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I have a young relative staying with me this weekend and so we've been doing a lot of "family" stuff. I've determined that there are essentially three kinds of dads one is allowed to be: -Dad who will kill you with a gun -Clown dad -Golf dad

Add this toy ever growing "they should make a block list from this criteria" idea list: Anyone who has ever attempted to lib humor riff in the comments of an Aaron Rupar post.

Libby and other library discovery platforms should have a "secular" filter. It's kinda ridiculous that you can either see a thousand self help books that are mixed religious and secular, or you can see that 600 that are religious, but you can't see the 400 that aren't religious.

The way most people use this site is baffling. I follow exactly 1 person in the top 100 on this list. Expand it out to the top 300 and I only follow 8.

This is why they broaden the definitions of what they THINK happens to include the stuff that DOES happen. For example if you come into college believing in creationism and your intro bio prof says that evolution is real, that is not woke indoctrination. But they'll call it woke indoctrination.

One thing I appreciate about American politics is that, while the socialists don't seem to understand capitalism, the capitalists don't either, so it keeps it even.

Manhattan. Excellent show with an absolutely stacked cast,but it suffered from being on a network that couldn't really support it, especially in competition with so many excellent shows airing at the time.

I guess it's good that @livagar.bsky.social explained Helldivers 2 so thoroughly on a QAA episode. @travisview.bsky.social @jakerockatansky.bsky.social

Just realized I've been mashing Sierra Hull and Sierra Farrell together into one Sierra since maybe forever. Oops 😬

Reposting this because I want to revel in how good of a joke this and how unfortunately niche it is.

Once 144,000 posts are saved, they will be protected from this site's impending destruction. #ImminentizeTheEschaton

I don't think it's a coincidence that the entire history of the mid 20th century is america being a one party country effectively and doing the largest increase in infrastructure investment in the history of the world at that point, and then China has replicated that in the 21st century lol.

If you polled a sufficiently representative group of people, would a majority know what the word "subsidies" means?

The author of this piece should look up what Butler actually means by "performative" if he's going to mention Butler because Butler's definition is quite different than how it is used these days and in the rest of this article (ie. performative as ersatz/posturing).

Will we ever have a world where people know the definition of and use the word "reactionary" correctly? Doubtful.

I'm at a baseball game and I was wondering. Do you think I could start a thing that bunting is woke?

This makes me so sad and disgusted. I love this building. I love it architecturally, but also because some of the best people I've worked with are there, and some of the work I'm most proud of is there. Frances Perkins was a hero. So many great memories of mine are associated with this building.

All this Newsome stuff is the classic Dem-brain fallacy that we saw with Bernie voters, in which a voting bloc (in this case, anti-Newsome trans rights supporters) as simultaneously consequential enough to need chiding but not consequential enough to court or otherwise listen to. It can't be both!

Do your thing @thelouvreof.bsky.social

This is super fascinating.

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

Something that I haven't seen anyone yet mention about this whole Sydney Sweeney thing is the disturbing number of people who think the word is "add" and not "ad".

This reminds of a discussion about young people watching The Office, and how a show that was intended to show the boring horrors of office life might be seen as appealing to young people with terrible job prospects.

See the replies to this post for a great example of "big account makes a post and at least half of the many replies are different people making the same dumb joke". I can't imagine having that kind of audience.

Something that I haven't seen anyone yet mention about this whole Sydney Sweeney thing is the disturbing number of people who think the word is "add" and not "ad".

I know some fine and normal accounts would catch some strays, but someone needs to make a "joined Bluesky in November 2024” block list.

Mulvey’s article that codified The Male Gaze was published over *50* years ago and refers to a very specific idea in a specific context. It does not simply mean “what all men like looking at”, just as any notion of a female gaze cannot mean “what all women like looking at”

For about three months in the late winter into early spring I was both buying and financing a new home and applying for dozens of jobs. My phone and email were absolutely ASSAULTED that entire time and are only just now getting back to normal.

Some people say it "e-mell"

This article also isn't true, in my experience as someone affected by these cuts, directly and indirectly. People on the right absolutely realize it and are fine with it. It's why they vote for these people. For all these regretful Trump voter tales, I've yet to see a single actual instance of it.

As someone who lives in Oklahoma, let me assure you all that any severe, extreme ideas people are imagining to usher in some sort of post-*all this* future are not extreme enough.

I firmly believe that throughout the fall of 1974, Billy Kreutzmann was doing some of the absolute finest drumming ever.

John Dee's unscrupulous assistant actually did discover the Philosopher's Stone and did J6 500 years later.

Am I literally the only person who cares about punctuality? I truly mean this. I feel like I regularly go insane trying to be punctual and expecting punctuality in a world that feels otherwise. I'm trying to decide if I should keep it up or accept that it's not a reasonable way to live and give up.

I will never select my ad experience.

This is perfect.

When I attended Westmoot a while back, I picked up some incredible pieces from Tamsin Barlow and Donato Giancola. However, I was also in the process of moving at the time, so I'm just now getting them on the walls at the new house. Bonus picture of Glinda to make up for the glare in the photos.

Sometimes I feel like Dark Walmart

Idea for Tolkien-themed Pride shirt: Tie dye hippie style shirt with Celebrimbor in like Mama Cass style clothing/hair but holding smithing gear so you know it's him and it says in like Doors hippie font "Smith Your Own Kind Of Jewelry"

Found poetry

Hop on the Sloop John Dee Ed Kelley and me

When discussions of Bluesky's lack of humor happen, they usually focus on users not recognizing a joke or not being willing to entertain a joke. But it's definitely under-discussed (and not surprising, givin the aforementioned) that there are a lot of unfunny jokes being made here too! Terrible!

Had a great first night of a two night run playing Linda Ronstadt tunes at The Blue Door! If you're not too far from OKC tomorrow evening, come out for the thrilling conclusion and say hi!

For the local folks: I'm playing this gig this weekend and it's sure to be fun. A Tribute to Linda Ronstadt Two nights at the Blue Door June 20 and 21 Ticket links in the comments

The media isn't talking about the fact that Rick Carlisle looks like Ken Wilber.