The thought's been kicking around since episode 1, but now I'm pretty sure #AlienEarth would have been a better show without the Alien. The Hybrids and how folks related to them was the interesting material and the xenomorph was just hanging around on the edges of that.

I need the people who keep threatening me with sharia law to go ahead and implement it because I am tired of paying all this interest

Look, AMC, you can't show me a trailer ten times and then say it's not playing anywhere you can easily reach on the T. It's just not right.

The Red Sox season-ticket rewards program hasn't had a lot of great things to spend points on this year, so I'm picking up AAPI and Native American-themed jerseys this weekend. They look nice, but I'm not either of those things.

Let's all celebrate Bruce Springsteen's birthday today by celebrating Ray Charles' birthday today and John Coltrane's birthday today.

Huh, not in either the existing KL box set or the WB one.

Wordle 1,557 4/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Fine Pips #37 Hard 🔴 3:27 Okay Strands #569 “On the syllabus” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Pretty quick Connections Puzzle #835 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Color order kind of random again today Par 6 Letter Boxed in 3

We're just discovering a bunch of screwy names tonight!

Good name alert

Romanian kids apparently are not to be messed with.

My favorite thing on Multiversal+ and glad it's finally back!

Sure, everyone's acting like the crow is so clever, but its third move clearly should have been the center square!

It's easy to take this as "just say your reaction", but the fun (and interesting reading) is reverse engineering that instinct. (Been doing a fair number of "didn't find this horror movie/comedy to be scary/funny" reviews lately)

The only criticism in any of the arts that's worth anything is based on instinctive responses. I think anybody who tries to apply a yardstick or theory in evaluating art is going to do something very limited and valueless. (1982)

Holy cow, the reply-all cascade on my work email that started on Thursday is still going on!

Doctor said it's a good sign that I've still got hair on my feet. Not a sentence I ever expected to hear, but I'll take it.

Wordle 1,556 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ah, not bad Pips #36 Hard 🔴 1:08 Pretty quick Strands #568 “Find an opening” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵 Fine Connections Puzzle #834 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Awful close 🟠 Align 9/22/2025 ⏰ 02:13 🔄 19 globe.com/align Fair

Legit forgot this guy was using a roster spot for the past month while the offense has been a mess.

Huh, Lex was allowed to just be a villain as a mad scientist, corporate raider, presidential candidate, underground terrorist, etc., but when he's motivated by racism, he's gotta have layers.

Wordle 1,555 5/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Eh Pips #35 Hard 🔴 3:37 All right Strands #567 “Stand by me” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵 Quick one Connections Puzzle #833 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 No RR because the non–purples were about equal Par 6 Letter Boxed in 3

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

C'mon, guys, give me a reason to go to the furniture store to see a movie! (Because the AMC Imaxes will probably continue to pretend Netflix doesn't exist)

Daily bunny no.3084 is an experienced Alley Bun

Daily bunny no.3083 going for a ride

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Happy Batman Day!

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

Happy #LetterboxdFriday, here are my #LastFourWatched! The theme, with one exception, is "that could've been better".

Honestly, 4-character extensions like .HTML and .DOCX make me nervous enough without using spaces.

(sighs) Growing Pains

Next Week in Tickets for 19-25 September: A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY, HIM, THE SENIOR, IN WHOSE NAME?, THE HISTORY OF SOUND, STEVE, FACE OFF 8, 731, FISHES FLEW AWAY, AFTERBURN, LONDON CALLING, 7 from India open Boston 'plexes; CHECKPOINT ZOO and RIEFENSTAHL at the Lexington Venue ...

"what you say with irony i say with sincerity" is a paraphrase of captain picard talking to q. but you are always allowed to paraphrase captain picard talking to q; it's always morally correct www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Wordle 1,553 3/6* ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Eh, okay Pips #33 Hard 🔴 2:19 Decent Strands #565 “Pour it on” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡🔵 Huh Connections Puzzle #831 🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟦🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 Hey, got there 🟠 Align 9/19/2025 ⏰ 05:14 🔄 26 globe.com/align Tough one

Wordle 1,552 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Okay Pips #32 Hard 🔴 5:06 Fair Strands #564 “Practice makes perfect” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Eh? Connections Puzzle #830 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟪🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 Oof Par 5 Letter Boxed in 4 🟠 Align 9/18/2025 ⏰ 01:14 🔄 14 globe.com/align Not bad

Those without honor are almost always hypocrites, but do not think that exposing their hypocrisy will thwart them. Double standards are their weapons, wielded gleefully against those who attempt to maintain honor and fair play. Do not abandon your own principles, but know when your enemy has none.

The folks calling the ballgame have just described a team as "concentrating on the wild card", and, for the life of me, outside of some very specific circumstances, I can't figure out what a team does differently versus trying to win the division.

happy national cheeseburger day to all who celebrate - regardless of creed, color, or origin, today we are all cheeseburger-americans

Congrats Minerva! I wan't sure whether Minerva was promising to do crimes or had just figured out that mentioning crime gets scared humans to vote for you, but these day's, aren't they kind of the same thing?

Dead center tonight; gonna take a blast to get one to me.

Wordle 1,551 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 One I might have taken a while on once Pips #31 Hard 🔴 4:04 Tricky Strands #563 “We beg to differ” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵🔵 Man, kept looking in the wrong direction for the spanner Connections Puzzle #829 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Fine Par 6 Letter Boxed in 4

I understand from how Venom is a mini-family of books right now that there's probably an audience for this, but every time that bumps up against the Marvels I do read, it just seems weird.

Daily bunny no.3080 herding some felines

A thing about #AlienEarth I haven't quite figured out: Is Kirsh interesting, or are we just expecting him to be because he's played by Timothy Olyphant?

Wordle 1,550 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Decent Par 5 Letter Boxed in 3 Pips #30 Hard 🔴 27:17 Ouch Strands #562 “Riding high” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵 Swear I tried one of these earlier Connections Puzzle #828 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟨🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Ah, rats, coulda RR'ed 🟠 Align 9/16/2025 ⏰ 02:20 🔄 26 globe.com/align Oof

Oh, right, 6:45pm start time tonight. Got here just in time for first pitch, but did I miss a Redford tribute? He apparently wore #9 in The Natural because he was a huge Ted Williams fan.

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I strongly suspect that if you asked most people to define "capitalism", they'd respond with a definition of "entrepreneurship".

neato! also, randomly: is it just because i’m wildly synaesthetic or is math like music to other people too?