Verify your age When I saw Aliens at 9, we also had to rent the VCR. At the time, I didn't know anyone that owned one (because they cost so much).

I quote this multiple times per week.

Cheese, cheese delivery device

"Ooh! A bloody, buggery teaspoon. That sounds rather clever. And what did one fill the kettle from? The bloody marvelous tap, I suppose?"

An autistic woman who always figures out how a film is going to end about halfway through has spent several hours choosing the perfect new release to ruin movie night.

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II

The place we lived in the U District when I was an undergrad used to be unfindable by anyone not familiar with that street because one of the directions Mapquest gave was "turn right on UNNAMED ROAD." To this day, we still yell that.

face im submitting for my bluesky verification

We believe women also game.

Dress for the job you want

The audience wants to watch charismatic people solving moderately difficult problems, delivered in weekly doses with occasional short breaks. That was what the market *told us* over seven decades. It created international cultural dominance and enormous wealth. www.wsj.com/business/med...

also: no, I never want your website to be able to send me notifications, stop asking

RIP Mr. Darcy you would have loved voice memos

Not really a theory, but an observation that Barney was diverse right up until they had the kids pair up with dolls to pretend to be their parents.

Drop Dead Fred

Best part: You can now search the posts of people you follow!!

5 living authors I've read 5 books by, each (within the past 5 years) Kelley Armstrong Charlotte Stein Ann Aguirre Nalini Singh Jackie Lau

Leverage where Eliot randomly fights a guy through the back of the static shot

you wouldn't be having any of these problems if you used linux you'd have different problems entirely

Working up my scouting report for every male lead in a Hallmark movie.

Watched an entire episode of a show before realizing it's a period piece set in the 90s.

my husband referred to political apologies as Hoobastanking this morning ("you know: i'm not a perfect person...") and i have not stopped giggling about it all day

I was thinking, when I was watching the Hobbit movies for the first time a month or so ago, about how Martin Freeman is just an astonishingly good actor but you almost don’t notice it because he’s pouring all that unbelievable talent into role after role as Normal Guy Who Was Not Ready For This Shit

An English teacher in high school told my parents I was illiterate because I used words she didn't know. Upon learning that they were real, she told me that no one would read my work if I used uncommon word. This was feedback on something I wrote about the assigned text - Hard Times by Dickens.

Cast yourself as a villain

Animal

Finally, bluesky reaches its apotheosis: ONLY alt text

Just said this: "all these people arguing that their personal headcanon of what IRCC means is the truth just reminds me of fandom wars 20 years ago. I'm so tired."

Bluesky's media server already left for the weekend.

there are three kinds of people: 1) “five minutes!” “thank you, five!” 2) “five minutes!” “heard!” 3) everyone else

Least realistic moment in Madame Blanc is when the French detective goes to call Jean (British woman) and she's the only "Jean" in his phone.

i’m so sorry but as a jew i fear this is the catholic version of the classic @averyedison.com post

Sometimes I wonder if my life would have been different if at any time growing up someone had tried to leverage things I was good at* and not just tried to force me into boxes that didn't fit (like math or trying to memorize statistics, which did not work). * but not for crime

13C/56F

My emotional support goalie got traded again and I don't know how I feel about it. Well, I do miss CapFriendly.

On this point - the whole goal of The Daily Tism is to be like a paid boot camp / hub for autistic comedy types to bypass a lot of the difficult, stressful early industry navigation stuff. It’s also a place for industry veterans to have some cathartic fun. 1/

They start the fireworks so late here. But I guess at least now we're far enough away from the cannons that we don't get blasted by 21 gun salutes anymore (single cannon, takes an incredibly long time).

Me and my squad reading your skeets

I can't believe there's going to be a schism in the Catholic church and I'm going to side with the Catholic church

It's been a wild couple days as someone who grew up with sedevacantists.

People with autism are showing signs that they may soon develop independent thoughts, and worse, start expressing them, researchers have said.