ways this can go wrong. AI dead mom escapes into your TV, and your digital fridge, and your pacemaker.

Full article on Tyson's use of Palantir's surveillance tech here: sentientmedia.org/tyson-foods-...

"Oh, bless" is not quite the right sentiment here.

Oh, bless :

Not every night you can step outside, see a faint pink glow over the Sandia mountains, then hold up a phone camera and watch it catch the Northern Lights above Albuquerque

#StreetArt #Malaysia

Wright believed the window should reflect nature to the occupants. Beautifully rendered here at the Robie House in #Chicago looking out at the Gingko trees in fall splendor

This is such a good book, especially if you watched Boardwalk Empire.

Hot Chocolate - such an underrated rose : Roses The Hot Cocoa rose is a floribunda rose known for its unique, smoky color that blends chocolate, orange, and russet tones, often shifting with temperature. It features medium to large, ruffled, high-centered blooms and with a medium fruity fragrance.

Me: Oh, hey, new TV show! Set in ABQ! ... Me: ... okay, was not expecting that level of trauma SET IN MY EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENT. Jesus CHRIST, Vince Gilligan.

Seen on the way into work this morning on I-25: a billboard proclaiming "We want you to be happy, Albuquerque!" for Pluribus. (sadly not the same billboard that Jimmy used for his PR stunt in Better Call Saul, but we can't have everything)

This is perhaps pedantic, but in a sign of how vapid and superficial these folks' engagement with antiquity is, they're giving a 'Bellator' award with a Latin name - a word the Romans rarely ever apply to their own (or Greek) soldiers - featuring the image of a Greek helmet the Romans didn't use.

This seems less than comprehensive. (I am now ruining lists.)

ALERT ALERT THIS IS NOT A DRILL THE VERSION OF EMMET OTTER'S JUG BAND CHRISTMAS CURRENTLY FREE ON YOUTUBE IS THE *ORIGINAL* 1977 EDIT WITH NO CUTS! MA OTTER TELLS GRETCHEN FOX TO FALL OFF THE DOCK!

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

HELL no